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Even Russian spies apparently make mistakes when it comes to VPNs. Like Guccifer 2.0, the self-proclaimed hacker apparently responsible for burrowing into the Democratic National Committee computer network, then sending ...

According to one study, 47 percent of current jobs in the United States could be automated within the next two decades. Here are eight examples of the kind of employment that refers to. The post Replaced by robots: 8 job...

British scientists think DNA could be used to solve a global problem - where to store all our data.

Files on city computer systems have been encrypted, according to a ransom note that demands payment in bitcoin.

NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has achieved yet another milestone: 2,000 Martian days (“sols”) of service. The rover has been rolling around the Red Planet since landing in August 2012. Since then, Curiosity has trave...

Amazon.com Inc. has been granted a new patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a delivery drone that can respond to human gestures. The concept is part of Amazon's goal to develop a fleet of unmanned aerial ve...

In 47 CE, Scribonius Largus, court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius, described in his Compositiones a method for treating chronic migraines: place torpedo fish on the scalps of patients to ease their pain with ele...

If you constantly find yourself fascinated by the latest technological gadgets hitting the marketplace, have you ever considered becoming one of the people who designs and creates them? This week is Computer Science Educ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday unveiled an indictment in the Southern District of New York accusing nine Iranians of conspiring to hack into universities and businesses to steal intellectual property and ac...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told CNN he'd be glad to testify on the Cambridge Analytica data breach and now he's getting his wish. The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent Zuckerberg a formal invitation to testify o...

A sloppy mistake linked Guccifer 2.0 to Russian military intelligence officers, according to a new report. But this was hardly the only mistake the hacker made in his months-long existence.

Admit it, you don't really understand why the Earth has a magnetic field. Sure, movement inside the Earth's outer core is creating a electric current, generating a magnetic field through it. But what's causing this movem...

Nine Iranians charged in massive cyber theft campaign        

In all, 320 universities around the world were attacked and the 31.5 terabytes of stolen data was sold for profit in Iran.

For a while at least... spinning rust is going to stick around Analysis Flash chip bits cost eight times more than spinning rust and SSDs aren't going to get cheap enough to kill off disk entirely....

Sébastien Février, researcher at XLIM (CNRS/Université de Limoges), and his team demonstrated that a bench-top, optical fibre-based laser source can be used to perform infrared spectromicroscopy with a precision rival...

The murky ecosystem of ransomware payments comes into focus in new research led by Damon McCoy, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Ransomware attacks, whic...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, halfway between Hawaii and California, has grown to more than 600,000 square miles, or twice the size of Texas.        

Currently, when Apple sends an invoice to its customers and business partners, the recipient gets an invoice number that is entirely numeric and spans 10 digits. According to a post on Reddit citing a letter from Apple c...

Research throws light on how a general AI that can adapt and understand new situations might work.

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