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Monitoring the underground hacking forums, the analysts at Panda Security have come across a malware spreading tool that can be used even by the less programming-aware individuals. The tool provides a simple interface for creating a YouTube look-alike website which can be used to spread any malicious file.The program... |
12 September 2008
10:47 GMT |
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America still had to wait for an Ice Age to pass when modern humans entered Australia. Australian Aborigines make one of the world's oldest continuous culture (perhaps just the Bushmen of South Africa are older); some Australian archaeological sites revealed a 40,000-year-old Aboriginal presence. Now, a researc... |
8 April 2008
04:28 GMT |
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Anthropologists are still debating what gave Homo sapiens a step ahead over the Neanderthals so that our evolutionary cousin disappeared about 30,000 years ago. Ian Gilligan, a postgraduate researcher from the Australian National University, comes with a new theory in his study, published in the journal "World Archeo... |
7 February 2008
06:25 GMT |
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Facebook is the breeding ground at the moment for the applications that seem to be appearing out of thin air. It is the best means of advertising that an app maker could have ever dreamed of (except the case it were to be Microsoft) and the best way to make yourself noticed by some of the bigger guys in the game.Sadl... |
14 January 2008
04:51 GMT |
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You cannot live without French fries and chips, can you? Well, it seems this has something to do with our remote ancestry. Anthropologist Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar of the University of Southern California has found for the first time proofs that chimps dig by using tools in order to eat tubers, roots, and bulbs, a fi... |
14 November 2007
03:06 GMT |
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The default installation of Windows Vista weighs in at approximately 8 GB. In fact, Microsoft's latest operating system won't even install with less than 15 GB of space available on the hard drive. This is valid for both the low-end and the high-end editions of the platform. A full Vista installation will t... |
29 September 2007
09:27 GMT |
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People were still carving stone for tools when they started seafaring adventures. Tools of the most ancient seafarers known by now were found on the seabed off Cyprus: they are over 12,000 years old, long before the island became populated with its first permanent inhabitants, 10,000 B.C. The newly found items could ... |
20 July 2007
05:37 GMT |
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This looks like another Congolese myth: huge jungle apes that kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon. The legends speak about a legendary creature, a type of hybrid between a chimp and a gorilla.But how to investigate this in the middle of one of the bloodiest conflicts on the planet, the civil war in the D... |
16 July 2007
03:48 GMT |
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This eruption was almost as disastrous as the meteorite impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. 74,000 years ago, the Sumatran Toba (western Indonesia) volcano threw the world in a volcanic winter followed by a severe ice age after expelling 720 cubic miles (3,000 cubic kilometers) of magma and huge amounts of sulfuric ... |
6 July 2007
03:26 GMT |
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We can proudly say that our species was the only innovator hominid, and our predecessors were just clumsy apes. Yet this opinion appears arrogant, as a new research has shown that in the Middle Paleolithic, some 300,000 years ago, Neanderthals were capable of innovation.The Paleolithic is regarded as a slow evolving ... |
18 June 2007
09:27 GMT |
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A company is developing a new virtual fence that would give livestock the impression of being in an unlimited space, while protecting the environment by removing the need for real fences and reducing the labor.Building a fence might not seem such a big deal, but the process may take some time, requiring man power and... |
15 June 2007
09:45 GMT |
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You think that only Westerners can steal Daoist sexual practices, martial arts, silk, gunpowder and paper, don't you?Chimpanzees too have been found to easily take customs and culture from one population to another, just like the humans. This could explain the capabilities of the last common ancestor of humans a... |
9 June 2007
04:18 GMT |
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The search giant's RSS reader is now receiving more attention from the company's employee and is promoted even more than before the release of Google Gears and the interoperability with Google Reader. Although the offline accessibility is quite important, Google wants to make Reader famous and tries to enco... |
7 June 2007
03:06 GMT |
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Microsoft has poured a consistent amount of effort into smoothing out the transition from Windows XP to its latest and most secure platform to date, Windows Vista. With in excess of 82% of the world's desktops running XP, Microsoft understood it had to ensure support for the migration to Windows Vista. The fact ... |
29 May 2007
09:29 GMT |
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Windows Vista delivers an impressive line up of network tools that can be used to keep the operating system connectivity on a short leash. The total of 12 command-line tools can be used to manage all aspects of Vista networking. Users will be able not only to closely monitor the networking activity of the platform, b... |
28 May 2007
12:10 GMT |
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There are tons of cutlery designs, but the general approach never seems to change: fork-left, knife and spoon-right. OK. Well, if you're looking for a challenge when it comes to eating "tools", you're probably going to love this. Here it goes. The fork- knife-spoon tool was designed by Kazuyo Komoda (probab... |
10 May 2007
16:06 GMT |
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It may be hard to believe, but kitchen utensils are not only ordinary, every-day-life instruments, they can also provide us with important lessons in physics in general, but especially in crystallography and condensed-matter physics.How do they make a knife so tough and sharp? Which knives are better, smooth or ser... |
4 May 2007
15:41 GMT |
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