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 ...

Xiaomi has introduced the Xiaomi Tag, a compact Bluetooth tracker designed to help users locate everyday items such as keys, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A newly-released academic paper suggests that even without tapping into a GPS hackers can learn your movements through your cellphone with shocking accuracy, according to the Daily Dot. These findings ...

Android's underrated tracking features that you can benefit from ...

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 ...