Engineers at the University of Texas, Austin recently created the ‘lab-on-a-chip’ platform, a portable disease diagnosis platform which could spot asymptomatic COVID-19 cases, as well as test for other ailments in their early stages. The platform is capable of detecting…
Category: Technical Articles
Technical papers written in the field of wireless sensor networks
Workers Prefer Flexibility to Higher Pay
With unemployment at an all-time low as a result of the Great Resignation, many workers now feel empowered to go out and get what they want, including the salaries they think they deserve. According to a recent study by Bankrate,…
Lack of diversity: A cause of the Great Resignation
According to Labor Department data, there were over 10 million jobs available in the U.S. at the end of June— a record. To explain this, experts have referred to what they call the ‘Great Resignation’, where large amounts of people…
Online Abuse Featuring Abuse is Hard to Track Down for Tech Giants
New research suggests that online abusive posts are less likely to be identified if they feature emojis. According to the Oxford Internet Institute, harmful posts may be missed completely while acceptable posts are labelled incorrectly as offensive. After England’s loss…
New Research Shows How to Stop Mobile Provider From Tracking Your Location
Our phones are almost always tracking our location, even with the GPS services turned off. This is because to receive service, our phones disclose personal identifiers to cell towers owned by major network operators. This has resulted in a large…
New Research Sheds Light on Kids’ Password Behavior
Passwords are necessary for security and managing our online accounts ranging from emails to our social media profiles. To reduce the risk of cyberattacks, it is important that there be training and education for strengthening passwords and protecting our accounts.…
Simulator Helps Robot Enhance their Cutting Skills
Researchers from the USC’s Department of Computer Science and NVDIA have released a new simulator for robotic cutting which can accurately reproduce the forces acting on a knife while it slices through common food. The system can also simulate cutting…
New System Hack for Windows Hello
A key piece of the tech industry’s plan to make the world password-less and safer is biometric authentication. However, a novel method for bypassing Microsoft’s Windows Hello facial recognition system shows that a little fiddling with the hardware can deceive…
Crucial Agreement Reached Between EU and UK Regarding Data Protection
On Monday, the European Union officially recognized the privacy rules of Britain as sufficient on its own, which will allow EU-U.K. data flows persist after Brexit. The executive arm of EU, the European Commission stated that this decision meant that…
Vulnerabilities in Card Reader Technology Crashes POS and ATMs
Security researchers and cyberattackers have hacked ATMs using all kinds of methods, from sticking a thumb drive into a USB port to drilling a hole to reveal internal wiring. Recently, a research discovered a collection of bugs allowing him to…