Consumer & Gadgets
The past decade has witnessed scandal after scandal over private images maliciously or accidentally made public. A new study from computer scientists at Columbia Engineering reveals what may be the first way to encrypt personal ...
Jul 14, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Yet another in-the-wings foldable thrown into the smartphone ring: this one from Xiaomi. This one has won considerable attention. Foldables-inundated tech watchers who saw it the concept via video said it looked "incredible," ...
Internet
Did you have trouble with Twitter on Friday? You weren't alone.
Feb 14, 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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Internet
Facebook is rolling out a new feature that makes messages disappear in Messenger and Instagram.
Nov 13, 2020
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Telecom
South Korea on Friday launches the world's first nationwide 5G mobile networks—a transformational leap that has superpowers sparring for control of an innovation that could potentially change the day-to-day lives of billions ...
Apr 3, 2019
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Computer Sciences
(Tech Xplore)—A trio of researchers has used metadata from mobile phone users in Rwanda to predict economic status for populations in that country. In their paper published in the journal Science, Joshua Blumenstock and ...
Security
Exploiting a vulnerability in the mobile communication standard LTE, also known as 4G, researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum can impersonate mobile phone users. Consequently, they can book fee-based services in their name ...
Feb 17, 2020
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Internet
Elon Musk's recent rebranding of Twitter as X is a step toward the CEO's goal of developing an "everything app." Musk's vision is for X to mark the spot for all your digital needs—to chat with your friends, order groceries, ...
Aug 12, 2023
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Business
Apple said Thursday it would press ahead with mobile software changes that limit tracking for targeted advertising—a move that has prompted complaints from Facebook and others.
Nov 20, 2020
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