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Released: 14-Oct-2021 3:00 PM EDT
Internet Security Doesn’t Measure Up; a Team of Experts Is Working to Change This
University of California San Diego

The National Science Foundation funds more than $11M to CAIDA at UC San Diego, CSAIL at MIT and NSRC at the University of Oregon for two projects aimed at improving internet infrastructure security.

Released: 13-Oct-2021 3:15 PM EDT
Study Finds Use of Anger in Online Reviews Simultaneously Unhelpful but Influential in Purchase Decisions
Georgia Institute of Technology

The paper, “Anger in Consumer Reviews: Unhelpful but Persuasive?” published in the September 2021 issue of MIS Quarterly, challenges a well-accepted assumption by both researchers and practitioners that more helpful reviews are ultimately more influential. Specifically, their research examines how emotional expressions of anger in a negative review influence the way the review is perceived by its readers.

   
Released: 7-Oct-2021 10:45 AM EDT
Are You Addicted to Technology?
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

According to the Pew Research Center, about 30 percent of Americans are almost constantly online, and health officials are concerned about the amount of time children and adults spend with technology. China recently banned children from playing online games for more than three hours a week, internet addiction centers have been opening in the United States and Facebook has come under fire for teenagers’ obsessive use of its Instagram app.

Newswise: Saint Louis University Expert Explains Protocol Failure That Triggered Facebook Outage
Released: 6-Oct-2021 1:55 PM EDT
Saint Louis University Expert Explains Protocol Failure That Triggered Facebook Outage
Saint Louis University

Flavio Esposito, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science at Saint Louis University (SLU), is an expert in computer networking. Esposito can explain the protocol failure that triggered outages on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp and why we need geospatial research to prevent its occurrence in the future.

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Released: 6-Oct-2021 8:20 AM EDT
UNC Faculty Members Using Advanced Technology to Explore Consumer's Willingness to Spend Online
University of Northern Colorado

Two faculty members at the University of Northern Colorado developed technology they found helps curb spending online, even if just by a little, through a 3-D printed vibration motor controller attached to a phone.

Released: 4-Oct-2021 4:35 PM EDT
UAlbany Experts Available to Discuss Cybersecurity Awareness Month
University at Albany, State University of New York

The University at Albany has several experts available to discuss the importance of Cybersecurity Awareness Month and how to best protect yourself against cybercrimes.

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Released: 4-Oct-2021 3:15 PM EDT
VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE: Leverage Fact Check to Promote Experts: Newswise Live Webinar on Sept. 29th
Newswise

Join the Newswise editorial team to learn how our Fact Check submission option can help your experts get placements with their commentary about important topics.

       
Released: 4-Oct-2021 1:05 PM EDT
What motivates social media use during Jan. 6 event
South Dakota State University

Finding out what is motivating social media users during a breaking news event required quick action to get survey on the Jan. event out by Jan. 8.

Released: 21-Sep-2021 3:00 PM EDT
Globus Announces Support for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
Globus

Today Globus announced support for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, providing the research community with secure, reliable, and easy to use data management services for Microsoft’s massively scalable and secure object storage for cloud-native and hybrid workloads, data lakes, high-performance computing, and machine learning.

Released: 20-Sep-2021 2:45 PM EDT
Using internet in retirement boosts cognitive function -- new research
Lancaster University

Using the internet during your retirement years can boost your cognitive function, a new study has found.

   
Released: 15-Sep-2021 12:00 PM EDT
COVID vaccines do not impact male fertility, nor do they cause swollen testicles, as suggested by Niki Minaj
Newswise

World-renown rap star Nicki Minaj tweeted about Covid-19 vaccination during the 2021 Met Gala (she did not attend since she is not vaccinated). She suggested that getting a COVID-19 vaccine will cause male impotence and swollen testicles.

Released: 14-Sep-2021 4:40 PM EDT
The latest research news in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Newswise

Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL - Dr. Dave Bowman

Released: 8-Sep-2021 5:00 PM EDT
The jury is still out on the effectiveness of ivermectin in treating COVID-19, despite claims that it works or that it's useless
Newswise

Ivermectin is used to fight worms and other parasites in animals and humans. But some people are taking it to treat COVID-19, despite warnings from experts and poisonings tied to the drug.

Released: 23-Aug-2021 8:50 AM EDT
This technology could bring the fastest version of 5G to your home and workplace
University of California San Diego

A new technology developed by electrical engineers at UC San Diego might one day allow more people to have access to 5G connectivity that provides ultra-fast download speeds along with widespread, reliable coverage—all at the same time. The technology enables millimeter wave signals to overcome blockages while providing high throughput.

Released: 19-Aug-2021 3:00 PM EDT
VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE: Breakthrough Cases and COVID Boosters: Live Expert Panel for August 18, 2021
Newswise

Expert Q&A: Do breakthrough cases mean we will soon need COVID boosters? The extremely contagious Delta variant continues to spread, prompting mask mandates, proof of vaccination, and other measures. Media invited to ask the experts about these and related topics.

Released: 16-Aug-2021 1:25 PM EDT
UA Little Rock Joins DOD-Funded International Research Project to Investigate Covert Online Influence
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is part of an international research cohort that has received about $2.35 million in funding from the Department of Defense to investigate the use of social cyber forensics to understand covert online influence. UA Little Rock will receive $691,339 for its part of the project, which began in February and will conclude in 2025.

Released: 9-Aug-2021 10:45 AM EDT
Why People Snub Their Friends with Their Phone
University of Georgia

Smartphones have made multi-tasking easier, more understandable, and at times compulsive. But in social settings, these devices can lead to a form of contemporary rudeness called phone snubbing, or phubbing, the act of ignoring one’s companions to pay attention to a phone.

Released: 3-Aug-2021 10:00 AM EDT
Study Shows Users Banned From Social Platforms Go Elsewhere with Increased Toxicity
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Users banned from social platforms go elsewhere with increased toxicity, according to a new study featuring researchers from Binghamton University, State University of New York.

   
Released: 2-Aug-2021 5:15 PM EDT
Divided Attention Could Ease Wireless Congestion
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)

The prediction of future wireless traffic volumes using artificial intelligence (AI) would allow communication systems to automatically adjust network resources to maximize reliability.

Released: 29-Jul-2021 9:00 AM EDT
Will This Be the Face of 7G?
Bakman Technologies

Moving from the GHz regime into the THz regime...

Released: 29-Jul-2021 8:30 AM EDT
FAU Invention for Maximum Privacy of Sharing Files Online Gets U.S. Patent
Florida Atlantic University

While services such as Snapchat allow self-destructing messages or notify users when a recipient takes a screenshot of a message, there is no way to prevent someone from photographing or showing it to others on the screen. A new invention controls how and when shared documents are displayed and restricts individuals from viewing documents based on individual identity (e.g., face ID, a voice sample), their social network, and when and where the document is being viewed.

Released: 23-Jul-2021 8:55 AM EDT
Chula Researchers Caution Against Online Gambling during COVID-19
Chulalongkorn University

According to Chula researchers the volume of online gambling has soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, posing a serious threat to minors, and the government should urgently tackle this problem.

Released: 21-Jul-2021 2:40 PM EDT
Cybercrime Bill to Rise During Pandemic
Flinders University

A new study of almost 12,000 Australians has found one-third of the adult population has experienced pure cybercrime during their lifetime, with 14% reporting this disruption to network systems in the past 12 months.

   
Released: 16-Jul-2021 4:00 PM EDT
Invention: The Storywrangler
University of Vermont

Scientists have invented a first-of-its-kind instrument to peer deeply into billions of Twitter posts--providing an unprecedented, minute-by-minute view of popularity, from rising political movements, to K-pop, to emerging diseases. The tool--called the Storywrangler--gathers phrases across 150 different languages, analyzing the rise and fall of ideas and stories, each day, among people around the world. The Storywrangler quantifies collective attention.

Released: 16-Jul-2021 12:35 PM EDT
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog – or a Fake Russian Twitter Account
University at Buffalo

This study investigates how successful Russian Internet Research Agency Twitter accounts built the followings that were central to their disinformation campaigns around the 2016 US presidential election. Many legacy media outlets played an unwitting role in the growth, according to the findings.

14-Jul-2021 9:30 AM EDT
Encrypting photos on the cloud to keep them private
Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

A new study from computer scientists at Columbia Engineering reveals what may be the first way to encrypt personal images on popular cloud photo services, such as those from Google, Apple, Flickr and others, all without requiring any changes to — or trust in — those services.

Released: 29-Jun-2021 12:50 PM EDT
New Web Resources Can Help Prevent Youth Radicalization
American University

New tools to help parents and educators protect vulnerable young people from online radicalization were released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab (PERIL).

Released: 28-Jun-2021 12:40 PM EDT
Angelenos versus New Yorkers: What do they talk about online?
University of Southern California (USC)

A new novel computational social science tool detects similarities/differences of topics in online conversation

Released: 25-Jun-2021 3:55 PM EDT
Backscatter Breakthrough Runs Near-Zero-Power IoT Communicators at 5G Speeds Everywhere
Georgia Institute of Technology

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Nokia Bell Labs, and Heriot-Watt University have found a low-cost way for backscatter radios to support high-throughput communication and 5G-speed Gb/sec data transfer using only a single transistor.

Released: 24-Jun-2021 1:00 PM EDT
What Was Learning At Home Like For Under-Connected Families?
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Internet access is up dramatically since 2015, but 18 percent of lower-income families had their service cut at least once during the pandemic due to cost, and 12 percent still have no computer at home at all, according to a report led by Rutgers and other researchers that highlights digital inequity after a year of learning at home.

Released: 22-Jun-2021 3:05 PM EDT
Iowa State University and Partners Receive Major National Science Foundation Research Grant to Drive Innovation in Rural Broadband Connectivity
Iowa State University

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a consortium of industry partners, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the new regional testbed will focus on wireless research to enable high-throughput, universal and affordable rural broadband.

Released: 21-Jun-2021 10:20 AM EDT
Data Breaches: Most Victims Unaware When Shown Evidence of Multiple Compromised Accounts
University of Michigan

It's been nine years since the LinkedIn data breach, eight years since Adobe customers were victims of cyber attackers and four years since Equifax made headlines for the exposure of private information of millions of people.

Released: 11-Jun-2021 5:10 PM EDT
Novel fast-beam-switching transceiver takes 5G to the next level
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and NEC Corporation jointly develop a 28-GHz phased-array transceiver that supports efficient and reliable 5G communications.

Released: 8-Jun-2021 1:40 PM EDT
Eye Tracking Study Shows How Online Ads Help Consumers Shop Faster
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Maryland Smith’s Michel Wedel and co-authors show that advertising at the point of purchase can help shoppers find the advertised product more quickly, in part by helping them weed out all the products not having the features they were looking for.

   
Released: 24-May-2021 2:15 PM EDT
Posts to Reddit forum "SuicideWatch" spike in the early hours of Monday morning
King's College London

New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has found that people on a social media suicide support forum are most likely to post to the site during the early hours of Monday morning.

Released: 14-May-2021 11:05 AM EDT
Understanding how people make sense of the news they consume
University of Missouri, Columbia

How people consume news and take actions based on what they read, hear or see, is different than how human brains process other types of information on a daily basis, according to researchers at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Released: 12-May-2021 4:05 AM EDT
Computer designs magnonic devices
University of Vienna

Magnonic devices have the potential to revolutionize the electronics industry. Qi Wang, Andrii Chumak from University of Vienna and Philipp Pirro from TU Kaiserslautern have largely accelerated the design of more versatile magnonic devices via a feedback-based computational algorithm. Their "inverse-design" of magnonic devices has now been published in Nature Communications.

Released: 7-May-2021 2:05 PM EDT
Researchers develop artificial intelligence that can detect sarcasm in social media
University of Central Florida

Computer science researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a sarcasm detector.

Released: 4-May-2021 10:35 AM EDT
Little to No Increase in Association Between Adolescents’ Mental Health Problems and Digital Technology Engagement
Association for Psychological Science

A new study suggests that over the past 30 years, there has been little to no increase in the association between adolescents’ technology engagement and mental health problems. The study also urges more transparent collaborations between academia and industry.

   
Released: 3-May-2021 2:50 PM EDT
Need to vent? Turn to real-life support, not social media
Michigan State University

Social media may make it easier for people to engage online, but I does not provide certain benefits of real-life human interactions, says a Michigan State University researcher.



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