Consumer & Gadgets
Pet owners are increasingly turning to technology for various pet care purposes such as feeding, health monitoring and activity and movement tracking. Much of this technology operates via devices and apps connected to the ...
Computer Sciences
Encryption provides a solution to security risks, but its flipside is that it can hinder law enforcement investigations. A new technology called client-side scanning (CSS) would enable targeted information to be revealed ...
Oct 19, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Renting space and IP addresses on a public server has become standard business practice, but according to a team of Penn State computer scientists, current industry practices can lead to "cloud squatting," which can create ...
Apr 11, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Field programmable gate arrays, FPGAs for short, are flexibly programmable computer chips that are considered very secure components in many applications. In a joint research project, scientists from the Horst Görtz Institute ...
Apr 16, 2020
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Security
We try to follow experts' cybersecurity and privacy recommendations but quite often many of us do so halfway or we give up.
Apr 27, 2020
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Computer Sciences
About 2 million people connected to virtual reality headsets every month in 2020. Virtual reality, or VR, industry revenues are projected to grow from $12 billion to $100 billion in the next five years. In the race to develop ...
Nov 9, 2022
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Internet
When accessing a website or sending an email, we trust that our information will arrive intact without being changed or read by any third party. In reality, keeping the information flowing on our vast global networks requires ...
May 18, 2023
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Business
Employees of Chinese tech giant ByteDance improperly accessed data from social media platform TikTok to track journalists in a bid to identify the source of leaks to the media, the company admitted Friday.
Dec 23, 2022
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Internet
Do you know what the padlock symbol in your internet browser's address bar means? If not, you're not alone. New research by my colleagues and I shows that only 5% of UK adults understand the padlock's significance. This is ...
Nov 24, 2023
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Security
With the voice commands 'Alexa Skills,' users can load numerous extra functions onto their Amazon voice assistant. However, these Skills can often have security gaps and data protection problems, as a team of researchers ...
Feb 24, 2021
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