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Cyberattack on top Indian hospital highlights security risk

The leading hospital in India's capital limped back to normalcy on Wednesday after a cyberattack crippled its operations for nearly two weeks.

Dec 7, 2022

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Smart inverters' vulnerability to cyberattacks needs to be identified and countered, according to researchers

The emergence of distributed energy resources (DERs)—facilities owned by individuals or small companies that can generate, store and return power to energy grids—is transforming the way power is used across the world.

Nov 29, 2022

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Machine vision breakthrough: This device can see 'millions of colors'

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Northeastern have built a device that can recognize "millions of colors" using new artificial intelligence techniques—a massive step, they say, in the field of machine vision, ...

Oct 6, 2022

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What do TikTok, Bunnings, eBay and Netflix have in common? They're all hyper-collectors

You walk into a shopping centre to buy some groceries. Without your knowledge, an electronic scan of your face is taken by in-store surveillance cameras and stored in an online database. Each time you return to that store, ...

Jul 21, 2022

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Smart chip senses, stores, computes and secures data in one low-power platform

Digital information is everywhere in the era of smart technology, where data is continuously generated by and communicated among cell phones, smart watches, cameras, smart speakers and other devices. Securing digital data ...

Jul 20, 2022

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What you need to know about surveillance and reproductive rights in a post Roe v Wade world

After the overturning of Roe v Wade in the U.S., tracking reproductive information has never been riskier. In many U.S. states, millions seeking and providing abortions could soon face criminal charges. Online conversations ...

Jul 6, 2022

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NIST announces first four quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen the first group of encryption tools that are designed to withstand the assault of a future quantum computer, which could potentially ...

Jul 5, 2022

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Your digital footprints are more than a privacy risk. They could help hackers infiltrate computer networks

When you use the internet, you leave behind a trail of data, a set of digital footprints. These include your social media activities, web browsing behavior, health information, travel patterns, location maps, information ...

Apr 11, 2022

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Artificial intelligence to bring museum specimens to the masses

Scientists are using cutting-edge artificial intelligence to help extract complex information from large collections of museum specimens.

Mar 25, 2022

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US, EU sign data transfer deal to ease privacy concerns

The European Union and United States made a breakthrough in their yearslong battle over the privacy of data that flows across the Atlantic with a preliminary agreement Friday that paves the way for Europeans' personal information ...