Solitude is a privacy analysis tool that enables anyone to conduct their own privacy investigations. Whether a curious novice or a more advanced researcher, Solitude makes the process of evaluating...

By Reinier Haasjes, Senior System Administrator, Adyen

AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine developed with Oxford University was 79% effective in preventing symptomatic illness in a large trial in Chile, Peru and the United States, the company said on Monday, paving the way for it to apply for U.S. approval.

A simple network of pipes based on the structures of a bird’s lung transforms back-and-forth flow into one-way flow.

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Even the predators are prey.

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The very top sliver of high-income Americans may underreport their income at levels far beyond what was suggested by prior IRS research, according to a new paper.

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When thinking of Denial of Service (DoS), we often focus on Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) where millions of zombie machines overload a service by launching a tsunami of data. However, by abusing the algorithms a web application uses, an attacker can…

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Optical Simulation software. Contribute to microsoft/OpticSim.jl development by creating an account on GitHub.

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