One unexpected benefit of offline maps is battery life. Instead of letting my phone waste power searching for a weak signal, I sometimes put it in airplane mode and let Maps handle everything offline.
The Chicago Marathon’s 26.2-mile course is flat, fast and ready to welcome more than 53,000 runners this Sunday.
Abstract: During the last decade, possibilities to realize new phenomena and create new applications by varying system properties in time have gained increasing attention in many research fields.