Month: November 2019
The EFF’s Panopticlick Shows How Your Browser Fingerprint Identifies You
I’ve been curiously questioning the uniqueness of browser fingerprints but the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s updated Panopticlick service shows you frighteningly how powerful they are. Each time you request a web page with your browser, a lot of information is shared...
Training Robots to Walk
I enjoyed the BoingBoing post Robots made from tree branches learns how to walk: Made from servo motors and tree branches, these robots were trained to successfully walk across the floor. Unlike supervised machine learning, which trains models based on...