Two sex-life bloggers believe they may have been victims of computer hacking attempts by journalists at newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch.
As the U.K. scandal enveloping politics, police corruption and journalism ethics grows wider and becomes ever more serious for media tycoon
Murdoch, these latest accusations suggest that the …
The masked crusaders at Anonymous have struck again—this time against the American military.
They didn’t manage to break into the Pentagon itself, but instead took aim at an easier target: private company Booz Allen Hamilton, which does a lot of contract work for the armed forces and other government departments.
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If you’re desperate to get on to Google+ but are still awaiting your invite, stay calm: Google’s new social network is growing incredibly fast, according to one unofficial study. So your chance to join in the Circle-dancing fun on G+ can’t be far off.
According to G+ user Paul Allen (not the Paul Allen that co-founded Microsoft, …
Robots can do many things. They can vacuum our homes. They can assemble our automobiles in huge factories. And, of course, they can play soccer.
Over the last week, teams from all over the world have been competing in the Robot World Cup in Istanbul, Turkey. A team from Virginia Tech’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory won two …
Google’s been busy recently. The launch of Google+ has also brought about a long-overdue revamp of the branding and styling found on other Google sites, giving all of them a unified new look. YouTube is no exception.
The new YouTube goes under the name “Cosmic Panda”, and you can get to it just by visiting …
Amazon just upped the ante in the cloud music wars (oh yes, that’s a thing now) by announcing some enticing new offers and features for its Cloud Drive service.
Cloud Drive, you’ll remember, is Amazon’s version of iTunes. You pay your fee and get to keep all your music on Amazon’s servers. Listening to stuff is as easy as clicking a …
At last, 3D chocolate printing has arrived. We can switch off the internet, shut down CERN, and turn our universities into campuses of poetry. Our species has reached the pinnacle of science.
Researchers at the U.K.’s University of Exeter have developed a 3D fabricating machine that manufactures chocolate objects to your chosen …
North Korea has been conducting “drills” for cyberwar against its southern neighbor using simple, but very effective denial-of-service attacks, according to security experts.
A team from McAfee looked into the attacks on South Korean internet networks in July 2009 and March this year, and concluded they were probably efforts by North …
A humble geocache brought an English town to a halt this week, after it was mistaken for a terrorist bomb.
Coffee shop owner Karen Brittain called the police after she saw a man furtively fumbling with a sealed plastic box, hiding it under a waste bin on the street, then walking away quickly with a cell phone held to his ear. She’d …
Hacker activists Anonymous sort of hacked Apple over the weekend, not to disrupt the iTunes store or to break into iCloud, but just to make a point.
That point is, quite simply: “We could attack Apple if we wanted to. But right now, we don’t want to.”
Anonymous posted a brief warning on Twitter on Sunday. The link in it pointed to …
If you were one of those people who greeted the launch of Google’s new Google+ social network with the words: “Oh no, not another one,” then you may be interested to know that you’re not the only one.
A study conducted by academics at the University of Cambridge and U.K.-based telco giant BT says that one in three people feel …