Google Classroom makes it easier than ever to teach and learn
Whether you’re a natural-born educator or a learner with a thirst for knowledge, Google wants you to know that its Classroom software is ...Read More
Quick, intense exercise may put the breaks on aging, research shows
Compared to sitting all day, any exercise is better than none. But if you’re determined to ward off an early death, one form of exercise,...Read More
Artificial intelligence will replace half of all jobs in the next decade, says widely followed technologist
Robots are likely to replace 50 percent of all jobs in the next decade, according to Kai-Fu Lee, founder of venture capital firm Sinovati...Read More
A Floating Point Error That Caused A Damage Worth Half A Billion
If you ever did a little bit of programming, you must be aware of the term: floating point. One of the most neglected and potentially dan...Read More
The FBI May Have Run Not Just One But 24 Dark Web Child-Porn Websites
The FBI has a controversial new method of fighting child pornography: distributing child pornography. As part of "Operation Pacifier...Read More
New Hydrogel That Mimics Cartilage Could Make Knee Repairs Easier
A new cartilage-like hydrogel material could make the job of repairing knees much easier, say scientists, as it's 3D printable and ca...Read More
The godfather of ransomware returns: Locky is back and sneakier than ever
The ransomware that drove last year's boom in file-encrypting malware is back, and this time it's even harder to detect. Howeve...Read More
Bill Gates didn’t let his kids use cell phones until they turned 14
Bill Gates While most young kids and teenagers spend hours upon hours glued to tablets and smartphones, Bill Gates’ children had a mark...Read More
Study Links Diet Sodas To Stroke And Dementia And Now we Have Nothing To Drink
Fellow diet soda drinkers, we have some bad news. According to science, our favorite drink may be associated with a higher risk of stroke...Read More
Linksys Routers Vulnerable to DDoS Attacks
Linksys this week identified several vulnerabilities in its router firmware that allow hackers to bypass authentication and perform denia...Read More
How Your Work Commute Can Help You Live Longer
For most people, getting to and from work is more of a chore than an opportunity. But scientists say that people who use their daily comm...Read More
Microsoft launches IoT-as-a-service offering for enterprises
Microsoft has launched IoT Central, a fully managed "IoT-as-a-service" offering to assist enterprises with the deployment of In...Read More
Farah injection before 2014 London Marathon was not recorded - doctor
Double Olympic champion Mo Farah was given a legal dose of a controversial supplement before the 2014 London Marathon, but the treatment ...Read More
Mastercard’s new credit card has a built-in fingerprint scanner
The rise of mobile payments has made buying things with your fingerprint commonplace, so why not put that technology in a credit card? Ma...Read More
Microsoft announces that it hates passwords and has an alternative
Not a fan of passwords? Microsoft yesterday announced a new feature for users of the Microsoft Authenticator app that allows the sign-in ...Read More
Bose accused of spying on headphone & speaker users, selling listening data
A new lawsuit against Bose alleges that the company spies on users of its wireless headphones, tracking the music, podcasts, and other au...Read More
Artificial intelligence could build new drugs faster than any human team
Artificial intelligence algorithms are being taught to generate art, human voices, and even fiction stories all on their own—why not give...Read More
Oracle drops massive 299 vulnerability patch, fixes Shadow Broker exploit
Oracle has released a patch which fixes a total of 299 vulnerabilities, breaking the firm's previous record in July which resolved a ...Read More
Shadow Brokers new leaks allegedly link NSA to Stuxnet worm used to hit Iran
Hacker group Shadow Brokers released a fresh batch of alleged NSA (National Security Agency) hacking tools on Friday (14 April), which se...Read More
Will Blockchain Technology be the Ultimate Disruptor? Harvard Says Yes!
Until recently, we've relied on trusted intermediaries to send information over the internet. In 2008, a pioneering payment method an...Read More
NSA 'Penetrating SWIFT Network' May 'Compromise' Global Financial System
The hacking group, namely Shadow Brokers, has released a data trove allegedly showing that the US National Security Agency (NSA) had pene...Read More
Heart attack deaths rise when a large marathon is in town
New York Marathon (Reuters Health) -- Being in a town where a major marathon is being run can pose a life-and-death hazard, researchers...Read More
LEAKED NSA MALWARE THREATENS WINDOWS USERS AROUND THE WORLD
The ShadowBrokers, an entity previously confirmed by The Intercept to have leaked authentic malware used by the NSA to attack computers a...Read More
How Fast Should You Run a Mile?
Individuals who begin a running program often want to improve their performance. Their goal may be to run a faster mile or reach a specif...Read More
AI robots learning racism, sexism and other prejudices from humans, study finds
Artificially intelligent robots and devices are being taught to be racist, sexist and otherwise prejudiced by learning from humans, accor...Read More
Beijing marathon to use facial recognition in cheating crackdown
Organisers of a marathon in Beijing are taking a ‘great leap’ in the fight against cheats – using facial recognition to stop impostors in...Read More
Scientists Are Exploring a Link Between Our Minds and the Quantum World
Could Quantum Consciousness Exist? Despite all the research we’ve done, we still know relatively little about how the human brain work...Read More
Xiaomi Mi Max 2 with 5,000 mAh battery rumored to launch next week
Xiaomi Mi Max 2 In less than a week, on April 19 to be exact, Xiaomi will take the wraps off the Mi 6 (which has just been confirmed to...Read More
Marathon risk: even being close to a major race increases chance of heart attack death
It is a sad but well known fact that many major marathons see a small number of athletes die after suffering heart attacks. But a new s...Read More
Physicists Say They've Created a Fluid With 'Negative Mass'
Researchers in the US say they've created a fluid with negative mass in the lab... which is exactly as mind-bending as it sounds. W...Read More
Mirai, the infamous IoT botnet, now forces ‘smart’ appliances to mine Bitcoin
Earlier this year, I declared the Internet of Things had officially hit peak stupid, courtesy of a new smart toaster being shown at CES. ...Read More
So now hackers can use your phone's sensors to steal your PIN number
Remember that story on how fingerprint locks on smartphones can be duped? And that Samsung's facial recognition system can be tricked...Read More
Physicists Discover an Unexpected Force Acting on Nanoparticles in a Vacuum
Researchers have discovered a new and unexpected force that acts on nanoparticles in a vacuum, allowing them to be pushed around by pure ...Read More
The hidden dangers of IPv6: New protocol can be used by hackers to steal data undetected
Beware – IPv6 may be enabling many more users and devices to communicate with the internet, but at the same time it is also enabling hack...Read More
British visitors to US may be asked for passwords and phone contacts at airports
British visitors to the US may be asked for social media usernames and passwords and their phone’s address book under new border checks b...Read More
Swedish runner fights fear and prejudice against Islam by running across Iran all alone
A Swedish female runner has taken up the cause of drawing attention to prejudice against Islam in Europe. In an interview with Anadolu ...Read More
Google pays women less than men across the board, feds say
Is Silicon Valley just one giant man cave? You might be forgiven for thinking so. The famed tech hub's equal-opportunity credenti...Read More
3 Big Reasons Why You Should Exit Twitter Inc (TWTR) Stock Today
Twitter stocks Shares of San Francisco, California-based Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) have had a tough time this year, falling by close to 1...Read More
Attacks Detected with New Microsoft Office Zero-Day
Cyber-security firms McAfee and FireEye have both disclosed in-the-wild attacks with a new Microsoft Office zero-day that allows attacker...Read More
16 years ago, a doctor published a study. It was completely made up, and it made us all sicker.
Once upon a time, a scientist named Dr. Andrew Wakefield published in the medical journal The Lancet that he had discovered a link betwee...Read More
Did One Tweet Make Litecoin's Price Drop 20%?
Litecoin prices fell roughly 20% in less than 24 hours, and the culprit is apparently a single tweet. The digital currency declined t...Read More
Discovery of Giant Viruses Adds an Unexpected Twist to the Debate: Are Viruses Alive?
What the hell is that? Scientists ask this question every day when trying to work out how different living things are related to each oth...Read More
Samsung ordered to pay Huawei $11 million over patent infringement
It’s been a rocky six months for Samsung. It’s Galaxy Note 7 was cancelled late last year, then its boss was arrested, and now, a Chinese...Read More
Google will flag fake news stories in search results
Google is taking a stand against dubious and outright 'fake news' by introducing a Fact Check tag in search results. If you ask f...Read More
How to: LAN-to-LAN VPN on an ASA 5505
Today we're going to look at LAN-to-LAN VPNs using the pair of ASA 5505s in the community lab. LAN-to-LAN VPNs are typically used to tr...Read More
Parental smoking linked to genetic changes in kids with cancer
Parents who smoke may contribute to genetic changes in their kids that are associated with the most common type of childhood cancer, a re...Read More
Adidas Teams With Silicon Valley-Based Carbon to Unveil Futurecraft 4-D Footwear
NEW YORK — In what it described as “a new era in design and manufacturing,” Adidas on Thursday officially unveiled its Futurecraft 4-D, p...Read More
Female Tehran marathon participants forced to run inside
Women may be forced to run on an indoor track during what has been described as Tehran’s “first international marathon” on Friday. ‘T...Read More
A robot can print this $32,000 house in as few as eight hours
Building a house completely by hand can be both time-consuming and expensive. A number of home-builders have chosen to automate part of t...Read More
Microsoft Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) Launched
Not too long after Amazon launched their cloud protection WAF the Microsoft Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) has been made generally ...Read More
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