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Understanding the real innovation behind the iPhone

When the iPhone emerged in 2007, it came with all the promise and pomp of a major Steve Jobs announcement, highlighting its user interface and slick design as key selling points. We know now that the iPhone transformed the ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Jun 28, 2017
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The way we walk can be used to power and secure our devices

When we walk or move, we create kinetic energy in a way that is unique to each of us. Our latest research shows that it's so unique, it can be used to authenticate who we are.

Security

May 24, 2017
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How WhatsApp encryption works – and why there shouldn't be a backdoor

A battle between national security and privacy is brewing. Governments and secret services are asking encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp to allow them access to users' data. Most recently, in the wake of the March ...

Security

Mar 28, 2017
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Novel technique tracks more web users across browsers

For good or ill, what users do on the web is tracked. Banks track users as an authentication technique, to offer their customers enhanced security protection. Retailers track customers and potential customers in order to ...

Software

Feb 13, 2017
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Headlamp innovation is talked up at Mercedes-Benz

(Tech Xplore)—New technology news from Mercedes-Benz reflects headway into headlamps. The news is about headlamps that are designed to deliver high precision, brightness without glare and much more. Cars of the future from ...

Hi Tech & Innovation

Dec 06, 2016
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How to save the Internet of Things from cyber attacks – with psychology

Two scientists were recently able to take over the lights of an office building using a drone and some clever computer hacking. They demonstrated how "smart" lightbulbs connected to the internet were vulnerable to a virus ...

Security

Nov 15, 2016
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4chan raids—how one dark corner of the internet is spreading its shadows

The internet is full of dark places. There are websites where people gather to share illegal images, buy illicit drugs and air offensive opinions that wouldn't be tolerated on most mainstream sites. But just as the memes ...

Internet

Nov 09, 2016
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New tool detects malicious websites before they cause harm

Malicious websites promoting scams, distributing malware and collecting phished credentials pervade the web. As quickly as we block or blacklist them, criminals set up new domain names to support their activities. Now a research ...

Security

Oct 27, 2016
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By attacking DNS, hackers can bring down many websites for the price of one

When hugely popular websites and services such as Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal and Amazon Web Services are taken offline, it affects millions or even billions of internet users. The cyberattack that brought down these ...

Security

Oct 25, 2016
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Researchers work on little display device that can run on office lighting

(Tech Xplore)—Microsoft Research is up to something that could be a work productive wonder. Right now the technology is in the form of a device in prototype. The device is still in the research stage, said New Scientist.

Engineering

Oct 25, 2016
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As surveillance gets smart, hackers get smarter

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.

Security

Jul 28, 2016
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It's automatic: CMU smartphone app manages your privacy preferences

Chalk up one more task a smartphone app may do better than you: figuring out your privacy settings.

Software

Jul 06, 2016
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Nobody likes this reality show: A locked TV screen and ransomware demand

(Tech Xplore)—A newer malware variant could affect smart TVs running on the Android operating system Softpedia's Catalin Cimpanu reported earlier this week.

Security

Jun 16, 2016
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Software turns webcams into eye-trackers

New software created by Brown University computer scientists could help website owners and developers easily determine what parts of a page are grabbing a user's eye.

Software

Jun 01, 2016
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Researchers reveal inconsistent borders in online maps

We all look at the world subjectively, from our own point of view. Mapmakers, we assume, do the opposite: They portray the world objectively, as it actually is.

Internet

May 20, 2016
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