Tag: Internet
Key internet connections and locations at risk from rising seas
Carol Barford, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Despite whimsical ads about computing “in the cloud,” the internet lives on the ground. Data centers are built on land,...
Russians hack home internet connections – here’s how to protect yourself
Sandeep Nair Narayanan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Sudip Mittal, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
In late...
Internet openness pits collaborative history against competitive future
Lorenzo De Carli, Colorado State University
The debate about how open the internet should be to free expression – and how much companies should...
Driverless cars are already here but the roads aren’t ready for...
Mark Wilson, Michigan State University
The recent deaths of a woman struck by a car Uber was testing in driverless mode and of a man...
Fragmented US privacy rules leave large data loopholes for Facebook and...
Florian Schaub, University of Michigan
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony will discuss ways to keep people’s online data private, which I’m interested in as...
The countries that trust Facebook the most are also the most...
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Tufts University
The latest shoe has dropped on Facebook: Private data on 50 million users found its way to a shadowy research outfit,...
Don’t quit Facebook, but don’t trust it, either
Denise Anthony, Dartmouth College and Luke Stark, Dartmouth College
Is it time to give up on social media? Many people are thinking about that in...
Reaching rural America with broadband internet service
Sharon Strover, University of Texas at Austin
All across the U.S., rural communities’ residents are being left out of modern society and the 21st century...
EXPLORING NATURE
Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including...
Moones Alamooti, University of North Dakota
As energy use rises and the planet warms, you might have dreamed of...
