The "Princeton IoT Inspector" tracks all the data your devices send out.

New app tells you when your smart speaker is spying on you

Watching Alexa

A new app built by Princeton researchers can monitor your smart speaker and other IoT devices to track how much of your info they're sending out.

New App Tells You When Your Smart Speaker Is Spying On You

"Our smart devices are watching us. It's time for us to watch them."

Now when someone on a scooter veers wildly into traffic, it might not be their fault.

Hackers can remotely access your electric scooter

Disrupting Traffic

A team of security researchers found a flaw in Xiaomi's M365 electric scooter. They were able to remotely control a scooter in a matter of hours.

Hackers Can Access Your Electric Scooter While You’re Riding It

Xiaomi’s M365 scooter has a security bug that lets a hacker control the throttle and brakes.

Nothing says cybersecurity like cracking every password in the country.

Japan plans to hack 200 million devices to prepare for Olympics

LUCIUS FOX

To beef up cybersecurity before the upcoming 2020 Toyko Olympics, the Japanese Government is about to systematically hack the country's IoT devices.

Japan Plans to Hack 200 Million Devices to Prepare for Olympics

Japan's plan: shame residents into better online security by pwning their devices.

Roomrs knows when you wake up, when you have your coffee, and when you leave your house.

Pricey NYC housing now has an added cost: your personal data

Future Society

Roomrs provides young professionals with high-tech housing that learns as much as it can about them to streamline their lives.

Pricey NYC Housing Now Has an Added Cost: Your Personal Data

Roomrs collects your data from an extensive ensemble of smart devices, but doesn't sell any of it.

Future smart home devices might be able to automatically guess what you need them to do.

This artificial intelligence system predicts the future to help you around the house

Artificial Intelligence

A new machine learning system recognizes the steps of a recipe and predicts what a chef will do next, paving the road for automatic help in a smart home.

This Artificial Intelligence System Predicts The Future To Help You Around The House

As long as that future involves you making a salad.

Future developments could allow for data transfer in both directions.

Researchers have linked a human brain to the Internet for the first time ever

Hard Science

Data gathered from this project could help fuel the next steps in machine learning and brain-computer interfaces.

Researchers Have Linked a Human Brain to the Internet for the First Time Ever

Welcome to the “Brainternet”.

The growth of the IoT is being powered by more 5G access and falling costs, and will equalize opportunities for more people.

By 2020, There Will Be 4 Devices for Every Human on Earth

This is how the Internet of Things (IoT) is permanently changing our world.

A digital platform economy is developing as a result of the rise of the Internet of Things.

The Internet Is Transforming Our Physical World

Everything will be digitized.

Robots & Machines

Some smartphones and Fitbits are vulnerable to sound attacks.

Hackers Can Take Control of Devices Using Sound Waves

“You can think of it as a musical virus.”

Op-Ed

I was asked on Quora what Google will look like in 2030. Since that is one of the most important issues the world is facing right now, I took some time to answer it in full.  Larry Page, one of Google’s two co-founders, once said off-handedly that Google is not about building a search engine. […]

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Watching Alexa

New App Tells You When Your Smart Speaker Is Spying On You

Disrupting Traffic

Hackers Can Access Your Electric Scooter While You’re Riding It

LUCIUS FOX

Japan Plans to Hack 200 Million Devices to Prepare for Olympics

Future Society

Pricey NYC Housing Now Has an Added Cost: Your Personal Data

Artificial Intelligence

This Artificial Intelligence System Predicts The Future To Help You Around The House

Hard Science

Researchers Have Linked a Human Brain to the Internet for the First Time Ever

Future Society

By 2020, There Will Be 4 Devices for Every Human on Earth

Future Society

The Internet Is Transforming Our Physical World

Robots & Machines

Hackers Can Take Control of Devices Using Sound Waves

Op-Ed

By 2030, You’ll Be Living in a World That’s Run by Google

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