Consumer & Gadgets
(Tech Xplore)—The makers of something titled the Matrix PowerWatch have a painful reminder for those of us who live our daily digital lives. Oh boy,imagining the scene hurts. Consider the vast numbers of batteries thrown ...
Software
How a mobile app says it will collect or share a user's personal information with third parties often appears to be inconsistent with how the app actually behaves, a new automated analysis system developed by Carnegie Mellon ...
Nov 15, 2016
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Security
Two scientists were recently able to take over the lights of an office building using a drone and some clever computer hacking. They demonstrated how "smart" lightbulbs connected to the internet were vulnerable to a virus ...
Nov 15, 2016
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Consumer & Gadgets
One of the limits of today's virtual reality (VR) headsets is that they have to be tethered to computers in order to process data well enough to deliver high-resolution visuals. But wearing an HDMI cable reduces mobility ...
Nov 15, 2016
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Computer Sciences
The cow goes "moo." The pig goes "oink." A child can learn from a picture book to associate images with sounds, but building a computer vision system that can train itself isn't as simple. Using artificial intelligence techniques, ...
Nov 15, 2016
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