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Satellites leak noise that interferes with telescopes and GPS. Here’s how to fix it

Less than a decade ago, there were about 2,000 operational satellites orbiting Earth. Today there are more than 15,000. Millions more are planned.

The Conversation · 4h ago

It’s Not Just Your Phone: 4 Examples of Distracted Driving

A driver doesn’t need a phone in hand to become a danger on the road. A breakfast sandwich, a stubborn GPS screen, or an argument in the back seat can pull attention away from driving just as quickly. Some distractions look so ordinary that people barely recognize them as risks.

Clever Dude · 9h ago

Entire police force resigns in Georgia city; Mayor Craig Timmons admits tracking police chief's truck

A small Georgia city is facing a police staffing crisis after its entire full-time police force resigned. Mayor Craig Timmons admitted placing a GPS tracker on Police Chief Lamar Bunn's truck over concerns about his timesheets. Bunn has denied wrongdoing, while the mass resignations have left the city relying on…

The Times of India · Nov 2

Organised Thieves Steal Over $100M in AI Data Centre Equipment Using GPS Spoofing and Hacked Accounts

Organised criminal networks have stolen over $100 million in data centre equipment, using hacked freight accounts, fake identities, and GPS spoofing.

International Business Times UK · Oct 27

GPS detour leads Alabama driver to save Georgia family from house fire

Casey Sparks inadvertently ended up in Lyerly, Georgia, where he noticed burning home and helped to save family

The Guardian - US · Oct 27

5 Reasons an Ambulance in India Arrives Later Than Your Own Car

When a family member collapses at home, the instinct is to call 108 and wait. In most Indian cities, that wait will outlast the drive you could have made yourself. A 2021 analysis by the Indian Journal of Emergency Medicine found median ambulance response times in urban India ranging from…

Times Life · Oct 26

No Liability for Scientific Publisher (Elsevier) in Defamation Lawsuit by Air Purifier Company

From Judge Kenneth Bell (W.D.N.C.) today in Global Plasma Solutions, Inc. v. Elsevier Ltd Inc.: In this action, now spanning… The post No Liability for Scientific Publisher (Elsevier) in Defamation Lawsuit by Air Purifier Company appeared first on Reason Magazine.

Reason · Oct 22

Wildlife Underpasses on Indian Highways: What They Are and Who Uses Them

A camera trap set inside a concrete culvert beneath NH-44 in Madhya Pradesh once captured a tiger padding through at 2 a.m., unhurried, following a scent trail that predated the road above it by centuries. The underpass had been there for three years before the tiger showed up. That gap,…

Times Life · Oct 22

What Dead Animals on Indian Highways Tell Scientists About the Wild

The Carcass as a Data PointA mongoose on NH-48. A star tortoise on the Mysuru-Bengaluru expressway. A wolf spider the size of a palm on a rural district road in Vidarbha. None of these deaths made news. Each one, if recorded with GPS coordinates, a timestamp, and a species ID,…

Times Life · Oct 21

NASA’s Mars orbiter fleet is getting old – here’s how that could affect future exploration

Currently, about 16,000 satellites are orbiting Earth, providing everything from GPS service and weather reports to phone service in remote locations to people across the globe.

The Conversation · Oct 19