Consumer & Gadgets
Smartphones are useful tools for everyday life, but they're privy to nearly everything about you, including all the places you've been—if you let them.
Feb 6, 2025
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Engineering
A surge in GPS jamming attacks in drone warfare has inspired Australian researchers to develop a celestial navigation system that uses visual data from stars rather than relying on the global positioning system.
Dec 3, 2024
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Engineering
The 2023 blaze in Lahaina, Hawaii, which claimed more than 100 lives and burned 6,500 acres of land across Maui, is a tragic example of how rapid wildfire spread can make effective response efforts impossible, resulting in ...
Nov 7, 2024
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Internet
A crisis can alter one's personal considerations of the benefits and costs related to choices around data and privacy. In a new study, researchers used location data before and after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to ...
Sep 25, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Most Australian teenagers have their own smartphone. According to a 2023 survey, 91% of young people between 14 and 17 owned a phone.
Sep 9, 2024
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Business
The Dutch data protection watchdog said Monday it hit ride-hailing app Uber with a 290-million-euro ($324 million) fine over the transfer of personal data of European drivers to US servers.
Aug 26, 2024
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Robotics
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are now used to capture images and carry out a wide range of missions in outdoor environments. While there are now several UAV designs with different advantages and ...
Engineering
Most people interact with maps regularly, for example, when they're trying to get from point A to point B, track the weather or plan a trip. But beyond those daily activities, maps are also increasingly being combined with ...
Jul 18, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
A combined team of roboticists from MIT and the University of California, San Diego, has developed a new type of remote control for robots called Open-TeleVision that allows for VR-type control. The team has posted a paper ...
Engineering
A trio of engineers at the University of Glasgow has designed and built an AI-based drone system that can assist in search efforts for hikers lost in the wilderness. Jan-Hendrik Ewers, David Anderson, and Douglas Thomson ...
