Credit card skimmers – electronic devices criminals stick on ATMs and gas pumps to secretly suck up your sensitive financial information – may have finally met their match. University of Florida researchers have teamed up with the New York City… Read More
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Virtual Agent Technologies Help Level the Playing Field in Classroom Collaboration
UF engineering professor Kristy Boyer’s latest NSF project uses intelligent virtual agents to study and foster collaboration skills in elementary school students. Collaboration is a critical skill needed in many fields, but particularly in computer science, where many people often… Read More
Extortion extinction: Researchers develop a way to stop ransomware
Ransomware – what hackers use to encrypt your computer files and demand money in exchange for freeing those contents – is an exploding global problem with few solutions, but a team of University of Florida researchers says it has developed… Read More