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Location Location
A short resource that discusses the origins of settlements and other features that a builder should consider when creating a new urban area.



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Games without frontiers?
A BBC column by Bill Thompson on how companies, far more than governments, are attempting to wall off the internet by physical location, and the methods being employed to fight back.



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Location Matters in the Cochlea – The Ear Hears Differently Than Expected
Whether you are using a cochlear implant to replace the lost sensation of sound, or recreating binaural sound within a virtual environment, a precise understanding of how the ear works is always helpful.




Leaves is a world of natural wonders, wholly given over to the replication of nature, and the beauty of wild areas, online. A beautiful parkland, it is open top all, irrespective of location or ability.




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Alternate reality games blur reality and fiction
A mainstream media piece on the growing explosion of augmented reality gaming - combining physical and virtual data as one, in order to play location-based games.



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Shopping in VR: It was built, and they never came
Consumer shopping in persistent, online virtual reality was supposed to be a big thing of the future. In the 1990s large scale online shopping malls were constructed, awaiting thousands of visitors, unrestricted by physical location to come flocking in. We are still waiting.



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Telepresence with a Twist: Robotic Students
Telepresence is the art of projecting oneself so that natural conversations, and even interactions can be held between parties, exactly as if both members were physically at the same location - when in fact, one or both parties may in fact be absent. It is being there without going there, in simple terms.Recently, that has had an impact on education, in a classroom.



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Autonomous Shrapnel Remover
We are still a long way from an autonomous robot surgeon in general surgery, but perhaps not as far removed as it was believed. Bioengineers at Duke University have developed a laboratory robot that can successfully locate tiny pieces of metal within flesh and guide a needle to its exact location, without any human assistance.



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Animatrix: Beyond
Beyond starts out displaying a green and black abstract overview of a city - the machines' version of a map. A box starts flashing, highlighting a single neighbourhood and the display zooms in. Something is not right there. In fact, something is very, very wrong. The display turns sideways on, and fades out as the Matrix at that location, fades in.



 

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(01/08/2007)
Physical location and orientation data?such as that provided by GPS?will be one of several keys to information technology business growth in the next several years as IT becomes more and more consumer-centric, says market-research firm Gart...


(21/08/2009)
Twitter is adding location to its globally popular microblogging service in a move that will let people see where "tweets" are coming from.

"We're gearing up to launch a new feature which makes Twitter truly location-awar...


(26/04/2008)
In January, Skyhook Wireless Inc. announced that Apple would use Skyhook?s WiFi Positioning System (WPS) for its popular Map applications.

The WPS database contains information on access points throughout the world. Skyhook ...


(15/04/2005)
A new school blazer is available in Japan, which incorporates RFID and GPS technology inside of it. This allows parents, or schools to track a child?s location at all times, for peace of miund and security.

Additionally, the ...


(24/03/2009)
Engineers at Vanderbilt University's Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) have developed a system that can give soldiers just such an edge by turning their combat helmets into "smart nodes" in a wireless sensor network.
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