Consumer & Gadgets
Apple says it will roll out a new privacy control in the spring to prevent iPhone apps from secretly shadowing people. The delay in its anticipated rollout aims to placate Facebook and other digital services that depend on ...
Jan 28, 2021
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Engineering
Instead of inserting a card or scanning a smartphone to make a payment, what if you could simply touch the machine with your finger?
Dec 3, 2020
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Intelligent cameras could be one step closer thanks to a research collaboration between the Universities of Bristol and Manchester who have developed cameras that can learn and understand what they are seeing.
Oct 13, 2020
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Internet
Throughout our lifetimes we consume, collate, curate, host and produce a staggering quantity of data—some by our own hand, some by others on our behalf, and some without our knowledge or consent.
Aug 25, 2020
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Internet
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of people to work from home, making workers and corporations alike more dependent on the digital technology that has long enabled them to handle both personal and professional tasks ...
Jul 28, 2020
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Internet
Adidas, Puma, Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Unilever, Ford... not a day goes by without another big brand pulling ads from Facebook and other social media, a campaign that is weakening advertising-dependent sites but whose ultimate ...
Jul 1, 2020
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Internet
Israel's top spy agency has been using secretly collected cellphone data to retrace the movements of those who tested positive for the coronavirus.
Apr 10, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Coding, digital, and programmable metasurfaces are engineered surfaces that can be used to manipulate electromagnetic waves, first introduced by Prof. Tie Jun Cui and his colleagues in 2014. Due to their many advantageous ...
Security
With almost every online purchase, a person's personal information—name, date of birth and credit card number—is stored electronically often in the "cloud," which is a network of internet servers. Now, as more people ...
Jan 28, 2019
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Computer Sciences
(Tech Xplore)—University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences has an ambitious lineup of research areas.
