gps

  • Severe solar flares cause pretty lights in the sky

    Finally, a powerful solar flare ejected by our sun on Monday, has started hitting the Earth and caused some pretty shimmering lights in the night skies above North America, and visible as far as the Northern United States and throughout Canada. Solar flares, basically the sun’s way of sneezing,...
  • Technology: helping tourists cheat on vacation

    Staff at Longleat Safari Park’s Hedge Maze, in Wiltshire, south-western England became increasingly curious when guests to the tourist attraction started exiting from the labyrinth in minutes instead of taking the usual 90 minutes to complete. Impatient visitors began turning to the technology in their pockets. This resulted in them finding...
  • GPS Leads Tourists Astray

    Three non english speaking South Korean tourists travelling from Brisbane to Rockhampton had to be rescued from a remote track in a forestry reserve in southeast Queensland after they tried to follow the directions given by their car’s GPS system. The GPS led the tourists into a forest, requiring them to...