Science & Technology
FaceRig: Digital Alter-Ego Framework lets you embody awesome characters
FaceRig is a program that lets you embody awesome characters, with total freedom of face expressions and emotions in real time, by just using...
VIDEO – Yahoo mail hacked: What can you do?
San Francisco — Yahoo alerted users of its free email service Thursday that hackers slipped into accounts to loot information using stolen passwords. The California...
Zynga buys NaturalMotion for $527 million
Zynga has announced the purchase of UK game-maker NaturalMotion for $527 million. Oxford-based NaturalMotion has had a string of mobile game hits, such as CSR...
India’s most popular small cars fail crash tests conducted by Global NCAP
According to Global NCAP, five of India's most popular small cars have failed crash tests. The tests by Global NCAP showed that if involved in...
Stem cell researchers claim major scientific discovery
Stem cell researchers in Japan are heralding a "major scientific discovery", with the potential to start a new age of personalized medicine. Scientists showed stem...
Angry Birds website hacked after Edward Snowden leaks
Angry Birds home pages have been hacked, two days after reports that the personal data of its customers might have been accessed by the...
Edward Snowden leaks: GCHQ spied on YouTube and Facebook
According to the latest Edward Snowden leaks, the UK intelligence agency , GCHQ, has monitored in real-time YouTube video views, Facebook "likes" and Blogger...
Bitcoin exchange operators arrested in US for money laundering
Two Bitcoin exchange operators have been arrested in the US. The Department of Justice said Robert Faiella, known as BTCKing, and Charlie Shrem from BitInstant.com...
Jade Rabbit Moon rover in trouble after experiencing a mechanical control abnormality
Chinese Moon rover Jade Rabbit is in trouble after experiencing a "mechanical control abnormality", state media report. The Moon exploration vehicle ran into problems due...
La Braña 1: Ancient Europeans had blue eyes and dark skin
Researchers have found that a 7,000-year-old man whose bones were left behind in a Spanish cave had the dark skin of an African, but...
Google patents taxi-and-eat ad service
Google has patented a way of linking online ads to free or discounted taxi rides to the advertising restaurant, shop or entertainment venue. The transport-linked...
GM purple tomatoes large-scale production under way in Canada
Genetically modified purple tomato large-scale production is now under way in Canada with the first 1,200 litres of purple tomato juice ready for shipping. The...
Nintendo World Championships: Rare Nintendo game auctioned on eBay
Nintendo World Championships, super-rare Nintendo game, is expected to fetch thousands of dollars in an eBay auction. Only 116 copies of Nintendo World Championships were...
First river dolphin since 1918 discovered in Brazil
Brazilian scientists have discovered the first new river dolphin species since the end of World War One. Named after the Araguaia River where it was...
Heart FM – Spotify to Measure a Different Kind of Beat
Like the epic intro to some Tolkien-esque fantasy film, it seems that the music industry looks set to be thrown into chaos – with...
Google smart contact lens can help measure glucose levels in tears
Google has announced it is testing a "smart contact lens" that can help measure glucose levels in tears. The lens uses a "tiny" wireless chip...
Mystery of birds’ V formation solved
Scientists may have solved the mystery of why so many birds fly in a V formation. Scientists from the Royal Veterinary College fitted data loggers...
Yahoo COO Henrique de Castro to leave company
Yahoo Chief Operating Officer Henrique de Castro has unexpectedly departed the company just over a year after he was hired to turn its advertising...
Apple to refund kids in-app purchases after settlement with FTC
Apple will pay at least $32.5 million in refunds to parents whose children made in-app purchases without their consent after a settlement with the...
Coinye West: Kanye West sues online currency
Kanye West has filed a lawsuit to stop production of Coinye West digital currency, saying they unjustly cash in on his fame. The lawsuit, filed...
Elliptic Vault: World’s first insured Bitcoin storage service launched in London
Elliptic Vault, a Bitcoin storage service that insures deposits of the digital currency against loss and theft, has launched in London. Elliptic Vault uses "deep...
Boiling water turning to snow video goes viral
A video of a meteorologist tossing a pot of boiling water into the air in Wisconsin, to demonstrate how it immediately turns to snow,...
CES 2014: Samsung introduces Bendable TV
Samsung has unveiled the Bendable TV, an 85 in (216 cm) prototype that allows the curvature of its screen to be adjusted by remote...
Akademik Shokalskiy and Xue Long escape from Antarctic ice trap
The Akademik Shokalskiy and Chinese icebreaker Xue Long have broken free from Antarctic ice where they had been stranded for several days. The Russian scientific...
CES 2014: Withings unveils Aura smart sleep system
Withings unveiled the Aura "smart sleep" system on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014 in Las Vegas. The maker of the set...
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