archwizardflipped into Smart Mobile TechResearchers demonstrate how link previews in apps can expose data from usersverified_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 previews can expose user data in both iOS and Android apps. When you send any link through a …
A.W.C.flipped into Our Electronic & Digital Lives.Researchers Created an App That Monitors Your Mental Health by Tracking Your Dataverified_publisherGizmodo - Alyse StanleyEven though I appreciate that it’s for a good cause, this app still sounds like something out of Minority Report. Researchers at Dalhousie University …
VentureBeatflipped into Big DataResearchers claim AI algorithm uses heart rate and motion data to predict age, sex, and moreverified_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 over 280,000 hours of wrist accelerometer and wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) data. They …
AvatarMartinflipped into Health science & DiscoveryResponsible, practical genomic data sharing that accelerates researchnature.com - Byrd, James BrianData sharing anchors reproducible science, but expectations and best practices are often nebulous. Communities of funders, researchers and publishers …
archwizardflipped into Tech | Gear | InternetResearchers find evidence of bias in facial expression data setsverified_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 Arxiv.org, coauthors affiliated with the University of Cambridge and Middle East Technical …
The HillOct 23, 2020Facebook fights NYU political ad research project, argues it violates the site's data collection policiesThe Hill - Tal AxelrodFacebook is fighting a New York University (NYU) research project over its data on political ad targeting practices, demanding that the program cease …
Avatarnthom58flipped into Classroom AIResearchers seek to advance predictive AI for engineers with CAD model data setverified_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, and last month MIT researchers introduced a generative model that predicts how humans paint …
Forbesflipped into InnovationThis Big Data Startup Raised $12 Million To Speed Up Clinical Trials For Coronavirus ResearchForbes - 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 implants and more. But the clinical trial process to bring these advances to market is …
Lordbregaflipped into Threat Assessment - USA Issues and ConcernsIsraeli researchers use RAM as a small Wi-Fi transmitter to leak sensitive data from isolated systemsTechSpot - Adrian PotoroacaWhy it matters: Air-gapped computers, usually found in government, banking, enterprise, industrial and military setups, operate in tightly controlled …
MDoffice ♥️flipped into MDoffice ♥︎ DailyGoogle launches Android app to collect data for health researchABC News - Dr. Anita VermaThe 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 …
Donflipped into Collectively EvolvingMicrosoft researchers use Bing data to track shifting human needs during the pandemicverified_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, Microsoft researchers developed a framework to characterize the changes in people’s …
