Botnet Responsible for 18% of World's Spam Knocked Offline Good news for your inbox: Security researchers announced Wednesday that the world's third-largest botnet, which was responsible for approximately 18% of the world's spam,... July 19, 2012 by Alex Fitzpatrick Like Tweet +1
Lighter-Than-Air Material Could Drastically Change Tech German scientists have developed a sturdy material called Aerographite made mostly of air, opening up huge implications for the future development of electronics. The... July 19, 2012 by Samantha Murphy Like Tweet +1
Massive Breaking Glacier Seen From Space [PICS] US & World A 46-square-mile chunk of the Petermann Glacier on the northwestern coast of Greenland broke off on July 16, and NASA's Aqua satellite caught the whole thing. Just one day... July 19, 2012 by Amanda Wills Like Tweet +1
Taiwanese Teen Dies After a 40-Hour Diablo III Session A Taiwanese teenager died after playing Diablo III for 40 hours straight, The Australian reports citing United Daily News. The 18-year-old boy identified only by his... July 19, 2012 by Stan Schroeder Like Tweet +1
Declassified 'UFO' Docs Are Full of Great Stories US & World Alien spacecraft and little green men remain elusive figures in the latest trove of official UFO files released July 12 by the UK government. There's no smoking gun... July 19, 2012 by Space.com Like Tweet +1
Bing Rolls Out a Beautiful Time-Lapse Video on Its Homepage As part of a move to bring its Internet content to life for web searchers, Bing's homepage on Wednesday features a stunning time-lapse video of Arizona's desert. Bing's... July 18, 2012 by Samantha Murphy Like Tweet +1
YouTube Channel Provides Weapons Training for Syrian Rebels Social media just became the new training ground. Supporters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the rebel group fighting against Syria's ruling Assad regime, have uploaded a... July 18, 2012 by The Daily Dot Like Tweet +1
Gmail Downgrades, Launches SMS Version for African Countries While we're used to seeing upgrades from our favorite tech products, Gmail has made an important step in the opposite direction. Google launched Gmail SMS Wednesday,... July 18, 2012 by Zoe Fox Like Tweet +1
Google Maps: Tree Density Tells the Story of Income Inequality It isn't always easy to spot income inequality. The disparate distribution of money among a population based on race, gender and other factors could take place in your own... July 18, 2012 by Matt Petronzio Like Tweet +1
SpaceX Releases Inspiring Video of Dragon's Historic Journey Through Space SpaceX made history in May when its Dragon capsule became the first privately-built spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station. Now, the company has released a... July 18, 2012 by Samantha Murphy Like Tweet +1
Texting Overtakes Talking in the UK [STUDY] UK residents are more likely to send a text than make a phone call when communicating with friends and family, according to a new study. Of the 1,980 UK adults included in... July 18, 2012 by Lauren Indvik Like Tweet +1
Syrians Share Scenes of Chaos After Suicide Bombing An apparent suicide bombing rocked Syria's capital of Damascus and killed several top government officials amid an apparent attempt by the rebel Free Syrian Army to... July 18, 2012 by Alex Fitzpatrick Like Tweet +1
The Earliest Photos of Apple's iPad Hit the Web Apple may have debuted the iPad in April 2010, but according to newly surfaced photos, the company started working on a tablet prototype in the early 2000s. Thanks to... July 18, 2012 by Samantha Murphy Like Tweet +1
YouTube Releases Face-Blurring Tool for Editing Graphic Footage YouTube released a new tool Wednesday that blurs faces, to be used in footage requiring anonymity. This new editing feature comes two months after the launch of YouTube's... July 18, 2012 by Zoe Fox Like Tweet +1
Almost Out of Cash, WikiLeaks Starts Taking Donations Again US & World WikiLeaks, which was down to about $120,000 in total reserves at the end of June because of a blockade program by Visa and MasterCard, is now accepting donations again.... July 18, 2012 by Todd Wasserman Like Tweet +1
75% of World Has Access to Mobile Phones [STUDY] Approximately three quarters of the world's population now has access to a mobile phone, according to a new study from the World Bank. The number of mobile phone... July 18, 2012 by Alex Fitzpatrick Like Tweet +1
What if Nelson Mandela Used Facebook to Fight Apartheid? [VIDEO] Nelson Mandela, the first black South African president, is celebrating his 94th birthday -- no small feat for a man who spent 27 years as a political prisoner in a... July 18, 2012 by Bianca Consunji Like Tweet +1
The Sounds of Olympic Events Aren't Real -- They're Even Better Entertainment When the London 2012 Olympics begin in a couple of weeks, a menagerie of sports will take over the world's TV screens. Tens of millions of people will watch archery,... July 18, 2012 by The Atlantic Like Tweet +1
Does Marissa Mayer Represent a Breakthrough for Women? That sound you hear is the shattering of the glass ceiling once again, and not because former Google exec Marissa Mayer has taken over as CEO of internet giant Yahoo, but... July 18, 2012 by Andrea Smith Like Tweet +1
Google Announces Plans to Fight Illicit Trading Networks US & World Google's taking on an ambitious global initiative -- using technology to expose, map and disrupt illicit networks of drug smugglers, arms dealers and human traffickers.... July 17, 2012 by Zoe Fox Like Tweet +1
Inside the World's Most Remote Antarctic Outposts US & World About one hundred years ago, Robert Falcon Scott sat at a table in his hut on Ross Island off the coast of Antarctica and, as it appears in the above photograph, wrote in... July 17, 2012 by The Atlantic Like Tweet +1
Reddit User Scours Social Media for Info About Toronto Shooting After a shooting at a barbecue in eastern Toronto left two dead and 21 wounded, a Reddit user turned to Twitter to figure out all he could learn about those involved in... July 17, 2012 by Alex Fitzpatrick Like Tweet +1
More Americans Are Using Mobile Phones While Watching TV Entertainment Thanks to the growth of smartphone adoption, about half of U.S. mobile phone owners use their devices while watching TV, a new study suggests. According to a Pew Internet... July 17, 2012 by Samantha Murphy Like Tweet +1
Man Claims Wearing Google Glass-Type Eyewear Led to Bizarre Attack Can't wait for Google Glass to become available in 2014? This may temper your enthusiasm: A Canadian man wearing similar eyewear in a French McDonald's claims he was... July 17, 2012 by Todd Wasserman Like Tweet +1
Microsoft Faces Fresh Antitrust Investigation in Europe Microsoft is under the lens of European Union antitrust investigators once again after failing to offer up to 28 million Windows users a "browser choice screen" (BCS) that... July 17, 2012 by Alex Fitzpatrick Like Tweet +1
YOLO in the Dictionary? Collins Crowdsources Lexicon Collins, a leading British dictionary publisher since 1819, is looking to the public to suggest new words for its latest edition. The typically closed submission process... July 17, 2012 by Emily Price Like Tweet +1
Chinese Workers Face Competition From Robots US & World One of the defining narratives of modern China has been the migration of young workers -- often girls in their late teenage years -- from the countryside into sprawling... July 17, 2012 by Technology Review Like Tweet +1
NBC Hopes for Twitter Gold Medal at Olympics [VIDEO] The approaching 2012 Olympic games are sure to shatter world records, but NBC hopes to set records of their own with this year's social media campaigns. And the network is... July 16, 2012 by Neha Prakash Like Tweet +1
Despite Sanctions, Iran Is Full of Apple Gadgets US & World Iran has been under economic sanctions from the United States for years. This includes complex computer products like, say, the entire line of devices from Apple. But it... July 16, 2012 by Geekosystem Like Tweet +1
Watch London Cops Pull the Plug on Springsteen and McCartney [VIDEO] No music fan in his or her right mind would pull the plug on the legendary Bruce Springsteen and Sir Paul McCartney, but that's exactly what London police did late... July 15, 2012 by Alex Fitzpatrick Like Tweet +1