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Global Positioning System

Tourists, residents tangle over access to iconic Hollywood sign

Arts, Culture & Media

The Hollywood sign in Los Angles is a magnet for tourists, but for years it was hard to actually get up to. No more. The introduction of GPS has hundreds of people flocking to the sign and that’s sending neighbors over the edge.

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BirdNote® Navigating by the Earth’s Magnetic Field

Supreme Court Rules Against GPS Tracking

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Adroitly Adrift

Tourists Annoy Locals at Hollywood Sign

Does the Fourth Amendment Protect Against GPS Tracking?

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in a case that could have broad implications for how modern  surveillance  technology is used to track criminals. The question at stake in  The  United States v. Antoine Jones  is whether Fourth Amendment protections from “unreasonable searches and seizures” extends to GPS tracking and where the boundaries between public and private space […]

South Korea Revamps Complicated Street Address System

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The South Korean government is revamping the street address system with a more Western approach.

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Ghost Dive Shop

“There are these virtual ghosts of what the town used to be.”

Jonathan Coe on ‘The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim’

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It’s now not unusual to wake up alone, drive to work alone, and eat our meals alone. It’s expected that most of our communicating will take place through machines. What does all this isolation do to us? We talk with Jonathan Coe and Karen Jacobson.

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High Tech Booty Hunt

When former President Clinton declassified the global positioning system, also known as GPS, it opened the door for citizen use of the satellite navigation network. As Ken Shulman reports, a new sport called geocaching has sent both outdoor enthusiasts and techno-geeks on treasure hunting adventures using handheld GPS devices.