IBM and CDC experts are hopeful that using a blockchain could help streamline long-running surveys that track patient symptoms and treatments.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and IBM are collaborating on a blockchain-based system that could track public health issues like the ongoing opioid crisis.
Park Jin Hyok is alleged to be part of a North Korean hacking group behind numerous high-profile attacks in recent years.
Federal prosecutors in California unveiled charges Thursday against Park Jin Hyok, a North Korean man allegedly involved in the high-profile 2014 hack of Sony Pictures Studios, the $81 million digital bank heist targeting the Bangladeshi central bank in 2016, and last year’s devastating WannaCry ransomware outbreak.
A sweeping report, the product of two years of work by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, says paper ballots are essential.
Paper ballots should be used to help guarantee election security, and digital voting machines that don’t produce a paper trail should be replaced as soon as possible, according to a new report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
The coin will be backed one-to-one by dollars on deposit in financial institutions.
Gemini Trust, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has won approval from New York finance regulators to launch Gemini Dollars, digital tokens pegged in value to the U.S. dollar and transferable on the Ethereum blockchain.
Inscribe is developing technology that can help insurers and lenders detect forged and altered documents.
If you’ve ever taken out a loan, you’ve probably been asked for copies of documents that show your income and savings, like a recent paystub, a W-2 form, or a bank statement. And if you’ve ever had to file an insurance claim after an accident or fire, you may have been asked to submit receipts or invoices verifying the expenses you’re asking to have reimbursed.
The award to Descartes Labs, a Los Alamos spinoff, is part of a DARPA push to build efficient cloud systems for processing big volumes of geospatial data.
A New Mexico startup called Descartes Labs will receive up to $7.2 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to help bring geospatial data from satellites to the cloud.
State officials say the inmates and staff may be safer in the prison itself.
South Carolina will not be evacuating Ridgeland Correctional Institution, even though it’s in an area that could be hit by Hurricane Florence, the newspaper The State reports.
The court didn’t consider pending changes under a 2016 law, but said that existing practices violated privacy provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights.
A U.K. spy agency’s bulk collection of telecom data violated the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday.
A new legal complaint argues that personal data is being dispersed across wide networks of ad providers in violation of Europe’s privacy regulation.
Ad customization technology used by Google and other companies is in violation of Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation, according to a complaint filed yesterday in a case that could become a test of the scope of the still-new privacy law.
The Russian social network doesn’t have the same reach in Myanmar as Facebook.
After Facebook banned a number of Myanmar military officials in August citing evidence of human rights violations, the head of the country’s army found a new social media home: Russian social network VKontakte, reports Global Voices.
By 2025, machines will be working more total hours than humans, according to a prediction from the World Economic Forum.
Artificial intelligence and automation will create more jobs than they replace, according to a new report entitled “The Future of Jobs” from the World Economic Forum (WEF). But the transition will likely be tough for some workers, the group warns.
A tightly knit group of right-wing YouTube broadcasts can bring viewers to more extreme positions on subjects like race and gender, a report says.
YouTube is home to a right-wing “alternative influence network” that can drive viewers to extremist positions on race, gender, and other topics, according to a new report from the Data & Society Research Institute.
Changes in policies have affected ad blockers, antivirus apps, and an anti-distraction tool, but Apple hasn’t spoken publicly about which apps are permitted.
For people trying to avoid online distractions on their smartphones and computers, a service called Freedom has offered the ability to block certain websites and apps at certain times.
Google has stopped scanning emails for its own advertising, but third-party apps that process email still have wide latitude.
Google told U.S. senators it still allows third-party app developers who work with Gmail and build software to scan user inboxes, even though it has stopped processing Gmail messages to target ads, the Wall Street Journal reports.
International passengers will be able to put their passports away and use their faces as ID.
By the end of this year, some international passengers flying from Atlanta will be able to leave their passports in their bags as they travel through the airport.
The FDA says it may accelerate review of e-cig features like geofencing and biometrics that would make the devices hard for kids to vape.
The Food and Drug Administration wants to see e-cigarette makers limit vaping among kids, and the agency is considering fast-tracking reviews of features that would make the devices harder for underage fans to use, CNBC reports.
The deputy attorney general has denied the report by the New York Times, which was based on unnamed sources.
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office as unfit for duty, according to a report in the New York Times. Rosenstein even proposed surreptitiously recording conversations with the president, the report further alleges.
As big money pours into coin offerings and smart contracts, security firms are building powerful tools and techniques to audit them for thief-friendly bugs.
In early September, Gemini Trust, the cryptocurrency firm founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, announced it had won approval from New York state regulators to unveil a set of digital tokens linked to the value of the U.S. dollar.
A postcard service, soon to offer email-style automation features, will be Mailchimp’s first foray into the world of tangible mail.
Companies that use Mailchimp for their online marketing now have a new way to reach out to consumers through the platform: physical mail.