On Wednesday, the European Union revealed new proposals which would require online platforms to more effectively screen and eliminate child abuse online. This legislation would allow countries in the EU to tell courts to order companies like Meta and Apple…
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Technical papers written in the field of wireless sensor networks
U.S. Cities Debate Repeal of Ban on Facial Recognition Software as Crime Rate Increases
No As a result of the massive rise in crime rate, bans on facial recognition because of its racial bias in the U.S. are under serious threat. This is also due to increase in lobbying from developers. In July, Virginia…
Apple, Google and Microsoft to Introduce New Passkey Standard
To celebrate ‘World Password Day’ (the first Thursday of May), Microsoft, Google and Apple are launching a ‘joint effort’ to stop the use of passwords. They want to ‘expand support for a common passwordless sign-in standard created by the FIDO…
U.S. “Fort Worth” City, First City to Mine Bitcoin
Fort Worth, Texas, is now the first city government in the U.S. to mine bitcoin. A small mining farm was constructed in City Hall, supervised by Mayor Mattie Parker. The three mining rigs will run 24/7 all through the week…
Despite Apple’s ATT, your iOS App may be Tracking You
In 2021, Apple enacted the App Tracking Transparency policy, preventing app creators from tracking activities of users across other apps without first obtaining their permission. The policy was highly praised by privacy advocates, though it was also warned that it…
Volunteers Make Concerted Effort to Preserve Ukraine’s Digital Culture
Quinn Dombrowski and 1,300 other volunteers are in a scramble to save Ukraine’s digital culture before the servers and computers that store them are destroyed. Digital culture includes the images, videos, websites and others stored by libraries, museums, companies and…
New Hack Attack Disrupts Charging of Electric Vehicles
A collection of academics from the University of Oxford and Armasuisse S+T recently revealed a novel attack technique against the popular Combined Charging System (CCS) which has the potential to disrupt the ability to charge electric vehicles. Referred to as…
New Algorithm Distinguishes Between Treatable and Untreatable Cardiac Arrest
At the Smidt Heart Institute in Cedars-Sinai, clinician-scientists have developed a clinical algorithm which differentiates between treatable and untreatable sudden cardiac arrest. Their findings were published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Clinical Electrophysiology. The key risk…
Russia Sees Tech Brain Drain due to Ukraine Invasion
A large amount of tech workers in Russia are leaving to look for safer and greener pastures. Over 70,000 tech specialists incited by the change of political atmosphere, left the country after its invasion of Ukraine, with many more expected…
MIT’s Mini Cheetah and its Speed
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) recently created a new version of a quick quadrupedal robot. Although four-legged robots have amassed a lot of popularity over the last few years, running is a skill that has eluded them.…