A Catch-22 for Consumers

Companies collect lots of data about their customers and try to use that to their benefit. 25 years ago, Amazon was discovered to be charging existing customers higher prices than new ones. Other firms soon followed suit. Orbitz, for instance, offers cheaper hotel...

Brain Waves

The key innovation in this research is to showcase that memristor devices can accomplish real-time co-evolution between brain signals and hardware decoders. In simple terms, it is like creating a learning partnership where both the user’s brain and the memristor-based...

When Privacy Is Threatened

The prospect of having one’s personal information taken and used without consent has become an ever more urgent problem. Prior to the proliferation of computers, and later digital networks, such information could only be accessed in physical form. Now, with an...

With Flying Colours

“A combination of speed and safety is a game-changer because it makes drones practical for missions where every second counts, and it moves them from laboratory experiments to real-world tools,” said Professor Fu Zhang, who is Associate Professor of the Department of...

Keeping Data under Wraps

Rapid progress in data technology, including AI, means more personal data than ever is being collected – whether it be DNA, facial recognition or any human identifier or activity. For individuals, that raises obvious privacy concerns. But Professor Yiu Siu-ming of the...