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How to protect yourself while shopping online

December 9, 2024

With holiday shopping underway and people looking to score deals, a University of Cincinnati professor offered five tips for shoppers to protect themselves online. Zag ElSayed, PhD, an assistant professor in UC’s School of Information Technology, said the most common risks shoppers encounter online are phishing, malware, identity theft and credit card fraud. These can lead to financial loss, compromised personal information and emotional distress.

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How to protect yourself while shopping online

December 9, 2024

With holiday shopping underway and people looking to score deals, a University of Cincinnati professor offered five tips for shoppers to protect themselves online. Zag ElSayed, PhD, an assistant professor in UC’s School of Information Technology, said the most common risks shoppers encounter online are phishing, malware, identity theft and credit card fraud. These can lead to financial loss, compromised personal information and emotional distress.

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Election results show potential of prediction markets, blockchain

December 6, 2024

A prediction market was more accurate in forecasting the 2024 presidential election than traditional polls and pundits. The potential displayed by that success in forecasting the election, along with an administration friendlier to cryptocurrencies, could lead to greater adoption for them, a University of Cincinnati economist said. Michael Jones, PhD, a Carl H. Lindner College of Business assistant professor of economics and director of the Cryptoeconomics Lab at UC Digital Futures, said the success of a blockchain-based prediction market, Polymarket, in predicting the outcome of the election showed that cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies have more potential than just investments.

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Creating better tests for viruses

December 2, 2024

Chemistry researchers at the University of Cincinnati are developing better biosensors they hope will replace diagnostics such as the nearly 1 billion COVID tests distributed to homes in the United States during the pandemic.

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Sustaining the medical imaging profession

November 26, 2024

The University of Cincinnati's advanced medical imaging technology program is addressing the nationwide shortage of nuclear medicine and MRI technologists through innovative education, clinical partnerships and hands-on training opportunities.

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How to use AI to manage the holiday season

November 26, 2024

While the holidays can be overwhelming for many people, artificial intelligence could help reduce stress, WLWT reported. Jeffrey Shaffer, director of the Applied AI Lab in the University of Cincinnati’s Carl H. Lindner College of Business, said a key to getting good results from an AI query is to be specific.

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UC Venture Lab empowers PhD grad's tech to accelerate patent...

November 25, 2024

Vinitha Thiyagarajan Upaassana, a PhD graduate of the University of Cincinnati, faced the intricate landscape of patent applications and was astounded by the complex labyrinths of navigating the intellectual property and market research processes. They’re both slow procedures with costly barriers, so she decided to act, envisioning a breakthrough solution.

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This UC student sees success in the checkpoints

November 21, 2024

Siinboon Daba, a fourth-year cybersecurity major in the University of Cincinnati's College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services, and Information Technology, found the secret to effective time management and a full life at UC.

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