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…
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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 ML Model Allows Researchers Identify People with PTSD through Text Data
Researchers in the University of Alberta recently trained a machine learning model to detect people with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) by mere analysis of texts these people wrote with 80% accuracy. The model has potential of becoming an accessible and…
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…
Fighting Against Discrimination in Mortgage Lending
A study carried out by the Journal of Financial Economics found that borrowers from minority groups are charged interest rate almost 8% higher and are rejected for loans 14% more than those from privileged groups. This is despite the U.S.…
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…
Study Finds That Restricted Internet Access Could be Key to Academic Improvement
A recent study of Malawi high school students found that under the right control, the internet can give students the opportunity to access high quality materials that can greatly boost their academic performance. It could even serve as an alternative…
Recent Study Finds that Parents’ Social Media Use is Connected to their Parenting Style
Recent studies have found that parents who more frequently post pictures of their kids on social media tend to have more confident and permissive parenting styles. They also engage their kids with social media at younger ages. These parents share…
GIF Creator Dies Following COVID-19 Complications
On the 1st of March 2022, beloved creator of the GIF file format, Steve Wilhite contracted COVID-19. ‘It came on suddenly. He woke up one morning and he said, “Honey, I don’t feel good. I don’t feel good at all”.…