9to5MacApps Researchers demonstrate how link previews in apps can expose data from users - 9to5Mac verified_publisher9to5Mac - Filipe EspósitoAlmost all popular messaging apps offer link previews, which let users know the content of a URL in advance. However, security researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk have discovered that these link...
GizmodoMental Health Researchers Created an App That Monitors Your Mental Health by Tracking Your Data verified_publisherGizmodo - Alyse Stanley Even though I appreciate that it’s for a good cause, this app still sounds like something out of Minority Report. Researchers at Dalhousie University …
Canada Researchers taking COVID-19 data analysis into their own hands - CityNews Toronto citynews.ca - by Mahnoor Yawar and Tina Yazdani Since April, independent researcher Nora Loreto has been diligently tracking every COVID-19 related death in Canada, and where those infections began. …
VentureBeatLearning Researchers claim AI algorithm uses heart rate and motion data to predict age, sex, and more verified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersHow much information about a person’s behavior can you ascertain from a wearable device? Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Alan Turing Institute sought to investigate this in a study involving...
Genomics Responsible, practical genomic data sharing that accelerates research nature.com - James Brian Byrd, Anna C. Greene, Deepashree Venkatesh Prasad, Xiaoqian Jiang, Casey S. Greene Data sharing anchors reproducible science, but expectations and best practices are often nebulous. Communities of funders, researchers and publishers …
VentureBeatTechnology Researchers find evidence of bias in facial expression data sets verified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersResearchers claim the data sets often used to train AI systems to detect expressions like happiness, anger, and surprise are biased against certain demographic groups. In a preprint study published on...
New York University Facebook fights NYU political ad research project, argues it violates the site's data collection policies thehill.com - Tal Axelrod Facebook is fighting a New York University (NYU) research project over its data on political ad targeting practices, demanding that the program cease …
VentureBeatPrinceton University Researchers seek to advance predictive AI for engineers with CAD model data set verified_publisherVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonArtificial intelligence appears poised to augment or replace human artists in some cases. Carnegie Mellon University researchers are training a robot to pick up painting techniques by watching humans,...
ForbesTechnology This Big Data Startup Raised $12 Million To Speed Up Clinical Trials For Coronavirus Research Forbes - Katie JenningsResearchers across the globe are developing medicines based on technology that would have sounded like science-fiction a few years ago: cancer vaccines, stem cells that cure genetic disorders, brain-computer...
TechSpotSecurity Israeli researchers use RAM as a small Wi-Fi transmitter to leak sensitive data from isolated systems TechSpot - Adrian Potoroaca Why it matters: Air-gapped computers, usually found in government, banking, enterprise, industrial and military setups, operate in tightly controlled …
ABC NewsHarvard Google launches Android app to collect data for health research ABC News - Dr. Anita Verma The app was unveiled with a respiratory health study to help battle COVID-19. Google has launched a new app that lets people participate in medical …
VentureBeatPandemics Microsoft researchers use Bing data to track shifting human needs during the pandemic verified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersResearch about the pandemic has mostly focused on epidemiology, but health data alone can’t inform policies — decisions should ideally take into account the impacts on communities. Driven by this maxim,...
