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Software designed to detect child abuse images on smartphones, which could be mandated by governments in some counties, can be covertly repurposed to intrude on personal privacy, according to research at Imperial college. ‘Client-side scanning’ (CSS) is an image analysis technique based on ‘perceptual hashing’, and is mooted as a way to get around the legitimate problem of criminals hiding ...

Smartphones can be 85% accurate in identifying who is carrying them, merely by detecting motion as the person walks around normally, according to the University of Plymouth. This rises to almost 90% if they walk fast. The trial had 44 participants, aged between 18 and 56, each carrying a phone in a belt pouch for 7 to 10days. Resulting phone gyroscope ...

Canadian researchers have used mobile phone data to reveal how much out-of-home travel (dubbed ‘mobility’) is needed to cause a surge in Covid-19 cases. The team uses almost a year’s anonymised phone data (March 2020 to March 2021) to estimate on average how long people were moving outside their homes in Canada, and also noted the week-on-week increase in Covid-19 ...

23% of UK office workers say their productivity  is  hindered at least once a week by poor cellular connectivity at work.. The poll – conducted by OnePoll and commissioned by CommScope – asked 2,000 UK office workers about the relationship between mobile connectivity and their productivity when at work. 77% of respondents considered it ‘important’ for being able to complete ...

For the first time in 40 years, the computer industry will no longer be the largest market for chips, says IC Insights. This year, the largest market will be communications ICs.

ARM vendors are creeping up on x86 vendors in the latest MPU market figures from IC Insights. Eight of the top ten suppliers are ARM-based.

In a good growth year for the semiconductor industry, Q2 has the highest sequential quarterly growth rate, says IC Insights in a 30 year review of cyclical trends. In a bad growth year, H1 takes the brunt of the slowdown. When averaging the quarterly IC market growth rate figures over the past 30 years, the third quarter average increase was the ...

There are many black holes for the unwary tech CEO to fall into, but two of the oldest and blackest are video phones and pocket TV.

Motorola is planning a raft of cellphones optimised for social networking, the first of which is launched today. In a Reuters interview with Motorola co-CEO, Sanjay Jha, it is said that Motorola will produce ‘multiple tens’ of Android-based cellpones over the next 15 to 18 months. The move signals that Motorola, which tried and failed to sell its handset division last ...

Wow! Things are hotting up. Hard on the heels of Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini saying last week that Intel has design-wins in smartphones, Nokia’s CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said Nokia is thinking of getting into laptops. “We are looking very actively also at this opportunity,” said Kallasvuo, ” we don’t have to look even for five years from now to see ...