Topic: GPS

Computers in India will be synced with domestically developed atomic clock. Launched last yr in a 2G navigation satellite, it'll be used with Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System.

The police dept, first in India to use such a tracking bracelet on UAPA accused Ghulam Mohd Bhat as he was released on bail, is in process of acquiring more of this technology.

China has launched the final leg of its BeiDou Navigation Satellite system, or BDS, completing the build-out of a network that competes with US’ GPS and Europe’s Galileo.

Slow slip events occur faster than average plate motion, but are too slow to generate measurable seismic waves. So studied them with GPS networks.

India is not a frontrunner in the emerging digital-physical world, but Indians are beginning to make their contribution.

Caught between faulty network and Government challans, auto drivers want to do away with the mandatory GPS system.

In the not-so-far future, people won’t know things we now think are essential to being “educated”: How to write in cursive, how to multiply and divide on paper, or how to spell most English words. And the forgetting of skills is only going to continue as technology advances.