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Letter: For the record

Published 31 July 2013

• We must have been feeling a little giddy when we said the GPS-free car navigation system developed in Chicago (13 July, p 23) used motion sensors. It doesn’t.

• Oops. In our story on musicians jamming while up to 3000 kilometres apart (13 July, p 21) we may have inadvertently broken the speed of light. Rather than the overall delay in the connection, it is the encoding and decoding of sound that takes just 5 milliseconds.

Issue no. 2928 published 3 August 2013

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