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Mastercard announced it will enhance its card program for cryptocurrency wallets and exchanges, making it simpler for partners to convert cryptocurrency to traditional fiat currency. Working with Evolve Bank & Trust and Paxos Trust Company, the lea… Continue reading Mastercard enhances its card program for cryptocurrency wallets and exchanges
Galileo has announced the appointment of Archana (Archie) Puri as chief product officer. The former PayPal executive is responsible for developing, maintaining and executing new products in Galileo’s pipeline, as well as enhancing current Galileo… Continue reading Archana Puri joins Galileo as chief product officer
You’ve built a brand new project, and it’s a wonderful little thing that’s out and about in the world. The only problem is, you need to know its location to a decent degree of accuracy. Thankfully, GPS is a thing! With an off-the-shelf module, it’s possible to get all the …read more
Continue reading How To Choose The Right GPS Module For Your Project
A few weeks ago, China launched the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 satellite positioning system. Didn’t know that China had its own GPS? How about Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS, or Japan’s QZSS? There’s a whole world of GPS-alikes out there. Let’s take a look.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) that …read more
Continue reading Not Just GPS: New Options For Global Positioning
The entire world has come to depend on satellite navigation systems in the forty or so years since the first Global Positioning System satellites took to orbit. Modern economies have been built on the presumption that people and assets can be located to within a meter or better anywhere on, …read more
Continue reading Inside the Mysterious Global Navigation Outage You Probably Didn’t Notice
In a completely unexpected move, the British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday announced outside Number 10 Downing Street that the UK would resume its space launch programme, 47 years after its cancellation following the launch of the Prospero satellite. She outlined a bold plan with a target of placing the …read more
The popular press was recently abuzz with sad news from the planet Mars: Opportunity, the little rover that could, could do no more. It took an astonishing 15 years for it to give up the ghost, and it took a planet-wide dust storm that blotted out the sun and …read more
Continue reading Engineering for the Long Haul, the NASA Way
Researchers have for the first time demonstrated that it’s possible to spoof turn-by-turn GPS road navigation to send users to specific wrong locations. Continue reading How to spoof someone’s GPS navigation to send them the wrong way
A look inside the Mirror Lab, where astronomers go when they need some serious glass. Continue reading Watch the Casting of a Giant Mirror for the First Extremely Large Telescope
Magnetometers, cameras, and spectrographs, oh my! Continue reading The Nine Space Gadgets NASA’s Juno Orbiter Is Using to Study Jupiter