https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Monitoring progress on our way to successfully achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is key to their achievement, but there are significant data gaps that make this crucial exercise difficult. A new IIASA-led study explored the use of a citizen science tool known as Picture Pile to see how it could contribute to SDG monitoring. https://phys.org/news/2021-11-crowdsourcing-sustainable-goals.html Environment Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:32:22 EST news557411539 It might be hard to believe, but the first iPhone was unleashed on the world less than 10 years ago. https://phys.org/news/2015-07-apps-future-unmissable.html Software Thu, 30 Jul 2015 07:38:59 EDT news357460731 Before web developers add the newest bells and the latest whistles to their website designs, a team of researchers suggests they zoom in on the tools that click with the right users and for the right tasks. https://phys.org/news/2015-04-interactive-tools-click-web-users.html Internet Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:39:32 EDT news348838763 Most Internet users know that practicing good online hygiene – never clicking on spam, choosing strong passwords and setting up two-factor authentication – is essential for protecting their personal information. They typically don't know, however, that unless the developers of the websites they visit take similar precautions, they could still be at risk. https://phys.org/news/2015-02-web-tools-sites-users.html Internet Fri, 06 Feb 2015 09:00:03 EST news342432976 A study of 30 major world economies reveals how worldwide internet use continues to expand to more than three billion users, but it also demonstrates also how this growth is being driven by mobile phones and social media, particularly in the developing world. https://phys.org/news/2015-01-net-expansion-driven-mobile-opportunities.html Telecom Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:30:01 EST news341738080 Researchers from UCL, Stanford Engineering, Google, Chalmers and Mozilla Research have built a new system that protects Internet users' privacy whilst increasing the flexibility for web developers to build web applications that combine data from different web sites, dramatically improving the safety of surfing the web. https://phys.org/news/2014-10-web-privacy-revolutionize-safety-surfing.html Security Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:00:01 EDT news331736415 Adobe's Creative Cloud software subscription service has been inaccessible for the past day for the 1.8 million designers, Web developers and other creative professionals who pay to use it. https://phys.org/news/2014-05-adobe-creative-cloud-lengthy-outage.html Software Thu, 15 May 2014 17:30:55 EDT news319393847 As electronic titans Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp. spend billions of dollars redesigning the video game console, the next leap forward in digital games may come from the unlikeliest of places. https://phys.org/news/2013-11-google-mozilla-tweaking-browsers-web-based.html Software Wed, 20 Nov 2013 11:20:01 EST news304166013 As ever-larger "megacities" become home to more and more of the world's people, the supply chains that bring essential supplies to these crowded populations will become increasingly complex. https://phys.org/news/2013-09-open-source-online-urban-chains.html Engineering Mon, 09 Sep 2013 07:57:52 EDT news297932256 Researchers have developed the FAMIUM development platform and are using it to create new application scenarios for adaptive video streaming in web browsers. One highlight is that content can be split between several devices and played in sync. https://phys.org/news/2013-09-streaming-enjoyment-multi-screen-applications.html Software Wed, 04 Sep 2013 07:00:01 EDT news297495429 (Phys.org) —Software developer Elliott Kember has ignited a controversy over the way Google Chrome allows users to see saved passwords in plain text. In a post on his website he describes the process users can follow to reveal all of the passwords Chrome has saved that allow for entry to various websites. https://phys.org/news/2013-08-software-google-chrome-passwords-plain.html Security Thu, 08 Aug 2013 11:00:02 EDT news295176268 Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision said Thursday it aims to hire up to 3,000 new employees to develop devices and software for Mozilla's Firefox operating system as it seeks to diversify from its core manufacturing services. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-taiwan-hon-hai-hire-mozilla.html Business Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:20:01 EDT news290926902 The top prosecutors in San Francisco and New York planned Thursday to announce the formation of a nationwide initiative and coalition of police, prosecutors and other officials in an attempt to thwart a surge in smartphone thefts. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-prosecutors-anti-phone-theft.html Telecom Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:29:56 EDT news290330990 (Phys.org) —BugBuster: one bot can test almost every function on a website. This tiny revolution for web developers means great gains in time and reliability. To overcome problems that come with using websites, which can be annoying and bring extensive financial consequences for large companies, the start-up BugBuster has invented the first intelligent tool that finds out on its own how to interact with an application whose code it tests according to various possible scenarios. It notes the problems to designers as screen captures. The robot, currently available in beta form, will save a lot of time for designers and provides increased reliability. In the next few days, two of the designers of this technology from the Operating Systems Laboratory of EPFL, Olivier Crameri and Renault John-Lecoultre, will present their system in the United States during two major conferences for specialists. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-intelligent-robot-exterminate-internet-bugs.html Computer Sciences Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:00:02 EDT news289463136 Adobe says it is moving to an online subscription-based model for the software package it sells to designers, Web developers, video editors and other creative professionals. https://phys.org/news/2013-05-adobe-shifts-subscriptions-software-package.html Business Mon, 06 May 2013 15:40:01 EDT news287072170 Jilion is developing a web technology that makes it possible to generate video players that run on any support and for which the appearance feature is completely modular. The following is an interview with the co-founder of the start-up, Zeno Crivelli. https://phys.org/news/2013-05-personalize-youtube-sublimevideo.html Software Mon, 06 May 2013 08:46:26 EDT news287048779 The world's first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today's Internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the Web, organisers said on Tuesday. https://phys.org/news/2013-04-years-world-web-page-reborn.html Internet Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:57:06 EDT news286530975 Our data on the natural world is uncertain. And so are the models we use to make sense of it. The Uncertweb project, funded by the EU, aims to clarify both of these sources of doubt. The project is designed to ensure that users appreciate the uncertainties contained within the environmental data and models. Many of these are increasingly found on the web and come without much indication as to their limitations. "If we don't have procedures that prevent anyone doing anything they like with data and models, you get a mashup, not reliable outputs, says project investigator Lucy Bastin, a software developer with a special interest in environmental data at Aston University in the UK. This approach has a wide range of applications in areas such as remote sensing and ecological forecasting. https://phys.org/news/2013-04-exposes-limitations-environmental.html Environment Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:52:49 EDT news285407560 Looking for a career change, Ken Shimizu decided he wanted to be a software developer, but he didn't want to go back to college to study computer science. https://phys.org/news/2013-04-coding-boot-tech-careers.html Software Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:00:02 EDT news284960734 So far there are no methods to test complex web 2.0 applications systematically and at low cost for malfunctions and security vulnerabilities. Therefore, computer scientists from Saarland University have developed a software system for checking complex web applications autonomously. https://phys.org/news/2013-03-automated-complex-web-applications-vulnerabilities.html Software Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:55:57 EST news281357749 Crowdsourcing is an effective way to mobilize people to accomplish tasks on a global scale, but some researchers fear that crowd work for pay could easily become the high-tech equivalent of a sweat shop. Trivial work for rock bottom pay isn't inevitable, however, and they've outlined a research agenda to make crowd work both intellectually and monetarily rewarding. https://phys.org/news/2013-02-crowd-career-option-dead.html Computer Sciences Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:42:57 EST news279456083 A new guide for Web developers recently released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will make it easier for electric utilities and vendors to give customers convenient, electronic access to their energy usage data with tools and applications developed as part of the new "Green Button" initiative. https://phys.org/news/2013-02-electric-green-button-web-tools.html Energy & Green Tech Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:20:01 EST news279446734 The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday unveiled two preview smartphones as it invited developers to try its new open-source mobile operating system challenging Apple's iOS and Google's Android. https://phys.org/news/2013-01-mozilla-unveils-preview-smartphones.html Software Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:29:23 EST news278072949 Women and girls are being left behind as the Internet spreads across the globe, with almost a third of all humanity now online, said a study released Thursday by hi-tech giant Intel Corporation. https://phys.org/news/2013-01-intel-online-gender-gap.html Internet Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:51:10 EST news277102263 Envoys from nearly 90 nations signed Friday the first new U.N. telecommunications treaty since the Internet age, but the U.S. and other Western nations refused to join after claiming it endorses greater government control over cyberspace. https://phys.org/news/2012-12-telecom-chief-us-led-treaty-snub.html Internet Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:02:12 EST news274701726 (Phys.org)—Mozilla is inviting developers to play around with its experimental Firefox OS Simulator. The Firefox OS Simulator is a Firefox add-on for web developers who would be interested in building apps for Mozilla's coming mobile Firefox operating system. The simulator will make it easier for developers to stay current with future updates to Firefox OS. Mozilla has talked for a while about a mobile operating system of its own, Firefox OS, and in July this year boasted of growing global industry support behind such an idea of a fully open mobile ecosystem based on HTML5. The advantage was seen by the likes of Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica and Telenor who were backing the open Firefox OS as an "exciting new entrant" to the smartphone marketplace. https://phys.org/news/2012-11-firefox-os-simulator-playpen-primetime.html Software Thu, 22 Nov 2012 05:50:01 EST news272778524 For many small merchants, selling on Amazon.com is an easy way to boost their business in a tough economy - if only they can get paid. https://phys.org/news/2012-11-amazoncom-sellers-tied-up-payments-account.html Business Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:22:26 EST news272744537 (Phys.org)—Google on Tuesday released its first stable version of Dart SDK. Dart is a programming language for Web applications that Google thinks will offer an improved, easy to learn, high performance environment for web developers. A year ago, Google unveiled Dart and the news outside Google was largely seen as Google's rival to JavaScript. The assumption was that Google was out to fix what's wrong with that powerful lingua franca of the Web. Google however carefully said at the time that Dart was not intended to be "another JavaScript" per se but rather a way to address a fragmented mobile platform environment. https://phys.org/news/2012-10-google-trumpets-dart-stable-version.html Software Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:00:10 EDT news269704072 Developing software and solutions to real-world problems was the aim of the h4d2 hackathon event held at Aston University. https://phys.org/news/2012-10-social-web-technologies-disaster-responses.html Engineering Thu, 04 Oct 2012 07:28:33 EDT news268554506 Russia's dominant search engine Yandex on Monday launched its own Internet browser in the continuing face-off with its American rival Google for supremacy in the growing Russian market. https://phys.org/news/2012-10-russia-yandex-web-browser-rival.html Software Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:59:29 EDT news268311562