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A New Yorker who infiltrated thousands of computers in order to run a lucrative spam bot pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court.

Sunlight causes grime on city buildings, statues and other outdoor surfaces to release chemicals that create smog, according to a new study.

“The Square Cash app for Apple Watch conveniently complements the mobile app for iPhone”, the company says. For that reason, Apple Pay has proven more transformative on Apple Watch, since the device is worn on the wrist and readily available for contactless payments.

Fossil being more of a fashion brand than a straight forward watch maker, introduced a connected bracelet, connected watch, and finally a smartwatch running Android Wear. This could well mean some newly found success on the wearable market for Android products, as we have yet to...

Twenty million years ago, this likely slippery, prehistoric amphibian got in a skirmish with another animal, had its leg bitten off, then fell into gooey resin and was fossilized forever in amber. Additionally, the salamander appears to be one of a kind, as its species has never...

Misfit and Speedo have joined hands to create a new version of the Shine button-sized fitness tracker, aimed at recording underwater activities. The major difference with the Speedo Shine is that in addition to being able to take standard Misfit sensor readings, it can also count...

Increased activity at the Cotopaxi volcano lead to a state of emergency and precautionary evacuations in Ecuador. On Friday, it shot ash 12km (seven miles) into the air.

The hackers threatened Avid Life Media, the parent company of AshleyMadison.com and sister site Established Men (for young women seeking affluent men) to shut down their websites else they would “release all customer records, including profiles with all the customers’...

Meanwhile, Android is still struggling with Stagefright, another recently revealed vulnerability.

The high insurance penetration rate in this area could make the blasts one of the most costly catastrophe claims for the Chinese insurance sector in the past few years, the report said. It is one of the government agencies responsible for regulating companies that work with...

The explosions occurred at night and they struck a mostly industrial zone otherwise the death toll could have been much higher.

Islamic leaders from 20 countries today launched a Climate Change Declaration urging governments to deliver a strong, new global climate agreement in Paris this December. It warns that the “present fee of climate change can not be sustained, and the earth’s wonderful...

Scientists stated that the intensity of El Nino has increased manifold since it last hit in the year 1997-98.

Samsung have released a new phone cover for the Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Note 5, which comes with a keyboard, very much like the ones you’ve seen on BlackBerry handsets.

A researcher named Theresa Dankovich has discovered a cheap and easy to transport method to purify drinking water. However, before Dankovich, no one tried to integrate such nanoparticles into paper to filter water.