About 25% of the world’s Internet users live in countries that are more vulnerable to targeted attacks on their Internet infrastructure than previously thought. Many…
In an effort to reduce disparities, the University of Chicago Data Science Institute launches a data portal to guide research, policy, and community action. The…
Global network of solar-powered servers shows how. The energy requirements of the Internet, the devices and systems using it and the servers that support it…
Toward a Stronger Defense of Personal Data Engineers build a lower-energy chip that can prevent hackers from extracting hidden information from a smart device. A…
University of Chicago researchers find competition between networks decreases performance. If service becomes slow when you’re trying to send a quick email on your smartphone,…
With thousands of satellites, each network could beam down tens of terabits per second, filling gaps left by land-based services. In recent months, people have…
Today’s internet connects us globally. It sends packets of information that carry our communications in classical signals – sent by bursts of light through optical…
New research demonstrates how stopping the spread of harmful content will require inter-platform action. Malicious COVID-19 online content — including racist content, disinformation, and misinformation…
Benton Calhoun SM ’02 PhD ’06 and David Wentzloff SM ’02 PhD ’07 are co-founders of Everactive, which uses wireless sensing to provide continuous remote…
People’s fear of 5G technology is rational. Such technology does emit radiation, even if it’s at low levels. But 5G isn’t all that different from…
Advance could enable artificial intelligence on household appliances while enhancing data security and energy efficiency. Deep learning is everywhere. This branch of artificial intelligence curates…
MIT Professor Sinan Aral’s new book, “The Hype Machine,” explores the perils and promise of social media in a time of discord. Are you on…
WhatsApp, Signal & Co: Billions of users vulnerable to privacy attacks. Researchers from the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Würzburg show that…
A new technique that synchronizes the clocks of computers in under a billionth of a second can eliminate one of the hurdles for the deployment…
The world’s fastest data transmission rate has been achieved by a team of University College London engineers who reached an internet speed a fifth faster…
Everactive presents the factory of the future, batteries not included. Many analysts have predicted an explosion in the number of industrial “internet of things” (IoT)…
A research team led by Princeton University has developed a technique for tracking online foreign misinformation campaigns in real-time, which could help mitigate outside interference…
Aquatic internet that sends data through light beams could enable divers to instantly transmit footage from under the sea to the surface. The internet is…
