Companies could soon track people everywhere they go online, even if they switch browsers

A team of researchers has devised a way of accurately tracking web users across multiple browsers. The breakthrough could prove particularly useful to advertisers, enabling them to continue serving targeted ads to internet users, even if they tried to avoid them by switching from Chrome to Firefox or Windows Edge. The research can be found in a paper penned by Lehigh University's Yinzhi Cao and Song Li, and Washington University in St. Louis' Erik Wijmans, titled (Cross-)Browser Fingerprinting via OS and Hardware Level Features. The technique reliably identifies the'digital fingerprint' of users' browsers, based on information such as extensions, plugins, time zone and whether or not an adblocker is installed. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.