A company that launched a cryptocurrency wallet promising it to be unhackable soon found their wallet getting hacked. And instead of providing hackers with the bounty they promised, the company sent a sneaky warning about facing consequences.
With local governments in the U.S. planning to make body cams mandatory for police officers, concerns about data safety and security have arisen after a cyber-security expert demonstrated how body cams can be used by hackers to fulfill their devious…
Thin ribbons of purple and white light that sometimes appear in the night sky were dubbed a new type of aurora when brought to scientists’ attention in 2016. But new research suggests these mysterious streams of light are not an…
Seismic noise — the low-level vibrations caused by everything from subway trains to waves crashing on the beach — is most often something seismologists work to avoid. They factor it out of models and create algorithms aimed at eliminating it…
New insights into the evolution and eventual disappearance of Portus Pisanus, the lost harbor of Pisa, have been revealed. Although it has been described as one of Italy’s most influential seaports during the Middle Ages, little is known about the relationship between Portus…
The most frightening monsters are the ones that we create. And though plastic does not fit in with the typical image of a sharp-fanged, clawed and horned creature, it truly is a nightmare humanity has created over the past half-century.…
When the iPhone X was priced at well above US$1,000, experts believed that the sales figures would pale in comparison to its more affordable predecessors. Blowing through their expectations, the iPhone X quickly outperformed the sales figures of previous models…
Tech companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google have removed podcasts and videos of InfoWars, a conservative channel run by Alex Jones. And many are concerned that this might just be the start of a much-dreaded Internet censorship regime.
Samsung has launched the latest update to its Galaxy Note series by unveiling the Note 9 smartphone. And it comes with a pretty big surprise — a mammoth 1TB of storage space that even dwarfs some laptops on the market.
In yet another achievement for SpaceX, the Dragon capsule has returned back safely to Earth following its second successful mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The capsule made a soft landing in the Pacific Ocean, southwest of Los Angeles.
A company that launched a cryptocurrency wallet promising it to be unhackable soon found their wallet getting hacked. And instead of providing hackers with the bounty they promised, the company…
With local governments in the U.S. planning to make body cams mandatory for police officers, concerns about data safety and security have arisen after a cyber-security expert demonstrated how body…
Thin ribbons of purple and white light that sometimes appear in the night sky were dubbed a new type of aurora when brought to scientists’ attention in 2016. But new…
Seismic noise — the low-level vibrations caused by everything from subway trains to waves crashing on the beach — is most often something seismologists work to avoid. They factor it…
New insights into the evolution and eventual disappearance of Portus Pisanus, the lost harbor of Pisa, have been revealed. Although it has been described as one of Italy’s most influential seaports during…
The most frightening monsters are the ones that we create. And though plastic does not fit in with the typical image of a sharp-fanged, clawed and horned creature, it truly…
When the iPhone X was priced at well above US$1,000, experts believed that the sales figures would pale in comparison to its more affordable predecessors. Blowing through their expectations, the…
Tech companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google have removed podcasts and videos of InfoWars, a conservative channel run by Alex Jones. And many are concerned that this might just be…
Samsung has launched the latest update to its Galaxy Note series by unveiling the Note 9 smartphone. And it comes with a pretty big surprise — a mammoth 1TB of…
In yet another achievement for SpaceX, the Dragon capsule has returned back safely to Earth following its second successful mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The capsule made a…
In academics, Hong Kong is known for its love of the International Baccalaureate (IB) exams. Every year, thousands of its students work hard in an effort to score top grades.…
Fans of Tesla have long speculated whether the company will ever release an affordable variant of its electric car or if it will only ever cater to the high-end segment…
For thousands of years, people have been puzzling over the milky strip that extends across the entire firmament. In the modern era, Galileo Galilei discovered that this Milky Way consists…
Amazon has big ambitions in the digital advertising sector and has been honing the AI that it uses in its site, along with the Alexa service, in order to be…
The release of the Paradise Papers and Panama Papers exposed how multinationals, politicians, and the wealthy use offshore tax havens to conceal their wealth and money flows, and reduce their exposure to…
You probably know Easter Island as “the place with the giant stone heads.” This remote island, 2,300 miles off the coast of Chile, has long been seen as mysterious —…
Science fiction writers have long featured terraforming, the process of creating an Earth-like or habitable environment on another planet, in their stories. Scientists themselves have proposed terraforming to enable the…
As early as the 1990s, mental health professionals started to explore virtual reality as a tool to treat psychological problems. The first scientific study on the topic was conducted in…
An amateur South American hacker stumbled onto sensitive information about U.S. military assets. However, lack of experience made the hacker quote a ridiculously low sum for the information, while also…
As per the latest PC sales estimates by the International Data Corporation (IDC), HP continued to keep its lead at the top-selling PC brand in the world in the second…
