UK to significantly boost defence spending
The UK government will boost the amount it invests in intelligence and double spending in aviation security amid the increasing threat of Isis attacks....
Facebook responds to criticism, will broaden Safety Check
Thousands of people in the Paris area used Facebook on Friday to let friends and family know they were safe after a wave of terrorist...
Japan enters recession, GDP contracts in Q3
The Japanese economy contracted an annualized 0.8 percent in the third quarter after a 0.7 percent decline in the previous quarter. The country has fallen...
Huge Pluto area has no craters, say astonished NASA scientists
A huge area on the surface of Pluto is completely crater free, an image of the dwarf planet produced by NASA’s New Horizons scientists...
Dark matter may have put us here and got rid of the dinosaurs
What if dark matter is responsible for putting us – humans – here, and getting rid of the dinosaurs? Lisa Randall, a theoretical physicists...
Climate change may push 100 million people back into poverty by 2030
Climate change has the potential to push over 100 million people back into extreme poverty by 2030, says a new World Bank report, with...
UK to hold emergency response meeting after terrorist attacks in Paris
An emergency meeting will be held by the British government after the devastating terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 129 people, according to a...
Exoplanet with 5400 mph winds and 1200 °C temperature discovered
Scientists have discovered an exoplanet with 5400 winds and a surface temperature of 1200 °C about 63 light years from Earth. A team from...
Yandex extends Google antitrust battle to the EU
Yandex, the biggest search website in Russia, has asked the European Commission to investigate alleged anti-competitive practices by Google related to how it bundles...
Windows 10 outperforms Valve’s SteamOS in benchmark tests
Microsoft's Windows 10 outperformed Valve's SteamOS in a series of benchmark tests carried out by Ars Technica.
The results of the tests showed SteamOS lagging behind Windows...