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TalkTalk sees profits halved following cyber attack last year - CNET
CNET - 12 May 2016 11:37Experiment suggests it might be possible to control atoms entangled with the light they emit by manipulating detection
Phys.org - 12 May 2016 19:42
Flick a switch on a dark winter day and your office is flooded with bright light, one of many everyday miracles to which we are all usually oblivious.
Why does SpaceX land rockets on those tiny barges?
Mashable - 12 May 2016 13:36New PSA test examines protein structures to detect prostate cancers
e! Science News - 12 May 2016 03:54
Tuesday, May 10, 2016, San Diego: A promising new test is detecting prostate cancer more precisely than current tests, by identifying molecular changes in the prostate specific antigen (PSA) protein, according to Clevela...
Researchers made a drone that can land on walls like an insect
The Verge - 12 May 2016 23:49
Researchers at Stanford are trying to give drones another of insects' useful traits: the ability to land on vertical walls, and even upside down. They've already gotten pretty far on a system that lets drones do that. As...
Yahoo Working With US House After Reported Email Attacks
NBC News - 12 May 2016 06:41
The House has blocked access to its networks from Yahoo mail accounts, according to a House IT office memo that emerged last week.
FBI director blames 'viral video effect' for spike in violent crime - CNET
CNET - 12 May 2016 06:33FBI Director Expects Legal Battle Over Encryption to Continue
Mac Rumors - 12 May 2016 04:23
In a briefing with reporters, FBI director James Comey said that he expects litigation over the encryption of mobile devices to continue, as encryption is "essential tradecraft" of terrorist organizations like ISIS, repo...
Amazon targets YouTube with Video Direct service
USA Today - 12 May 2016 03:09
YouTube is now facing competition from Amazon with the launch of its new service, Video Direct. The Amazon product allows creators to upload their own videos for members of Amazon's Prime Video service to watch. ...
How this man got a new Tundra for free from Toyota
Digital Trends - 12 May 2016 16:29
Toyota has just purchased a 2007 Tundra with over a million miles on the clock from its original owner. The company will tear the truck down entirely and look at how various components have held up over time. The post Ho...
HIV testing during early infection may reduce new cases in high-risk communities
Science Daily - 12 May 2016 14:45
Detecting HIV earlier, through screening programs that can identify the virus shortly after infection, may lead to lower rates of HIV transmission in local epidemics, suggest findings from a new study. After an acute inf...
How to Hack the Hackers: The Human Side of Cyber Crime
Scientific American - 12 May 2016 16:45
As cyber attacks grow ever more sophisticated, those who defend against them are embracing behavioral science and economics to understand both the perpetrators and their victims --
Best of CES Asia 2016: The weird and the wonderful from the Shanghai show floor
Pocket-lint - 12 May 2016 15:30
CES Asia opened it doors for the second time in Shanghai this May. And the Chinese version of the world's largest tech show, CES, which is based in Las Vegas, didn't hold back on the weird and the wonderful. Condensing a...
Opera adds power-saving mode, offers "up to 50%" longer battery life
Ars Technica - 12 May 2016 14:55
Reducing background tab activity, other tweaks increase battery life vs. Chrome.
Mystery of Bizarre Radar Echoes Solved, 50 Years Later
Live Science - 12 May 2016 14:51
Weird radio echoes that appear at dawn every day over an observatory in Peru have long baffled scientists, until now.
Hints of unknown elementary particle explained using Swedish theory
Phys.org - 12 May 2016 14:29
Particle physicists around the world are currently on the edge of their seats awaiting information about the traces of a brand new particle that were found during the latest run of the Large Hadron Collider particle acce...
Amateurs prepare big-picture perspective to support Juno mission
PTTU - 12 May 2016 14:28
Europlanet Research Infrastructure: Amateurs prepare big-picture perspective to support Juno mission Some of the world's leading amateur and professional astronomers are meeting on 12-13 May to prepare for a campaign of ...
NASA International Space Station On-Orbit Status 11 May 2016
SpaceRef - 12 May 2016 13:59
SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:51 p.m. EDT, about 261 miles southwest of Long Beach, California, marking the end of the company's eighth contracted cargo resupply mission to the Inter...
After smashing two Atoms, Intel sees mobile future in atomic research
PC World - 12 May 2016 13:29
Weeks after cancelling two generations of Atom mobile chips, Intel is paving the way for future low-power mobile technologies with a new research collaboration with a French atomic energy lab. Fundamental research leadin...
Criminals exploit zero day Flash vulnerability
The Register - 12 May 2016 03:26
Adobe readies patch cannons. Yet again Adobe will this week patch a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that is being actively exploited in the wild....
Mommy, Daddy, where does mass come from?
Symmetry Magazine - 12 May 2016 15:39
The Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles, but most of our mass comes from somewhere else. The story of particle mass starts right after the big bang. During the very first moments of the universe, almost all pa...
Relativity of rotational motion confirmed
Phys.org - 12 May 2016 14:22
It has been one hundred years since the publication of Einstein's general theory of relativity in May 1916. In a paper recently published in EPJ Plus, Norwegian physicist Øyvind Grøn from the Oslo and Akershus Universi...