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Does your name affect your appearance? Israeli research suggests it does
Hebrew U study shows people can guess your name based on your face at a relatively high rate, indicating that a name carries certain...
UN says : North Korea spy agency runs arms operation out of Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: It is in Kuala Lumpur’s “Little India” neighborhood, behind an unmarked door on the second floor of a rundown building, where a...
Egypt’s Christians flee terror in north Sinai security void
ISMAILIA, Egypt: After Islamic militants barged into his uncle’s house, shot him and his son dead, then looted the place and set it on...
Saudi Aramco to invest $7 bln in Malaysian oil refinery
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak announced on Monday that Saudi Arabia’s state oil company Saudi Aramco will invest $7 billion into an...
Saudi Arabia : Visit Iraq Searching a ‘Mediator’ to Establish Ties With Iran
On the first week of February Iran’s foreign minister stepped up efforts to improve ties with Gulf Arab Sunni states urging them to work with their...
Samsung Shows Two New Tablets to Target Gamers, Professionals
Samsung Electronics Co. targets gamers and professionals with two new tablets, seeking to regain ground in mobile devices after pulling its Note 7 smartphone...
Iran Preparing For War? Tehran Launches Naval Drills Amid Escalating Tensions With US
Iranian naval forces have staged large-scale military drills over an area covering some two million square kilometers amid rising tensions with the US.
The latest...
NASA Releases Image Depicting the “Heart” of Mars
NASA has published a picture of the Martian surface, depicting the bedrock of the planet.
In their caption to the picture, researchers noted that the Red...
Germany, France & Italy call for UK to pay multibillion-euro Brexit
A number of EU states, including Germany, Italy, France and the Czech Republic have expressed their approval for the European Commission’s plan to demand...
Russian Developer Creates Unique Construction Kit as an Alternative to Lego
Russian software specialist Dmitry Sokolov invented a unique construction set, based on the theoretical principles of geometry.
As compared to Lego, the new construction set called...
Cellebrite Can Now Unlock, Extract Data From iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
Cellebrite, the famous Israeli firm known for reportedly cracking the iPhone 5C of San Bernardino shooter is back in the news and this time...
Robots Job : Cleaning Nuclear Waste
To enter Europe’s largest nuclear site, a visitor must be wearing construction coveralls, steel-toed boots, a hard hat, and a pager-size device that rings...
China : Mirai Malware Distributed Through Windows Botnet
Kaspersky Lab researchers have identified that a hacker of Chinese origin is spreading a variant of Mirai using repurposed botnet running on Windows OS.
Mirai...
Hacker Shows How Easy It Is To Hack People While Walking Around in Public
Wi-Fi enabled devices — widely known as the Internet of Things (IoT) — are populating offices and homes in greater and greater numbers.
From smartphones...
BitTorrent distribution sites dropping crypto-ransomware on macOS
The “Patcher” malware downloads itself with fake Adobe Premiere Pro and Microsoft Office for Mac installer.
Cybercriminals prefer crypto-ransomware as it not only successfully targets...
