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New Year's Eve saw BBC's iPlayer and other websites face outage as the broadcaster became the victim of a DDoS attack. It is not known who waged the cyberattack on BBC.

Today -- Jan. 2, 2016 -- at 22:49 UTC (17:49 Eastern (US) time), the Earth will be at perihelion, the point in its orbit where it's closest to the Sun. At that moment the center of the Earth will be 147,100,176 km (91,4...

Treat your pet no matter where you are with the Pawbo Wi-Fi Pet Cam and Treat Dispenser. Using the built in 720p camera, you can watch your pet with a live stream view and interact with him via the two-way communication ...

The blog OnSmash was among music sites shut down in 2010, accused of copyright infringement and selling counterfeit goods.

Kenko Tokina has announced a new ultra-wide zoom lens for Canon and Nikon crop sensor cameras. The new Tokina AT-X 14-20mm f/2 PRO DX has a 35mm equivalent focal range of 22-32mm on Canon APS-C cameras and 21-30mm on Nik...

Blow away your audience with rich and clear sound with the powerful Rode VideoMic Me Compact iOS Shotgun Microphone. Compact, lightweight, and easy to transport, this portable mic connects right into the 3.5mm headphone ...

Remind yourself to be financially savvy with the Keep It/Lose It Wallet by Misc. Goods Co. Made with beautifully soft, oil tanned natural leather, this wallet features the words "Keep It" at the top of the closing flap. ...

Research shows that parents can enhance their unborn baby's neurological development by playing music for them. BabyPod is a vaginal sound system specially designed to ensure that babies can hear sounds as clearly as pos...

A new breast cancer screening method based on whole-body PET/CT imaging promises more accurate treatment and less need for invasive tissue sampling. The study was done on women with ongoing treatment for metastatic breas...

A glass of drinking water contains 10 million good bacteria. Researchers found that a thin layer of biofilm found in water pipes contribute to water purification.

A breakthrough hydrogel seaweed capsule may spare diabetes patients from insulin injections. The new cryopreservation method removes the possibility of ice damage, requires no major surgery and removes the need for immun...

Apple has slightly raised iPhone and iPad prices in Germany on January 1, likely to comply with new private copyright levies agreed to by German trade association Bitkom and ZPÜ collecting societies such as GEMA in Dece...

 Robots are starting to appear everywhere: driving cars, cooking dinners and even as robotic pets. But people don’t usually give machine intelligence much credence when it comes to judging beauty. That may change with...

WhatsApp users in various parts of the globe experienced service interruptions on New Year's Eve. Here are a few humorous jabs they shared on Twitter.

Fans of the Game of Thrones books will have to wait even longer than expected for the series' next installment, "The Winds of Winter", to hit store shelves. Over the weekend, author George R.R. Martin said that he unfort...

Hydro floors are moveable floors that raise and lower to hide or reveal swimming pools. They can be put in a basement, for example, or outside to double as a patio. They're as pricey as they sound. The post Drop it when ...

Amazon's Echo personal assistant (powered by Alexa) is an unusual device that's had a very beta-existence since its launch last summer. It still struggles to hear certain commands, and its utility is limited to certain a...

Android/iOS: Your phone is distracting. If you have a hard time resisting the impulse to check notifications, Forest helps balance out that impulse with a gamified virtual garden.

Thanks to the rise of streaming video services like Netflix, ISPs in the United States have been forced to up their game and deliver faster connections to keep bandwidth hungry users satisfied. In fact, a new report from...

Researchers have found a new way to measure the pull of gravity at the surface of a star. For distant stars with planets orbiting them, this information is key in determining whether any of those planets can harbour life...

Transparent effects have had a prominent place in the user interface of Mac OS X ever since the Mac got a face lift with recent versions of OS X El Capitan and Yosemite. Many users like the transparency found throughout ...

Pressing a photo a little longer on Instagram for Android now gives users the previously Apple exclusive Force Touch features. The post Instagram on Android gets features for ‘3D Touch’ appeared first on Digital Tren...