A newly released Android app will turn your smartphone into an instrument for crowdsourced science. Leave it by your window each night with your satnav positioning turned on and your phone will record small variations in ...
Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2022
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Malicious apps from a campaign called "Agent Smith" have been downloaded to 25 million Android devices, according to new research by cyber-security firm Check Point.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 11, 2019
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Researchers at Cranfield University have developed a smartphone app which can connect with off-the-shelf drones and send them to autonomously inspect multiple locations using coordinates received by SMS text message.
Engineering
Jul 9, 2019
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Computer security researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), in collaboration with the association of investigative journalists from NDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), have analysed the Chinese surveillance app that travellers ...
Security
Jul 3, 2019
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On Sept. 9, 2013, after enduring years of horrific cyberbullying at the hands of her Lakeland, Fla., classmates, 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick climbed to the top of a water tower and leapt to her death.
Machine learning & AI
Jun 13, 2019
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Tornadoes have torn their way across the country as the natural disaster season starts, leaving hundreds displaced from their homes and lives in disarray.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 31, 2019
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Google on Thursday said users of its hugely popular Android devices would be offered a choice of five browsers and search engines as part of the company's effort to meet EU competition concerns.
Internet
Apr 18, 2019
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the IMDEA Networks Institute, in collaboration with the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley (USA) and Stony Brook University of New York (USA), have carried ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 20, 2019
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Some Android apps including Yelp continue to send data to Facebook even if the device owner doesn't have a Facebook account, according to a privacy watchdog group.
Internet
Mar 7, 2019
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Passing along your binge-watching favorites just got easier.
Internet
Jan 25, 2019
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