In order to determine the location of the leak, the crew had been sealing off small peripheral modules of the space station while Mission Control looked for accelerated pressure drops inside the sealed-off sections.
There's also the more expected bits -- things like keeping track of your motorcar's location in order to retrieve it after a long, confusing day at Disneyland, but the real magic here is the promise of what's to come.
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Developed by the University of Minnesota using funding from DARPA, the Recon Scout resembles your average barbell weight, but when you're not workin' those triceps, this little fellow can be heaved across flatlands, over fences, and into brick walls in order to secure a location and start feeding back video of its surroundings.
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The ground-breaking Core Location uses a combination of Wi-Fi, cellular and GPS readings in order to produce a single, accurate location quickly and in all environments.
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Why does my iPhone need so much data in order to assist it in finding my location today?
As discussed, the next logical step is to incorporate location-based services in order to invite buyers to purchase locally based on personal relationships and dynamics.
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Segmentation enables marketers to capture behaviors and attributes about their Web and mobile visitors in order to create content tailored to their location, their time of day, type of browser or operating system, or even their brand of mobile device.
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While the number of sharks being caught has not changed substantially between 2000 and 2010, the authors of the research argue that the commercial fishing fleets are simply changing location and the shark species they target in order to keep up with demand.
The simulation runs forward in time for three weeks in order to approximate the value of having a truck and driver at a certain location at a certain time, and gets a first result.
If a robot is in a remote location they need to be able to use their energy effectively in order to complete their mission or perform a task, so they also need to take energy from their surrounding environment.
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In order to choose a relevant deal for the user at the correct time, location information would need to be collected about the user before noon, even if the Groupon mobile application is not running on the device at that time.
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Beyond search and social data, the location data set is the next big thing that companies are looking to gather in order to monetize and grow.
Guests enjoy large two-room suites, cooked-to-order breakfasts, a 24-hour fitness facility with a swimming pool, and a prime location directly across the street from the front door of the convention centre.
The best reason to visit Belgium House is not for an order of their mouth-watering fries or a stack of their waffles, but for its location in historic Middle Temple.
And that depends on being able to see the lower-energy radiation, in order to pinpoint what it was that exploded (gamma rays are impossible to focus, so the location of a burst is known only approximately).
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