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Abstract: With the development of increasingly interconnected cyber-physical systems (CPSs), the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm must be expanded further to account for the collection, transmission, ...

Abstract: Cognitive dissonance occurs when people reject new evidence that contradicts existing knowledge or behaviours. This is relevant to cybersecurity, a domain that often needs to persuade people ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sahar Hashmi, M.D., Ph.D., is a Boston-based, award-winning AI expert. Every December we enter what feels like an annual holiday ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

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Mining Metal is a monthly column from Heavy Consequence contributing writers Langdon Hickman and Colin Dempsey. The focus is on noteworthy new music emerging from the non-mainstream metal scene, ...