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The U.S. House passed a bill that would ban third-party data brokers from selling the user data of Americans to geopolitical adversaries like China and Russia. And while it still needs to pass the Senate to become law, it’s a step in the right directio...

House Passes Privacy Bill Banning Data Brokers From Selling Your ...

This entry was posted in research on March 21, 2024 by Matt Novak

New research this week seems to throw cold water on the Wim Hof method, an endurance training technique that intentionally exposes people to frigid temperatures. The study, a review of the scientific literature, did find some evidence that the method c...

Study Finds No Strong Evidence for Benefits of Wim Hof ...

This entry was posted in research on March 15, 2024 by Ed Cara

Want to buy invasive personal details about an active-duty service member who works on a specific military base? You better have $0.12, because according to a new study that’s all it costs. The good news is the unregulated data brokers who sell that in...

Data Brokers Sell Secrets About Military Personnel for Pennies

This entry was posted in privacy research surveillance on November 6, 2023 by Thomas Germain

In what would be a legislative first for the country, a proposed law in Massachusetts promises to put a dent in the data brokerage industry by banning the sale of cellular location data. Suffice it to say, it would be really awesome if the bill passes...

A Proposed Massachusetts Law Would Ban the Sale of Your ...

This entry was posted in data protection privacy research on July 11, 2023 by Lucas Ropek

European lawmakers are eyeing binding transparency requirements for Internet platforms in a Digital Services Act (DSA) due to be drafted by the end of the year. But the question of how to create governance structures that provide regulators and researchers with meaningful access to data so platforms can be held accountable for the content they’re […]

Privacy not a blocker for “meaningful” research access to platform ...

This entry was posted in Europe Policy privacy research Social TC on June 25, 2020 by Natasha Lomas

Despite well-documented concerns over an economic slowdown in China, the country’s luxury goods market is still seeing opulent growth according to a new study. Behind secular and demographic tailwinds, the luxury sector is set to continue its torrid expansion in the face of volatility as it’s quickly becoming a defensive economic crown jewel. Using proprietary […]

Slowdown or not, China’s luxury goods still seeing high-end growth

This entry was posted in Advertising Tech Asia China eCommerce Government Policy research shopping Social software survey TC WeChat on March 21, 2019 by Arman Tabatabai

New research out of Stanford and New York University took a look at what happens when people step back from Facebook for a month. Through Facebook, the research team recruited 2,488 people who averaged an hour of Facebook use each day. After assessing their “willingness to accept” the idea of deactivating their account for a […]

Facebook users who quit the social network for a month ...

This entry was posted in research Social Stanford TC and tagged facebook on January 31, 2019 by Taylor Hatmaker

While this video shows a tiny robot from the City University of Hong Kong doing what amounts to a mitzvah, we can all imagine a future in which this little fellow could stab you in the kishkes. This wild little robot uses electromagnetic force to swim or flop back and forth to pull itself forward […]

Watch this tiny robot crawl through a wet stomach

This entry was posted in Gadgets research robots TC on September 26, 2018 by John Biggs

If you’ve ever painted a room you know that getting every nook and cranny is pretty difficult and Tim Allen help you if you have hardwood or carpet. The tarp alone costs more than the paint. Now, thanks to MIST, your robot can manage the entire job, slapping paint up like a robotic Jackson Pollock. […]

MIST paints your walls so you don’t have to

This entry was posted in Gadgets research robotics TC on April 27, 2018 by John Biggs

Researchers at the have successfully etched edible circuits onto the surface of food, paving the way for RFID tagged edibles that can help us track food from farm to tummy. The project, which uses something called laser-induced graphene (LIG), is...

Graphene-based edible electronics will let you make cereal circuits

This entry was posted in Gadgets research Startups TC on March 1, 2018 by John Biggs

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