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Smart speakers equipped with digital voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa are now the fastest-growing consumer technology since the smartphone. Nearly 100 million were sold in 2018 alone, a [...]

Here’s a quick question: how many things in your home or office, or on your person, are spying on you? Your phone’s a given, right? What about your Fitbit? Do you have a smartwatch? How about a [...]

At least 40% of Australian households now have at least one home “Internet of Things” device. These are fridges, window blinds, locks and other devices that are connected to the internet. While [...]

As people increasingly buy and install smart devices in their homes, all those cheap interconnected devices create new security problems for individuals and society as a whole. The problem is [...]

Patryk Szewczyk, Edith Cowan University and Nikolai Hampton, Edith Cowan University. The range and number of “things” connected to the internet is truly astounding, including security cameras, [...]

David Glance, University of Western Australia. 1 March 2016. A major focus of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week was around advances in implementing 5G, the version of mobile [...]