A new version of the widely prevalent SpyEye Trojan horse swaps out banking Web pages, preventing account holders from noticing that their money is gone.
Checking your bank accounts diligently is the best way to protect yourself from an online financial scam. At least, until now.
American doctors are harboring an embarrassing secret.
Doctors in America are going broke and the trend is worrying industry watchers. This quiet reality is spreading nationwide and is claiming a wide range of casualties, including family physicians, cardiologists and oncologists.
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Scientists created the monster ants in the laboratory by activating ancient ancestral genes.
Monster ‘supersoldier’ ants with huge heads and jaws have been created by activating ancient genes. Scientists believe the monster ants may be a genetic throwback to an ancestor that lived millions of years ago. (Pics)
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Walmart is going green?
So Walmart has launched a green blog, The Green Room, “that we hope to develop into a vibrant conversation about helping people live better around the globe.” So says Andrea Thomas, who leads sustainability at Walmart.
Right now there are just a few questions to start the conversation. What do you think are the biggest challenges in sustainability? What do you wish we, as a company, could do to address an environmental or social issue? How could we help you reach your own sustainability goals?
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Scientists demonstrate how they have have created, a new invisibility technique that doesn’t just cloak an object but masks an entire event in this illustration.
Most people don’t have any problem making time disappear – but scientists have cracked a very hi-tech way of doing exactly that. Scientists have developed a ‘temporal cloaking’ device that can hide events from view.
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Twin birth rate rose 76 percent from 1980 through 2009.
Over the past three decades, the number of twins born to American women has risen dramatically, a new government study shows.
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Advances in cancer screening and treatment have prevented more than a million total deaths from cancer since the early 1990s.
U.S.cancer death rates are continuing to fall, dropping by 1.8 percent per year in men and 1.6 percent per year in women between 2004 and 2008, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual report on cancer statistics released on Wednesday.
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This one is pretty neat: biologists at UC San Diego created a living “neon signs” made from glowing bacteria that fluoresce in unison…
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Best Buy
Electronics retailer Best Buy is headed for the exits. I can’t say when exactly, but my guess is that it’s only a matter of time, maybe a few more years.
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Chinese reality TV show, Super Girl is an annual national singing contest produced by Hunan Satellite Television.
On January 1st, an order to curb “excessive entertainment” on television came into force in China. In response, the number of scheduled entertainment programs has dipped sharply from 126 a week to just 38, according to Xinhua, the state news agency.
A Quadrantid meteor is seen streaking across a cloud-spattered sky with shadowy rocks in the foreground in this dazzling photo by astrophotographer Roberto Porto taken on Jan. 4, 2012 on Tenerife Island in Spain’s Canary Islands during the meteor shower’s peak.
A dazzling display of “shooting stars” kicked off the 2012 skywatching season early Wednesday (Jan. 4), thrilling amateur astronomers around the world with views of the Quadrantid meteor shower.
Usually one of the most dependable meteor displays of the year, the Quadrantid meteor shower peaked at about 2:30 a.m. EST (0730 GMT) in a brief, but eye-catching, light show. Quadrantid meteors are the leftover crumbs of a shattered comet that broke apart centuries ago, NASA scientists say…
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Google got BUSTED!
But Google apparently didn’t know it was doing this.So, with full denial still on its lips, Google has decided to slap its own wrist and downgrade the page rank on Google Chrome for at least two months, reports Search Engine Land.
In a statement published to Search Engine Land, Google said…
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