http://www.kurzweilai.net/beyond-gps-your-phone-in-2015 Accelerating Intelligence Mon, 20 May 2013 17:25:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.kurzweilai.net/beyond-gps-your-phone-in-2015/comment-page-1#comment-5666 Tech Universe: Thursday 3 November — Clearing and Settlement Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:36:18 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=131690#comment-5666 [...] HERE’S WALDO: I’m sure we all know the USA runs the GPS network, so when your phone shows you a map that’s the service it’s using. But the Americans aren’t the only ones doing GPS: the Russians, Europe and China are all setting up GPS networks too. Europe’s Galileo global navigation satellite system recently launched the first two satellites. They hope to provide accuracy down to 1 metre, compared with the US’s 10 metres. Many phone makers are including appropriate chips to access all the systems. If one GPS system drains my phone battery quickly, what will 4 do to it? More details here. [...] [...] HERE’S WALDO: I’m sure we all know the USA runs the GPS network, so when your phone shows you a map that’s the service it’s using. But the Americans aren’t the only ones doing GPS: the Russians, Europe and China are all setting up GPS networks too. Europe’s Galileo global navigation satellite system recently launched the first two satellites. They hope to provide accuracy down to 1 metre, compared with the US’s 10 metres. Many phone makers are including appropriate chips to access all the systems. If one GPS system drains my phone battery quickly, what will 4 do to it? More details here. [...]

]]> http://www.kurzweilai.net/beyond-gps-your-phone-in-2015/comment-page-1#comment-5564 31 October to 04 November 2011 Tech Universe Digest — KnowIT Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:27:46 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=131690#comment-5564 [...] HERE’S WALDO: I’m sure we all know the USA runs the GPS network, so when your phone shows you a map that’s the service it’s using. But the Americans aren’t the only ones doing GPS: the Russians, Europe and China are all setting up GPS networks too. Europe’s Galileo global navigation satellite system recently launched the first 2 satellites. They hope to provide accuracy down to 1 metre, compared with the US’s 10 metres. Many phone makers are including appropriate chips to access all the systems. If one GPS system drains my phone battery quickly, what will 4 do to it? Kurzweil AI. [...] [...] HERE’S WALDO: I’m sure we all know the USA runs the GPS network, so when your phone shows you a map that’s the service it’s using. But the Americans aren’t the only ones doing GPS: the Russians, Europe and China are all setting up GPS networks too. Europe’s Galileo global navigation satellite system recently launched the first 2 satellites. They hope to provide accuracy down to 1 metre, compared with the US’s 10 metres. Many phone makers are including appropriate chips to access all the systems. If one GPS system drains my phone battery quickly, what will 4 do to it? Kurzweil AI. [...]

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