Sorry, readers. Your Bluetooth device is a security risk
We hate to be the purveyor of bad news, but if you're using Bluetooth with your digital devices—and you know you are—you could be vulnerable to security risks.
Aug 22, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
We hate to be the purveyor of bad news, but if you're using Bluetooth with your digital devices—and you know you are—you could be vulnerable to security risks.
Aug 22, 2019
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Engineering
To investigate the vastly unexplored oceans covering most our planet, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that send data to the surface—an underwater "internet of things." But how to supply ...
Aug 20, 2019
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Internet
Tweets believed to be written by African Americans are much more likely to be tagged as hate speech than tweets associated with whites, according to a Cornell study analyzing five collections of Twitter data marked for abusive ...
Aug 6, 2019
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Europe's top court ruled Monday that online retailers must warn web users that they send personal data to Facebook through the "like" button.
Jul 29, 2019
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Internet
Facebook is getting a taste of the regulatory pushback it will face as it creates a new digital currency with corporate partners.
Jun 19, 2019
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Computer Sciences
If you look under the hood of the internet, you'll find lots of gears churning along that make it all possible.
Apr 4, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Identifying cybersecurity threats from raw internet data can be like locating a needle in a haystack. The amount of internet traffic data generated in a 48-hour period, for example, is too massive for one or even 100 laptops ...
Feb 27, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers are calling for urgent action as a huge growth in Internet video streaming threatens to increase the problem of meeting the nation's future peak winter electricity demands.
May 9, 2018
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Internet
DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg is among the digital prophets warning us how Google, the Goliath he's been challenging for 10 years with his Paoli-based non-tracking search engine, and other giants of information are ...
Mar 7, 2018
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Last March, Google announced that it had developed a database and associated ways for accessing the data it stored, geared towards storing human genome information—named quite naturally, Google Genomics. Since that time, ...