An alternate choice for unlocking a smartphone.Lydia Kraus et al., 'On the Use of Emojis in Mobile Authentication,' 2017., CC BY-NDWould you rather unlock your smartphone with a plain four-digit PIN or with a smiley-face emoji? Would it be easier and more pleasant to remember “🐱💦🎆🎌,” for example, or...
An alternate choice for unlocking a smartphone.Lydia Kraus et al., 'On the Use of Emojis in Mobile Authentication,' 2017., CC BY-NDWould you rather unlock your smartphone with a plain four-digit PIN or with a smiley-face emoji? Would it be easier and more pleasant to remember “🐱💦🎆🎌,” for example, or...
An alternate choice for unlocking a smartphone.Lydia Kraus et al., 'On the Use of Emojis in Mobile Authentication,' 2017., CC BY-NDWould you rather unlock your smartphone with a plain four-digit PIN or with a smiley-face emoji? Would it be easier and more pleasant to remember “🐱💦🎆🎌,” for example, or...
An artist's depiction of the 'shibboleth incident.'Detail from art by H. de Blois, from The Bible and Its Story Taught by One Thousand Picture Lessons, vol. 3, edited by Charles F. Horne and Julius A. Bewer, 1908In Western history, the concept of the password can be traced as far back as the so-called “shibboleth incident” in the 12th...
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An alternate choice for unlocking a smartphone.Lydia Kraus et al., 'On the Use of Emojis in Mobile Authentication,' 2017., CC BY-NDWould you rather unlock your smartphone with a plain four-digit PIN or with a smiley-face emoji? Would it be easier and more pleasant to remember “🐱💦🎆🎌,” for example, or...
What if you could unlock your smartphone this way?Janne Lindqvist, CC BY-NDNearly 80 percent of Americans own a smartphone, and a growing proportion of them use smartphones for internet access, not just when they’re on the go. This leads to people storing considerable amounts of personal and private data on their mobile devices.
Often, there...
The Trump administration will review the status of The Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, one of the country's most significant cultural sites. Bureau of Land Management, CC BYIn the few days since President Trump issued his Executive Order on National Monuments, many legal scholars have questioned the legality of his actions under the...
Republicans appear poised to roll back Wall Street regulations passed after the 2008 financial crisis. Democrats argue doing so would be a “monumental mistake.”
It’s been framed as a typical fight over regulation. Democrats want more to protect taxpayers and investors from the next crisis; Republicans want less because it stifles...
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Why do so many state constitutions have provisions precluding funding for religious schools? Phil Roeder, CC BYThe United States Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a case from Missouri that could have a significant impact on state funding of religious schools.
The case involved a church in Missouri, the Trinity Lutheran Church, that...
Read more: A 147-year-old dispute between church and state spills onto a school playground
Students for a Democratic Society was the largest – and arguably most successful – student activist organization in U.S. history.S.Sgt. Albert R. Simpson, Department of Defense / via WikimediaEditor’s note: The 2016 election brought student activism back into the spotlight. No student activist organization in U.S. history has...
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