Researchers at MIT and the University of Michigan have developed fibers with engineered reflectivity that can be woven into fabrics, and scanned under infrared light that act as barcodes to help with sorting and recycling.
Researchers from the Ruhr University Bochum and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security demonstrated that DJI drones broadcast the position of drone pilots during flight in an unencrypted payload, which can be read by anyone.
Researchers have determined that the use of UK's NHS COVID tracking app in England and Wales averted approx. 1 million positive cases in the first year of its use, which led to an estimated 9.600 less deaths.
By encoding binary files video files, with some adjustments to circumvent the compression algorithm, YouTube can be used as an infinite storage device, albeit at a bloat rate of 4 to 1.