This is heartbreaking. Mieke Oort, a 21-year-old woman from Massachusetts, was found dead Sunday morning in The Netherlands, after she was allegedly attacked by a man she met on Tinder. According to reports, Mieke, of Winchester, moved into an apartment in Leeuwarden recently — located about 90 minutes away from Amsterdam. She had split from […]
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Bluetooth tracking company Tile acquired for $205 million
Enlarge / The Tile Pro. (credit: Jeff Dunn) Tile, a company that pioneered consumer trackers, will be acquired by Life360, an Australian company whose services help families keep tabs on one another’s safety. The acquisition values Tile at $205 million and should be finalized in the first quarter of 2022. Tile’s current CEO, C.J. Prober, will remain […]
Researchers use Starlink satellites to pinpoint location, similar to GPS
Enlarge / SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites launches from the Kennedy Space Center on October 6, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) Signals from SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites can be used to pinpoint locations on Earth to within eight meters of accuracy, engineering researchers reported in a […]
SpaceX to break the final frontier in reuse with national defense launch
Enlarge / The GPS III SV-05 vehicle is encapsulated in the Falcon 9 rocket’s payload fairing. (credit: Lockheed Martin) A few years ago one of SpaceX’s earliest employees, Hans Koenigsmann, told me one of the company’s goals was to take the “magic” out of rocket launches. It’s just physics, he explained. As its Falcon 9 […]
Apple takes on Tile with AR-ready AirTags tracking devices
Enlarge / Carolyn Wolfman-Estrada, engineering program manager at Apple, presents AirTags (with one visible in her right hand). (credit: Apple) In a now-rare announcement of a completely new product category, Apple today introduced AirTags, a Tile-like personal location device. AirTags can be placed in or on personal possessions to be tracked with the Find My […]
Did Bachelor Alum Cassie Randolph’s Reported New BF Just Shade Ex Colton Underwood On New Song?!
Cassie Randolph‘s rumored new beau appears to strongly feel a certain type of way about her notorious ex-boyfriend, Colton Underwood! The former Bachelor leading man is reportedly the target of Brighton Reinhardt‘s newest song, Creep, which debuted on Friday. The track was met with surprising fanfare about the major shade it allegedly throws at the former college and […]
Planes continue to Dive to a GPS Shadowy hole Across the Mediterranean, Perplexing experts
Air traffic specialists fear that a prolonged disturbance to GPS could place the security of airline passengers in danger. In 2019the ruler obtained greater than 3,500 reports of reverses, an all-time high, in accordance with Gerhard Berz,” the older specialist for navigation programs and radio spectrum manipulation in the agency. This worked out to a […]