What is an NFT? Non-fungible tokens explained
Have you seen the word "NFT" spinning around the internet lately, and found yourself completely confused as to what everyone's talking about?
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Researchers send data 4.5 million times faster than average broadband
Aston University researchers have sent data at a speed that is 4.5 million times faster than the average home broadband. The rate is the fastest ever sent by opening up specific new wavelength bands that are not yet used ...
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How people's stance on a topic can be inferred from their online activity
As proven by some recent extreme, controversial incidents, such as the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, social media can be a real goldmine for user information. In fact, most social researchers and analytics companies ...
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Faulty machine translations litter the web
Near the end of the last century, Bill Gates saw the prospect of unifying citizens of nearly 200 countries, speaking more than 7,000 languages, coming together in common dialogue through the suddenly burgeoning web community.
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Scammers can abuse security flaws in email forwarding to impersonate high-profile domains
Sending an email with a forged address is easier than previously thought, due to flaws in the process that allows email forwarding, according to a research team led by computer scientists at the University of California San ...
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How does 'normal' Internet browsing look today? Now we know
It's 7:15 am on a Friday morning, and Jordan wants to download an application to their laptop. They know the app by name, or so they think; they open a new tab in their Internet browser and mistype the app's name. The error ...
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Study investigates chip-based dispersion compensation for faster fiber internet
Fiber optics is now the fastest and most reliable technology to deliver internet connection. Data is transmitted through fast-traveling pulses of light that bounce off the walls of the fiber cables to allow the signal to ...
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Tor joins forces with VPN company to create new browser for increased privacy
Cookies. Fingerprinting. Tracking. Surveillance. Spyware. Geostalking.
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Smartphone data tracking is more than creepy – here's why you should be worried
Smartphones rule our lives. Having information at our fingertips is the height of convenience. They tell us all sorts of things, but the information we see and receive on our smartphones is just a fraction of the data they ...
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Project Taara beams the Internet across the Congo River
A team of researchers at Alphabet's research and development company, X, working on what has been named Project Taara, has successfully set up a laser-based system for beaming the internet across the Congo River at speeds ...
