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Rumors about the New Assassin’s Creed Location Surface
Will the next Assassin’s Creed be based in Greece? We still have to wait about a year before we’ll be able to get our hands on the new Assassin’s Creed. That’s because Ubisoft has decided to release a new AC game every two years in order to improve the title’s…
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Defaulted IP Location Led to GPS Hell for a Couple from Kansas
We’ve all had that problem where a company would fail to locate us, be it because you have a new address or their sat nav system is out of date, telling them to find you can be a pain. It’s even worse for James and Theresa Arnold who moved into…
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Australia Shifts North Thanks to GPS Fix
You may not have realised it but this weekend Australia moved. The entire continent moved north over the weekend to help address an issue with its location on the world’s global positioning systems (GPSs). The body responsible for the move has stated that the move is in fact to keep…
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Request Your Own Pokemon GO Stops And Gyms
Pokémon GO is taking the world like crazy with people all over the world looking to take on their local gyms and become the one true Pokémon monster. After recent events where people have been injured playing the game, people are now able to stay a little bit closer to home…
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Pokémon Go Players Are Being Mugged
Pokémon Go has taken the world by storm, with players all over wanting to catch them all and become the ultimate Pokémon master. Even with it not being released in some countries yet people have downloaded copies from unofficial sources in order to enjoy the game. This hasn’t been the case…
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Apples WatchOS 3 To Be Your Emergency Savior
When you go abroad, there are many things you have to worry about. Health insurance in case you get injured, a passport to even get on the plane and then there is all the places and laws you have to keep track of. In their WWDC speech, Apple looks to…
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Japanese Carrier Will No Longer Tell Customers If They’re Being Tracked
When it comes to your information there is a lot that can be used against you, most of which you provide freely to social media and mobile apps. One piece of information you want to keep private all the time is your location, something that is protected all the time.…
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Wireless Passwords Could Be a Thing of the Past Thanks to MIT Research
A new wireless technology in development by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could allow us to finally say goodbye to the Wi-Fi password. The technology, currently named Chronos, is capable of allowing a single wireless access point to detect the location of networked users to tens of centimetres…
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UN Aviation Want Real-Time Tracking Of Aircraft
In recent years, we’ve had tragic incidents in which aircraft have gone missing, leaving many wondering what happened to the people on board. To prevent further loss, the UN’s international civil aviation organization (ICAO) want to create a system to enable real-time tracking of aircraft. The three most significant tweaks…
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Google AI Can Work Out Photo Locations Without Geotags
Google are making AI for all kinds of purposes, including tackling the challenging Chinese game of Go. Now, they have revealed their latest deep-learning program, PlaNet, which is capable of recognizing where an image was taken even without it being geotagged. PlaNet was trained by Google researchers with 90 million…
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TMZ Falls Victim to Malvertising Campaign
Malicious online activity in the form of hacks, malware and viruses have seen an exponential increase over the past 5 years, the rise in the number of consumers online coupled with a lax understanding concerning the dangers of the many cyber threats has led to more and more victims. Malvertising is…
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Google Maps For Android Showing Pit Stops En Route
Getting from A to B has always been an everyday thing, from the front door of your home to school or work and sometimes it goes a little further, say across the country? For those times, and some shorter journeys too, people have used navigation software like that found on…
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California’s Legal System Now Supports Digital Privacy
In recent years, there has been a big uproar courtesy of a certain reveal by a man named Edward Snowden, regarding digital privacy. To be more precise, it was about the lengths that groups went to in order to avoid any legal requirements when it came to accessing and using…
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