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Cybersecurity

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Encryption

Our Online World Relies on Encryption. What Happens If It Fails?

June 2, 2025

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Research News

Brink Bites: From Microscopic Worlds to Cancer Disparities

October 29, 2024

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Innovation Awards

2024 Ignition Awards Aim to Bring BU Science and Tech to Market

August 22, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence

Is AI Biased against Some Groups and Spreading Misinformation and Extreme Views?

May 23, 2024

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Computer Engineering

Inside the Mind of an Internet-Safety Vanguard

July 26, 2023

Social Media

Is Meta’s Threads Safe? Social Media Data Privacy Explained

July 6, 2023

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Biomanufacturing

Turning Trash into Medicines, Machine Oils, Cosmetics, and More

June 15, 2023

NSF CISE

How the National Science Foundation Is Advancing Computer and Information Science Research

September 7, 2022

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Cryptography

Can WhatsApp Messages Be Secure and Encrypted—but Traceable at the Same Time?

August 10, 2022

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Reproductive Rights

POV: End of Roe v. Wade and Right to Abortion Will Impact Research, Says ENG Professor

July 6, 2022

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Awards & Accolades

BU Sloan Fellowship Winner Mark Bun on Data Privacy, Embracing Failure, Baking Cakes

April 6, 2022

Inventing

Engineering Scholar Greg Blonder Elected to the National Academy of Inventors

December 14, 2021

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Social Media

Is YouTube’s Crackdown on Vaccine Misinformation Going to Be Effective?

October 5, 2021

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CONTACT TRACING

Why “Bidirectional” Contact Tracing Could Drastically Curb Coronavirus Spread—Especially the B-117 Strain

January 21, 2021

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Contact Tracing

Contact Tracing App Warns of COVID-19 Exposure while Protecting Privacy

April 15, 2020

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Privacy At A Price

Is There a Hidden Cost to Opting Out of Internet Cookies?

February 27, 2020

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Research that Rocks

12 Breakthroughs That Wowed Us in 2019

December 19, 2019

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Cybersecurity

How Fitbits, Other Bluetooth Devices Make Us Vulnerable to Tracking

July 17, 2019

How Fitbits, Other Bluetooth Devices Make Us Vulnerable to Tracking