Items tagged with princeton university

by Ben Funk - Sat, Jan 30, 2021

Study Finds Alarming Dark Patterns Of Deception In Crawl Of Thousands Of Shopping Sites

Complete honesty is not a mantra for many online retail sites, at least according to a study released by Princeton University. The school conducted an automated crawl of more than 11,000 online shops and found that around one in six used some form of deceptive practice to hawk their goods. While some of those online... Read more...

by Brittany Goetting - Mon, Aug 13, 2018

Google Accused Of Tracking Your Location Data Even If You Opt Out

Does Google track your location? A study by the Associated Press and Princeton University discovered that some Google services store your location regardless of your privacy settings. It is believed that over 2 million Android users are affected by this issue. Google claims that if users turn off their “Location... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 26, 2016

Princeton University Researchers Unveil 25-Core Open Source Piton Processor At Hot Chips

Researchers at Princeton University recently showed off a 25-core processor they designed specifically for data centers. It's called "Piton," named after the metal spikes rock climbers hammer into cracks or seams of mountainsides to anchor their position, and it's built after a scalable architecture that could boost... Read more...