| Date / Time |
Story |
| Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:28PM |
OpenWLANMap: Free WLAN-Based GPS Replacement |
| Sunday March 27, 2016 @02:45PM |
Wrecking Crew Demolishes Wrong Housing Duplex Following Google Maps Error |
| Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:17AM |
Algorithm Deduces Drunk Tweets From Geolocation, Behavioral Data |
| Wednesday March 16, 2016 @07:42PM |
US Army Developing Encrypted Radar Waveform |
| Thursday March 10, 2016 @01:31AM |
Laser System Set To Revolutionize Future Aircraft, Satellite Data Links |
| Wednesday March 09, 2016 @11:58PM |
Oculus Co-Founder's New Venture: Long-Range Virtual Reality Tracking System |
| Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:17AM |
Dutch Companies Not Allowed To Fitness-Track Their Employees |
| Friday March 04, 2016 @12:48PM |
Tracking Caucusgoers By Their Cell Phones |
| Thursday March 03, 2016 @04:03PM |
U8 Smartwatch Engages In Covert Traffic With Chinese IP Behind Your Back |
| Thursday March 03, 2016 @10:41AM |
Skydio's Forthcoming Consumer Drones Can Sense and Avoid Obstacles |
| Thursday March 03, 2016 @01:45AM |
Google Unveils Neural Network With Ability To Determine Location of Any Image |
| Friday February 19, 2016 @10:38AM |
A New Technique Makes GPS Accurate To An Inch |
| Wednesday February 17, 2016 @02:22PM |
Surveillance Culture Brought To the Masses, Courtesy of Verizon |
| Wednesday February 17, 2016 @01:14PM |
Windows 10 To Be Installed On 4 Million US Department of Defense Computers |
| Tuesday February 16, 2016 @10:14AM |
Malware Targets All Android Phones — Except Those In Russia |
| Friday February 12, 2016 @11:47AM |
Austrian Minister Calls For a Constitutional Right To Pay In Cash |
| Tuesday February 02, 2016 @11:15PM |
Shopping Mall SMS Parking Notifications Could Be Used To Track Any Car |
| Sunday January 31, 2016 @09:06PM |
Israeli Vulture Suspected of Spying Returned |
| Thursday January 28, 2016 @09:47AM |
Collecting Private Flight Data On the World Economic Forum Attendees With RTL-SDR |
| Tuesday January 26, 2016 @01:35PM |
Discrepancy Detected In GPS Time |
| Tuesday January 26, 2016 @09:45AM |
Uber's Smartphone-Based Gyrometer Monitoring Seems To Be the Future of Driving |
| Tuesday January 26, 2016 @09:11AM |
Stingray Case Lawyers: "Everyone Knows Cell Phones Generate Location Data" |
| Tuesday January 19, 2016 @01:12PM |
The Heavily Redacted World of the FBI's Tracking Technology Unit |
| Tuesday January 19, 2016 @10:07AM |
Netflix Executive Admits a VPN-Blocking Policy Might Be Impossible To Enforce |
| Tuesday January 19, 2016 @09:45AM |
Tracking Protection In Wi-Fi Networks Coming Soon To Linux |
| Monday January 11, 2016 @09:06AM |
Using Tech To Create Safe and Ethical Retail Supply Chains |
| Sunday January 10, 2016 @04:36PM |
Google Claims a TOS Violation On RouteBuilder For Using the Map API |
| Saturday January 09, 2016 @01:33AM |
Domestic Terrorists Could Use OSINT To Pinpoint US Substations For a Blackout |
| Tuesday December 15, 2015 @09:55AM |
Boeing 787 "Blacklisted" From Some Air Traffic Control Services |
| Saturday December 12, 2015 @03:34PM |
DHS Deployed Plane Above San Bernardino To Scoop Up All Phone Calls After Attack |
| Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:59PM |
New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands |
| Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:35PM |
Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops |
| Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:51AM |
Nokia Completes Sale of HERE Mapping Services |
| Tuesday December 01, 2015 @09:16AM |
It's Getting Harder To Reside Anonymously In a Modern City |
| Saturday November 07, 2015 @12:05AM |
Jack McCauley's Next Challenge: the Perfect Head-Tracker For VR |
| Thursday November 05, 2015 @06:10PM |
Ocean-Mapping Robots Could Help Uncover Mysteries of the Deep Blue |
| Thursday October 22, 2015 @05:08PM |
Dutch Researchers Show Connected Cars Can Be Cheaply Tracked |
| Tuesday October 20, 2015 @08:45AM |
GA Tech Students Use Cell Phone Pings To Find Missing Person |
| Saturday October 17, 2015 @06:54PM |
Naval Academy Reinstates Teaching of Celestial Navigation |
| Friday October 16, 2015 @06:28PM |
Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly? |
| Sunday October 04, 2015 @08:03PM |
Daimler Tests a Self-Driving Truck On the Autobahn |
| Saturday October 03, 2015 @10:47AM |
US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital |
| Monday August 31, 2015 @01:11AM |
"McKinley" Since 1917, Alaska's Highest Peak Is Redesignated "Denali" |
| Sunday August 23, 2015 @03:51PM |
In Germany, a Message-in-a-Bottle Found 108 Years After Its Release |
| Saturday August 22, 2015 @01:33PM |
Mobile Phone Data Can Track the Spread of Infectious Diseases |
| Tuesday July 07, 2015 @04:30PM |
A Real-Time Map of All the Objects In Earth's Orbit |
| Friday June 26, 2015 @10:22AM |
How Etak Built a Car Navigation System In 1985 |
| Sunday June 14, 2015 @11:15AM |
Santander To Track Customer Location Via Mobiles and Tablets |
| Tuesday May 26, 2015 @08:07AM |
Hackers Can Track Subway Riders' Movements By Smartphone Accelerometer |
| Tuesday May 19, 2015 @10:00AM |
Rockwell Collins To Develop Cockpit Display To Show Sonic Boom Over Land |
| Monday May 11, 2015 @11:35PM |
Google Shuts Down Map Maker Following Hacks |
| Saturday May 09, 2015 @12:31PM |
Interactive Map Exposes the World's Most Murderous Places |
| Thursday May 07, 2015 @03:18PM |
Centimeter-Resolution GPS For Smartphones, VR, Drones |
| Thursday April 23, 2015 @10:14AM |
Traffic App Waze To Alert L.A. Drivers of Kidnappings and Hit-and-Runs |
| Tuesday April 21, 2015 @12:24PM |
OSGeo Foundation Up In Arms Over ESRI LAS Lock-In Plans |
| Thursday April 16, 2015 @10:19AM |
Google Sunsetting Old Version of Google Maps |
| Tuesday February 17, 2015 @09:51AM |
OpenStreetMap.org Gets Routing |
| Sunday February 08, 2015 @08:02PM |
Tracking System Bug Delays SpaceX's DSCOVR Launch |
| Sunday February 08, 2015 @02:54PM |
Google Earth Pro Now Available Free |
| Tuesday January 20, 2015 @10:51AM |
Moscow To Track Cell-phone Users In 2015 For Traffic Analysis |
| Sunday January 18, 2015 @07:51PM |
Insurance Company Dongles Don't Offer Much Assurance Against Hacking |
| Thursday January 15, 2015 @10:48AM |
First Crowdsourced, Open Data Address List Launches In the UK |
| Sunday January 11, 2015 @11:06PM |
Chicago E-Learning Scheme Embraces Virtual Badges For Public Schoolers |
| Thursday December 25, 2014 @11:49AM |
How Target's Mobile App Uses Location Tech To Track You |
| Thursday December 25, 2014 @12:03AM |
DARPA Wants Help Building a Drone That Flies Like a Hawk |
| Friday December 12, 2014 @10:54PM |
Google Earth API Will Be Retired On December 12, 2015 |
| Thursday November 20, 2014 @11:36AM |
Google Maps Crunches Data, Tells You When To Drive On Thanksgiving |
| Friday November 14, 2014 @02:10PM |
Researchers Develop $60 Sonar Watch To Aid the Visually Impaired |
| Thursday November 13, 2014 @06:14PM |
Ask Slashdot: Getting Around Terrible Geolocation? |
| Thursday November 13, 2014 @02:09PM |
Crowd-Sourced Experiment To Map All Human Skills |
| Thursday November 13, 2014 @11:22AM |
Study Shows How Humans Can Echolocate |
| Thursday November 13, 2014 @10:50AM |
How Baidu Tracked the Largest Seasonal Migration of People On Earth |
| Friday November 07, 2014 @10:42PM |
Dealer-Installed GPS Tracker Leads To Kidnapper's Arrest in Maryland |
| Friday October 31, 2014 @12:29AM |
Signed-In Maps Mean More Location Data For Google |
| Saturday October 18, 2014 @08:55AM |
India Successfully Launches Region-Specific Navigation Satellite |
| Friday October 17, 2014 @07:22PM |
Facebook 'Safety Check' Lets Friends Know You're OK After a Major Disaster |
| Friday October 17, 2014 @06:43PM |
How Whisper Tracks Users Who Don't Share Their Location |
| Thursday October 09, 2014 @12:53PM |
Reverse Engineering the Oculus Rift DK2's Positional Tracking Tech |
| Tuesday October 07, 2014 @09:23AM |
Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America |
| Tuesday October 07, 2014 @09:02AM |
Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded For "Brain GPS" Research |
| Thursday September 25, 2014 @08:15AM |
New Long-Range RFID Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects |
| Saturday August 23, 2014 @09:19AM |
2 Galileo Satellites Launched To Wrong Orbit |
| Friday August 22, 2014 @05:11PM |
Finding an ISIS Training Camp Using Google Earth |
| Tuesday August 05, 2014 @09:49PM |
San Francisco Airport Testing Beacon System For Blind Travelers |
| Monday July 28, 2014 @10:35AM |
Google's Mapping Contest Draws Ire From Indian Government |
| Friday July 11, 2014 @05:58PM |
DARPA Successfully Demonstrates Self-Guiding Bullets |
| Thursday July 10, 2014 @03:08PM |
How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business |
| Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:16AM |
New Zealand ISP's Anti-Geoblocking Service Makes Waves |
| Monday June 09, 2014 @10:44PM |
iOS 8 Strikes an Unexpected Blow Against Location Tracking |
| Saturday June 07, 2014 @12:41AM |
FTC Lobbies To Be Top Cop For Geolocation |
| Thursday June 05, 2014 @11:40AM |
AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud |
| Friday May 23, 2014 @05:02PM |
Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? |
| Thursday April 10, 2014 @04:54PM |
London's Public Bike Data Can Tell Everyone Where You've Been |
| Thursday April 03, 2014 @08:40AM |
Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours |
| Thursday March 27, 2014 @10:57AM |
Taxis By Algorithm: Streamlining City Transport With Graph Theory |
| Friday March 21, 2014 @09:09PM |
New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path |
| Sunday February 23, 2014 @01:16AM |
Lechal Haptic Footwear Guides You By Buzzing Your Feet |
| Tuesday February 11, 2014 @01:10PM |
How Online Clues Located North Korea's Missile-Launcher Factories |
| Saturday February 08, 2014 @09:53AM |
Dead Reckoning For Your Car Eliminates GPS Dead Zones |
| Tuesday January 28, 2014 @01:31PM |
Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages? |
| Monday January 20, 2014 @12:22PM |
A Data Scientist Visits The Magic Kingdom, Sans Privacy |
| Friday January 17, 2014 @07:47PM |
Mozilla Is Mapping Cell Towers and WiFi Access Points |
| Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:27AM |
Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap |
| Tuesday December 17, 2013 @12:48PM |
Google Nabs Bing Maps Architect |
| Saturday December 07, 2013 @08:11AM |
Need Directions? Might Not Want To Ask a Transit Rider |
| Thursday December 05, 2013 @10:19AM |
NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide |
| Tuesday December 03, 2013 @01:07PM |
Swarm Mobile's Offer: Free Wi-Fi In Exchange For Some Privacy |
| Thursday November 21, 2013 @09:36AM |
Galileo Navigation System Gets Go-Ahead From EU Parliament |
| Sunday November 17, 2013 @04:13PM |
NJ Gamblers May Be Locked Out By Flaws In Virtual Fence |
| Saturday November 09, 2013 @02:00AM |
Seattle PD Mum On Tracking By Its New Wi-Fi Mesh Network |
| Wednesday October 30, 2013 @12:46PM |
Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet |
| Saturday September 07, 2013 @03:09PM |
California Legislature Approves Trial Program For Electronic Plates |
| Thursday September 05, 2013 @08:42AM |
Court Orders Retrial In Google Maps-Related Murder Case |
| Thursday August 22, 2013 @01:37PM |
Open Source Mapping Software Shows Every Traffic Death On Earth |
| Sunday August 11, 2013 @01:49PM |
Londoners Tracked By Advertising Firm's Trash Cans |
| Saturday July 27, 2013 @11:57PM |
A Circular New York City Subway Map To Straighten Things Out |
| Friday July 26, 2013 @07:44PM |
GPS Spoofing With $3000 Worth of Equipment and a Laptop |
| Thursday July 18, 2013 @09:01AM |
"Smart Plates" Could Betray California Drivers' Privacy |
| Thursday July 18, 2013 @08:00AM |
ACLU Study Says Police Cameras Create Database of Our Movements |
| Wednesday July 03, 2013 @09:04PM |
What Does Six Months of Meta-Data Look Like? |
| Thursday May 09, 2013 @08:47AM |
Tool Reveals iPad and iPhone User Locations |
| Monday April 22, 2013 @11:21AM |
Germany Fines Google Over Street View - But Says €145k Is Too Small |
| Friday April 12, 2013 @06:44PM |
DARPA Develops Non-GPS Navigation Chip |
| Tuesday January 08, 2013 @12:56PM |
Disney Wants To Track You With RFID |
| Sunday December 30, 2012 @04:29PM |
Foursquare Will Display Users' Full Names By Default |
| Tuesday November 06, 2012 @02:01PM |
Neuromorphic Algorithms Allow MAVs To Avoid Obstacles With Single Camera |
| Thursday November 01, 2012 @08:03AM |
NASA Teams To Build Gyroscopes 1,000X More Sensitive Than Current Systems |
| Sunday October 21, 2012 @08:56PM |
Ask Slashdot: How To Both Mirror and Protect Crowdsourced Data? |
| Friday October 19, 2012 @07:44PM |
Real-Time Cyber-Attack Map |
| Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:40AM |
How Hair Can be Used To Track Where You've Been |
| Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:39AM |
Verizon Draws Fire For Monitoring App Usage, Browsing Habits |
| Tuesday October 16, 2012 @11:19AM |
Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar |
| Friday October 12, 2012 @05:36PM |
Google Maps Gets Massive Street View Update |
| Saturday October 06, 2012 @07:04PM |
Nokia Keeps Quietly Mapping The World |
| Wednesday September 26, 2012 @01:38PM |
Google Captures 'Street View' of Underwater Habitats |
| Thursday September 20, 2012 @01:57PM |
Google Spanner: First Globally Scalable Database With External Consistency |
| Wednesday September 19, 2012 @11:59PM |
Major Backlash Looms For Apple's New Maps App |
| Tuesday September 04, 2012 @10:14AM |
Google Patents Software To Identify Real-World Objects In Videos |
| Thursday August 30, 2012 @04:12PM |
Apple Rejects Drone Strike App |
| Friday August 24, 2012 @08:35PM |
Location Privacy Act Approved By California Legislature |
| Thursday August 16, 2012 @08:42AM |
The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers |
| Friday July 27, 2012 @10:51AM |
Defcon Researchers Build Tool To Track the Planes of the Rich and Famous |
| Friday July 27, 2012 @08:48AM |
Google Outs 3D Maps For iOS Ahead of Apple |
| Friday July 20, 2012 @07:40AM |
Apple Yanks Privacy App From the App Store |
| Thursday July 19, 2012 @09:37AM |
Australian Consumer Group Wants Geo-IP Blocking Banned |
| Tuesday July 10, 2012 @08:08AM |
Indoor Navigation On Your Smartphone, Using the Earth's Magnetic Field |
| Thursday July 05, 2012 @07:57AM |
GPS Spoofing Attack Hacks Drones |
| Tuesday July 03, 2012 @08:30AM |
NAVSOP Navigation System Rivals GPS |
| Thursday May 03, 2012 @12:10PM |
Google Releases Key Part of Street View Pipeline |
| Thursday April 19, 2012 @03:02PM |
Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 |
| Tuesday April 10, 2012 @08:25AM |
Company Designs "Big Brother Chip" |
| Sunday April 08, 2012 @10:32AM |
Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap |
| Thursday April 05, 2012 @07:38AM |
Google Glasses Announced |
| Monday April 02, 2012 @01:52PM |
Google Maps Directions Adds Real-Time Traffic Estimates |
| Thursday March 29, 2012 @04:55PM |
Google Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street Addresses |
| Tuesday March 27, 2012 @11:08AM |
The TAG Challenge: $5k Global Manhunt Using Social Media |
| Tuesday March 20, 2012 @09:28AM |
Using Apps To 'Soft Control' People's Movements |
| Thursday March 15, 2012 @02:10PM |
Stolen iPad's Reported Location Not Enough To Warrant Search, Say Dutch Police |
| Thursday March 08, 2012 @09:45AM |
Apple Switches (Mostly) To OpenStreetMap |
| Friday March 02, 2012 @07:06PM |
Scannable Condoms Allow Users to 'Check-In' During Safe Sex |
| Sunday February 26, 2012 @10:07AM |
After US v. Jones, FBI Turns Off 3,000 GPS Tracking Devices |
| Thursday February 23, 2012 @09:41AM |
Google Heads Up Display Coming By the End of the Year |
| Thursday February 23, 2012 @08:46AM |
Secret UK Network Hunts GPS Jammers |
| Thursday February 16, 2012 @10:11AM |
Indian Government To Track Locations of All Cell Phone Users |
| Thursday February 02, 2012 @09:23AM |
Sensor Networks In San Francisco Finds Parking Spots |
| Sunday January 29, 2012 @07:56PM |
Ask Slashdot: Wireless Proximity Detection? |
| Tuesday January 17, 2012 @01:58PM |
OpenStreetMap Reports Data Vandalism From Google-Owned IPs |
| Sunday January 08, 2012 @12:25PM |
Microsoft Patents Bad Neighborhood Detection |
| Tuesday December 27, 2011 @10:04AM |
China Begins Using New Global Positioning Satellites |
| Sunday December 18, 2011 @12:21PM |
Google Outlines AI-Based Number Reading For Street View Photos |
| Thursday December 15, 2011 @06:13PM |
US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing |
| Saturday December 03, 2011 @05:12PM |
Carrier IQ Drama Continues |
| Saturday December 03, 2011 @10:10AM |
Interpreting the Constitution In the Digital Era |
| Thursday November 24, 2011 @09:31AM |
Malls Track Shoppers' Cell Phones On Black Friday |
| Sunday November 20, 2011 @11:19AM |
Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google Chase 'Got Milk?' Patents |
| Saturday November 19, 2011 @01:31PM |
Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? |
| Tuesday November 15, 2011 @10:59AM |
Google To Allow Location Service Opt-out |
| Friday November 04, 2011 @05:25PM |
Iranian Police Tracking Dissidents Using Tech From Western Companies |
| Tuesday October 18, 2011 @09:29AM |
Making Sensitive Data Location Aware |
| Wednesday October 05, 2011 @11:36AM |
Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois |
| Monday October 03, 2011 @11:14PM |
3D Helicopter View Added To Google Maps |
| Saturday September 24, 2011 @10:19AM |
Swedish Daycare Tracks Kids With GPS Devices |
| Friday September 16, 2011 @04:28PM |
GPS Tracking of State Worker Raises Privacy Issues |
| Thursday September 08, 2011 @08:36AM |
Find My IPhone Used To Locate Plane Crash In Chile |
| Monday August 29, 2011 @07:18AM |
Facebook Kills Places, Deals Products |
| Saturday August 27, 2011 @02:14PM |
Tribute To Steve Jobs: a 21km Apple Logo in Tokyo |
| Monday August 01, 2011 @08:14PM |
Ground-Based GPS Mimic Is Inch Perfect |
| Thursday July 14, 2011 @01:27PM |
Sub-Centimeter Positioning Coming To Mobile Phones |
| Friday July 08, 2011 @06:57PM |
NJ Judge Rules GPS Tracking of Spouse Legal |
| Thursday July 07, 2011 @04:57PM |
Microsoft Releases Mobile Data Collection Source Code |
| Monday July 04, 2011 @10:27AM |
Kinect-Based AI System Watches What You're Up To |
| Saturday July 02, 2011 @01:39AM |
Researchers Track Cell Phones Indoors By Listening In |
| Friday June 17, 2011 @06:16PM |
GM Patents Data Mining Method For Refining the Chevy Volt |
| Thursday June 16, 2011 @01:37PM |
Franken Bill Would Protect Consumers Location Data |
| Tuesday June 14, 2011 @12:41AM |
Adobe's CTO Pitches 'Apps Near You' Concept |
| Monday June 06, 2011 @02:04PM |
New Projects Use Phone Data To Track Big Cities' Mass Transit Use |
| Friday May 20, 2011 @01:24AM |
EU Demands Explicit Geo-Location Permissions |
| Wednesday May 04, 2011 @02:52AM |
Marlinspike's Droid Firewall Kills Tracking |
| Tuesday May 03, 2011 @06:14PM |
Google's South Korean Offices Raided |
| Sunday April 24, 2011 @12:55PM |
Apple: "We must Have Comprehensive Location Data" |
