London, March 5 Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has accused Facebook and Google of raking in profits from “pop-up” brothels on their platforms. According to a report in The Sunday Times, “Pop-up” sex clubs were discovered in Cornwall, Cambridge, Swindon and holiday cottages in the Peak district. The NCA accusedRead More

New York, March 5 There was absolutely nothing before the Big Bang, according to British physicist Stephen Hawking, who explained what happened prior to the existence of our universe. The Big Bang theory proposes that a tiny speck of matter and energy began to grow, bringing about the birth ofRead More

BERLIN: Male hunting spiders wrap morsels of food in their silk and offer these as gifts to prospective mates, a study has found. Unlike many other species, male hunting spiders do not use chemical signals such as sex pheromones to attract a mate. Instead, they make their mark by uniquelyRead More

Toronto Smartphones and data centres will be the most damaging information and communications technologies to the environment by 2040, warns a new study. For the study, the researchers studied the carbon footprint of consumer devices such as smartphones, laptops, tablets, desktops as well as data centres and communication networks. TheirRead More

Goa (Cavelossim), March 4 It is easy to differentiate between an ordinary malware from ‘state-sponsored’ ones by identifying the patters on the victims, said researchers at the 9th annual edition of the Nullcon, the international security conference, that kicked off in Goa on Friday. Leading security researcher Eva Galperin, DirectorRead More

Washington, March 4 Scientists have discovered a previously unknown “supercolony” of more than 1,500,000 Adelie Penguins in the Danger Islands, a chain of remote, rocky islands off of the Antarctic Peninsula’s northern tip. For the past 40 years, the total number of Adelie Penguins, one of the most common onRead More

San Francisco, March 3 Facebook is testing a new feature called “Add Voice Clip” that appears in its status update composer menu that allows users to record a short audio snippet to use as a status update. The new feature was first spotted by an Indian user and the socialRead More

Washington The sea level may rise twice as high by 2100 as previously estimated as a result of climate change, a new NASA study says. According to the findings detailed in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, rise in sea level may increase by up to 65Read More

Goa (Cavelossim), March 3 It is easy to differentiate between an ordinary malware from ‘state-sponsored’ ones by identifying the patters on the victims, said researchers at the 9th annual edition of the Nullcon, the international security conference, that kicked off in Goa on Friday. Leading security researcher Eva Galperin, DirectorRead More

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter has launched its ‘Bookmarks’ feature globally that will give its over 300 million users a new way of saving tweets they like and might want to revisit and share. With our new “share” icon on every Tweet, the users will be able to bookmark a tweet, shareRead More