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A run tracked on the Runkeeper app.

Is Your Data Safe in Fitness Tracking Apps?

The Strava case, which resulted in the exposing of U.S. military base locations around the world, showed that many sides might be to blame when private data is released, including users.
By Leslie Kramer
The next big thing in medicine?

Drones Carrying Defibrillators Could Save Lives Faster Than Paramedics

Researchers in Stockholm found drones carrying AEDs reached cardiac arrest patients 16 minutes faster than emergency crews.
By John Bonazzo
The new director of the CIA, Rep. Mike Pompeo during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on January 12, 2017 in Washington, DC.

The Next Big Threat to National Security Is ‘Spoofing’

Treat GPS like Reagan treated Russia: trust but verify.
By John A. Tures
A mother and her children look at the range of school supplies in a supermarket of Englos, northern France, on July 9, 2013, ahead of the start of the classes in September. AFP PHOTO/ DENIS CHARLET (Photo credit should read DENIS CHARLET/AFP/Getty Images)

These Four Products, Including a Spying Teddy Bear, Track Your Kids

By Brady Dale
African sand storm.

Clearing Trend: New Micro-Weather Stations Can Save Lives

By Roman Goergen
A googler on one of his employers bikes.

How to Make Google Maps Forget Where You’ve Been

By Brady Dale
Ball and chain, earlier models. (Photo: @lazylikewally / Flickr)

Talking GPS Trackers on Wisconsin Ex-Con Works Much Like a Real Ball-And-Chain

By Brady Dale
How can we use technology to keep track of our kids? (Photo: Getty)

Can We Microchip Our Kids to Prevent Kidnapping?

By Jordyn Taylor
In this photo illustration, an Apple ipad tablet displays newspaper and magazine apps on February 17, 2011 in London, England. Apple sold two million ipads in the first two months of their launch in 2010. Worldwide iPad sales are expected to amount to 20 million in 2012. (Photo Illustration by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

New App Tracks College-Student Tardiness and Tattles to Parents

By Bethany Mandel

This Clip-on GPS Will Keep Track of Your Kid While She Runs Around Like a Maniac

By Molly Mulshine

Sit on Your Butt While Your Dog Walks Itself With New Remote Control Technology

By Molly Mulshine
For sale. (Photo: offpocket.com)

Signal-Blocking Phone Case Might Keep the Government From Finding You, You Special Snowflake

By Molly Mulshine
(Photo: screenshot)

College Students Use Fake GPS Signals to Commandeer $80M Yacht

By Jessica Roy

Studies Show Your Life Is So Boring, a Computer Could Predict It

By Jordyn Taylor

NYPD Asks Pharmacies to Hide GPS Trackers in Pill Bottles to Track Pill-Popping Thieves

By Jessica Roy

Sprint Sends Swarm of Angry People with Lost Cellphones to Random Dude’s House

By Jessica Roy
Website seized! (ICE)

Much Like GOOG-411, Google’s New Augmented Reality Game Ingress Is a Genius Ploy to Get You To Collect Data

By Jessica Roy
(Photo: Meme Generator)

Misguided Nestle Campaign Assumes Men Like GPS in Their KitKats

By Jessica Roy
via metro.co.uk

Get Ready for IPS: Like GPS, Except the Signal Is Coming FROM INSIDE THE BUILDING

By Nitasha Tiku

MTA Rolls Out Real-Time GPS Tracking for Brooklyn Bus Route

By Adrianne Jeffries
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