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GPS "spoofers" -- devices that create false GPS signals to fool receivers into thinking that they are at a different location or different time -- could be used to defraud financial institutions, according to Todd Humphreys from the University of Texas. On an innocuous level, GPS spoofing can lead to the confusing of in-car GPS systems so that users think they are in a different location to their actual location. However, a more sinister use could be to interfere with the time-stamping systems used in high frequency trading. Read More

When Steve Coast created OpenStreetMap in 2004, he had to build the world from scratch. "We started with absolutely nothing, a completely blank canvas. The first data came from me cycling around Regent's Park with a GPS puck the size of a pack of cards and then plugging it into my laptop." His eventual aim? To map the entire planet and make the data freely available, without copyright restrictions, for everyone with an internet connection to use in a multitude of ways. Now, eight years on from Regent's Park, most of the world has been mapped, in varying degrees of detail, and can be viewed on openstreetmap.org and on numerous other services that use the site's data. Read More

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced that the Fifth International Augmented Reality (AR) Standards Community meeting will take place March 19 and 20, 2012 in Austin, Texas, USA. This meeting is being sponsored by Khronos Group http://www.khronos.org and sponsored/hosted by the OGC in cooperation with the University of Texas.

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"Italian agriculture is now in a real situation of emergency. One farm out of three is at risk. Budgets are more and more 'in the red'. Production costs (especially beacuse of the increase in the price of diesel), are uncomfortably soaring and so are contributions and the suffocating 'weight' of bureaucracy. In 2011, more than 20,000 farms closed. Read More

According to The Huffington Post, a report commissioned by the Netherlands-based Wetlands International said Malaysia is uprooting an average of 2% of its rainforests in Sarawak every year, its largest state located on the island of Borneo, or nearly 10% in the past five years. Read More

An out-of-date chart at St Angelo airport may have been consulted by the pilot of a helicopter that crashed killing three men, an inquest heard. Charles Stisted, Ian Wooldridge, and their pilot Anthony Smith died when their aircraft hit Shanlieve Mountain in the Mournes in October 2010. Read More