Internet
Smart speakers offer amazing convenience—from playing your favorite tunes to re-ordering toilet paper—with only a simple voice command. But that convenience can come with a steep cost in privacy that many consumers aren't ...
Oct 27, 2023
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Despite attempts to anonymize user data, the fitness app Strava allows anyone to find personal information—including home addresses—about some users. The finding, which is detailed in a new study, raises significant privacy ...
Jun 7, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Faster, smaller, smarter and more energy-efficient chips for everything from consumer electronics to big data to brain-inspired computing could soon be on the way after engineers at The University of Texas at Austin created ...
Nov 23, 2020
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Computer Sciences
Knowing a company's true sales can help determine its value. Investors, for instance, often employ financial analysts to predict a company's upcoming earnings using various public data, computational tools, and their own ...
Dec 19, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
It's no surprise that images used for advertising on television and online play a powerful role in triggering emotions and shaping impressions of products or brands, but an ad that appeals to one person may seem irrelevant ...
Apr 26, 2019
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Internet
Consumer groups from eight EU countries lodged complaints against Meta on Thursday, accusing the Facebook and Instagram owner of illegally processing user data and using its "pay or consent" system as a "smokescreen" for ...
Feb 29, 2024
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Internet
Kochava, the self-proclaimed industry leader in mobile app data analytics, is locked in a legal battle with the Federal Trade Commission in a case that could lead to big changes in the global data marketplace and in Congress' ...
Jan 15, 2024
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Automotive
Electric vehicles have proved far less reliable, on average, than gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs, according to the latest survey by Consumer Reports, which found that EVs from the 2021 through 2023 model years encountered ...
Nov 29, 2023
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Business
Nvidia on Tuesday reported that its revenue more than tripled in the recently ended quarter as companies snapped up chips to power artificial intelligence (AI).
Nov 22, 2023
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Internet
John Gilmore knows how tough it is for people to scrub their personal data from the internet, even in California, where consumers have privacy rights.
Aug 31, 2023
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