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Researchers hide information in plain text

Computer scientists at Columbia Engineering have invented FontCode, a new way to embed hidden information in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing, or perturbing, the shapes of fonts in text. FontCode creates font perturbations, ...

Computer Sciences

May 10, 2018
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Soft terms like 'open' and 'sharing' don't tell the true story of your data

The Turnbull government today announced the creation of a new National Data Commissioner to oversee the implementation of greater data access and "sharing" in Australia.

Internet Security

May 01, 2018
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Voice assistants will have to build trust before we're comfortable with them tracking us

We're all used to targeted advertisements on the internet. But the introduction of voice assistants like Apple's Siri and Google Assistant mean that companies are capturing all new kinds of data on us, and could build much ...

Internet

Mar 12, 2018
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On Twitter, fake news travels faster than true stories: study

A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does - and by a substantial margin.

Internet

Mar 08, 2018
391
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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 ...

Internet

Feb 07, 2018
110
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Love actually: Computer model may decode Facebook emoticons

While the trusty "like" button is still the most popular way to signal approval for Facebook posts, a computer model may help users and businesses navigate the increasingly complicated way people are expressing how they feel ...

Internet

Feb 06, 2018
15
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Researchers: Login managers abused by third-party scripts for tracking purposes

Ad targeters who are keenly after you and your browsing habits have a way of pulling data from your browser's password manager.

Security

Jan 03, 2018
33
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Computer systems predict objects' responses to physical forces

Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the development of intelligence at the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, a multi-university, multidisciplinary project based at ...

Computer Sciences

Dec 14, 2017
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Augmented reality: Digital teapot fits in with real objects

(Tech Xplore)—University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences has an ambitious lineup of research areas.

Computer Sciences

Dec 12, 2017
40
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Try this! Researchers devise better recommendation algorithm

The recommendation systems at websites such as Amazon and Netflix use a technique called "collaborative filtering." To determine what products a given customer might like, they look for other customers who have assigned similar ...

Computer Sciences

Dec 06, 2017
17
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New algorithm repairs corrupted digital images in one step

From phone camera snapshots to lifesaving medical scans, digital images play an important role in the way humans communicate information. But digital images are subject to a range of imperfections such as blurriness, grainy ...

Computer Sciences

Dec 05, 2017
693
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New robots can see into their future

University of California, Berkeley, researchers have developed a robotic learning technology that enables robots to imagine the future of their actions so they can figure out how to manipulate objects they have never encountered ...

Robotics

Dec 04, 2017
385
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Google video demonstrates 'stranger is looking alert' for smartphones

(Tech Xplore)—A pair of researchers at Google has released a video on YouTube demonstrating a possible new feature for Android phones—a "stranger is looking" alert that pops up if the phone detects another person behind ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Nov 29, 2017
23
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Zinc-air batteries: Three-stage method could revolutionise rechargeability

University of Sydney researchers have found a solution for one of the biggest stumbling blocks preventing zinc-air batteries from overtaking conventional lithium-ion batteries as the power source of choice in electronic devices.

Energy & Green Tech

Aug 15, 2017
2522
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USB connections make snooping easy

USB connections, the most common interface used globally to connect external devices to computers, are vulnerable to information leakage, making them even less secure than has been thought, Australian research shows.

Security

Aug 10, 2017
32
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