Earth’s Shifting Magnetic Pole May be Confusing Your Cell Phone

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Earth’s Shifting Magnetic Pole May be Confusing Your Cell Phone

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Pick up your cell phone and look at it. That rectangular marvel of modern technology contains thousands of lines of code. Among them is the World Magnetic Model (WMM)–a program that helps your phone navigate. And it’s in a bit of trouble. Researchers have announced that the WMM needs an emergency update because Earth’s magnetic field is changing.

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Re: Earth’s Shifting Magnetic Pole May be Confusing Your Cell Phone

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As long as it confuses all those that try to track me using my phone, it ain't getting no update :geek:
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