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Chemicals in lavender and tea tree oil appear to be hormone disruptors
A new study lends further evidence to a suspected link between abnormal breast growth in young boys—called prepubertal gynecomastia—and regular exposure to lavender or...
A Little Anger in Negotiations Pays
During negotiations, high-intensity anger elicits smaller concessions than moderate-intensity anger, according to a new study by management and business experts at Rice University and...
Hackers Hide Monero Cryptominer in Scarlett Johansson’s Picture
Security researchers have identified a new but unusually distributed Monero cryptominer scam campaign involving the face of a popular celebrity.
The IT security researchers at...
PS4 Firmware 4.55 Modified to Be Compatible with Firmware 5.50
It was just last week when hackers identified a way to exploit PlayStation 4 (PS4) Firmware 4.05 or 4.55 for running Linux via the...
Smart home devices can be hacked within minutes through Google search
The Internet of Things (IoT) devices, especially smart home devices, are built to get things done conveniently and to some extent, these devices have been...
Walmart Jewelry Partner Exposes Data of Millions of Customers
Unsecured Amazon S3 Bucket Claims Another Victim – This Time, Private Data of 1.3 Million Limogés Jewelry Customers Have Been Exposed.
Have you heard about...
Syria : US Prepared Militants for Conducting Chemical Attacks
Provocations by US-trained militants groups using chemical weapons will serve as a pretext for the United States to attack Syria, and Moscow has seen...
Check Point billionaire seeks to make Israel global leader in healthcare
Marius Nacht's nonprofit is enrolling the best health-sector minds to open bottlenecks and help speed up developments in still largely untapped market
Billionaire Marius Nacht, the...
Obesity and health problems: New research on a safeguard mechanism
Obesity and its negative impacts on health - including metabolic syndrome, type-2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular complications - are a global pandemic (Taubes, 2009).
The...
AAC : The technology that gave Stephen Hawking a voice
Stephen Hawking was one of the most prominent people in history to use a high-tech communication aid known as augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).
His death comes...
Black Hole : ‘Virtual Particles’ Could Create Dark
There might be a massive, dead star out there that bends the stuff of raw vacuum and prevents itself from collapsing into a black...
How to Build a Computer With Free Will
Do you have free will?
Can you make your own decisions?
Or are you more like an automaton, just moving as required by your...
Why Older People Might Lose Their Way
Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Disease (DZNE) have found a possible explanation for the difficulty in spatial orientation experienced sometimes by elderly...
Existence of new form of electronic matter
Researchers have produced a "human scale" demonstration of a new phase of matter called quadrupole topological insulators that was recently predicted using theoretical physics....
Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37
Adrian Lamo, the hacker who tipped off the FBI about Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning, dies at the age of 37, according to a Facebook...
