‘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

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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

Why You Should Build Your Hardware Startup in NYC

Five Questions to Help You Sort Through the AI Hype

This Map of Startups and Investors is Trying to Lower the Barrier to Entry for Getting Into the Tech World

Find out how the players in the tech world are connected.

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

Phishing, Hacks, and Better Online Security

The Google email attack, and how to protect yourself from online scammers and identity theft.

Google Users Being Targeted With Google Doc Phishing Email

Google said that it is taking steps to protect the user.

Elon Musk's Tunnel Vision: Why His "Boring Company" Underground Traffic Solution is a Bad Idea

Increasing space for single-occupancy driving is not the future — fewer cars is

Nightly Business Report – May 9, 2017 (Video)

So You Think You Can Secure Your Mobile Phone With a Fingerprint?

Researchers find that similarities in partial fingerprints may be sufficient to trick biometric security systems on…

The Unbelievable Truth (Radio)

Faculty Inch Closer to Accepting Tech

UH professors split: ban laptops or include them?

Intimate Stories and Live Actors Show Just How Beautiful VR Can Be

Code A Brighter Future Hackathon: Black Girls Code teams with Colgate-Palmolive

Empire Stores, City Point and Ford Amphitheater Among Winners of 2017 Building Brooklyn Awards

Partnership Propels 5G Development

NYU WIRELESS and National Instruments (NI) are teaming up to develop the advanced solutions needed to bring 5G to fruition.

NYU Tandon Students Utilize Digital Fabrication and 3D Printing to Design Winning Concrete Canoe

Steven Kuyan Wants to Help You Sort Through the AI Hype

Here are five good questions to ask when evaluating artificial intelligence.

Peter Carr's Hall of Mirrors

Put-call symmetry may have been the start but, for Peter Carr, the importance of invariance extends into surprising realms of possibility. Dan Tudball traces Carr's kaleidoscopic journey...

Why AI Researchers Like Video Games

Games help them understand reality.

Optical Nanofiber 'Hears' Bacteria Swim, Cancer Cells Move

Spot a Rental Scam Before It's Too Late

Global Cyber Attack Cripples British Hospitals

A ransomware attack spread across international borders, but had the biggest effects on the United Kingdom's National Health System

WannaCry Malware Exploited OS Weakness to Spread

When a Hack Shuts Down a Hospital, Who's to Blame?

Tras la Ofensiva del Viernes: Europol Teme Nueva Oleada de Ciberataque a Partir de Hoy

El director de la entidad dijo que "nunca había visto nada así" y advirtió sobre la necesidad de actualizar los sistemas, porque "todos los sectores son vulnerables."

DSL Pioneer Describes Terabit Future

Wireless inside a wired Swiss cheese.

FCC Upends Licensing Process for 5G Research

Security News This Week: Trump's Cybersecurity Executive Order Looks... Pretty Good!

FOX23 Investigates: Safety of Fingerprint Scans on Phones

Alabama Prison's Cruelty

NewCities Expands Fellowship Program to Highlight Leading Urban Thinkers

NewCities appoints four leading urban specialists as Associate Fellows as part of expanding Fellowship Program; Associate Fellows to play key role in advancing NewCities mission to make cities more…

Ted Tours the Brooklyn 5G Summit Expo Floor (Video)

Attendees React to Brooklyn 5G Summit

Survival in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

On the Market: These 3 Brooklyn Tech Companies are Hiring

Engineering and design are in high demand.

WannaCry Ransomware Attack Illustrates Need for Evolution in Cybersecurity Norms

Why 5G Isn't Aimed at Mobile Phone Users

The applications for 5G wireless target autonomous vehicles, factory floors, and the Internet of Things...not end users.

NYU Lecturer, Allan Goldstein, Draws from Personal Connection to Break Down Barriers Through Disabilities Course

New Hacking Threats: Vulnerabilities and Sophisticated Ransomware

Potential Security Flaw with Fingerprint ID on Cellphones

Gmail Users Warned of Phishing Email with Malicious Link

The hackers use known contacts to gain access.

Deliberate Mistakes Could Be the Key to Protecting 3D Printed Parts from Theft

Deliberately Embedding Flaws in 3-D Printed Objects to Prevent Hacking

Secret Flaws Keep 3D-Printing Safe From Hackers

The GovLab is Taking on Corruption in Mexico and Thinks Crowdsourcing Can Help

The GovLab will host six online conferences to generate ideas and recommendations for the Mexican government.

Sprint Joins NYU Wireless as Industry Affiliate Sponsor

Test and Measurement: Sprint Teams Up With NYU Wireless for 5G

Sprint Builds its 5G Clout Through Open Source, NYU Affiliation

OPPO Advances 5G Research and Development

Smartphone brand partners with NYU to speed up the development of 5G mobile technology

NYCEDC Announces Rollout of Futureworks NYC Advanced Manufacturing Initiative

Futureworks NYC will create over 2,000 advanced manufacturing jobs over next five years; NYCEDC also awarding $120,000 in grants to advanced manufacturing companies through Futureworks Growth…

Higher Ed Stepping in to Fill Cybersecurity Gaps

Can Big Data Analysis Swing a Political Election? [IT: The Big Idea Edition]

How to Prevent 3D Printing Hacks with Hidden Flaws

NYU Researchers Develop a New, Sneakier Weapon Against Counterfeit 3D Printed Parts

New Study Exposes Vulnerability of Smartphone's Fingerprint Scanner

We Need Technology But at What Cost?

Microwave Journal Offers 5G mmWave Communications Course and eBook from Prof Rappaport of NYU WIRELESS

2-Day online course and eBook from the most renowned expert on mmWave Communications

Stuart Berger Construction Corp. Owner Seeks Successor

New Development Phase for the Revolutionary App that Lives Up to the "Hiipe"

How New York is Building the Renewable Energy Grid of the Future

This is a story of ripping up old incentives that encouraged selling as much electricity as possible, then unleashing the entrepreneurs.

Peter Carr: Focusing on trading over pricing or hedging

Following the Money Hobbled vDOS Attack-for-Hire Service

Intentional Flaws Prevent 3-D Printing Hacks