As the number of 'internet of things' devices expands rapidly, so do security vulnerabilities to homes, businesses, governments and the internet as as whole.
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Protéjase de hackers, trolls, bots, ejecutivos de redes sociales y programadores carentes de ética.
Despite the #MeToo movement, women in politics still face challenges in talking openly about gender equality.
Protect yourself from hackers, trolls, bots, social media executives and programmers in need of ethics training.
Test prep is a prominent feature in Asian-American communities, which helps explain recent gains that Asian-Americans made in the SAT and ACT college entrance exams, a higher education scholar argues.
Will it embolden or neuter the Arab world's autocratic regimes?
Two of the fastest growing segments of the American population Latino and Asian-American voters - also are part of evangelical America. Their views on immigration are very different.
What exactly do we mean by teenage behavior? And who gets to be this kind of teenager?
A psychologist explains what can happen to individuals and societies that lose their grip on the truth.
Cybersecurity experts in the US knew about Russian intelligence agencies' activities, but may not have had any idea how comprehensive and integrated they were – until now.
After two years of turmoil at the EPA in the 1980s, President Reagan hit the reset button, choosing a Republican who supported environmental protection to head the agency.
Many people who live near large-scale livestock farms complain about noxious smells, air and water pollution and health risks. With little help from regulators, they are turning to lawsuits.
Informasi yang Anda sebar di Facebook memaparkan harapan dan ketakutan Anda. Kuis Facebook yang tampak tidak berdosa bukan sesuatu yang polos.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt wants to change the grounds for setting US air pollution targets. An environmental lawyer explains why Pruitt's approach misreads the law and could roll back decades of gains.
It would be a heavy lift, but revising the Iran nuclear deal would have some significant upsides, according to scholars at the University of Maryland.
Seismologists use sensors to build images of the interior of the earth. Making the invisible, visible.
Recent research shows that US rivers are becoming saltier and more alkaline. Salt pollution threatens drinking water supplies and freshwater ecosystems, but there is no broad system for regulating it.
As the internet-connected world reels from revelations about personalized manipulation based on Facebook data, a scholar of virtual reality warns there's an even bigger crisis of trust on the horizon.
Facebook harvests individual users' data and sells it to advertisers, who narrowly target specific messages to particular people not just for profit, but for partisan political gain.
The word disruption describes an upheaval of institutionalized ways of doing things. Disruptors draw few distinctions between the valuable and less-valuable features of institutions.
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Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland
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Editorial Director, Feminist Studies; Associate Professor, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland
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Ph.D. Student, University of Maryland
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Associate Research Professor of Public Policy; Director of Operations, Maryland Global Initiative in Cybersecurity; Senior Research Associate, Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland
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Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, University of Maryland
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Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland
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Associate Professor of Education, University of Maryland
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Graduate Student, University of Maryland
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Professor of Environmental Law, University of Maryland
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Assistant Professor of Applied Environmental Health , University of Maryland
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Associate Professor of Communication, University of Maryland
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Assistant Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Law Clinic, University of Maryland
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Shawn Parry-Giles is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Communication, University of Maryland
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Doctoral Student, University of Maryland
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Director of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Engagement, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
