Consumer & Gadgets
In the future, when you order a shot of whiskey, you might ask the bartender to hold an edible fluorescent silk tag that could be found floating inside—even though it is safe to consume.
Jun 6, 2022
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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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Engineering
Microphones are perhaps the most common electronic sensor in the world, with an estimated 320 million listening for our commands in the world's smart speakers. The trouble is that they're capable of hearing everything else, ...
Jun 9, 2021
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Computer Sciences
As a platform hosting a great deal of content, Facebook developers are creating an AI project called Learning from Videos that can learn from publicly available videos uploaded to the website. This AI aims to use audio, textual ...
Business
After finding a vulnerability in certain credit cards for the first time last year, ETH researchers have now found a way to outsmart the PIN codes for other payment cards.
Feb 23, 2021
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Software
Microsoft hackers tied to a massive intrusion of dozens of U.S. government agencies and private companies sneaked further into its systems than previously thought, although the intrusion doesn't appear to have caused any ...
Jan 1, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in a circuit—but not if the transistor "type" is undetectable.
Dec 7, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
A bluetooth vulnerability that could impact millions of users of smartphones, tablets and IoT devices was reported last week by two research groups.
Hardware
A pair of new security threats to Intel-based computer systems have been revealed. The beleaguered semiconductor chip manufacturer has faced a seemingly endless series of vulnerabilities over the past two years.
Security
Fingerprint recognition: It was once thought to be the ultimate fool-proof measure to secure computers, laptops and mobile devices.
