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Xiaomi-backed Huami's latest offering the Amazfit GTR comes in three versions: aluminum alloy, stainless steel, and titanium. We reviewed the GTR 47 mm stainless steel version DESIGN FEATURES AND PERFORMANCES You get your phone notifications, reminders, incoming calls (with the option of putting them on silent mode or rejecting them), alarm, music control, and built-in compass directly in the watch. For a detailed analysis of the stats, you need to download the Amazfit app. The watch is compatible with both IoS and Android devices. It has a built-in GPS. The watch also has a sleep tracking feature so you can get insights on the quality of your sleep which is condensed into something called sleep score. The heart rate sensor seems to work fine, but the GPS was slightly off at times, especially in terms of tracking my runs. Hopefully, further updates will fix that. The step counter seems accurate too. The watch is water-resistant up to 5ATM, so you can take a shower,...

Scientists have discovered a way to identify indicators of a mega earthquake using GPS-based information, an advance that may help improve early warning systems for quakes. The researchers from University of Oregon in the US combed through databases of earthquakes since the early 1990s have discovered a possible defining moment 10-15 seconds into an event that could signal a magnitude seven or larger quake. Likewise, that moment -- gleaned from GPS data on the peak rate of acceleration of ground displacement -- can indicate a smaller event. GPS picks up an initial signal of movement along a fault similar to a seismometer detecting the smallest first moments of an earthquake. Such GPS-based information potentially could enhance the value of earthquake early warning systems, said Diego Melgar, a professor in the University of Oregon. The physics-heavy analyses of two databases detected a point in time where a newly initiated earthquake transitions into a slip pulse where ...