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[Gizmodo: top, index'rss] Instead of a GPS-like system in which all the different devices send their location to a single receiver, researchers at MIT's Wireless Communications and Network Sciences Group are making gadgets talk directly to one another. But what's novel about their approach is that the devices aren't just saying where they think they are;

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