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Hackers extracted all the source code from certain GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories, leaving behind a ransom note demanding bitcoin. It remains unclear how the hackers were able to access the accounts. The post...

J.J. Abrams and his team met with Lucas while working on the film.

Wyzant--an online marketplace that makes it easy for parents and students to connect with private tutors, in-person and online, in over 250 different subjects--has suffered a data breach exposing "certain personal identi...

Neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS) affect millions of people worldwide and occur when parts of the nervous system lose function over time. Researchers have discovered that a type of skin-related stem...

Were you one of the poor souls who wasn’t able to watch the battle of Winterfell on last week’s Game of Thrones simply because your TV settings were too dark ? (It’s not your fault, it happened to us, too.) If that...

News Being able to measure, and monitor, temperatures and temperature changes at miniscule scales--inside a cell or in micro and nano-electronic components--has the potential to impact many areas of research... Contribut...

Article Surgical workflow is demanding. Precision is critical in every process - from the surgeon's technique to the movements of OR staff in confined space, to availability and handling of instruments. There is a lot go...

Cybercriminals have been wiping GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket repositories and asking their owners to pay a ransom to recover the data. The impacted Git service providers believe the attackers have used compromised creden...

Microsoft created four exclusive Xbox One X consoles with designs based on Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah. No purchases are necessary to join the raffle for the consoles, while you await Godzilla's return to ...

What should have probably been an uneventful weekend, or a weekend spent watching Avengers: Endgame, turned out to be a mini-nightmare for the folks at Mozilla. The developers of the Firefox web browser spent the past tw...

One snake's unsuccessful attempt to escape being an alligator's lunch was photographed in Florida on Saturday.

News Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new methodology for building computer models that paves the way to better understanding the flood risks faced by coastal communities... Contributed Author: ORE...

Blog Scientists have been simulating the effects of asteroids striking major cities worldwide. The latest simulaton has the asteroid causing catastrophic damage to New York City... Topics: MIL/AERO

A team of researchers at the Human Computation Institute and Cornell University seek to understand what causes a 30% reduction of blood flow to the brain in Alzheimer's patients. Preliminary findings from the Schaffer-Ni...

A peptide is capable of binding to the blood-brain barrier that protects the central nervous system and could help create novel imaging tests to diagnose Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

A new study found that prices for brand-name prescription drugs averaged 3.2 to 4.1 times higher in the US when compared with prices in the United Kingdom, Japan and the Canadian province of Ontario. The study also found...

News In the late 1950s, a scientist named Lewis Kaplan divined a new and groundbreaking way to calculate temperature in the atmosphere for weather forecasting: by measuring the vibration of molecules at different... Cont...

Chemists have developed a fluorescent probe, BacGo that can detect Gram-positive bacteria precisely and promptly. The research team used bacterial sludge from wastewater for the demonstration experiment. They successfull...

A machine learning algorithm can detect signs of anxiety and depression in the speech patterns of young children, potentially providing a fast and easy way of diagnosing conditions that are difficult to spot and often ov...

An international clinical trial has found that a new drug for Huntington disease is safe, and that treatment with the drug successfully lowers levels of the abnormal protein that causes the debilitating disease in patien...

News AT&T on Monday publicized FirstNet progress, saying the dedicated first responder network now has more than 600,000 device connections and Band 14 rollouts are tracking ahead of schedule. Staff Author: Bevin Fletche...

News Sinclair Broadcast Group has struck a deal with Walt Disney to acquire 21 Fox regional sports networks (RSNs) for $9.6 billion. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Mergers and Acquisitions