Category: qatar

Qatar’s contact tracing app put over one million people’s info at risk

Post author By Randall
Post date May 26, 2020
Categories In amnesty international, app, contact tracing, coronavirus, covid-19, ehteraz, flaw, gear, gps, News, Privacy, qatar, Security, Tech, vulnerability

[ad_1] Qatar’s app, called EHTERAZ, uses GPS and Bluetooth to track COVID-19 cases, and last week, authorities made it mandatory. According to Amnesty, people who don’t use the app could face up to three years in prison and a fine of QR 200,000 (about $55,000). “This incident should act as a warning to governments around […]

MIT’s new GPS system uses satellite images to put you in the right lane

Post author By Randall
Post date January 24, 2020
Categories In av, Cameras, gear, Google, gps, machine learning, maps, mit, navigation, qatar, satellite, Tech, Transportation

[ad_1] Typically, GPS maps are created by big companies such as Google, which sends camera-strapped vehicles around a neighborhood to capture details on an area’s roads. And that’s worked pretty well so far, but it’s not without its limitations. For a start, it’s an expensive process, and keeping these maps up to date is time-consuming. […]

VW will roll out self-driving electric shuttles in Qatar’s capital

Post author By Randall
Post date December 15, 2019
Categories In aid, audi, autonomous, autonomous intelligent driving, car, doha, gear, green, mass transit, moia, public transportation, qatar, scania, self-driving, shuttle, Tech, Transportation, vehicle, volkswagen, vw

[ad_1] You may see these self-driving transporters on the road before 2022. Closed testing is poised to start in 2020, and trials could start in 2021. That is, of course, provided there are no setbcks. There are already self-driving shuttle services in a number of cities. They aren’t always on this scale, though, and you […]