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Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives—it's time to stop using them

The use of information technology (IT) has significant environmental and social impacts, including human mortality from climate change. One striking example is the carbon emissions and impacts associated with digital communication.

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Cybersecurity officials warn against potentially costly Medusa ransomware attacks

The FBI and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning against a dangerous ransomware scheme.

Mar 16, 2025

Meta tests 'Community Notes' to replace fact-checkers

Social media giant Meta on Thursday announced it would begin testing its new "Community Notes" feature across its platforms in the United States next week, as it shifts away from third-party fact-checking toward a crowd-sourced ...

Mar 13, 2025

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One Tech Tip: Wasting too much time on social media apps? Tips and tricks to curb smartphone use

If you've got a smartphone, you probably spend too much time on it—checking Instagram, watching silly TikTok videos, messaging on WhatsApp or doomscrolling on X.

Mar 13, 2025

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The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech, if it can avoid familiar pitfalls

You've probably noticed lately that a lot of people are trying out alternatives to the big social media networks X, Instagram and Facebook. For example, after Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and started allowing far more ...

Mar 12, 2025

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Countering a flaw in anti-censorship tools to improve global internet freedom

A newly identified time-based vulnerability exposes a widely used technique to evade internet censorship, University of Michigan researchers have found. The findings emphasize the need to develop more robust countermeasures ...

Mar 10, 2025

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Can AI tell us if those Zoom calls are flowing smoothly? New study says yes

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, workers have spent countless hours in videoconferences—now a fixture of office life. As more people work and live remotely, videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom, MS Teams, FaceTime, ...

Mar 10, 2025

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Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives—it's time to stop using them

Cybersecurity officials warn against potentially costly Medusa ransomware attacks

Countering a flaw in anti-censorship tools to improve global internet freedom

Can AI tell us if those Zoom calls are flowing smoothly? New study says yes

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Deep-learning system uses smartphone camera for heart rate monitoring

China's BYD launches EV charging system it says works nearly as fast as a fill up

AI ring tracks spelled words in American Sign Language

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Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots

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Ultra-thin solid electrolyte membrane for all-solid-state secondary batteries developed

Global study identifies top sites for ocean current energy

An evolving robotics encyclopedia characterizes robots based on their performance

China's Baidu releases new AI model to compete with DeepSeek

Driverless 'bus of the future' is tested in Barcelona

Heat-based stabilization of a conductive polymer simplifies bioelectronics fabrication

Scientists develop high-performance permanent magnet without expensive heavy rare earth elements

When a robot becomes the boss: Exploring authority, obedience and relationships with machines

Exo 2: A new programming language for high-performance computing, with much less code

Researchers develop innovative method for secure operations on encrypted data without decryption

A tiny component for record-breaking bandwidth: New modulator breaks the terahertz mark

Discarding a long-standing pessimistic hypothesis to rescue next-generation lithium-ion battery technology

Multifunctional solar cells: Ferroelectric domain manipulation enhances electric output in perovskite crystals

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