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Accelerometers are quite the engineering feat, allowing users to control various things on the software-end by simply moving around their handsets. However, researchers have found that accelerometers ...

Mobile device accelerometers emit uniquely identifiable data that could be used to track users without permission. Minute manufacturing imperfections in popular accelerometers cause that hardware to ...

We all know that advertisers use a number of different methods to track us in some way or another, and new reports are suggesting that our device's accelerometer is no exception. Security researcher ...

Security researchers have tracked commuters with over 90 percent accuracy through accelerometer data stolen from Android smartphones. In a paper describing the research, titled "We Can Track You If ...

Researchers from Nanjing University have found a way in which hackers could track a smartphone user on the subway - even when limited reception is available, reports The Register. The scientists ...

LONDON — Motion sensing, largely enabled by Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) accelerometers, has taken more than its usual share of the headlines recently. Whilst not a rags to riches tale – ...

The team from the Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab at ETH Zürich, Switzerland have come up with TapType, an interesting text input method that relies purely on a pair of wrist-worn devices, that ...

This is rather interesting. As you may know, most hard drives include accelerometers for the purpose of determining the drive’s orientation and movement, so that (presumably) the drive head can ...