Microsoft wins court approval to shut down a network of PCs which it says is responsible for billions of spam messages. Read more…
Archive for February, 2010
A hacker intent on revealing the finances of leading Latvian firms has become an unlikely TV star in the country. Read more…
The UK’s online heritage could be lost forever if an act put in place seven years ago is not clarified, a group of leading libraries warns. Read more…
Forgive Amber Johnson if she knocked you over while sprinting through the Olympic Village near Vancouver, Canada, last week. Read more…
Palm’s shares fell nearly 20% Thursday after the company’s CEO said 2010 sales would be “well below” its forecasts, citing worse-than-expected sales of its new smartphones. Read more…
Enough natural gas to fill a professional basketball arena was released into a “congested area” before an explosion this month at a power plant under construction in central Connecticut, federal investigators said Thursday. Read more…
Floating just below the International Space Station, astronaut Nicholas Patrick put some finishing touches on the newly installed cupola space windows last week. Patrick was a mission specialist onboard the space shuttle Endeavor’s recently completed STS-130 mission to the ISS. Image Credit: NASA Read more…
A new technique is being developed to detect water in the protoplanetary disks of other solar systems. If successful, it would help in our understanding of how habitable planets form. Read more…
The space shuttle program gets closer and some are surprised the Orion capsule did not survive the cut. Read more…
A bonanza of geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus are revealed in new images taken aboard the Cassini spacecraft. Read more…