Facebook says it has reviewed millions of apps and suspended tens of thousands out of privacy concerns. The ongoing probe was launched in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Facebook said Friday it has suspended "tens of thousands" of apps as part of an investigation following the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.
The apps were made by around 400 developers and have...
US-based PNC Bank is in the middle of a pilot project that aims to test out credit cards with constantly changing card verification values (or CVVs) to reduce online credit card fraud. The dynamic CVV is displayed on the back of such a card in e-ink and changes according to an algorithm supplied by Visa.
Credit card fraud has long...
Researchers have developed a tiny nanolaser that can function inside of living tissues without harming them.
Just 50 to 150 nanometers thick, the laser is about 1/1,000th the thickness of a single human hair. At this size, the laser can fit and function inside living tissues, with the potential to sense disease biomarkers or perhaps treat deep-brain neurological disorders, such...
Forget about 12345 or P@ssW0rd, an Avira honeypot set up to find new smart device threats has identified an even more insecure credential – nothing.
“The most commonly used credential is blank, which means that the attackers just enter an empty username and password,” says Avira threat analyst Hamidreza Ebtehaj. “This is even more common than admin.”
Credentials in this case...
American Google has created the world’s most powerful quantum computer, capable of orders of magnitude faster to calculate than the Summit from IBM, is considered the world’s most powerful supercomputer, according to Financial Times.
The British newspaper writes that the calculation on which device from IBM requires 10 thousand years, computer from Google has made over 200 seconds, and this...
A "flying" electric river taxi hailed by its creators as the future of clean city transport is being put through a battery of tests in Paris this week, with a view to being in service by the spring.
Named the "Sea Bubble", the white aerodynamic craft skimmed over the River Seine at speeds of up to 30 km/hour (17 m/hour),...
The basic directions of the scientific researches conducted by the Institute are:
fundamental studies in the field of the theoretical problems of chemistry of additives – the action mechanism of additives, the relationship between their composition and efficiency of the functional influence, synergism and antagonism of additives, the kinetics and the mechanism of various organic reactions used in the...
The aircraft constructing Airbus S.A.S. declared the beginning of active introduction of technologies Internet of things at creation of passenger salons of the planes, and also for the first time in the history of civil aviation...
From NASA and ESA (the European Space Agency) to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, it’s every space institute’s and tech billionaire’s dream to return to the moon during this century. But while government agencies and space entrepreneurs all focus on building a spaceship to transport humans between Earth and the moon, a pair of young scientists from Columbia University have a distinctly sci-fi-esque idea that...
Motorola has jumped onto a new product line and announced its own TV series for the Indian market. The company announced the new range at an event today alongside the affordable Moto E6s smartphone. The new Motorola TV range will be powered by Android TV and is offered in different sizes with prices ranging from Rs 13,999 ($196) to...