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Forget BMW, The Garmin Speak Is A Cheaper Way To Put Alexa In Your Car
The most useful place for a voice-activated digital assistant isn’t your office, kitchen, or living room. It’s in your car, where your hands and eyes should be pre-occupied with driving. So Garmin put Amazon’s Alexa in a new bare-bones navigation device that will ensure you’ll never get lost, and never get lonely, on a long…
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Dung Beetles Navigate By Storing Star Maps In Their Tiny Brains
Dung beetles have this really neat trick by which they’re able to use the positions of the stars to orient themselves along a straight line, making them the only known animal to use the Milky Way for navigation. Exactly how they do this has remained a mystery — until now.
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Garmin’s New Sat Navs Can Spot Hazards On The Road Before You Do
Distracted driving was a problem even before we all had smartphones buzzing in our pockets. But it’s an even bigger issue now, and one that Garmin wants to help solve with its new Drive line of sat navs that include improved driver awareness features alerting you to possible concerns on the road ahead.
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Apple’s Indoor Survey App Creates Building Interior Maps Using An iPhone
Apple has quietly released a new iOS app that allows users to map out the interior spaces of a building using just an iPhone. The app doesn’t show up in search within the App Store – it requires a special, registered account in order to be used.