Tor joins forces with VPN company to create new browser for increased privacy
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GPT-4's exciting—and ominous—achievements
Six decades ago, an episode of the legendary TV series "The Twilight Zone" warned us about the risks of ticking off machines. Frustrated by a wave of modern appliances, a grumpy magazine writer in the episode "A Thing About ...
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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 ...
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Best of Last Year: The top Tech Xplore articles of 2020
It was a good year for technology research of all kinds; a team at Japan's SkyDrive Inc., demonstrated their "flying car"—it took off with a person aboard, hovered approximately 1 to 2 meters above the ground for approximately ...
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Zoom hack reveals text contents by viewing shoulder movement
Countless companies around the world see the wildly popular video-conferencing tool Zoom as a savior during this era of quarantine and work-at-home routines. Zoom estimates it has more than 300 million meeting participants ...
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Finnish 'Polite Type' font combats cyberbullying
A Finnish tech company has released an unusual tool to help combat cyberbullying: a type font.
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New video codec halves streaming time
A German research institute announced Tuesday a new video standard that halves the bitrate required for streaming, allowing higher quality images on lower-power devices and opening the door wider to adoption of super high-definition ...
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Credit card skimmers hide in web page image files
A particularly nasty form of consumer credit card theft centers on the use of skimming devices embedded in credit card machines at locations such as gas stations and convenience stores. As a customer swipes a card, the hidden ...
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Report: Most Chrome security bugs rooted in faulty memory code
Google researchers have revealed that nearly three-quarters of all Chrome web browser security bugs stem from memory coding problems. They say their means of combatting memory management vulnerabilities through isolating ...
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Study suggests the manosphere is becoming more toxic
A team of researchers from EPFL, Binghamton University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University College London, Boston University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics has found evidence showing ...
