February 2017 News Wire

The ethics of tracking athletes’ biometric data

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-01-ethics-tracking-athletes-biometric.amp

Is your smartphone listening to everything you say? We asked the experts

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/is-your-smartphone-listening-to-your-conversations/

Bias in Criminal Risk Scores Is Mathematically Inevitable, Researchers Say

https://www.propublica.org/article/bias-in-criminal-risk-scores-is-mathematically-inevitable-researchers-say

MIT’s self-folding origami technology could change how we design everything from airbags to wearables

http://qz.com/873898/mits-self-folding-origami-technology-could-change-how-we-design-everything-from-airbags-to-wearables

Virtual Reality Allows the Most Detailed, Intimate Digital Surveillance Yet

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/23/virtual-reality-allows-the-most-detailed-intimate-digital-surveillance-yet/

Explore Climate Warming Where You Live

http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2016/12/explore-warming-where-you-live/

Flight booking systems lack basic privacy safeguards, researchers say

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-travel-idUSKBN14G1I6

Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-doesnt-tell-users-everything-it-really-knows-about-them

Dark Matter: How Google’s Search business and humanity’s information is disappearing

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/20/how-googles-search-business-and-humanitys-information-is-disappearing/

Autonomous Mercedes will spare occupants over pedestrians

http://readwrite.com/2016/12/19/autonomous-mercedes-benz-cars-spare-occupants-pedestrians-tl4/

Scratch Blocks update: Making it easier to develop coding apps for kids

https://developers.googleblog.com/2016/12/scratch-blocks-update-making-it-easier-to-develop-coding-apps-for-kids.html

Millions exposed to malvertising that hid attack code in banner pixels

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/12/millions-exposed-to-malvertising-that-hid-attack-code-in-banner-pixels/

The “technosphere” now weighs 30 trillion tons

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/the-technosphere-now-weighs-30-trillion-tons/