Secret digital intrusions into our computers and mobile devices have garnered increasing attention in recent times. But a decidedly lower-tech assault has also been troublesome: shoulder surfing. You know the types: friends, work colleagues and assorted passers-by who walk by you and can’t resist quietly peeking over your shoulder at the content of your screen…
When you smell an orange, the scent is most likely combined with several others: car exhaust, garbage, flowers, soap. Those smells bind simultaneously to the hundreds of receptors in your brain’s olfactory bulb, obscuring one another, yet you can still recognize the smell of an orange, even when it’s blended with a totally different pattern…
Major world airlines on Monday axed almost all flights on a temporary basis as the worsening coronavirus crisis sparks travel bans, ravages demand and sends shares into freefall, triggering pleas to help carriers survive. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-global-airlines-slash-flights-virus.html Views: 0
Some commercial password managers may be vulnerable to cyber-attack by fake apps, new research suggests. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-expose-vulnerabilities-password.html Views: 0
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department suffered a cyberattack on its computer system Sunday night during the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-health-agency-cyber-attack-covid-response.html Views: 0
A new study examines energy inequality for income classes across 86 countries, from highly industrialised to developing ones, revealing extreme disparity in energy footprints, both within nations and globally. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-international-energy-inequality.html Views: 0
Your personality could significantly impact your ability to contribute to open source projects, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Waterloo. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-personality-key-role-contribute-source.html Views: 0
Austria Airlines, a subsidiary of the Lufthansa group, said Monday that it will suspend all of its regular flights from Thursday owing to a sharp drop in demand stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-austrian-airlines-flights-thursday-coronavirus.html Views: 0
French regulators fined Apple 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) on Monday for striking deals to keep prices high, in the biggest-ever such sanction by France’s Competition Authority. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-france-fines-apple-billion-anti-competitive.html Views: 0
German airline group Lufthansa on Monday said it was slashing its long-haul capacity by 90 percent as the industry grapples with the devastating fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-lufthansa-slash-long-haul-capacity-virus.html Views: 0