Robotics
Robots could be valuable assistants for most first responders, as they could help them to remotely monitor or intervene in areas that are inaccessible or life-threatening for humans. Firefighters, who are at high risk of ...
Security
File under New and Official. After you check out this week's headlines for WebAuthn and W3C. The latter stands for Worldwide Web Consortium. The WebAuthn is now an official web standard. Backers say the specification marks ...
Software
I had a few emails from readers asking about the end of Adobe Flash and what they should do about it.
Jan 13, 2021
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Internet
Five billion people spend almost half of their waking hours online. According to a new study from Aalto University, browser clutter is a serious problem for one in four of them. The results will be presented on April 27 at ...
Apr 25, 2023
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Security
Security experts around the world have been reporting that there is a new type of ransomware threat on the Internet—one that has been written using HTML, CSS and Javascript—the programming languages of web pages. The ...
Internet
The vast majority of websites you visit now greet you with a pop-up. This annoying impediment to your seamless web browsing is called the "cookie banner", and it's there to secure your consent, as per online privacy laws, ...
Sep 30, 2021
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Internet
How long has it been since you logged onto a Web site and you were prompted to decide whether to opt out of "cookies" that the site told you will enhance your online experience? Minutes? Hours?
Jan 17, 2020
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Internet
An ensemble of activist groups, tech companies and publishers has banded together to start a new initiative aimed at giving internet users more control over the way their data is used. The group has named the new initiative ...
Internet
Even in nations with strict online censorship laws, citizens can still bypass firewalls and access hidden information.
Nov 30, 2020
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Internet
Web 3.0 is an internet paradigm that is based around blockchain technology, an advanced database mechanism. Compared to Web 2.0, the current internet paradigm, Web 3.0 provides some added advantages, such as transparency ...
Jan 23, 2024
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