NASA Lunar Mission wins 2014 Popular Mechanics Award
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission has received the Popular Mechanics 2014 Breakthrough Award for innovation in science and technology. The 10th...
NOAA’s weather forecasts go hyper-local with next-generation weather model
Today, meteorologists at NOAA’s National Weather Service are using a new model that will help improve forecasts and warnings for severe weather events. Thanks to...
Shellshock botnet targets Akamai, as well as US DoD networks.
Attackers were quick to capitalized on the Shellshock Bash command interpreter bug disclosed yesterday. Constructing a botnet that is rapidly try to infect other servers, according to...
Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying With PRISM
A secret and scrappy court battle that Yahoo launched to resist the NSA’s PRISM spy program came to an end in 2008 because the Feds...
New nanotech invention improves effectiveness of the ‘penicillin of cancer’
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have added a new weapon to oncologists’ arsenal of anti-cancer therapies. (more…)
Aereo loses to broadcasters in Supreme Court fight for its life
The Supreme Court struck a dramatic blow against Aereo today in a ruling that puts the TV streaming service as it currently exists on its...
Cryptolocker: what you need to know
What happens when a computer is infected with the malicious software or a virus, and what should you do to protect your files? Cryptolocker is...
U.S. to announce first criminal charges against China for cyberspying
The Justice Department is charging members of the Chinese military with conducting economic cyber-espionage against American companies, U.S. officials familiar with the case said Monday,...
US gives up its last bit of control over the internet – but really, it’s just a PR stunt
On Friday, the United States government announced that it would give up the last vestige of control it still exerts over the internet, and would...
Kinect has been evaluated for mass surveillance, GCHQ spy docs reveal
However it's unclear if spy agency has used the Xbox tech. The UK intelligence agency GCHQ had previously evaluated the potential of the Xbox 360's...