In recent years, big data sets from mobile phones have been used to provide increasingly accurate analyses of how we all move between home, work and leisure, holidays and everything else. The strength of basing analyses on ...
Social Sciences
Nov 19, 2020
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Public support for increased police powers relies heavily on trust and legitimacy, according to a new study by UCL and the London School of Economics (LSE).
Social Sciences
Apr 27, 2020
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A Swinburne Ph.D. student has built an automated system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionise our ability to detect and capture fast radio bursts (FRBs) in real-time.
Astronomy
Aug 5, 2019
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Air pollution is one of the greatest challenges cities are facing today, and improving air quality is a pressing need to reduce negative health impacts. In order to efficiently evaluate which are the most appropriate policies ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 1, 2019
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My editor, Michelle, was at a birthday party for her son's friend recently, when the mom mentioned a company she liked called Joymode. Minutes later, an ad for Joymode appeared on Michelle's Facebook news feed.
Internet
Jun 27, 2019
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AT&T says it will stop selling all location data from mobile phones to brokers following a report that companies are still selling that information to shadowy companies without customer knowledge.
Security
Jan 11, 2019
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Digital traces from credit card and mobile phone usage can be used to map urban lifestyles and understand human mobility, according to a report led by UCL, MIT and UC Berkeley.
Economics & Business
Aug 20, 2018
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University of Hertfordshire research finds people aren't sufficiently erasing data before selling old memory cards from mobile phones, tablets and other connected devices.
Security
Jun 29, 2018
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Research led by the University of Southampton is helping governments in low-income countries strengthen their capacity to build and use population maps, to plan for the future and respond to emergencies.
Economics & Business
Mar 21, 2018
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Officials have decided to move a data center for the European Union's new satellite navigation system out of Britain because of Brexit.
Space Exploration
Jan 19, 2018
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