Can You Trust Palm Print Payment Services?
Biometric recognition systems, such as your iPhone’s facial recognition or fingerprint scanner, are nothing new in today’s day and age. The world has slowly moved towards using your body’s unique...
View ArticleSocial Media Algorithms Put You in a Tiny Bubble
According to Statista, the average person spends over two hours a day scrolling through various social media platforms. And Business of Apps reports Gen Z spends more than four hours online daily. In...
View ArticleHostile Web Design: The Dark Side of Data Collection
In an increasingly tech-driven society, the role of individuals’ data continues to exist in a gray area. Corporations make billions of dollars every year from the sale of their users’ personal data....
View ArticleWill Self-Driving Cars Make Traffic Worse?
According to Kelly Blue Book, if you live in a major metropolitan area, your morning commute is getting worse. A study showed drivers in big cities spent an extra 1.5 minutes for every six miles...
View ArticleLink Rot: How Web Pages Are Lost to Time
On January 1, 2023, the Internet turned 40. In the forty years since its inception, users have uploaded an unfathomable amount of data to the world wide web. In 2022 alone, people uploaded about 97...
View ArticleIs Commercial Data Enabling a Surveillance State?
A declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) shows the government stockpiles our personal information. Commercial data brokers collect your data voluntarily...
View ArticleRussian Hackers Attack US Government Agencies
A Russian hacker group exploited a MOVEit file transfer service flaw to comprise several federal agencies’ data. According to TechCrunch, the ransomware gang known as “CL0P” accessed the data of...
View ArticleThe Right to Erasure: Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age
Personal data protection has become an increasingly pressing concern in an era dominated by digital connectivity and data mining. In light of recent revelations that the US government is purchasing...
View ArticleIs Web3 the New Dot Com Boom?
In the six-or-so months since the monumental collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange, FTX, media attention on cryptocurrency cooled significantly. However, the technology behind the scenes,...
View ArticleApple vs Meta: Who’s Winning the VR War?
In the week after Apple announced its $3,500 Vision Pro VR headset, the company’s stock hit a record high. Despite the product’s unaffordability, there is a market (or at least an interest) in Apple’s...
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