App developers will need beacons to trigger those notifications, and Estimote's location beacons are one possible choice for them.
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The beacons also support GPIO, which means you can add electronic devices to the beacons, like LEDs, as shown below, or motors.
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If the beacons are anything like Eero's beacons, they might be as easy to install as hanging one right off your wall outlet.
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The bills would reduce boat registration fees by approximately 25 percent for boaters who purchase and register an emergency position indicator radio beacons or personal locator beacons.
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The new capability is courtesy of small open-source puck-like devices called Waze Beacons that were invented in-house by Gil Disatnik, an engineer who now heads up the beacons program.
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The Beacons, on the other hard, don't have any ports.
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No need for GPS, wireless beacons or anything like that.
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Beacons are a technological solution in search of a problem.
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Do we cast these artists as beacons in the light?
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She wants beacons in airports, shopping malls, universities, and hospitals.
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Its task is accomplished advanced signal processing techniques to extract informational bits from inaudible acoustic beacons, with at least three beacons being required in earshot at any given time for localization to be successful.
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Apart from the fine, the FCC also ruled that Verizon must be more transparent about its use of the beacons and, crucially, must not share customers' beacons with third parties unless they opt in.
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Then again, you shouldn't count on using Beacons for heavy-lifting.
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The "pro package" includes three Gateways (zero Beacons) and costs $500.
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Similarly, beacons enable employees to be aware of each other's location.
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Beacons are cheap, easy to use and can run on batteries.
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It chose to purchase fixtures that have Bluetooth beacons built-in.
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As of this week, Beacons are now available in 14 cities.
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Outside of Apple's iBeacons, Bluetooth beacons haven't been widely used yet.
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This article originally stated that LinkNYC was criticized for the beacons.
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There are beacons of hope in the public and private sectors.
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Beacons are transmitters that use Bluetooth technology to communicate with travelers.
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SITA has deployed beacons at airports in Miami and Nice, France.
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Their glazed bodies shone through the dim red light like beacons.
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These beacons are in places like malls, cinemas, gyms, and airports.
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As such, both Lewis and Mr. Marsalis are beacons for him.
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Cultural heritage sites are beacons of our remarkable legacy as a species.
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The beacons are meant to remain in place throughout the mowing season.
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An investor's journey to embracing marijuana legalization Bluetooth beacons are proven technology.
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Beacons can be used to track valuable property for improved asset management.
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"We can still see some RFI from aircraft navigational beacons," says Krčo.
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With the app, users can set audio beacons for destinations and landmarks.
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The first signals from the data recorder beacons were detected within hours.
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Hotel, and the region's beacons of capitalism: the Dubai, Ibn Battuta, and
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Even ominous beacons of misfortune are just friendly boys looking for companionship.
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The beacons are shared between airlines and airports to analyze customer behavior.
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Can you explain specifically what you mean by deploying beacons on site?
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It was so dark that the lights above us shone like beacons.
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This writer's characters are, in their way, moral beacons for our era.
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The campaign has never actually ever used beacons, a campaign source said.
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Both organizations still exist and remain beacons of New York's cinema life.
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Three years later, close to 500 proximity companies operate globally, and between 2.03 and 7 million beacons are deployed in commercial settings with the latest forecasts pointing to a total of 500 million beacons by the end of 2020.
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Typical use cases could include restaurant or shopping deals put beacons near their store to lure a prospective customer in with deals or promotions, while beacons have been used to disseminate information at sports stadiums or other public places.
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We understand that location-tracking will be enabled through the use bluetooth beacons.
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Summer vacations are shining beacons of hope that light us through abysmal winters.
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This is a huge design problem for smartphone AR (and beacons before this).
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The beacons are solid and built to be suddenly dropped in the ocean.
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They want to become literary beacons, even as they restrict freedom of speech.
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There are radio beacons out there more precise than any clock we've built.
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These shows are beacons of light in a depressed TV and news landscape.
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An updated mobile app and 1,100 beacons help fans find their way around.
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The new beacons run Bluetooth Low Energy and connect to each other automatically.
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The company also sells range-extending WiFi beacons to help eliminate patchy coverage.
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Whether the moths use celestial, terrestrial or a combination of beacons, remains unclear.
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As a bonus, the Beacons eschew wires and plug into any wall outlet.
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The most expensive package comes with one main Eero router and two Beacons.
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Collectively, the freshmen in Tenaya Hall are the beacons of a better life.
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These beacons were then tracked by ten cameras situated around the performance space.
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The next Chrome release will get Bluetooth beacons support Chrome for iOS started communicating with beacons last year with a widget you had to open from an iPhone's today screen, but Google's own Android operating system will get true native integration.
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The Eero Beacons basically blend into the background, especially if you have white walls.
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Rallies move around a lot and they'd have to use a lot of beacons.
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These are based on a requirement for vessels at sea to have radio beacons.
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Beacons, or an evolved version of them, will likely infiltrate our retail experiences eventually.
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But, once a user installed an app, the device became fair game to beacons.
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Unlike most VPNs, Windscribe also blocks ad beacons and trackers from your everyday browsing.
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Dozens of companies make beacons which are $15-33 devices built on that ecosystem.
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The beacons were removed from the kiosks that the company installed in New York.
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Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer, two groundbreaking women, hailed as beacons of feminist comedy.
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But what about the interstellar medium, the giant shadowy expanse between these bright beacons?
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Titan reacted quickly to complaints about the beacons, removing them from the final units.
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On Thursday, she is to light the first of more than 16 celebratory beacons.
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Rare flashes of kindness and civility shine forth like beacons in all this murk.
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The flowers bathed in ultraviolet light become beacons enticing them to land and pollinate.
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Hikers are carrying cellphones and using back-country apps, GPS devices and rescue beacons.
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Founded by Jonathan Kumar, Samaritan distributes Bluetooth-enabled "beacons" to homeless people in Seattle.
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The Beacons are installed on tunnel ways and can be used to ferry information to drivers underground (for privacy reasons, the Beacons only relay information one way), making it possible to alert drivers of sudden changes in traffic or accidents even without GPS.
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Google's blog post highlights a number of examples already, including how a school uses beacons to distribute class notes, how beacons were deployed at CES to replace marketing brochures, and how the Golden State Warriors pass highlight videos to fans over the air.
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One interesting feature is the Terra will utilize wireless beacons, instead of pesky boundary wires.
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When you venture many yards away, where the Beacons take over, speeds drop a lot.
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Along with registry, future laws may include additional flight restrictions and required self-identifying beacons.
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Secluded and right on the water, these navigational beacons are perfect for escaping real life.
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Your Android device could typically get pinged when you venture near a location with beacons.
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Physical beacons offer a different marketing approach for companies that's only just being realized today.
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Part of the fun of Beacons is reading American history through this specifically coastal lens.
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This will be made possible by using beacons—small location devices—embedded in aircraft seats.
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Physical beacons can now be equipped with what the company calls Ephemeral IDs or EIDs.
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It must act fast because the battery-powered beacons will fall silent by mid-June.
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Notifications can act on push, calendar time and location triggers like beacons or geo-fencing.
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Apple removing iPhone headphone jack will result in massive Bluetooth adoption; a prerequisite for beacons.
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The new beacons, though somewhat smaller than the eeros they replace have 30% better coverage.
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In other words, it was hardly as invasive as the information collected by location beacons.
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On Tuesday, Beacons that transmit 10 pulses every second went up in New York City.
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Another report found that Google could use beacons to track phones with Bluetooth turned off.
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"The cameras and beacons will be capturing data to see how people interact," Alexander says.
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The two men at Taos were not wearing avalanche beacons; Taos does not require them.
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We practiced strapping the beacons like a gun in a chest holster under our jackets.
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Open societies are beacons leading us onward, but closed societies are magnets, drawing us back.
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For just over a year, CNIB has been testing out 35 beacons inside its headquarters.
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As Waze points out on its Beacons site, other navigation services take advantage of Waze's Beacons to offer the same kind of support, too, so in theory you'll be able to take advantage of the improved service even if you're not specifically a Waze user.
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Beacons can be purchased in bulk for less than $20 a piece, according to Beaconstac's website.
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"Sorry, I saw the eyes from across the bar, and they were like beacons!" she gushed.
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Units are selling for $55, or bundled with three beacons for tracking multiple locks for $84.
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Glimpsing Manhattan's towers of light out a plane's window meant seeing beacons of wealth and hope.
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Merchants are using BLE and NFC that connect mobile devices with either beacons or NFC tags.
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In other words: Ola's cars could literally be beacons that power a metropolitan Wi-Fi network.
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Instead of "beacons of change," prosecutors remain obstinately mired in the unscientific and error-prone past.
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God bless the people who keep it real down there and serve as beacons of integrity.
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The prize's jury said the women are "beacons to others" in a largely male-dominated profession.
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This edition of the race is the first to provide personal A.I.S. beacons for the crews.
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But this also means the app can track your movements as you pass by the beacons.
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Still, the store lacks the little handwritten employee recommendations posted in independent bookstores as humanizing beacons.
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Bluetooth beacons are so accurate they can track you to within inches of where you are.
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But this also means the app can track your movements as you pass by the beacons.
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During distress, one looks to beacons of hope — like the medical examiner on a spiritual journey.
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The United States' first satellite, Explorer 1, had beacons for the frequencies 108.00 and 108.03 MHz.
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Light beacons will alert the two dozen ships which cross the gyre each week to its presence.
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The real innovation around beacons is happening not at your local mega-mart, but in the enterprise.
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With beacons, employees will spend less time tracking down the stuff they need to do their jobs.
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Combined with third-party tools, beacons could provide a wealth of additional user information to a campaign.
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Relatively tiny Bluetooth trackers like Tile depend on other Tile users to create a community of beacons.
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Google announced today that it has begun to support physical beacons in its Chrome browser for Android.
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GiveSafe is an organization that distributes quarter-sized "beacons" to homeless people through shelters in Seattle, Washington.
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Donald Trump is openly opposed by right-wing beacons such as Fox News and the GOP establishment.
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The company is also keen to illustrate the wide ranges of uses beacons can be put to.
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Also, Titan was criticized for using Bluetooth beacons to track people walking past to serve them ads.
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The new beacons will cost $59 for three in a development kit, and they're still real pretty.
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They come with four infrared beacons that can be set up to create your own custom racecourses.
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Beacons allow retailers to target and interact with Line users when they are close to a location.
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And it's not just the human players, either, who are on the look out for telltale beacons.
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The beacons will be placed on our billboards and in cooperation with retailers and public transportation companies.
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Pale, shimmering dots in the vicinity could be distant beacons or droplets of rain on the window.
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Nonetheless, Betelgeuse, one of the great beacons of the sky, is quite clearly going through some changes.
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Outside-in tracking relies on external cameras observing beacons of various sorts scattered around a user's body.
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Beacons — in-store devices that communicate with a shopper's smartphone — are starting to change in-store commerce.
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Oh, and apps can use your phone's mic to listen for marketing beacons your ears can't hear. Fun!
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You could install beacons in every movie theatre, and people wouldn't be able to film inside the theatre.
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Facebook, for example, captures "nearby Wi-Fi access points, beacons, and cell towers," to infer precise location data.
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Google uses "beacons" — you'll find a slew of examples of their use in retail and other B2C contexts.
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Its terms and services added language that allow his 2020 campaign to collect information from smartphones using beacons.
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It's sending signals out to beacons so that Disney can collect (somehow anonymized) data about its parks' guests.
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If you choose to navigate from Snowdon to the Brecon Beacons and "dragon" appears as a travel option.
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There's different WiFis that are available on the tenth floor than the third floor, GPS signals, Bluetooth beacons.
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Starting with Chrome 49, which is currently in beta testing, Chrome for Android will start supporting Bluetooth beacons.
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It's that later issue Waze wants to fix, and it's using Bluetooth beacons to get the job done.
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You can also start with just the $199 Eero Pro and then opt to add-on Beacons later.
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Though those beacons were released only a few months ago, they're already being updated to include programmable NFC.
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Egyptian investigators have said that the batteries powering the EgyptAir jet's beacons should last until around June 24.
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Closed doors and barred gates are like beacons to some kids, just waiting to be breached or climbed.
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Critics have pointed to these devices''s potential for snooping because they include, with cameras and Bbluetooth beacons.
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" To Cramer, health care enterprises Centene and UnitedHealth Group "stand out like beacons whenever the market gets hit.
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They could deploy beacons and dye packets, and conduct surveillance on hackers who have previously infiltrated the system.
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The tracking beacons, known as "automatic identification systems," play a crucial role in monitoring illegal trades at sea.
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Countries that once were beacons for others are consumed by the same anxiety and weakness, and internal strife.
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Most creatures are oblivious to these ornaments, but to the eyes of many pollinators, they are unmistakable beacons.
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You will have absolutely no qualms about placing the Eero router and its beacons anywhere in your home.
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Fully open, Deptford pinks rarely measure more than a half-inch, but they stand out like tiny beacons.
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When I need solace, I head (in my mind, anyway) to two beacons of hope: Denmark and Canada.
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The quadcopter comes with four beacons that you can set up anywhere to create your own custom racecourse.
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In short, "beacons" are small physical wireless devices that ping smartphones to detect users' proximity to a location.
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And for the late passengers, NFC beacons will enable gate agents to locate them and expedite their departure.
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Torches, the lamp, and other light sources act as comforting little beacons in the frighteningly dark world of Below.
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It's less comforting to know that hundreds of apps already listen out for audio beacons embedded in marketing broadcasts.
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"They must have much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in very, very remote areas," he said.
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Even with adoption by big brand names, the promise that beacons would "revolutionize retail" seems to have been premature.
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The suspects appeared to add "beacons" to a " PokéStop" — a blue cube that allows players to strengthen their Pokémon.
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Hijackers or renegade pilots cannot disable some of the emergency beacons, namely, the ones attached to the plane's airframe.
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Amid Tesla's "production hell" this fall, the automaker delivered two beacons of hope for the California-based company's future.
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Target had been testing the use of Bluetooth beacons for a couple of years, initially with beacon provider Estimote.
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By connecting these beacons with an iOS or Android device, you can easily find your things by "ringing" them.
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The drones aren't there just to observe, either—they can carry payloads such as liferafts, defibrillators, or positioning beacons.
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They're designed to be swapped into an existing Vive setup, using the old Vive's lighthouse tracking beacons and controllers.
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These use cases were supposed to be the killer app for beacons and, finally, these dreams are being realized.
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The same goes for Facebook, whose "beacons" dot the web, although to a lesser extent than Google's products do.
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The company will provide 1,300 503ac Wi-Fi access points throughout the stadium, supported beacons under every 100 seats.
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Nearly a quarter of retailers had implemented beacons as of February, according to Retail Systems Research cited by eMarketer.
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The hardware for beacons is also becoming more subtle, integrated into light fixtures and Wi-Fi routers, said Murphy.
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The receptacle would use infrared beacons to connect with drones in the air and then guide them for delivery.
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We offer hardware and software tools based on Bluetooth beacons to help developers bring location context to their apps.
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Like the beacons of Gondor, the Toasted Cheddar Chalupas called forces from wide and far to the office kitchen.
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Despite the hardships, there are beacons of hope, with world-class scientists searching for bio-markers and new treatments.
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Indoors, BackMap could utilize beacons to help people navigate to places like bathrooms and certain stores inside a mall.
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Most often this refers to ads, but it can cover anything, like embedded media, social widgets or tracking beacons.
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" The session's presenters also dismissed the privacy concerns surrounding beacons, saying the tracking is "really no different from GPS.
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But we have seen examples of apps being "turned on" for a type of location tracking called Bluetooth beacons.
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The next time you enter a tunnel in one of the Beacons' locations, you should be good to go.
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Over the next four months, two hundred "beacons" are being installed in venues throughout Toronto's upscale Yonge-and-St.
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One early explanation of pulsars—regular cosmic radio signals first observed in 1967 was that they were alien radio beacons.
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This system includes an eero Pro and two eero Beacons that replace the traditional WiFi router, extender, and internet booster.
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To integrate the connected experience into everyday situations, retail stores have installed beacons at malls to alert us of promotions.
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By 2015, companies like Macy's, Target, Walgreens and Best Buy were all using beacons to track users and boost sales.
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Drivers will be invited to secret community meetings, where they will receive their Beacons at no cost, charging equipment included.
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NBC reported the suspects added "beacons" to a "PokéStop," allowing them to attract Pokemon Go players to a specific area.
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His beacons are already appearing in museums, stores, and public places and helping folks find their way around indoor spaces.
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It's also communicating with beacons hidden throughout the park to let Disney know what you're doing and where you're going.
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Meanwhile, location beacons placed in the home and office provide information on time at work and breaks from the desk.
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The rollout is just the beginning for CNIB, which envisions the beacons revolutionizing public spaces for people with visual impairments.
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"Limiting beacons just to this particular use case is shortsighted since there is so much more to it," says Habermann.
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Other bots come with beacons or like the Neato Botvac D2280, virtual boundaries you can draw within the app itself.
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Eero said its new standard pricing set-up will be an Eero and two Beacons, which will sell for $399.
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Personal locator beacons (PLBs), which attach to clothing or life jackets, also might have helped searchers find the boys themselves.
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But for Estimote co-founder Steve Cheney, the promise of beacons is not simply in pushing coupons to nearby shoppers.
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But those players serve more as reminders of what has been lost than as beacons for better things to come.
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The beacons, which are powered by Eddystone beacon technology, can transmit messages directly to a smartphone or tablet via Bluetooth.
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Molina suggested that since most migrants travel at night and often get lost, architects could help create beacons to safety.
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Other apps use sensors called beacons that also can help figure out the shortest security or customs and immigration lines.
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They are the shining beacons of hope celebrating the internet's true gems hidden among the metric tons of disposable content.
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But there are a few beacons of hope across North America that make the skies seem just a bit friendlier.
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For example, the company previously rolled out in-store beacons which communicate recommendations and specials through the app to shoppers.
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Granted, iOS' privacy controls let you choose which apps can receive beacons by enabling or disabling them in Location Services.
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But there's currently no way to disable an app's ability to receive Bluetooth beacons without removing its location access entirely.
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On dark days and evenings, its enormous, eccentric windows will act like inviting beacons of light, attracting eyes and feet.
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Jason: Most access cards don't support Bluetooth, but you can buy access cards that include Bluetooth low energy (BTLE) beacons.
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Location beacons at airports, transit stations, malls or stadiums can connect to your phone to detect when you are nearby.
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Both black box components are outfitted with underwater locator beacons, which self-activated the moment they come into contact with water.
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Beacons and their ecosystems have incredible potential to transform how we do work, from the conference room to the construction site.
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Before this, beacons could ping a user's iPhone even if a user blocked the app from accessing the device's location data.
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Start by connecting it to your modem, then plug signal-boosting Beacons ($149, not included) into AC outlets around the house.
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With the help of radio beacons, lasers, and an occasional decorative deer skull, the robots navigated themselves without any human intervention.
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These beacons are what allow Target's app to locate shoppers in the stores, and then guide them to products, as needed.
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The two companies already teamed up last summer to facilitate navigation in underground or tunnel areas of Chicago via location beacons.
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However, in the immediate term, there are a plethora of B2B applications for Beacons and this is key to Credo's investment.
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Its employees mill around an office full of sunlight and computers, as well as beacons that track their location and interactions.
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In this case the flickering LEDs act not as message-carriers but as beacons, permitting suitably equipped devices to locate themselves.
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Luciom has already installed such beacons in the ceiling lights of Orly airport, near Paris, and in a hypermarket in Lille.
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The Tracker's motion is captured just like the headset's, using embedded IR beacons, and is intended to make accessory creation easy.
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Beacons are tiny gadgets, positioned throughout the store, that can communicate with your smartphone to match your identity to your location.
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For example, you can send a signal to one of the beacons and pass that signal throughout the entire network instantly.
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Google is moving forward with its plans to allow Bluetooth beacons to broadcast location-based information and URLs to your phone.
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But those transmitters, which rely on antennas, do not function under water and are not related to the black-box beacons.
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Kalama's interactive group has to code all that into the minigames and link those games to Bluetooth beacons around the park.
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Lettry said, however, that a proposal to make blinking warning beacons on the top of turbines constant was still under consideration.
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Last week, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport began a six-week trial compilation of security wait-time data through SITA's beacons.
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However, we do know that a number of airlines are considering harnessing the new technology of beacons to communicate with passengers.
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We're looking into beacon technology, creating beacons that can be linked to an app and help guide people through the stations.
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That doesn't seem to be the message of the Year of Atwood, with "Grace" and "Handmaid" standing like beacons centuries apart.
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The sparkle ascribed a kind of valuableness, transforming these forcibly obsolete pieces of technology into trophies and West Coast cultural beacons.
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The beacons plug directly into your wall outlet, like a WiFi range extender, and look more like a Glade plug in.
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It was part of a system of 54 beacons that sent smoke signals down the wall to warn of enemy movements.
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But more personal tracking is possible, says Mr Leitgeb, via the sensors' Bluetooth beacons, which could track smartphones or building passes.
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His nagging pains suddenly give way to images from his childhood, idylls that brighten the screen like beacons in a fog.
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New technologies have effectively turned semi trucks into locator beacons for shippers who want up-the-minute intelligence on their freight.
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The company used wireless beacons attached to the badge lanyards to track attendees as they moved through the event, it said.
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A pro-Trump super PAC, Committee to Defend the President, has reportedly gone ahead and employed beacons to capture mobile IDs.
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The companies are adding apps to speed boarding and wearable medallions that serve as passenger IDs, charge cards and location beacons.
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The new Eero Beacons are half the size of a Gateway, and they plug directly into the wall, like a night light.
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They ask permission to access your smartphone microphone, then listen for inaudible "beacons" that emanate from retail stores, advertisements, and even websites.
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It would ostensibly mean Verizon can no longer have the AOL ad network utilize its tracking beacons without a user's explicit consent.
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Instead, Target is updating all stores with new, energy-efficient LED lighting, and will be installing fixtures that have beacons built in.
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Using Bluetooth Beacons, shoppers armed with Target's app will be able to access a real-time map of the store they're in.
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GPS, Bluetooth, NFC and Beacons are all technologies which have singularly failed to live up to the hype around hyper-location targeting.
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Both of these competitors require those beacons to be placed in stores and both wake up the user phone – effectively spamming them.
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But it's a bit unnerving that Disney wouldn't tell me where the long-range, band-sensing beacons are located in the park.
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It's the first Russian weather satellite capable of receiving emergency distress beacons through the international Cospas-Sarsat network, according to SpaceFlight Now.
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At the time, Microsoft was also hoping to use sensors and beacons in cities to provide additional information like bus arrival times.
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On that front, Estimote says that it will soon launch its next hardware product – something that will expand the company beyond beacons.
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It's notable that they're viewed as beacons of light, because in some ways, they've proven themselves adept at recognizing humanity's darker impulses.
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As beacons of hedonism, escapism and human connectedness, they remain to be some of the world's best – it's what we're known for.
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The beacons, meanwhile, are based on custom hardware around the same size as a quarter and costing less than $10 per unit.
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Razer is also planning a feature that will let users drop "Beacons" to open a chat room that's only available near them.
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And more and more small towns, many in Republican states, are moving in progressive directions by becoming beacons for love and optimism.
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The Volvo crews are drilled relentlessly on recovery of a person overboard, and the latest locator beacons are provided to each sailor.
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The reason for the celebration is Bluetooth beacons, a "proximity marketing" technology that's been pushed by the ad-tech industry for years.
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He is installing "beacons" on the tops of school buildings in different countries, designed to light up whenever the satellite passes overhead.
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One eero Pro and two eero Beacons — $199 See Details Three eero Pros will have a five bedroom home covered with ease.
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Once Lazarus tricks a victim into installing the loader—typically through phishing or another scam—it beacons out to the attacker's server.
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What happens is that the beacons emits messages, which are detected by apps on your phone, even if the app is closed.
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This very grainy photo was taken in the dark, so you can see what a nice little nightlight the Beacons become after hours.
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But the shift in hardware design from the almost-clunky original Eeros to the almost-invisible Beacons is exciting regardless of the speed.
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Astronomers suspect these stars act like lighthouse beacons in the universe, regularly emanating or "pulsing" blasts of X-ray light as they spin.
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Another use case specifically relevant to large corporate campuses, beacons can help people understand where they are, and where they need to go.
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But in the sea of very lukewarm takes and endless airport check-ins, there are a few beacons of light: spicy meme groups.
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Extraterrestrial beacons, mysterious balls of fire, lost pyramids and a secret site guarded by specially bred Uzbek vipers all get a look in.
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Politburo and Central Committee members are beacons for the rest of the party to see when it comes to supervision, the report added.
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Nobody wanted to download an application for every retail store, and the beacons themselves either fell off the walls or the batteries died.
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But the beacons are back as part of the LinkNYC contract, though users have to choose to opt in to the location services.
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When money is no object — the homes of the world's richest people become beacons for the most luxurious living quarters across the globe.
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The devices will usually, but not always, make use of radio frequency identification, or RFID chips, beacons or other near-field communications technologies.
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Bluetooth beacon manufacturer Radius Networks deployed 1,500 beacons at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year to help attendees navigate the vast showrooms.
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It does so by using multiple Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons to triangulate the shopper's location, combined with data from the smartphone's sensors.
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Davenport was born in 1971 and grew up with Wonder Woman and the Bionic Woman — the only female superheroes who were beacons nonetheless.
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Together, its routers and beacons make a mesh network the company says is more reliable than what you get with a traditional router.
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Broadcaster, comedian, and cook Hardeep Singh Koli remembers a landscape where the only beacons for a wee foodie boy were the curry houses.
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Both flight recorders are fitted with acoustic beacons, or "pingers," that can be detected from a distance of up to about three miles.
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It offered a few French or Spanish phrases when I looked at a subway or hotel — or at SXSW, beacons simulating those things.
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The Nest Wi-Fi system will include beacons to be placed throughout the house that also function as Google Assistant speakers, reports 9to5Google.
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The Lighthouses of Ireland (Friday) The National Lighthouse Museum celebrates St. Patrick's Day with a multimedia lecture about beacons on the Emerald Isle.
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Crews searched the avalanche area using probes, beacons and avalanche dogs but did not find any other skiers trapped, the resort's Stagg said.
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"It can be very important for people to have these kinds of beacons of hope," Mr. Jefferys, the Treatment Action Group director, said.
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And certainly I can think of individual beacons of intellectual honesty today: George Packer, Tyler Cowen, Scott Alexander and Caitlin Flanagan, among many.
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Instead of shipping multiple identical-looking routers, eero's system now includes a single hub and one or two "beacons," which are physically smaller.
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You can swap in a band from Recco Technology, which makes avalanche and rescue beacons for when your backcountry adventure takes a turn.
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President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign website recently added language that gives it permission to use "beacons" to track the location of mobile devices.
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Eero's beacons might be able to float around, but its hub needs to be connected to your cable modem with an ethernet cable.
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Facebook doesn't know everything you do offline, but it does have some data from retail point-of-sale locations as well as Bluetooth beacons.
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"You see in an environment like India where there is a lot of chaos and madness, these beacons of positivity and hope," he recalled.
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The consent decree effectively codified changes Verizon had already made, requiring that customers opt in before the company can track them with the beacons.
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Just like Bluetooth lets you unlock your car without a key, beacons can streamline employee access to everything from physical spaces to electronic records.
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Using beacons could eliminate extras like key cards and make proprietary systems and fobs unnecessary, saving the company and its employees time and money.
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Beacons are also being expanded (now available in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco), helping you identify your ride in a sea of Ubers.
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For one, the galaxy FRB 150418 comes from is very old, which allows us to rule out the bright stellar beacons known as pulsars.
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I spoke to Krzych about his growth, the future of beacons, and what near field communications can do for us on the long term.
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These characters feel like beacons of safety in the Dark Souls games, like one of Resident Evil's soothing save rooms, or Zelda's fairy grottos.
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" "Even though the world is chaos and full of dark caves," she tells The Creators Project, "we are shining beacons to light the way.
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When you're close to a beacon you'll get an alert asking you to enable the physical web, and Chrome will list all nearby beacons.
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Eero Home Wi-Fi System With 1 Eero Pro + 2 Eero Beacons, $199 (originally $399) [You save $200]reviewed the system and was impressed
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In doing so, McGahn again fulfilled the most essential function of his office in reminding a president of the navigational beacons of his office.
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But the questions remained of how the beacons would be reliably attached, who would attach them and what would happen when the batteries died.
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You may not know where you are, but 800 signal-emitting beacons sprinkled through the museum pinpoint your location within 12 feet or so!
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"These beacons then send information to the guest's smartphone, including personalized notifications and offers," said Heather Balsley, IHG senior vice president, Americas Brand Management.
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It should never have been only the women who could possibly be the paradigms of goodness and grace and beacons of hope and life.
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The flowers are white — sometimes with just the slightest hint of pink — and grow in lovely little bouquets, which gleam like beacons at sunset.
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That plan required extensive presence inside Iran's networks — called "implants" or "beacons" — that would pave the way for injecting destabilizing malware into Iranian systems.
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The beacons allow the app to recognize pinpoint a user's location within the station, data that Ms. Hennessy said would not be stored afterward.
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Along with the car chargers and free Wi-Fi, officials here have added digital "beacons" that describe local attractions to aid smartphone-toting tourists.
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Matt Binder, a tech and politics reporter, wrote on Mashable about the significance of the new language: Using beacons, campaigns can micro-target voters.
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Her fear is that Amazon, through Sidewalk as well as other products, like its Ring doorbell cameras, is quietly creating Wi-Fi beacons everywhere.
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Some banks have started using beacons, for example, to send customized offers right to customers&apos smartphones as soon as they enter the branch.
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NASA's Lisa Mazzuca developed a generation of aircraft distress beacons that are better able to withstand crash damage and help rescuers locate victims faster.
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The beacons of (well-paid) creative inspiration were a representative reflection of the audiences who gathered around big shiny screens to watch their tales.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Police said rescuers had found 20 schoolchildren who had become lost on Wednesday in the Brecon Beacons, a mountainous area in Wales.
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Connect the drone and beacons with an app on your smartphone and soon you can be flying through time trials and racing your friends.
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Inside-out tracking is the opposite: the beacons are scattered around the room and detectors on a user's body employ them as reference points.
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Physical stores are increasingly turning to tools like Wi-Fi beacons and sophisticated cameras to bring the same data collection to the real world.
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But some attendees said they weren't aware of the beacons, and would have opted-out if they had known about them at the time.
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You may recall the uproar that occurred when researchers first discovered Verizon attaching the UIDH tracking beacons to all unencrypted traffic on its network.
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Now she owns the four-day festival Green Man, which attracts 173,000 people annually to the rolling hills of the Brecon Beacons in Wales.
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To conceptually explore this they incorporated a Blacktrax real-time motion tracking system into the dancer's costume, with stringer beacons placed on each limb.
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But as in past times of extreme uncertainty, the royal family may well be beacons of stability and assume greater visibility in the coming months.
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The Beacons aren't quite as powerful as the Gateway; they're still packing dual-band wi-fi antennas that more closely resemble the original Eero routers.
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The new Beacons don't compete with the beefier Eero Gateway routers, but they are wonderfully small, plug into the wall, and become amazing night lights.
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Here's your one-sentence refresher: Beacons, a bedrock of the "physical web," are small transmitters that broadcast information about a location to nearby mobile devices.
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The changes start today, with Waze Beacons going live in the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, Queens-Midtown Tunnel, and Hugh L. Carey (Brooklyn-Battery) Tunnel.
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Beacons, which use bluetooth for positioning, are how the Target app will be able to provide a GPS-like experience for its app's indoor map.
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If you have a large home, you may want the kit that includes one Eero Pro unit and two Eero Beacons for $26 (usually $2563).
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Plenty of retail outlets already track shoppers using beacons with radio signals that communicate with the shoppers' smartphones via apps with permissions for location services.
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Targeting customers and creating tailored shopping experiences with integrated shopping solutions like beacons help with foot traffic in a time of declining in-store shopping.
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Beacons are likely to be a hot topic in 2016, and there are a number of tech companies pioneering the concept with hardware and software.
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The beacons allow targeted ads to be delivered to cellphones as people pass the hotspots, but their use isn't spelled out in the privacy policy.
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I think just the very fact that they've been able to do that is going to inspire retailers to use beacons to do better experiences.
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When used, the software can detect so-called "audio beacons" inaudibly emitted by devices like televisions, giving third-party advertisers more information on viewing habits.
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They are the marks we leave on the map, the beacons we place in the dark that declare, yes, we will walk into the night.
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Similar to Lyft's color-changing Amp gadgets, Uber's Beacons stick to drivers' windshields and change colors to make it easier for riders to spot them.
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But the Hometowns are real smears on his relationships' track records now, not just prospective beacons of warmth and mom-hugs in the vague future.
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We can use them as warning beacons, and right now we need to be wary of a new sexual identity: straights posing as gays. SPAGs.
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The underwater listening devices being used by the French search team are capable of detecting the beacons from a distance of up to 2.5 miles.
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We don't all get to be The Doctor, The Artist, The Poet, The Carpenter—the pillars of our community, the glowing beacons of self-determinism.
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"Designer brands have become beacons of fugly precisely because people have replaced shopping for things with posting them and then regramming them," Mr. Sullivan said.
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Those who kill the monkeys are making matters worse by depleting primate populations that serve as beacons for where yellow fever is spreading, epidemiologists said.
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As vital partners to government, community-based health and human services organizations serve as beacons of light in tens of thousands of communities across America.
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London school students who were trapped on a beach in Kent were rescued by helicopter and lifeboats after they used their mobile phones as beacons.
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What used to be patrol beacons are now ghosts of dead Guardians, and completing the tasks they give you cleanses the area of their presence.
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That can stop many retailers and brands that have deployed Bluetooth-sensing beacons throughout their physical stores from knowing when you have entered their location.
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The company responded by allowing customers to opt-out and reassuring that outside third parties wouldn't use the beacons to create their own customer profiles.
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The beacons are commercially available battery-powered transmitters that look a lot like small smoke alarms, and, like alarms, can be fixed discreetly on ceilings.
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Concepts like the space-equivalent of the FAA have been proposed, as have mandatory radio-beacons on each satellite, self-identifying them like ships at sea.
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Now, the European Space Agency (ESA) has built on our natural inclination to marvel at these stellar beacons with a new interactive tool called Star Mapper.
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" It also said that beacons "can only deliver notifications if the end-user has a beacon-aware app and has their Bluetooth and Location services enabled.
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The Wikipedia page says they're also called web beacons, web bugs, tracking bugs, web tags, page tags, pixel tags, 1 x 1 GIFs, and clear GIFs.
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Starting today, you can order an Eero kit with one Eero hub and one Beacon for $299; $100 more gets you the hub and two Beacons.
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Emergency Position Indication Radio Beacons, or EPIRBS, activate when they are submerged in water or turned on manually and send a location to rescuers within minutes.
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Ironically named after the Latin word for "earth," this robot manufactured in China will require wireless beacons to do a job that goats will do autonomously.
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It enables users to opt in to interact with and receive content from nearby Bluetooth-enabled beacons in public places like shops, sports stadiums, schools, etc.
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Two people managed to activate rescue beacons -- a recommended emergency tool for those enjoying backcountry snow -- to alert authorities, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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It comes after retailers' apps have spent years trying to track users with a different technology: geolocation "beacons" that ping your smartphone as you visit stores.
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Urban Engines generates its movement data from the proliferation of sensors in dense urban centers, such as mobile phones, radio frequency identification, beacons, and other transducers.
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They become strange beacons of light amidst the dark and dreary mundanity of Jeremy Kyle followed by Judge Rinder followed by something hosted by Ben Shephard.
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As the track and content system reach apogee, the beacons create glimpses of another place, for just a few seconds, before track and sculptures lose phase.
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Waze Beacons are installed in nine cities globally, including Boston, Pittsburgh, Rio de Janeiro, Paris,Oslo, Florence, Italy, Haifa, Israel, and Jihlava in the Czech Republic.
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Remember also that one of the great economic beacons of hope for Hispanic Americans is small-business ownership, which is in precipitous decline in this country.
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Kevin Dunning, the London Underground's director of asset and operational support, said there were around 70 to 80 Bluetooth beacons in both Euston and Pimlico stations.
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Two hundred beacons sprinkled throughout the floor in Los Angeles allowed organizers to heat-map the crowds, showing where the largest groups of attendees were congregating.
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The renewed relevance of beacons was a topic of excitement at Place Conference, a location marketing summit held earlier this week at the University of Chicago.
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The growing concern on Sunday was fueled by the fact that the crew had not activated emergency beacons that are standard in commercial and military vessels.
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" He imagined that "a light of spirituality radiates from her, and each stage on her road to humanity is marked, as it were, by flaming beacons.
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Co-founder Batu Sat says they've built an "accurate and scalable" method of determining a customer's indoor position without GPS or additional hardware like Bluetooth beacons.
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It says that other areas where it's continuing to experiment to facilitate better in-person connections using include QR codes, business cards, and proximity-based beacons.
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The company is also a pioneer in Bluetooth beacons, tiny devices used by retailers which glean data from phones as people move about in public spaces.
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After that, they turn into hollow tubes with stairs inside for access to the cable anchorages and to the beacons required by the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Here they become spears, beacons, gestures; Mr. Sciscione, with his greater upper-body strength, is an ideal foil in a dialogue between equal but contrasting forces.
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These are living legends who have also stood on the right side of history, even when it was difficult, and they stand as beacons for me.
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You can start with an Eero, maybe plug in one of our beacons, which is one of the units that just plugs right into the wall.
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These were my beacons through this long night, reminders that the smallest of things can ignite the spirit and should not to be lost to the chaos.
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Early Roombas used bump and wheel sensors to find walls and furniture and IR beacons that blocked the little round robot from wandering out of a room.
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There are 100 circus performers, and many will be wearing special beacons so a new lighting system called Blacktrax can track each of them using programmable spotlights.
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The Beacons are WiFi access points that you plug in to standard outlets around your house to extend your WiFi connectivity to different areas of your home.
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The Beacons are designed to be discreetly placed in hallways, kitchens, or other areas where you don't want a large device or a cord to trip over.
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It's creepy enough that companies have experimented with tracking user browsing by playing inaudible, ultrasonic beacons through their computer and phone speakers when they visit certain websites.
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But Eero's Beacons take that to the next level, by removing the cord and enabling users to plug them into non-obvious places like kitchens and hallways.
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Stones' eyes, which even when looking at nothing suggest two brilliant beacons on a smallish lighthouse, brighten in recognition — if anything, her whole body seems to brighten.
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Today, customer visits are marked either through the use of in-store beacons or an app-based check-in, if a customer has the FiveStars app installed.
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While the buckets floated toward the ocean surface, they broadcast radio beacons that helped Air Force pilots flying C-27 cargo planes zero in on their locations.
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The Polish startup says it plans to use the new capital for product development — expanding the ecosystem and use-cases for beacons — and for further international expansion.
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Titan previously made headlines in 2014 after installing Bluetooth beacons in over 0.000043 pay phone booths, for the purpose of testing the technology, without the city's permission.
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The ships' drifting beacons and local news reports hinted that something was up, prompting BlackSky analysts to turn their attention to the busy shipping lane near Iran.
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These battery-powered beacons broadcast an open standard signal via Bluetooth, which takes over for GPS to provide location data when a car passes through a tunnel.
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The studio and ticket-selling app will be deploying boatloads of lure modules — beacons that are purchased within the game to attract Pokémon nearby — from 4 p.m.
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There are plenty of reasons why pulsars are cool: They're constantly flashing beacons like distant clocks, which makes them useful astronomical tools for measuring distances, for example.
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Its ability to suggest websites is thanks to earlier tests through the Physical Web project, and will require the location to use beacons that work with Nearby.
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Lyft's Amp beacons on the driver dash also flash matching colors and show the passenger name — so again, if it's not your name, it's not your ride.
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Then, a device using the Vera app will be able to "see" where you are in space without the use of GPS or other sorts of beacons.
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Joe MorselloSeptember 20, 2016 Marketers and tracking companies have long tried to fight criticism of Bluetooth beacons by claiming that the tracking is done with users' consent.
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Last summer the company announced it was handing out beacons to retailers in the hopes of sending users info about those retailers as they walked past them.
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This combination by crider reinforces the complicated function of the beacons: yes, they can save lives, but rescue also often leads to detainment — and, increasingly, indefinite detention.
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TL;DR: Save $200 on the eero Pro plus two eero Beacons bundle or a set of three eero Pros, on sale for $199 and $299 respectively.
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Dangerzone is a simple quarantine program that allows anyone to sanitize untrusted documents, neutering any tracking beacons, malicious scripts, or other nastiness that those files might carry.
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Let's say we had a way to distribute beacons around our solar system (or beyond) that could survive for billions of years, recording what our civilization has achieved.
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But taking a glance at connected Roombas with similar features and adding the need for multiple wireless beacons, it'd be surprising if the Terra retailed for under $1,000.
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Unlike your current wi-fi router—which is probably a hideous nest of wires and antennas—the Eero Beacons sort of disappear into the text of your wall.
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Writers, philosophers, activists, illustrators, painters, sculptors, poets, filmmakers, performers, drag queens — everyone, all creative people are important beacons of hope and resilience in a time of political uncertainty.
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Could Verizon simply argue that all its customers' web browsing data can potentially be used for "communications related" marketing and continue sending the tracking beacons without their permission?
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"Beacons can get within a few inches of accuracy, with GPS it's usually within a few feet or a few yards," EFF staff technologist Bennett Cyphers told Mashable.
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The pilot and co-pilot decided to carry on and the plane was able to land on a skiway at the pole, lit by burning beacons, West said.
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Iconic flags in this nation's history, such as the flag that flew over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, were beacons, with their own story, said Browne.
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After previous crashes at sea, regulators agreed to increase the transmission time and range of such beacons to increase the chances of finding evidence and preventing future accidents.
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The Vive Pro still requires a PC and those inconvenient tracking beacons, but wireless room-scale VR offers one of Santa Cruz's key features without its performance compromise.
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The rollout has not been without controversy, as BuzzFeed reported that the initial devices included beacons, which could potentially track users and push out local advertising to them.
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Location data, which Google can either gather directly via GPS data or infer from other sensors and data, including IP addresses, nearby Wi-Fi routers and Bluetooth beacons.
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Bluetooth beacons are everywhere, and as long as your antenna is live, there's a good chance one of your apps is using them to pin down your location.
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Time is of the essence: The batteries powering the flight recorders' locator beacons are certified to emit high-pitched signals for about 30 days after they get wet.
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But perhaps even more crucially, argues Habermann, is that beacons are enabling all of these new applications to happen "at a price which no other technology offered before".
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Mexico beacons because of its lower labor costs – an outlay that generally represents three-quarters of all production costs, and possibly much more in highly labor-intensive industries.
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In Orly, the beacons (which are currently under test and used only by employees) will eventually show passengers to, for instance, the correct baggage carousel for their flight.
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The systems include Eero Pros and Eero Beacons, the former necessary to plug into the modem, while the latter will only plug into wall outlets for expanded coverage.
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When you arrive at the store, you could then be directed to the right aisle and bin where the screw is located thanks to the in-store beacons.
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Beacons are being put into suitcases and museums Google says that 15 beacon companies will be supporting EIDs from this week with "more to follow" in the future.
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Davenport refers to the beacons as "lighthouses illuminating virtual worlds" that allowed for static imagery to be cast onto the walls of the venue in sweeping 360 arcs.
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Likewise, Google will set up bluetooth beacons around different sessions at I/O to allow developers to join a space during a session to discuss what they're seeing.
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Estimote, a beacon company, has given us the last thing by creating a small mesh network of wireless beacons that they proceed to hang on a Christmas tree.
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Lighting Beacons is traditional in the U.K. to mark jubilees, weddings and coronations and stems from the time when they were used to send messages around the country.
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High-band acoustic beacons are combined with real-time smart-phone processing to yield "centimeter-level localization accuracy in several typical indoor environments," according to the IEEE paper.
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It does not bode well for the rest of the world that the two beacons of democratic government cannot solve their problems in even a minimally orderly manner.
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Tough times lie ahead globally for democracy, but Americans have a chance to be beacons for others in dealing with the sexual harassment of both men and women.
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Yet it concluded that without GPS, delivery drivers could still use road maps, aircraft could still use terrestrial beacons, and ships could still use radar, buoys, and lighthouses.
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Drew: We program functionality into the mobile apps to be able to—if the user gives permission to the app—to be able to detect proximity sensors, beacons.
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Users wear bone conduction headphones that conduct sound through the skull, and when they pass the beacons they receive specific audio instructions telling them where to go when.
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Whenever I returned to Melbourne, an espresso at the counter of Pellegrini's was a necessity, and Mr. Malaspina's hospitality and jaunty colorful kerchief were like beacons of home.
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In the 1960s and '70s, Japan and the United States experimented with networks of beacons attached to centralized computers that let drivers transmit their route and receive route information.
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Spearheaded by one of humanity's purest beacons of light, vocalist and guitarist Mike Scheidt, Oregon's YOB have towered over doom metal for the better part of 20 years now.
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Apparently renamed "Nest Wifi," the new routers will work like Amazon's Eero, with a main primary router that can connect to smaller beacons you can place around your house.
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This approach might not be able to deliver location data that's as accurate as fixed beacon tech can, Walle concedes, but it has the scale that beacons do not.
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And it would have to run anywhere, not just in a set scene with boundaries set by beacons or something, and do so within seconds of putting it on.
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Eero also offers a paid $99/year service called Eero Plus that extends security and parental controls beyond the out-of-box capabilities its routers and beacons ship with.
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According to trademark filings, the beacons will be stakes in the ground and will make sure your bot doesn't wander off your lawn and shred anything in its path.
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My Disney MagicBand (Image: Adam Clark Estes)I don't remember signing a document that explained the MagicBand's far-reaching surveillance, specifically the long-range beacons tracking my every move.
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The beacons, transmitting a small radio signal, will communicate with users smartphones via an iPhone app called BlindSquare, enabling users to access information on their location with audio cues.
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Beacons — the micro-location technology that lets your smartphone trigger events based on how close you are to a beacon transmitter — have many uses beyond simple proximity-based marketing.
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"You can use Kontakt's beacons to track valuables in the warehouse or any premises, during transportation, trigger alarms if something (or someone) moves where it is not supposed to".
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It was an interesting move for the normally asset-light Uber to make, as it required Uber to spend money on manufacturing Beacons and then distribute them to drivers.
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Mobile phones, radio signals and beacons are all producing movement data that combined can show what's happening now and, based on historical data, what will happen in an hour.
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Air crash investigation experts say the search teams have around 5003 days to listen for pings sent out once every second from beacons attached to the two black boxes.
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One of the beacons of that democracy has been the state's refusal to carry out capital punishment, which is allowed in Israeli law during wartime and for certain crimes.
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The beacons come from tiny Bluetooth Low-Energy (BTLE) transmitters that have already been planted inside many retail stores, airports, and museums, which send signals to nearby mobile devices.
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When experts and journalists uncritically pluck numbers from careless studies and clutch at fluctuating figures, hastily offering them up as beacons, they may do more to confuse than illuminate.
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In reality, the city is a vibrant, artistic, literary place; perhaps it is the sprawl that makes its various beacons of culture feel like stars in a distant constellation.
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The experiment also serves as a prototype for using these fast-spinning neutron stars, also known as pulsars, as navigation beacons for spacecraft venturing out in the solar system.
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While the multiview technology does not use facial recognition to pick out the individuals in the crowd, it still uses some combination of location technology (like beacons) and cameras.
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The university's approach relies on geofencing, in which computerized location technologies, such as GPS and Bluetooth beacons, are used to identify a scooter's location and adjust its maximum speed.
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Air crash investigation experts say the search teams have around 30 days to listen for pings sent out once every second from beacons attached to the two black boxes.
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Gillespie told me that she envisions a world studded with beacons, helping people find everything from the button panel inside an elevator to the shampoo aisle in the drugstore.
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These compact tabletop beacons possess radiant mood-setting powers in a myriad of unique shapes that aren't your average base and shade — moons, mushrooms, monstera leaves, and croissants all included.
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That's great for locating missing gadgets, but it could also be used to improve the accuracy of tracking in indoor spaces where Bluetooth beacons are used to help people navigate.
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The new spec is also supposed to make Bluetooth beacons — the small radios that let stores and stadiums push ads and other targeted info to your phones — work more efficiently.
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Beacons in Target's new LED Lights This map will now show a user's location in the store as a blue dot, and it will display which Cartwheel deals are nearby.
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Both the new hub and the Beacon are backwards compatible with existing Eero systems, so current customers can add new hubs or Beacons to their networks as they see necessary.
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With the standard Eero system, the main hub is plugged into your modem and the two Beacons are placed in other parts of the house to extend the network's coverage.
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It can detect whether a person is walking or driving, it picks up on nearby Bluetooth beacons, knows whether headphones are plugged in, detects exact location, and remembers weather conditions.
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Drayson Technologies makes Freevolt, a patent-pending technology, which can recycle wasted radio frequency waves and convert them to power low energy electrical devices such as sensors, beacons and wearables.
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With the addition of a stronger base wireless router and the addition of its Beacons, Eero is an even better option for consumers looking to improve connectivity in their homes.
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There's no generally accepted explanation for how they're created, but theories abound: pulsars, collapsing neutron stars, evaporating black holes, and finally—humanity's favorite explanation for strange cosmic chatter—alien beacons.
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It was filled with secrets that kept players busy for weeks, and Mars, with its unusual diamond-shaped beacons and tantalizing "data collection" hunt, fosters that same sense of mystery.
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Statistics from Cospas-Sarsat show that use of 229 MHz beacons have saved more than 2100,000 lives since the system's establishment in 1979, including more than 2,000 in 2013 alone.
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No special beacons or reflectors are needed to tell the bot where it is, either; it checks its perceived environment against a stored map and deduces its position from that.
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Now Nokia is launching a new version of the router, one that's supposed to appeal to more cost-conscious people who don't need a bunch of beacons in their home.
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Since its launch last year, one of the biggest additions to Fallout 4 has been the ability to construct small towns, little beacons of hope amongst the post-apocalyptic desolation.
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Southern Lakes Helicopters, which owns the downed aircraft, said an investigation would be needed to find out why the emergency locator beacons on the helicopter failed, Radio New Zealand reported.
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This was when he learned that people were not beacons of fixed identity but accumulations of paradox and inconsistency—and that those layers made them interesting, even worthy of love.
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On the server, he found beacons and other tools, in addition to several gigabytes' worth of stolen documents—the equivalent of millions of pages—relating to sensitive U.S. defense programs.
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Add half a gallon of sweat from an enthusiastic Tour De France-like session to the mix, and I can't imagine the headsets will be beacons of hygiene for long.
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There were of course cities that dodged the worst, and people there celebrated in the drizzle and toasted the Waffle House and other open restaurants whose windows glowed like beacons.
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The photographs are the most effective, with the obelisks shining like bizarre beacons in a range of peopleless settings like brush country, a riverbank or someone's backyard among lawn ornaments.
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To find one's way in a covered parking garage, Waze is contemplating offering garage owners Waze Beacons, technology that uses Bluetooth to transmit navigation information in areas without cellular coverage.
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Unlike most robot lawnmowers, it uses wireless beacons to understand what your yard looks like rather than relying on a long, cumbersome wire that's around the edges of your lawn.
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The film is better at creating a fearsome atmosphere than an engaging plot, and though the lighthouse itself exudes a sinister Gothic character, its two inhabitants are the true beacons.
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Fast growing emerging and frontier markets in Africa are becoming beacons for developed world businesses seeking expansion opportunities, and for investors searching for greater returns than developed economies will offer.
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Sales of backcountry safety gear (avalanche beacons, probes, shovels, skins), used by backcountry travelers (skiers, snowboarders, snowshoers, snowmobilers) have increased more than 800 percent during the same period, NPD reports.
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After CBS News asked the Trump campaign's digital director, Brad Parscale, about how the campaign planned to use beacons, mentions of the technology no longer appeared in its privacy policy.
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Once I found the right spots for the beacons, my tests became a lot more consistent, but I encourage anyone who picks up a set to play around with placement.
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They made his first two albums beacons of forward-thinking soul, buffeting a still soft-at-the-edges Timberlake with a strong conceptual framework he could claim as his own.
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For hundreds of millions of years, even a galaxy's worth of stars—or unthinkably bright beacons such as those created by supermassive black holes—would have been rendered all but invisible.
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Norway's Ministry of Transport and Communication said eLoran was "outdated and had very few users", adding that lighthouses, markers, and radar beacons provided sufficient navigation safety in waters near the shore.
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They quickly became the de facto technology to connect the physical world with the digital due to beacons being able to inform a phone of their precise physical location and context.
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With the its newest hardware products, Eero took a step forward in that goal, in part by introducing Beacons that can be placed nearly anywhere in a person's house or apartment.
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"Samaritan" is a new startup out of Seattle that provides homeless people with small "beacons" (a key fob that functions as a smart wallet) which they can obtain through local nonprofits.
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Those beacons have already pissed off the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which argued that the Terra's radio wave frequency could disrupt radio telescopes in New Mexico, West Virginia and Puerto Rico.
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Versus Mode requires two of the $199 Lenovo Mirage AR systems: two phone-powered Mirage headsets; two lightsaber controllers; and two light-up tracking beacons, each set to a different color.
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The 0073 airliner made a refueling stop at Anchorage, Alaska, where the crew was informed that one of the radio navigation beacons the flight computer usually relied on was non-functional.
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These places tend not to have the tourism infrastructure (and gift shops) of national parks, but they are similarly protected from development, and are often beacons for tourists and adventure travelers.
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He declined to give further details but said investigators were also looking into whether the students had proper safety equipment, including beacons that can help locate those swept up in avalanches.
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BlindSquare already uses GPS from mobile devices to aid the visually impaired in outdoors locations using tools like OpenStreetMap, but the new beacons will now give users the same experience indoors.
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To get really in-depth data, retailers may need 50 or even 100 beacons in a store, and sophisticated software, which is simply too much overhead for many stores, Bairstow said.
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The data come from an analysis of location information from more than 50 million mobile devices per month gathered by a combination of technologies including geofencing beacons and Wi-Fi connectivity.
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These beacons would be configured to transmit signals to Bluetooth-enabled smartphones on the user end, taking over for GPS to provide location data when a car passes through a tunnel.
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Then as now, it involves grueling marches across the Brecon Beacons mountain range in South Wales, lone survival exercises that go on for weeks, and a nasty resistance-to-interrogation section.
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Cities like Pittsburgh, Reno, Provo and Kansas City, and states like Georgia and North Carolina, are evolving from their industrial and agrarian roots to become beacons of digital and technological innovation.
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Statcast is already set up to identify players without the use of beacons, based on things like field positioning, so it's perfectly set up to offer up this sort of information.
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The venue installed 1,600 beacons around the venue in preparation for the app's launch and their biggest week of the year, including the Derby Week and Kentucky Derby races, Jordan said.
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Here's how Lighthouse works: companies equip their workers with a mobile app that takes data from sensors like Bluetooth beacons to deliver information about their surroundings based on their exact position.
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There, a session on Bluetooth beacon adoption specifically mentioned Apple's removal of the iPhone headphone jack as an opportunity for tracking beacons, which require Bluetooth to be left on to work.
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But ultimately, said Harvey, the goal of advertisers in spreading the adoption of beacons is clear—especially in a post-headphone jack world where users are much more reliant on Bluetooth.
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It says that using cameras to build its insights is more accurate and scalable than current solutions that include devices like beacons, RFID tags, mobile networks, smartphone tracking and shopping data.
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The companies, once held up as beacons of American ingenuity and business acumen, have been under siege about spreading disinformation, failing to respect users' privacy and maneuvering to minimize their taxes.
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Although factories have been leaving the country for decades -- creating the notorious Rust Belt, the tragedy of failed cities, and probably the opioid epidemic -- college towns have been beacons of hope.
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Simility's approach is to use a set of APIs and beacons that essentially monitor digital transactions and buying activity wherever they happen to take place: on mobile, web or in physical environments.
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Beacons can help our offices become more efficient and secure, protecting and enabling our people and assets without an army of manual resources: These examples are just the tip of the iceberg.
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The conversation centered on the role Jim Crow-era statues played in society with groups of white people making the argument that they served as beacons of history, to remember dead ancestors.
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Part of the reason why Confederate monuments were removed from their pedestals was because they were installed decades after the Civil War during the Jim Crow era as beacons of white supremacy.
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Tortoise, The Catastrophist (January 22nd) Chicago post-rock veterans Tortoise are releasing their first LP in seven years with The Catastrophist, the long-awaited follow-up to 2009's Beacons of Ancestorship.
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But Facebook has dabbled in hardware previously, including with a project last year where it offered free Bluetooth beacons to business owners as part of a wireless, location-based ambient advertising push.
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Participants also wear watches that track their activity (especially useful for tracking sleep, which people are often bad at accurately reporting) and interact with beacons on the base to record their movements.
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"In honor of pride, we're kicking off a global initiative to turn walls in cities around the world into colorful beacons of support," said a blog post announcing the new Pride features.
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"GPS wasn't created for use in urban environments, no matter how much it's assisted by cell towers and WiFi access points or Bluetooth beacons," said Dr. Ashod Donikian, Navisens' founder and CEO.
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These beacons are part of Border Tuner, a large-scale participatory art installation created by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and along the border that divides El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
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Spire's technology is also used by shipping businesses to determine if a vessel may have been taken over by pirates, who typically turn off beacons that Spire can track through a signal.
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While some, like American's, use Wi-Fi to provide information to travelers, others — particularly those developed by SITA, a communications and information technology company owned and operated by major airlines — use beacons.
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Increasingly, our ambient environment is a mesh of sensors receiving streams of data sent by our devices, surveillance cameras, advertising beacons and other instruments over which we have little or no control.
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Some developers have already built "proximity-based experiences," as Google calls them, using beacons and Nearby, including The Broad Museum, United Airlines, The University of Notre Dame, CVS, and Airside's Mobile Passport.
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But scores of Kahn's architectural beacons, including the Art Deco Fisher Building in the New Center neighborhood of Detroit and Belle Isle Aquarium, continue to captivate the public, generations after they opened.
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Before a pandemic made us double down on isolation, the tornado already enforced its own kind of social distancing simply by compelling these everyday beacons to scatter across the city and beyond.
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I know they're not good for me, so I hope I can gradually wean myself off all soft drinks and be one of those beacons of health who only drink water. Maybe.
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Bluetooth tags and beacons offer tracking data in smaller, more confined areas, and companies most often use them in retail stores to monitor customer traffic and offer marketing messages to said customers.
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The app uses a network of 800 beacons placed throughout the museum to pinpoint visitors' locations and show content related to your immediate surroundings, as well as provide relevant logistical information, like directions.
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That evening, she lit the first of more than 1,000 beacons to criss cross the country in honor of her 90th year before heading to a private party with family and close friends.
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In Toronto, the CNIB, a Canadian nonprofit for the blind, is installing hundreds of small, battery-powered beacons across cafes, businesses, and stores to boost accessibility and mobility for those with visual impairments.
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He also points out that although the most prominent use case of Beacons is pushing discount codes to people as they pass by, there are many more lucrative use-cases for the technology.
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The company will also sell Eero's $400 bundle, which includes one second-generation Eero hub and two Eero beacons—enough hardware for an apartment or small home—for $100 off for today only.
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One of the major players in this revitalization effort is the Goat Farm Arts Center, who have established a program called "Beacons" to try and create an arts district that can be sustainable.
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With the battery life of those beacons expiring by next week, investigators are hoping to retrieve the recorders — which contain cockpit conversations and data from the plane's onboard computers — before they fall silent.
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These networks will be 10 times faster than today's networks, support 100 times more devices, beacons, and wearables, and unlock real-time applications like remote health care with networks five times more responsive.
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Users can set audio beacons at specific destinations and places, and the app will provide 3D audio cues (which can be perceived directionally) to help improve their "ambient awareness" as they travel there.
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Add to this the impact of the "zero tolerance" policy and family separation, and these developments do not inspire immigrant survivors or their legal advocates to see police stations as beacons of hope.
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Vice President of Product Management R.J. Talyor added that with the new funding, Geofeedia is prepared to broaden its location data — not just pulling from social media but also beacons and other sources.
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Skyscrapers and towers are part of the DNA of the modern metropolis — embodiments of capital and power, facilitated by trade-offs between private and public sectors, and occasional beacons of innovative, progressive design.
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Other Iranian oil tankers have similarly turned off their tracking beacons in the area, with analysts saying they believe crude oil ends up in Syria in support of embattled President Bashar Assad's government.
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"We are pleased to confirm that following a search and rescue operation on the Brecon Beacons this afternoon, all 26 members of the party involved have been accounted for," a police spokesman said.
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I moved Green Man to this new site on the Brecon Beacons [in Wales] and brought in lots of new stuff—cinema, our first dance tent—[and] it grew from 800 to 6,000.
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In a surreal moment, you're even tasked with setting up an in-universe system of beacons to access "Patrol" missions, the most shallow and time-wasting set of activities the first Destiny ever produced.
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JG: We're over 90 percent accurate that one of the first three options will be ... that's what we're known for because we're looking at the Bluetooth beacons and we're looking at the Wi-Fi.
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After two years of work the company has perfected their systems and are now offering occupancy sensing, beacons, customer tracking and lighting to enterprise customers using a unique set of base stations and lightbulbs.
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Beacons around the building connect with resident's cellphones and track their movements, so staff know people's daily habits like when they go to the gym or leave for work, and can anticipate their needs.
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The Mod(el) Squad Cara Delevingne's cheekbones have acted as homing beacons for some of the most equally striking young things (Kendall Jenner, Rita Ora, Rihanna, Suki Waterhouse) in the world of Young Famous.
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To make sure it doesn't drive out of bounds (and into traffic), and does spot trees, benches or other barriers, Kobi makes use of two beacons placed in the yard to help it navigate.
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His story began in the early eighties in the South Bronx with a group of 'at-risk' students, where literary works not only became muses for their creative expression, but also life-guiding beacons.
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As these hot spots circle, the black hole's immense gravitational forces twist space-time itself into something like a lens, one that flashes beacons of light across the cosmos like a galactic searchlight beam.
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The company has partnered with New York's MTA as well as the Port Authority of NY and New Jersey to install these beacons on bridges and in tunnels used to enter and exit Manhattan.
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The discovery was the first significant breakthrough in the search for the plane since investigators said they had detected signals from one of its two flight recorder beacons, or "pingers," nearly two weeks ago.
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Seen by supporters as beacons of excellence that drive up standards, they are blamed by critics for allowing well-heeled parents to opt out of state education, removing the incentive for it to improve.
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It has long positioned its official accounts as a mechanism to interact with customers and, from May, it will support Bluetooth-enabled beacons which can extend customer retention and acquisition into the physical world.
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As matter crashes down into them, stupendous amounts of energy should be released, enough to produce quasars, the faint radio beacons from distant space that have dazzled and baffled astronomers since the early 1960s.
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The four victims, who were not identified by name, had been equipped with beacons that can send and receive radio signals in case of danger; it was unclear whether they were killed upon impact.
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In October, when Verizon announced it would revive the beacons to use across AOL web properties, its ad network's reach was as high as 43.3 percent of the web-using populace, according to ComScore.
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Thanks to one of the most volatile weather patterns on the planet and primitive navigational beacons, more US military planes have crashed on this tiny, Kentucky-sized island than almost anywhere else on Earth.
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While smartphone users can download and use the app anywhere in the U.S., StreetChange makes a local impact through the Bluetooth beacons, which homeless people registered with the app keep with them at all times.
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" He suggested a possible headline for those journalists: "Facebook uses new Android update to pry into your private life in ever more terrifying ways - reading your call logs, tracking you in businesses with beacons, etc.
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But interestingly, those smaller Nest Wifi beacons will reportedly double as Google Assistant smart speakers to extend the reach of your voice commands at the same time it's extending the reach of your Wi-Fi.
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But let's start with these beacons of hope: Bright Futures will be executive produced by Black-ish creator Kenya Barris and written and produced by Grown-ish writers Hale Rothstein, Danny Segal, and Isaac Schamis.
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These are second-generation base stations, and Valve promises a few benefits over the Vive's 1.0 beacons — primarily, an expanded diagonal range of up to 10 by 10 meters if you use four of them.
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SilverPush, the Indian ad tech company that became infamous for tracking smartphone users with ultrasonic audio beacons, says it will abandon its novel eavesdropping ad business, according to a company press statement emailed to Motherboard.
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" He added, "The beacon Her Majesty's about to light will also represent, as it lights other beacons across the nation, the love and affection in which you are held throughout this country and the Commonwealth.
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Even if you don't buy something, Facebook will also now know you visited a store based on a new feature that matches GPS, beacons, WiFi, radio signals, and cell towers with brick-and-mortar coordinates.
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Earlier this year, Mr. Yennie and others in the grave-tracking group glued electronic beacons to a few vaults that were known to be "frequent floaters," next to an often-flooded bayou outside New Orleans.
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And now that Apple has gotten rid of the iPhone's headphone jack, marketers are anticipating that a whole lot of people will soon be leaving their Bluetooth enabled, effectively "opting in" to the beacons' tracking.
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The free LinkNYC WiFi kiosks now scattered about New York City, paid for in part by a Google spin-off company called Sidewalk Labs, are also capable of sending advertising beacons to logged-in users.
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Beacons of Puerto Rican cuisine still survive; Casa Adela, for instance, is still busily dispensing chickens from its venerable lemon-yellow rotisserie on Avenue C, despite the death last year of its founder, Adela Fargas.
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Andrew M. Cuomo of New York on Tuesday cast himself and the state that he leads as progressive beacons and a bulwark against President Trump, taking the oath of office while standing on Ellis Island.
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You may note that Google would be effectively copying Amazon's second-gen Eero router by going with a pair of beacons to extend Wi-Fi coverage across your house, which could have pros and cons.
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It is separate from the underwater locator beacons (ULB) or "pingers" attached to the "black box" flight recorders, which send out acoustic rather than radio signals and are designed to be more easily detected underwater.
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Instead we huddled in a low-wattage sun patch near the parking lot and resisted the wind that noisily whipped the snow around, making it impossible to hear Ryan and Mike's lecture about avalanche beacons.
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I'm just not a fan of the idea that we should turn our smartphones into GPS tracking beacons any more than we need to, especially when doing so makes me avoid talking to my loved ones.
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By pushing information, including your location, a map or specific directions to a conference room (plus the Wi-Fi password once you get there), beacons can empower more time spent working, and less time spent wandering.
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"There was such an overwhelmingly positive response for the light beacons because it was the first thing that hit the news cycle that was positive, in contrast to pictures of the blasts and explosions," LaVerdiere explains.
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For example, they're increasing their reliance on sensor-based technologies such as smart chips, RFID tags, real-time location systems (RTLS) and beacons to better orchestrate the flow of patients, doctors, nurses, medical equipment and supplies.
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As for the video, I like that it's so dark that you can barely tell what's going on, and the only beacons of light are reflected in the droplets of sweat perched on Ansel's upper lip.
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Floor mats can measure store traffic, video analytics will track shoppers' age, sex and mood, and beacons can gather data about what customers do in the shop once they have signed up for free Wi-Fi.
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Proxama claims that other browsers that will eventually support Physical Web notifications from Eddystone beacons include FireFox, Opera and Microsoft's new Edge browsers — a collective move, it seems, to rival Apple and its own iBeacons strategy.
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It can even sense nearby beacons and devices, which means it can tap into data from things like Android Wear smartwatches, or interoperate with devices like Chromecast (Google Cast) or Google's new smart speaker, Google Home.
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The battery-powered beacons are certified to emit a distinct metronomic "ping" for roughly 30 days after a crash, which means the EgyptAir jet's black boxes are likely to fall silent by the middle of June.
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Using tools to monitor network traffic, the researchers found 24 popular iPhone apps that were collecting location data — like Bluetooth beacons to Wi-Fi network names — to know where a person is and where they visit.
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It's hard to believe that two such robust democracies, long seen by the rest of the world as beacons of stability, have dissolved into such bitter civic dysfunction and seem unmoored from their previous governing realities.
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Chris Herbert, chief executive of a start-up called TrackR that makes wireless beacons for finding misplaced keys and wallets, recently released an app for Alexa that allows people to find their items with voice commands.
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The Box comes equipped with NFC that helps visually impaired individuals recognise objects around them, beacons to aid with perimetral control, a compass for orientation as well as an emergency charger for the user's smart phone.
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And then the sun set, and it came time for the late-night hosts — a legion of mostly white men who, in the post-Trump media landscape, have been heralded as model liberal beacons — to respond.
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Zyter has installed more than 300 small beacons in Amtrak's section of the station and plans to install 300 more in the areas that are managed by the Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit.
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He did it in 33.5 hours in a single-seat, single-engine monoplane, thus making him a kind of 20th-century Leif Ericson, an aeronautical Magellan, one of the earliest beacons of the age of aviation.
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Green cards to the United States are among the most valuable pieces of paper on earth, especially today when we are one of the few remaining beacons of hope, opportunity and safety for would-be immigrants.
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In the face of an uncertain future for oysters and cotton and shrimp, the queens themselves have become a kind of symbol for renewal and fertility, beacons of stability as the coastline washes into the Gulf.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - The coronavirus outbreak in China may be altering the 2020 investment outlook for Latin America, souring sentiment toward regional free market beacons Chile and Brazil, while turning heads - and cash - toward left-leaning Mexico.
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In its main privacy policy, it explains that it may use certain first-party or third-party information or web beacons to deliver ads relevant to a user on its sites or on third-party sites.
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For more than three decades, California has seen a net outflow of residents to other states, as less expensive southern cities like Phoenix, Houston and Raleigh supplant those of the Golden State as beacons of opportunity.
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In other words, while third-party tracking without consent is now verboten, big telecoms like Verizon can still use tracking beacons to collect and share customer data with any in-house ad networks they may have purchased.
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While most autonomous lawn mowers require people to lay down wire to define their boundaries, the Terra only requires wireless beacons to be placed around the perimeter of a lawn — the idea being it's a simpler setup.
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Instead of mounting laser lighthouse beacons around the room, you just have to plug the headset into a small adapter box, connect DisplayPort and USB cables to your computer, and plug the box into a power outlet.
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That's something the team originally launched with the last release, but now developers can build apps that also actively listen for beacons in the background (previously, you had to actively scan for them) and set up geofences.
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Select Target stores have already installed beacons that communicate with shoppers' cell phones, using location data to learn about consumer buyer habits that can greatly influence the layout of stores, placement of certain products and staffing management.
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Here are the best router deals on Prime Day 2019:Gryphon Mesh Wi-Fi Router, $189.99 (originally $249.99) [You save $60]eero Home WiFi System (1 eero Pro + 2 eero Beacons), $199 (originally $399) [You save $200]
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When I went to "work" and "the gym" (represented here by Bluetooth beacons, located close together for convenience) it would ask if I wanted to change my playlist, and automatically adjust sound settings like noise cancellation levels.
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"Marketers are trying to trick people by saying the standalone beacons don't actively track people because they only send pings" to your device, said Adam Harvey, an artist and privacy technologist who has studied Bluetooth beacon tracking.
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In our review, we found the second-gen Eero to be just as capable as the first-gen model overall, but it doesn't necessarily deliver as much bandwidth at the beacons as Eero's full-size routers do.
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There is a lot I liked, but the first half gets so bogged down with exposition and new plot and doodads and beacons and transmitters, it feels like it should have been three movies on its own.
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Ultrasounds have already gained a sinister reputation for their use in device tracking schemes in which apps gain permission to access a user's smartphone, then listen for inaudible "beacons" being broadcast in advertisements, websites, and even physical stores.
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Hardware-wise, the new Eero is internally identical to the Beacons released in 2017, but it lacks a nightlight and the ability to plug into the wall directly, which makes it easier for Eero to sell it internationally.
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The company has taken fire from regulators and privacy groups for its use of Unique Audio Beacons (UABs), inaudible tones that can be detected by the microphones of nearby mobile devices running apps embedded with SilverPush's proprietary code.
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The Beacons program isn't looking to get help from individual-driver Wazers in this case, but is looking for cities and tunnel owners who might be fans of the service to step up and apply to its program.
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The popular and most-reviewed $399 system, which comes with one Eero Pro and two Eero beacons, has everything you need to replace your router and make the WiFi you're already paying for work harder and go further.
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Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport, for example, is testing a system involving beacons and an app that helps visually impaired travelers, with the use of audio instructions, find their way to gates, restaurants and power outlets.
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Not only are they able to ascertain which artists are the most popular and most in-demand, but by using Bluetooth beacons with proximity sensors and geofences, they can also track how many minutes attendees are watching them.
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In a new piece for Sunday Review, Michael Kwet of Yale Law School writes how grocery stores, sports stadiums and other brick-and-mortar venues are using small Bluetooth-powered devices called beacons to monitor where you go.
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Winslow is in training to become a "wickie", one of the maintenance men who oversee the beacons for years on end without any human contact (an occupation designed to drive its practitioners mad if ever there was one).
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Needless to add that when you gaze at an image today, the image is gazing back — in the form of cookies, beacons, tracking pixels and JavaScript tags, all of which log your looking as harmless or malign analytics.
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To create nighttime beacons for fellow visitors, some people even set fire to one of the tallest plants around, the Joshua tree, a member of the yucca tribe with meandering, almost tentacular branches erupting in spiked green crowns.
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On my phone, apps like Dunkin' Donuts, ESPN Fantasy, GroupMe, CVS, Amazon and others had access to Bluetooth, which could give them the ability to track my location through Bluetooth beacons on storefronts and in other public venues.
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Rescuers have barely 21998 days until the batteries die on two underwater beacons designed to guide them to the black box flight recorders as they scour 22006,2447 square kilometers of sea north of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria.
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Connected beacons, powered by advancements in the Internet of Things, could also make urban areas for accessible for people with hearing impairments who wouldn't otherwise be aware of announcements, with users' indoor locations triggering visual alerts on mobile devices.
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"Mondelez has suffered from a general slowdown in consumer demand for snacks across the globe, in particular in those countries that were once shining beacons of hope - China, Brazil and India," said Jack Skelly, food analyst for Euromonitor International.
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Initially, the notifications will be focused around London buses, starting with 100 vehicles, but Worley says that the plan is to expand that across the UK, to other transportation mediums, and to other places where Proxama's beacons are situated.
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The technique was developed as a method of so-called "cross-device" tracking, enabling advertisers to link someone watching an ad on their TV or laptop, for example, with a smartphone listening for the beacons in the same room.
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In this, it would be akin to true international arts beacons like the Salzburg Festival, which has separate branches for opera, music and theater, but also a general director and, at least in theory, an overarching point of view.
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Most people I know will claim that their musical entry point to feminism came in the form of an old Bikini Kill tape or a Sleater-Kinney interview – objectively cool beacons of subculture handed down from the generations before.
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We even see a rack of tie-dyed shirts transform from beacons of psychedelia to jet black tees emblazoned with the word "discipline," which just happens to be the name of the group's debut album on Brodinski's Bromance Records.
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After that, our main event for the year is CAMP VC, a weekend event in the Brecon Beacons where women can come and try out everything from riding motorcycles for the first time to dirt biking, skateboarding, and climbing.
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On engaging with those who disagreeThere are many weightlifting and powerlifting gyms and coaches out there that act as beacons of support for their members, and have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to sexism, racism, and transphobia.
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Those innocuous bamboo beacons, produced by Tiki Brand, a 60-year-old company, and known primarily for their presence at family barbecues, poolside cabanas, lush resort grounds and Pacific-island themed restaurants, were now lighting the way for racists.
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Waze's Gil Disatnik said in a call this week that "we don't want to give you any location data if we're not sure," so that's where the Beacons come in to send a signal to show your true location.
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San Francisco's "liquor stores"—also known as a "corner store" if it happens to fall on a corner, but never a "bodega," because this isn't New York—serve as social hubs within the city, omnipresent beacons of beer, snacks, and sundries.
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As the women divulged their laments, across town Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's hot-headed president, was slamming "countries that...are still preaching to us about human rights", in front of leaders from such beacons of democracy as Azerbaijan, Venezuela and Russia.
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Through these, and dozens of bluetooth beacons located throughout Batuu, you can activate droids, download schematics from hacking ships, download secret messages from door panels and listen to transmissions from three factions inclined the First Order, the Resistance and the Smugglers.
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Not only did four robbery suspects allegedly set up lure beacons on PokéStops to attract victims, but there are reports of injuries due to the game, and police have had to warn players about going into places they're not supposed to.
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A single wireless router can only cover so much ground before the signal starts to deteriorate, but placing mesh Wi-Fi beacons around your house helps to vastly broaden the coverage without a noticeable decrease in download or upload speed.
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Indoor mapping is one of those stubborn problems that seems to only have solutions that involve a great deal of money and infrastructure: beacons, lasers, emitters, scanners… who wants to install those in malls and office complexes across the world?
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In a separate article, the China Daily said Beijing has build two lighthouses and four beacons on the disputed Paracel Islands and has set up four base stations for radio communications and civilian cellphone networks, providing "complete coverage of the area".
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"For me the indoor navigation use-case, providing relevant context to the user is great, but for consumers I guess the real killer app will emerge once there are more beacons deployed and the infrastructure is available for third party providers".
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Thanks to support from several organizations, we were able to purchase equipment that increased the realism of the event, including face masks, full body protective personal equipment, and Bluetooth beacons that simulate infectious sources and other aspects of the outbreak.
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Proxama, which operates a network of Bluetooth beacons in the UK, says has launched a new service called MyStop: transport alerts that come up automatically on your Android handset or iPhone if you have Chrome installed and Bluetooth turned on.
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Luke Ripley, 26 — who has faced a series of personal setbacks and is learning rural skills through a project run by the Prince's Trust and the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales — told Charles his trust is making a difference.
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Using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Tiles stay in touch with nearby phones and other devices, acting as beacons so that you can track them down; if they lose contact, you can still see the last place where their signals were spotted.
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The single biggest thing that has held back BLE deployments to date, for example, has been physical beacons — hockey puck-sized devices that need to be placed every 20 feet or so to detect BLE users and then engage with them.
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Navisens vs Google Maps Navisens vs Google Maps This is a huge development for these types of customers who have previously had to rely on installing infrastructure hardware like bluetooth beacons or wifi access points to get some of this data.
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According to their French manufacturer, Alseamar, the devices are capable of detecting the beacons from a distance of up to 2.5 miles and can easily distinguish their signals from the noise of other vessels or sea life such as whales.
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To circumvent the UN's strict quotas on deliveries of petroleum products to North Korea — or the outright ban on buying North Korean coal — vessels will turn off their AIS beacons when they rendezvous with North Korean ships for offshore trades.
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The residential towers here dwarf the churches and their chance to serve as beacons, but a sharp-eyed runner may catch some of the nice details etched into the entrance of the Church of St. John Nepomucene at 66th Street.
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The company, with brands including InterContinental, Kimpton, EVEN, Indigo and Crowne Plaza, is running a pilot program in IHG hotels in China that places beacons in the lobbies and restaurants that recognize rewards club members using the IHG app nearby.
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Not only did four robbery suspects allegedly set up lure beacons on PokéStops to attract victims, but there are reports of injuries due to the game, and police have had to warn players about going into places they're not supposed to.
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When people are tracked and inventory is kept up to date by beacons on all of a building's equipment, a "digital twin" of the building—essentially a high-fidelity computer model—can tell occupants where to find anything they need.
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"I think users can ultimately decide how they feel about Zoom and other apps sending beacons to Facebook, even if there is no direct evidence of sensitive data being shared in current versions," he told Motherboard in a Twitter direct message.
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After you've installed iOS 13, you might see a flurry of apps asking for permission to transmit data over Bluetooth—data that can, in some cases, be used to track where you are, via Bluetooth beacons in stores and elsewhere.
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Or somethings; the iPhone SE 2 (aka the iPhone 9), AirTag location beacons, Apple-branded over-the-ear headphones, an updated iPad Pro with a big square camera module, and even updated MacBooks with the better keyboard have all been rumored.
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This is all no longer theoretical: The Trump campaign earlier this year changed its privacy policy to alert voters that it might use beacons, or transmitters that use Bluetooth to track you and your phone's proximity to a specific location.
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He led a small team beyond the front lines, telling members to turn off locator beacons so they would not be caught by superiors, according to four SEALS, who confirmed video of the mission obtained by The New York Times.
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For maps that do provide fairly accurate positioning indoors, information from your phone's Wi-Fi network data, special Bluetooth beacons and radio-frequency identification systems — or even dedicated hardware installed by the place you are visiting — can help mark your spot.
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Target has worked with startups like Estimote to place beacons in 50 stores; Curbside to allow for drive-up order pickups at more than 100 locations; and Instacart to offer express grocery delivery to customers who wouldn't otherwise frequent a store.
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President Trump told Holocaust survivors — in attendance at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's National Days of Remembrance — that they were "beacons of light" who continued to bring hope to civilization, invoking the words of Elie Wiesel in a condemnation of anti-Semitism:
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Indonesia on Tuesday stepped up its search for passengers of an airliner that plunged into the sea, deploying underwater beacons to trace the flight's black box recorders in a bid to uncover why an almost-new plane crashed minutes after take-off.
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At issue was Unique Identifier Headers, or UIDH, unkillable tracking beacons that Verizon and AT&T were injecting into all unencrypted traffic on their networks, allowing themselves and third parties to monitor customers' browsing habits and monetize the data through targeted advertising.
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That's not cheap, but it's much lower than Eero's previous $23 entry price, which got you an Eero Pro and two plug-in Eero Beacons, making it more in line with some of the other lower-end mesh systems that are now available.
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Next time in this series, we'll go a bit higher tech—maybe a wrist altimeters or avalanche beacons—but the ATC is an amazing example of a recent, ultra-simple technology that's managed to help enable an entire sport at $15 a pop.
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The problems are that lidar is bulky (it hides in the roof domes of Google's self-driving cars and, as pictured above, in the revolving beacons that adorn Uber's vehicles), mechanically complicated and can cost as much as the unadorned car itself.
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Having a technology like Freevolt means that the thousands of beacons and sensors which could potentially be dotted around a city, won't need to be charged in the traditional way of plugging in a wire, something that would prove costly and impractical.
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Beacons require Bluetooth to function, and while the percentage of "Bluetooth on" is between 40 percent and 50 percent in the U.S., there is still a way to go to reach a market adoption that makes sense for most large global advertisers.
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Mullins, an Ohio native, had adorned her room at the hospice center with statuettes and photographs of the beacons, but had never seen one of the structures in person, and had no family in the area who would take her, the outlet said.
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