Jackie Wattles / May 19: Cybersecurity experts say a recently discovered website flaw could have allowed virtually anyone to access real-time location data for millions of Americans’ cell phones. The vulnerability was found in a website run by LocationSmart, a company that aggregates cellular location data so it can be used by third parties — […]
May 19: USC researchers have pinpointed a remedy to thwart a protein that helps the metastatic spread of breast cancer, a leading cause of death for women. The findings appear today in Nature Communications. The study comes from the lab of USC stem cell researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and offers […]
May 19: Amazon just sent a clear signal that Whole Foods is ground zero in its plan for world domination. On Wednesday, the online retailer announced that Amazon Prime members would get an additional 10% off sale items when they shop at Whole Foods. The discount will apply to hundreds of products throughout stores. To […]
May 19: They observed it in a galaxy of stars that existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang. But what is really fascinating is that this oxygen can only have been produced in an even older group of stars that would have dispersed it when they died and blew themselves apart. That means […]
Apr. 06: Facebook announced Friday that it is introducing new rules for Facebook Pages — rules that, had they been in place earlier, could have stopped Russian trolls posing as Americans from wreaking havoc on the platform in the lead up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Unlike Facebook profiles, Facebook Pages can essentially be […]
Apr. 06: You may not see women’s nipples on Instagram, but you could find Fentanyl. A quick search can turn up plenty of accounts filled with pictures of various pills. They typically list contact details — email addresses, phone numbers, and usernames for chat apps and encrypted messenger services like Kik and Wickr — to […]
Apr. 06: Witness the most spectacular and mysterious depths of the cosmos through Hubble’s eye. These unique images are some of the best ever capture by the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum, […]
Apr. 06: Dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, researchers have said. A new analysis provides support for a decades-old prediction that “supermassive” black holes at the centres of galaxies are surrounded by many smaller ones. However, previous searches of the Milky Way’s centre, where the nearest supermassive […]
Monica Lohani and Sandeep Sen / Kathmandu: “Well, it is a little bit odd for me to be speaking to you, despite all the respect I have for you. But, I was wondering what happens if, like in the transformers movie, you go crazy or rogue? Is there a switch?” asked Nepal Coordinator for United […]
Kathmandu / Mar 20: Sophia, the first humanoid robot acknowledged as a citizen of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is arriving in Nepal tomorrow as a keynote speaker in a conference. The human robot is part of the United Nations Development Programme’s conference on “Technology for Public Services/Development” on March 21. “As part of our […]
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