PowerBridgeNY Powers On

March 9, 2018

The Proof-of-Concept Center’s Latest Cohort Includes Three Teams from NYU Tandon

Cybersecurity Lab Welcomes First Female Hacker-in-Residence

March 8, 2018

Security Researcher Joins OSIRIS Lab to Share Expertise

A Staunch Ally: Professor DuBois Honored for His Advocacy

March 15, 2018

Student-Organized Career Fair Brings Big Names to the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering

March 28, 2018

New Forensic Tool Could Add Filter to Child Porn Scans

New Forensics Tools Will Speed the Identification and Rescue of Children Pictured in Child Sexual Exploitation Material

Two Tandon Professors Win CAREER Awards

Researchers Race To Develop Software To Prevent Car Hacking

3D Printing Has an Urgent Need for Cybersecurity

It's not just about hackers stealing designs. New research shows that 3D-printed products can be tampered with to create counterfeits and undetectable, devastating flaws.

NYU Tandon Paper on Cyber Risks of 3D Printing is Springer’s Most-Read Engineering Research of 2016

Let’s End the War Between Online and On-campus Instruction

Open the way for research on the educational consequences of collaboration between virtual and face-to-face learning, Robert Ubell argues.

Boston Cyberarts presents The Augmented Landscape at National Park Service’s Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Flu-dunnit? Only Human Podcast

Flu-dunnit?

Cisco Security Researcher: Ransomware Crowd Big on Customer Service

Beware the “exploit kit infection chain,” Cisco researcher warns at SecureWorld Boston

Researchers Are Building AI to Replace Video Game Testers

It’s all about the right kind of randomness.

The Creator of NYU’s Virtual-Reality Hamlet is Fundraising to Take His Show on the Road

“To Be With Hamlet” creator Javier Molina is looking to raise $150,000 on GoFundMe.

Is Privacy Real? The CIA Is Jeopardizing America's Digital Security, Experts Warn

How Open Data Can Revolutionize a Society in Crisis

NYC Universities Expanding Into Technology at a ‘Frenetic Pace’

The New York Times is getting excited about the future of the city's tech sector.

The Tech Helping Immigrants Hack the Ban

Across the country, designers and coders are coming together to develop tools for communities targeted by Trump’s orders.

InnoVention: Announcing our 12 Semi-Finalists!

NYU Transforms Shakespeare's Hamlet Into a VR Experience

The Ghost in the Machine

A small team at NYU Tandon's Media and Games Network (MAGNET) is working on the first-ever production of "Hamlet" in the virtual world.

Mixed Reality Technology Innovated Tandon Laboratory Course

Why This NYU Tandon Prof Just Won a Prestigious Award for Big Data in Transportation

The lessons of big data could lead to more efficiency and better service. Joseph Chow is trying to optimize our transportation network.

Selling Your Online Search History (Video)

An Immigrant's Advice to Theresa May

The right kind of immigration can benefit the UK according to Alec Cameron, the new vice-chancellor of Aston University in Birmingham, who was recruited from Australia for his entrepreneurial skills…

ffVC and NYU are Mixing Researchers with Investors in the Name of Machine Intelligence

That Fingerprint Sensor on Your Phone Is Not as Safe as You Think

Why Your Smartphone's Fingerprint Scanner Isn't as Secure as You Might Think

Research Shows Smartphone Scanners Aren't as Secure as We Think They Are

Researchers from two universities were able to spoof some fingerprint-based security systems, demonstrating the possibility of creating a master print to unlock phones.

Study Suggests Your Phone's Fingerprint Scanner is Easily Fooled

If H&M Has Its Way, in the Future We'll All Be Wearing "Grape Leather" and "Manure Couture"

From Grapes to Cow Manure, H&M Foundation Unveils Winners of Latest Innovation Award

New 'Vertically Integrated Projects' Program Gives Students Experiential Learning Opportunity at NYU

The Tandon School of Engineering offers undergraduates one credit per semester for real-world research

What It Takes to Become an Application Security Engineer

Application security engineers earn more money than application engineers and are in high demand, but the job requires additional training in security.

NYU Wireless 5G Program Gets Signal Boost with $1M Donation

Texas-based National Instruments donated hardware to move some tests from simulations to real life.

DST Approves Rs14.43 Crore for Setting Up Cyber Security Centre in IIT-Kanpur

The DST has approved the grant for a period of 5 years and the amount will be used to purchase equipment for establishing the centre for cyber security in IIT-Kanpur

Facebook AI Chief Yann LeCun Says Machines Are Decades Away From Matching the Human Brain

The AI Boom: Is It Legit or Just Hype?

How close are we to computers that think like humans? Two speakers at NYU's Future Labs AI Summit gave opposing views.

Meet the 5 Startups Handpicked for NYU Tandon’s First-Ever AI Incubator

Featuring smarter industrial robots and customer service bots trained by the man whose AI beat Ken Jennings on ‘Jeopardy!’

Introducing the AI NexusLab Startups

NYU's Gary Marcus is an Artificial Intelligence Contrarian

He sold his startup to Uber and helped the ride-hailing company launch its AI lab. But he's not sold on the rise of the machines just yet.

Five Hacks for Digital Democracy

Beth Simone Noveck urges researchers to work out how technology can improve public institutions.

FCC Grants NYU WIRELESS Early "Program Experimental License" for Cutting-Edge Work Throughout The Radio Spectrum

FCC Launches New System for Experimental Licensing

Universities to Support FCC 5G R&D Portal

AT&T Debuts 5G Channel Sounder 'Porcupine' with NI

NI Donates $1m to New York University for 5G Radio Work

NI is working with the wireless research centre within New York University Tandon School of Engineering to fund the development of mmWave communications, channel measurement and channel emulation…

Nokia Aims to Take Guesswork Out of 5G Business Plans

The Brooklyn 5G Summit 2017

Must-See TV for Anyone in Wireless: 5G BROOKLYN APRIL 20-21

Keeping in the Hyperloop: Building a Faster Future

Elon Musk's ambitious concept for a new mode of transportation has been picking up speed. Meet some of the students and engineers working to make the Hyperloop a reality.

How Social Media Data Can Improve People's Lives - If Used Responsibly

MOOCs Find Their Sweet Spot

There are three steps for turning MOOCs into money makers, writes Robert Ubell.

The Play’s the Thing: Hamlet Takes to Virtual Stage with NVIDIA GPUs

Computer Scientists Are Developing a ‘Master’ Fingerprint That Could Unlock Your Phone

But questions remain

Your Smartphone Fingerprint Security System May Not Be as Safe as You Think

Computer Scientists Are Developing A ‘Master’ Fingerprint That Could Unlock Your Phone

But questions remain

Partial Fingerprint Similarities May be Sufficient to Trick Biometric Security Systems on Smartphones

Your Phone’s Fingerprint Sensor is More Vulnerable Than You Think

Smartphone Sensors Pose a Serious Security Risk

Smartphones are equipped with a plethora of sensors, each capable of giving up your personal information.

‘Master Prints’ Could Be Used to Unlock Nearly Any Phone’s Fingerprint Sensor

Think your smartphone's fingerprint sensor is secure? It may not be if this research can lead to a physical master print.

Scary Study Says iPhone’s Fingerprint Scanner Is Way Less Secure Than You Think

Your Smartphone's Fingerprint Lock May Not Be as Safe as You Think

Hands off.

New Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Games

5G Summit Panel Optimistic About Industry Meeting December Deadline for 5G NSA

5G Progress, Realities Set in at Brooklyn 5G Summit

Brooklyn 5G Summit 2017 Wrap-up

At Brooklyn Summit, a New World of 5G on Display

Super-fast phones! Smarter robots! Autonomous cars! What exactly the future holds is unclear, said speakers at Thursday's Brooklyn 5G Summit, but stronger, quicker and more connected cellular…

What is 5G NR?

NYU Tandon Shows Off its Best and Brightest

Among the projects featured at the school's Research Expo: a model for earlier detection of autism, a search tool for the dark web and a virtual-reality experience to explore queerness. The event…

New FCC Web Portal Opens for 5G Experimenters

NYU WIRELESS and OPPO Collaborate to Speed up Development of 5G Mobile Technology

FirstNews Briefs: Crown Castle, Huawei, Oppo and NYU Wireless

The GovLab Selected Readings on Blockchain Technology and Its Potential for Transforming Governance

As part of an ongoing effort to build a knowledge base for the field of opening governance by organizing and disseminating its learnings, the GovLab Selected Readings series provides an annotated and…

Crackdowns on Social Media Accounts Backfire by Driving up Demand

You Really Should Read an App's Service Terms

Robot Swarms Could Be Controlled by Your Smartphone, Thanks to AR

Controlling Robot Swarms with Augmented Reality

Engineers at NYU have built an AR app to operate robots in the real world

Fingerprints Fall Short When It Comes to Securing Smartphones

A new study finds that smartphone fingerprint security has vulnerabilities similar to weak passwords.

Researchers Develop Master Fingerprints That Can Break Into Smartphones

Why Fingerprint Can't Guarantee Security for Your iPhone or Samsung Galaxy Smartphone

Researchers have found that partial similarities between prints could make fingerprint-based security systems vulnerable.

How The Update Framework Improves Security of Software Updates

Simply using HTTPS to make sure a software update is secure isn't enough to fully validate that a given update hasn't been tampered with. That's where The Update Framework can help.

Rougher Commutes Equal Higher Stress

Tot Bot Helps Physically Disabled Toddlers Explore

They'll be cruising around the house in no time thanks to this touchscreen-equipped chair.

How Could Physically Disabled Toddlers Someday Explore the World More Easily?

Answer: Tot Bot

The AI Nexuslab

T-Mobile US Promises a 5G Network by 2020

A big goal for wireless company as bigger rivals lay the groundwork for their own upgrades

iPhone Apps for Robot Control

How Sound Waves Can Fool MEMS Accelerometers (and Other Ways to Dupe Sensors)

Sensors can do just about anything and they're reliable, but just how reliable? Accelerometers, activity trackers, and LIDAR sensors are just a few we'll go into and show just how the sensors can be…

Even Your Phone's Fingerprint Sensor Isn't Safe!

Three Indian-American researchers have shown that the fingerprint-based security systems used in smartphones and other gadgets are way more vulnerable to hacking than we imagined.

How Secure is the Fingerprint Scanner on Your Phone?

It surely makes your phone safe, but the question is, for how long

“Master” Fingerprints Can Unlock Almost Any Phone, Bypassing Fingerprint Security in Seconds

Indian American Researchers Conclude That Smartphone Security Systems Based on Fingerprints Can Be Compromised

Nasir Memon, Aditi Roy and Arun Ross released a study in April to expose the vulnerability of the fingerprint-based security system.

At Touro, Girls Do Code

NYU Concrete Canoe Team (video)

11 Administrative Professionals Who Became Famous

New York's Future is Driverless

City dwellers won’t own autonomous vehicles, they’ll share them