Security researchers from Norman put their imagination to good use and came up with four doomsday scenarios that could happen if Internet-enabled home appliances such as toasters, fridges, TVs, and alarm clocks would be somehow compromised by hackers.
While the theories seem a bit far-fetched, in a future where ever... |
30 April 2012
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There is among creationists a group of people who support the idea of intelligent design, which basically states that the process of evolution, in the Universe and on Earth, was guided by a higher power. Now, researchers demonstrated belief in ID is oftentimes motivated by the fear of death.
Those who believe in t... |
2 April 2011
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Even when I was but a little boy, I had respect for science. The people in my family have it as well, with them being engineers and doctors and whatnot. They may not have agreed that evolution is the way humans evolved, but they were in doubt on this matter, especially my doctor mother. She believes in God, but canno... |
12 September 2009
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Fans of conspiracy / alien theories had hoped the new millennium would finally prove them right, not necessarily in the sense that it would bring about the end of the world, but that some sort of catastrophe would hit, just like they had predicted years before. 06/06/06 came and went rather uneventfully, to their rat... |
9 September 2009
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Some scientists are currently pushing for a renaming of the theory that states all things evolve from common ancestors through various adaptations to their environment. Instead of calling it Darwinian evolution, the team behind the proposal simply wants to name it the Theory of Evolution. This change will not be impl... |
11 February 2009
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The Baltimore Sun's David Zeiler has a piece about James Daley, a writer for The Independent newspaper of the U.K., who claims Apple is deliberately releasing bad software updates to iPod owners "with the intent of disabling them." The reason? So people buy more iPods, of course...Daley's only sources backi... |
8 April 2008
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We tend to regard the Western World as the cradle of science, but many new findings show the falsity of this concept. Now, it appears that a less famous school of scholars in southwest India is the place where one of the basic principles of modern mathematics was born, three centuries before Newton was credited with ... |
15 August 2007
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