Science & Technology
How fast a human can ultimately run?
To understand how fast a human can ultimately run, we need to go beyond the record books and understand how Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's...
Why women live longer? Fruit flies offer DNA clue.
A group of scientists believe they have discovered a clue to why women tend to live longer than men by studying fruit flies. Published in...
Curiosity MSL on course for Mars landing
Curiosity, the big robot rover NASA is sending to Mars, looks in excellent shape for its Monday (GMT) landing. Curiosity - also known as the...
Nokia Lumia adds Groupon offers on its maps
Nokia has decided to add Groupon offers to maps on its Lumia smartphones. By clicking on a green "G" icon, US users can now buy...
Facebook might have more than 83 million fake users
Facebook has revealed that it believes there are now more than 83 million fake users on the social network. In Facebook filings published this week,...
Video game characters 3D printing using new Harvard software
Harvard computer scientists have developed the software that helps turn video game characters into real-life figures, using a 3D printer. Computer figures created without the...
Tumors growth driven by cancer stem cells, new research discovers
Researchers have discovered the cells in tumors that seem to be responsible for their re-growth. Three separate studies on mice appear to have confirmed the...
Palm trees once grew in Antarctica
Scientists drilling deep into the edge of modern Antarctica have pulled up proof that palm trees once grew there. Analyses of pollen and spores and...
Hotmail will be replaced by Outlook.com
Microsoft is overhauling its free webmail service, dropping the Hotmail brand it has used since acquiring the product in 1998, and adopting the name...
Microsoft Surface tablet set to go on sale on October 26th
Microsoft has confirmed that it will release its Surface tablet to coincide with the launch of its Windows 8 software on October 26. Microsoft revealed...
Twitter faces user backlash after suspending journalist Guy Adams account
Twitter is facing a user backlash after suspending the account of journalist Guy Adams, who had criticized NBC Universal's coverage of the Olympic Games. NBC...
H3N8 flu virus associated with harbor seals death in US
US scientists have identified a new strain of influenza in harbor seals that could potentially impact human and animal health. The H3N8 flu has been...
American flags planted on the Moon by Apollo astronauts still standing
Images taken by NASA spacecraft Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter (LRO) show that the American flags planted in the Moon's soil by Apollo astronauts are mostly...
Apple is about to buy a stake in Twitter
Apple is reportedly considering buying a stake in Twitter worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The technology giant, which has stumbled on the social media...
Skype denies making changes to its system to allow police surveillance
Skype, the Microsoft's online message, phone and video chat service, has denied making changes to its system "in order to provide law officers greater...
Moon formation new theory
Scientists have proposed a new idea in the long-running debate over the Moon formation. What is certain is that some sort of impact from another...
Black Hat 2012: iris-scanning security systems can be tricked by hackers
Security researchers have shared at the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas a way to replicate a person's eye to bypass iris-scanning...
Twitter in technical fault ahead of Olympic Games opening
Parts of Twitter became inaccessible today, in the eve of Olympic Games opening, before thousands of fans are expected to start tweeting. The Twitter.com site...
Galaxy S3 search function removal to be fixed
Samsung has admitted it made a mistake in releasing a software update that removed the search function from international versions of its Galaxy S3 smartphone. The...
Windows 8 is a “catastrophe” for PC game makers, says Gabe Newell
Gabe Newell, Valve Software's boss, has said that OS Windows 8 will be a "catastrophe" for PC game makers. Speaking at the Casual Connect game...
Samsung disables Galaxy S3 Google local search function following patent dispute with Apple
Samsung has disabled Google local search function in an update to the international version of its flagship Galaxy S3 smartphone, following a patent dispute...
Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion to be released today
Apple has announced that OS X Mountain Lion, the latest version of its Mac operation system, will be released on Wednesday. OS X Mountain Lion...
Greenland’s massive ice sheet melted at Summit station, NASA satellite reveals
Greenland's massive ice sheet has melted this month over an usually large area, NASA has said. Scientists said the "unprecedented" melting took place over a...
Stuxnet thwarted by Simatic control code update
Siemens has issued a fix for the software loopholes used by the notorious Stuxnet worm. Stuxnet was discovered in 2010 after investigations into malfunctions at...
Archon Genomics X Prize: race to unlock genetic clues behind living to 100
A race to unlock genetic clues behind living to 100 is set to begin next year, after a US team announced it will compete...
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