For years, an enduring mystery has surrounded the Stuxnet virus attack that targeted Iran’s nuclear program: How did the U.S. and Israel get their malware onto computer systems at the highly secured uranium-enrichment plant? | Continue reading
For years, an enduring mystery has surrounded the Stuxnet virus attack that targeted Iran’s nuclear program: How did the U.S. and Israel get their malware onto computer systems at the highly secured uranium-enrichment plant? | Continue reading
Venture Capitalist John Borthwick says that smart speakers' ability to listen to users is similar to surveillance. | Continue reading
On April 11, 2019, the Israeli SpaceIL company’s Beresheet (Hebrew for “In the Beginning”) lunar lander crashed on the Moon. Beresheet’s payload, supplied by the non-profit Arch Mission Foundation, was meant to be an informational backup for the Earth. It included a DVD containin … | Continue reading
Scientists reported Thursday they had picked up human-like electrical activity in lab-grown brains for the first time, paving the way to model neurological conditions and answer fundamental questions on how our gray matter develops. "If you had asked me five years ago ' … | Continue reading
A team of scientists in the US have managed to reproduce coral in a lab setting for the first time ever, an encouraging step in the race to save "America's Great Barrier Reef" off the coast of Florida. The researchers from Florida Aquarium's Center for Conserva … | Continue reading
In addition to launching an all-electric motorcycle, Harley-Davidson has a series of battery-powered city bicycles in the works. Over a year ago, Harley-Davidson announced that they had some electric bicycle projects up their sleeve and, until yesterday, the company had only rev … | Continue reading
Russia on Thursday launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International Space Station. Named Fedor, short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, the robot is the first ever sent … | Continue reading
Amazon, Microsoft and Intel are among leading tech companies putting the world at risk through killer robot development, according to a report that surveyed major players from the sector about their stance on lethal autonomous weapons. "Why are companies like Microsoft and … | Continue reading
The Woodstock name has become more brand than spirit for many hippies, but people spanning the generations continue to seek its aura, looking for more "authentic" ways to pay homage to the spot where it all began. People like visual artist and activist Christopher Pete … | Continue reading
Chinese people take action against T-shirts on Amazon with slogans that support anti-government protesters in Hong Kong. | Continue reading
A bitter war has erupted between pot growers and vintners in one of California's famed wine regions where cannabis farms are proliferating, leading critics to denounce a "green rush" they fear could prove disastrous. The battle, which began shaping up after Califor … | Continue reading
The arrests of 12 school board officials and their political allies in Quitman, Ga., became a poster-child case among conservatives that voter fraud was a serious threat. But to the Quitman 10+2, the reasons for their arrests were simple. They were black candidates who won an ele … | Continue reading
The El Paso shooting and other recent terror attacks are part of a loose underground conspiracy to provoke a race war that will bring down Western democracies, paving the way for white nationalist governments in the U.S. and Europe. | Continue reading
Boeing is working on new software for the 737 Max that will use a second flight control computer to make the system more reliable, solving a problem that surfaced in June with the grounded jet, two people briefed on the matter said Friday. When finished, the new software will gi … | Continue reading
Google will let Android device users in Europe choose their default search engine from four options, including Google search, the U.S. company said, as it tries to quash EU antitrust concerns and stave off fresh penalties. New Android smartphones and tablets shipped in the Europ … | Continue reading
A Singaporean engineering company has built a robot that can serve up a piping hot bowl of laksa, one of the city-state's most well-known dishes, in just 45 seconds. "It's excellent, I would say there's no difference between the one created by the robot and huma … | Continue reading
A doctored presidential seal with a double-headed eagle holding golf clubs was displayed before President Trump gave a speech on Tuesday. | Continue reading
Many countries have military and intelligence agencies that operate abroad, but few are as far-reaching or prolific as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. | Continue reading
Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei sat down with Yahoo Finance’s Akiko Fujita in an exclusive interview from his company's headquarters in Shenzhen. This is the transcript of the conversation. | Continue reading
Plastered in colourful sticky-notes carrying messages of defiance against Hong Kong's government, so-called "Lennon Walls" have sprung up across the city -- though fights have broken out as Beijing loyalists try to tear them down. The first wall was a uniquely Hong … | Continue reading
As recently as 2017, Chinese hackers went after Australian F-35 defense contractors, nabbing even more info on the cutting-edge fighter.On August 1st of last year, China celebrated the founding of the People's Liberation Army by allowing some high-resolution photos of the nex … | Continue reading
In the summer of 2016, Russian intelligence agents secretly planted a fake report claiming that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was gunned down by a squad of assassins working for Hillary Clinton, giving rise to a notorious conspiracy theory that captivated conser … | Continue reading
In the summer of 2016, Russian intelligence agents secretly planted a fake report claiming that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was gunned down by a squad of assassins working for Hillary Clinton, giving rise to a notorious conspiracy theory that captivated conser … | Continue reading
The world is teetering on the edge of a man-made apocalypse | Continue reading
June Was the Hottest Month Ever Recorded | Continue reading
Investors in General Electric, once one of the world's most valuable companies, lost tens of billions of dollars after the Paris climate deal as it failed to adapt to the pace of the green energy transition, new analysis showed Thursday. A report by the Institute for Energy … | Continue reading
You cannot be "too clean", millennials are being told, as public health experts attempt to debunk myths around hygiene. The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) said incorrect theories which became popular in the 1990s were fuelling confusion and unhygienic habits amo … | Continue reading
Mars is almost certainly the next place in our solar system where humans will travel. We're still many years from actually seeing mankind roaming the Red Planet, but with a number of high-powered instruments already hanging out around Mars and on its surface, we have a pretty goo … | Continue reading
On Thursday evening, U.S. Cyber Command launched a retaliatory digital strike against an Iranian spy group that supported last week’s limpet mine attacks on commercial ships, according to two former intelligence officials. | Continue reading
In a country that nearly always believes bigger is better -- think supersize fries, giant cars and 10-gallon hats -- more and more Americans are downsizing their living quarters. Welcome to the world of tiny homes, most of them less than 400 square feet (less than 40 square mete … | Continue reading
An astonishing 40% of workers never get more than 30 straight minutes of focused time in a workday, according to research. | Continue reading
Hong Kong's tech-savvy protesters are going digitally dark as they try to avoid surveillance and potential future prosecutions, disabling location tracking on their phones, buying train tickets with cash and purging their social media conversations. Police used rubber bullets an … | Continue reading
Uber said Wednesday it plans to speed up restaurant meal delivery by using drones for its Uber Eats service, in the latest effort by the ride-hailing giant to disrupt the transport sector. Initial testing in San Diego was done with McDonald's, and will be expanded to include add … | Continue reading
Loan payments rolled in and Chad Albright still couldn't find a job. He felt crushed by his debt. So instead of paying it off, he left the country. | Continue reading
US scientists who studied the performance of myriad athletes -- including adventurous souls who spent five long months running across the United States -- have come up with an estimate of the absolute physiological boundary of human endurance. The limit to human endurance is mea … | Continue reading
YouTube announced Wednesday it would ban videos promoting or glorifying racism and discrimination as well as those denying well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting. The announcement by the Google-owned video-sharing platform … | Continue reading
Ten years later, the chipmaker sets its sights on the mobile market again with a new licensing deal. | Continue reading
Apps like Facebook and Tinder are fuelling the "soaring industry" of online prostitution and sexual exploitation, according to a worldwide study published by a French anti-prostitution group on Tuesday. Prostitution has moved "from the street to the Internet", where pimps recrui … | Continue reading
Apple is set to court software savants at its annual developers conference beginning Monday while contending with criticism that the iPhone maker has made its App Store a walled garden. The App Store is the lone shop for content for Apple devices, with the technology giant decid … | Continue reading
For one woman, the memory loss caused by (Electroconvulsive Therapy) ECT wasn't worth it | Continue reading
A senior reporter at France's Le Monde daily who broke the story of an explosive scandal concerning a security aide to President Emmanuel Macron has been summoned for questioning by the domestic intelligence service, the newspaper said Wednesday. Ariane Chemin was told by the Ge … | Continue reading
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres raised concerns Thursday that a concrete dome built last century to contain waste from atomic bomb tests is leaking radioactive material into the Pacific. "The Pacific was victimised in the past as we all know," he said, referring to nuclear … | Continue reading
Maisons-Alfort (France) (AFP) - The "blue light" in LED lighting can damage the eye's retina and disturb natural sleep rhythms, France's government-run health watchdog said this week. New findings confirm earlier concerns that "exposure to an intense and powerful [LED] light is | Continue reading
China said Monday it will raise tariffs on $60 billion worth of US goods from June 1, in retaliation to the latest round of US tariff hikes and Washington's plans to target almost all Chinese imports. The announcement came after the latest round of US-China trade negotiations en … | Continue reading
A Ukrainian computer game that brings to life a town abandoned after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster may not sound like everyone's idea of fun but has attracted 60,000 people globally since its launch in October. While the game takes its theme from the nuclear disaster at Chernob … | Continue reading