The Federal Bureau of Investigation took advantage of an apparent flaw in the security of Mozilla’s browser, Firefox, and hacked into the system. The FBI hacked the system, they say, because they were conducting an investigation into a website that traffics in child pornography. Mozilla found this unacceptable and filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in …
Recent research done by scientists at UCLA has discovered that fructose, a sugar, causes damage and alteration to the genes of the human brain. The research has determined that the fructose will alter the brain to the point where several diseases will possible take hold and develop. Among the afflictions that can be caused by …
Scientists at NASA have announced the discovery of 1,284 other planets in the Milky Way galaxy. In addition, they stated, at least nine of those planets have characteristics similar to Earth’s. The sightings were seen as NASA scientists were going through some latest images and data from the Kepler telescope. The Kepler space telescope has …
Empathy is the ability for so-called “normal” people who possess consciences to be able to feel another person’s emotional distress or pain. A recently published study, however, has raised doubts concerning an over the counter pain medication in that it may reduce the ability to employ empathy. It is known as acetaminophen and is the …
Bees are, perhaps, the most important creature on Earth. They are responsible for pollinating nearly all of the fruits, vegetables, flowers and trees on the planet. In the United States alone, bees are responsible for pollinating nearly 80% of the food supply. Without the bees, there could likely be no food in a very short …
Every year, over 250,000 are killed due to preventable medical mistakes and errors. It is so huge that this has become the third leading cause of death in the United States. Only heart disease and cancer kill more Americans every year that medical blunders. A recent analysis and study was done at Johns Hopkins University …
Twitter announced on Monday that it will deny all access to its data mining service to all United States and world intelligence agencies. Twitter is part owner of a company called Dataminr and it has ordered that company to refuse all requests from intelligence services who seek to randomly sift through tweets. Dataminr has complete …
An astonishing 272 million email usernames and passwords were stolen by an unknown Russian hacker this week and sold on the open market. The stolen accounts came from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo email accounts as well as from the largest Russian email provider, Mail.ru. And, what seems even more astonishing, is that this Russian hacker …
Facebook awarded a ten year old boy from Finland $10,000 for uncovering and exploiting a particular bug at their social media site, Instagram. Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion in 2012 and since then has what they refer to as a glitch or bug bounty program. Young Jani, whose last name is not being released …
The National Institutes of Health has given their ethical approval to a Philadelphia based biotech company that is looking to regenerate dead brain cells in patients that have been declared brain dead. The Bioquark company believes that it can use stem cells to resurrect the dead. It will be called the ReAnima project and Bioquark …