Computer Sciences
Data about our habits and movements are constantly collected via mobile phone apps, fitness trackers, credit card logs, websites visited, and other means.
Apr 13, 2022
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Security
How much personal information can our phone apps gather through location tracking? To answer this question, two researchers—Mirco Musolesi (University of Bologna, Italy) and Benjamin Baron (University College London, UK)—carried ...
Feb 19, 2021
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Security
Tracking our browsing behavior is part of routine Internet use. Companies use it to adapt ads to the personal needs of potential clients or to measure their range. Many providers of tracking services advertise secure data ...
Jun 17, 2020
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Security
As part of their efforts to slow the outbreak of coronavirus, governments, research institutions and industry are developing contact tracing apps to record interactions between people. The apps warn users if one of the people ...
Apr 2, 2020
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Internet
Facebook can determine where users are even if they opt out of having their whereabouts tracked, the company revealed in a letter sent to US senators.
Dec 18, 2019
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Computer Sciences
A new system developed by researchers at MIT and elsewhere helps networks of smart devices cooperate to find their positions in environments where GPS usually fails.
Oct 3, 2019
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Robotics
Robots are good at making identical repetitive movements, such as a simple task on an assembly line. (Pick up a cup. Turn it over. Put it down.) But they lack the ability to perceive objects as they move through an environment. ...
Jul 10, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
A bill making its way through the California Legislature would prohibit makers of smart home speakers from saving or storing recordings without users' explicit consent.
May 3, 2019
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Automotive
Researchers at the National Institute of Technology Patna, in India, have recently devised a tool to identify the geographical location of emergencies and disasters, as well as that of the people involved in them. Their approach, ...
