Business
Last October, software developers at Riot Games in Santa Monica fielded an unusual request. Like other video game makers, Riot's success depends on its ability to make games that are compulsively playable, like its global ...
Jul 24, 2019
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Security
The Chinese database Victor Gevers found online was not just a collection of old personal details.
Feb 19, 2019
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Computer Sciences
A team of researchers at JD AI Research and Beijing University have recently developed a progressive vehicle search system for video surveillance networks, called PVSS. Their system, presented in a paper pre-published on ...
Jan 25, 2019 feature
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Engineering
Purdue University researchers are looking at a new way to alert walkers distracted while using their smartphones about oncoming vehicles as a method to lower pedestrian deaths, which have hit a three-decade high in the United ...
Sep 28, 2018
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Security
Hackers have proven capable of staging a hijack of surveillance camera footage. Security hounds are calling the zero day vulnerability Peekaboo. In brief, certain internet-connected surveillance cameras, could be vulnerable ...
Sep 19, 2018 weblog
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Engineering
Purdue University researchers have created a technology that allows public cameras to send personalized messages to people without compromising their privacy.
Jun 14, 2018
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Computer Sciences
When police in London recently trialled a new facial recognition system, they made a worrying and embarrassing mistake. At the Notting Hill Carnival, the technology made roughly 35 false matches between known suspects and ...
Oct 23, 2017
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Security
There is an escalating technological arms race underway between governments and hacktivists. As governments step up their surveillance, the hacktivists find new ways to subvert it.
Jul 28, 2016
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Security
At ABI Research, a teardown team did tests and found that the Nest Cam security camera's LED power did turn off when users did the power-down command, but the device itself was still on and running.
Nov 27, 2015 weblog
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