How a fitness app revealed military secrets — and the new reality of data collection – Vox / / No Comments Vox How a fitness app revealed military secrets — and the new reality of data collectionVoxOver the weekend, news broke that a fitness-centered social media app called Strava had quietly, inadvertently divulged the locations of secret military bases around the world via its recently updated global “heat map.” Anyone wearing a fitness tracker …New map uses app data to show where Chicagoans like to run, ride bikesChicago Sun-TimesAll your base are belong to us: Strava exercise app maps military sites, reveals where spies jogThe RegisterFitness App Releases Data, Accidentally Reveals Top-Secret Military InformationBrinkwire (press release)all 10 news articles » map... more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: collection, data, fitness, military, reality, revealed, secrets
A Snapchat patent application would map the world in an augmented reality database – The Verge / / No Comments The Verge A Snapchat patent application would map the world in an augmented reality databaseThe VergeA Snapchat patent application shows off one idea for displaying smoother augmented reality images while using less processing power: build a giant image database, detect where a user is looking, and insert digital objects that you've pre-placed to look …and more » map app – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: application', augmented, database, patent, reality, Snapchat, Verge, World, Would