How Criminals Can Steal Your PIN by Tracking the Motion of Your Phone
Newcastle University (UK) Press Office Researchers at Newcastle University in the U.K. have demonstrated that malicious websites and installed applications can spy …
Making America’s Power Grid Much, Much Smarter
by Heidi Hall, Vanderbilt University Remember back in 2003 when overgrown trees hit a power line in Cleveland and cut electricity to …
Protecting Web Users’ Privacy
by Larry Hardesty, MIT News A System for disguising database queries could prevent customer profiling and price gouging. Most website visits these …
I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it
by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, The Guardian World Wide Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns of three trends to be overcome in order …
DataTorrent aims to make streaming into an application
by Tony Baer (Ovum) for Big on Data, ZDNet With the deluge of IoT data, streaming analytics is getting impossible to ignore. …
The AI Debate Must Stay Grounded in Reality
by Vincent Conitzer, Prospect Magazine Progress in artificial intelligence has been rapid in recent years. Computer programs are dethroning humans in games ranging …
Why the Dark Net Is More Resilient to Attack Than the Internet
by Jennifer Ouellette, New Scientist The internet is amazingly robust, but like any complex network is still prone to the occasional failure. …
Why Experts Worry Algorithms Can Do More Harm Than Good
by Mohana Ravindranath, NextGov.com Some tech experts fear the mathematical equations underlying much of today’s data analytics technology could ultimately be dangerous for …
The Numbers Don’t Lie: Self-Driving Cars Are Getting Good
by Alex Davies, Wired It’s report card time for the automakers and Silicon Valley denizens studying the tricky problem of making cars …
Computing and the Fight against Epidemics
by Alessandro Vespignani, Sternberg Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University, in The Huffington Post Since the earliest times, humankind has been permanently at war …