Teenager arrested over PlayStation and Xbox Live Xmas hacking attacks
A British teenager has been arrested in connection with the Christmas hacking denial-of-service attacks that crashed Sony's PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox live and left...
BP Gulf spill fine to be capped at $13.7 billion
District Court Judge Carl Barbier ruled that 3.19 million barrels of oil leaked into the sea in 2010 after the rig explosion at BP’s...
Raise wages now that oil prices have fallen, Cameron urges employers
Employers should reward their workers with higher wages now that oil prices have fallen and companies are making more money, British Prime Minister David...
Ocean life faces colossal threat from human activity, warn scientists
Humans are plundering the oceans with seafloor mining, shrimp farms, satellite-guided giant-scale sea-fishing with a gold-rush-like fervor that threatens to destroy much of its...
Elon Musk wants to build a Hyperloop test track in Texas
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, announced on Thursday that he is in the process of developing and building a test loop...
Swiss franc surge causes chaos in currency markets
The currency markets have been in chaos because of the sudden decision by Switzerland to remove its currency peg to the euro.
The Swiss...
Google in talks to buy the mobile-payments firm Softcard
Google Inc is in talks to acquire Softcard, the mobile-payments company, according to a report by TechCrunch that cited people familiar with the matter.
The...
2014 was the warmest year since record keeping began
New data reveals that 2014 was the hottest year since scientists began keeping records 135 years ago.
According to climate experts at NASA and the...
Kepler telescope discovers planet that may support life
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope discovered a star with three planets, one of which could have what it takes to support life, something that has...
Beagle 2 Mars Lander found twelve years later
The British-led Beagle 2 Mars Lander, which scientists believed had been lost in 2003, has been found partially deployed on the red planet’s surface,...