Yahoo users exposed to malware attack

Yahoo.com visitors over the last few days may have been served with malware via the Yahoo ad network, according to Fox IT, a security firm in the Netherlands. Users visiting pages with the malicious ads were redirected to sites armed with code that exploits vulnerabilities in Java and installs a variety of different malware...

Scientists: Police can identify suspects' faces from victims' eyes

Rob Jenkins and a team of scientists at the University of York's Department of Psychology have demonstrated that people can recognize a suspects' face reflected in a victims's cornea 80 percent of the time:..

Scientists discover a naturally occurring hormone that blocks marijuana buzz

A group of scientists from the French Institute of Health and Medical Research may have discovered the buzzkill in hormone form. It's called Pregnenolone, and a new study suggests it may be released as a natural response to counteract the mental effects of marijuana. Researchers discovered the effect by administering massive doses of marijuana to lab rats...

Arctic blast to drop temperatures in U.S. to lows not seen in years (pics)

A deep freeze is spreading across much of the United States this weekend, making the nor'easter that just blanketed about 20 states with snow look like a mere curtain raiser.

Nearly half the nation -- 140 million people -- will shiver in temperatures of zero or lower by Wednesday.

The arctic blast threatens to sweep subzero lows as far south as...

Apple Acquires SnappyLabs, Maker of SnappyCam Burst Photo App

Apple has acquired SnappyLabs, a one-man app maker behind the now-discontinued SnappyCam app. The app was removed from the App Store -- along with its websiteand social media presence -- just before the end of the year.

According to TechCrunch, which first reported the acquisition:

Sources have since affirmed that the company was acquired by Apple, and that there was also acquisition interest “from most of the usual players”, meaning other tech giants. I...

How to Downgrade Windows 8 Pro to Windows 7

The Professional edition of Windows 8 comes with “downgrade rights.” If you’re not happy with Windows 8 on a new computer, you can downgrade it to Windows 7 for free – as long as you have Windows 8 Pro...

Seeing Through the Haze of iCloud

As with a lot of Apple products and services, iCloud’s simplicity is a gift and a curse: This built-in syncing and backup system works in the background without a lot of tinkering on your end, but you’re probably not entirely sure how it works.

I know this because over the holidays, my friends and family members took a break from...

Τα λουκέτα στην Ελλάδα το 2013 - Εταιρείες και εμβληματικά καταστήματα που έμειναν στην ιστορία

Το 2013 ήταν μία ακόμη δύσκολη χρονιά για την ελληνική βιομηχανία και το εμπόριο καθώς ένας μεγάλος αριθμός εταιρειών δεν άντεξε υπό την πίεση της ύφεσης και της κατακόρυφης πτώσης της κατανάλωσης. 

Δεν λείπουν όμως και οι περιπτώσεις εταιρειών που πληρώνουν τις λάθος...

Pirate Bay Uploads Surge 50% in a Year, Despite Anti-Piracy Efforts

Over the past year copyright holders have worked hard to stop The Pirate Bay from operating, but without success. Despite several domain changes and ISP blockades in various countries the resilient torrent site keeps on growing. This growth is reflected in the number of uploaded torrents, which increased by 50% over the past year. 

The Pirate Bay now lists over 2.8 million files, with video being the most shared content.

2013 has been an eventful year for The Pirate Bay, to say the least...

Πρώτη αύξηση για καταθέσεις εσωτερικού

Για πρώτη φορά από τον Δεκέμβριο του 2012, οι καταθέσεις κατοίκων Κύπρου  αυξήθηκαν τον Νοέμβριο  του 2013. Συγκεκριμένα, ανήλθαν από 32.5δις ευρώ τον Οκτώβριο σε 32.8δις ευρώ. Πρόκειται για μία μικρή άνοδο ενδεχομένως και περιστασιακή, ωστόσο θεωρείται θετική εξέλιξη...

Ην. Βασίλειο: Ανοδικά οι τιμές κατοικιών

Άνοδο κατέγραψαν οι τιμές κατοικιών στο Ην. Βασίλειο το Δεκέμβριο, κλείνοντας το καλύτερο έτος για την αγορά ακινήτων από το 2006 σύμφωνα με τη Nationwide Building Society. 

Όπως αναφέρει το πρακτορείο Bloomberg, οι αξίες σκαρφάλωσαν κατά 1,4% από το Νοέμβριο φτάνοντας στο...

Billionaires Worth $3.7 Trillion Surge as Gates Wins 2013

The richest people on the planet got even richer in 2013, adding $524 billion to their collective net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s 300 wealthiest individuals.

The aggregate net worth of the world’s top billionaires stood at $3.7 trillion at the market close on Dec. 31, according to the ranking. The biggest gains came in the...

Dubai 2014 firework display breaks world record (pics & video)

Dubai (AFP) - Dubai shattered the world record for the largest ever pyrotechnic display on New Year's Eve with a show involving more than half a million fireworks, Guinness World Records said Wednesday.

"Ten months in planning, over 500,000 fireworks were used during the display which lasted around six minutes, with Guinness World...

Από σήμερα η Ελλάδα στο «τιμόνι» της Ε.E.

Η κυβέρνηση θέλει να αποδείξει ότι παρά την κρίση, μπορεί να αντιμετωπίσει επιτυχώς τις ευρωπαϊκές προκλήσεις - Αιχμές από τον γερμανικό Τύπο με το Spiegel να διερωτάται αν το χάος και η αστάθεια παραλύσουν τη χώρα και την Ευρώπη...

4.6 Million Snapchat User Names and Phone Numbers Leaked (Check Yours)

Oh dear. In an inauspicious start to 2014 for both Snapchat and its users, a website appears to have published user name and phone number information for 4.6 million accounts.

The leaked user info from SnapchatDB matches phone numbers to user names, and in some was in retrospect probably inevitable. Just a week ago, a group of researchers calling themselves Gibson Security not only publicized how easy it would be to acquire data like this from...

Google-acquired Bump shutting down this month

Some three months after being acquired by Google, Bump — a company that makes data sharing tools — is calling it quits. 

In a blog post today Bump CEO and cofounder David Lieb said that Bump and Flock will be shut down on January 31, 2014 given that the team working on it are "now deeply focused on our new...

Η Ισπανία βγήκε επίσημα από το πρόγραμμα διάσωσης

Η Ισπανία βγήκε επισήμως από το πρόγραμμα αρωγής των τραπεζών της το οποίο της είχε προσφέρει την άνοιξη του 2012 η ευρωζώνη, ανακοίνωσε σήμερα, Τρίτη, το ευρωπαϊκό ταμείο στήριξης χαιρετίζοντας μια «εντυπωσιακή επιτυχία».

«Το σχέδιο αρωγής του Ευρωπαϊκού Μηχανισμού Σταθερότητας για την Ισπανία τερματίζεται σήμερα με επιτυχία. Από την έναρξή του, ο ΕΜΣ κατέβαλε 41,3 δισ. ευρώ στην ισπανική κυβέρνηση για την...

S&P 500 Climbs to Record - Dashes 30%, Posts Best Year Since 1997

U.S. stocks rose to records, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index posting its biggest annual advance since 1997, as gains in consumer confidence and housing prices bolstered confidence in the world’s largest economy.

The S&P 500 added 0.4 percent to an all-time high of 1,848.35 at 4 p.m. in New York. The equities...

Παρατείνεται για δύο μήνες το τουριστικό ωράριο

Νέο διάταγμα για το ωράριο των καταστημάτων θα εκδώσει σήμερα το Υπουργείο Εργασίας, ανακοίνωσε μετά τη συνεδρία του Υπουργικού Συμβουλίου η υπουργός Εργασίας και Κοινωνικών Ασφαλίσεων, Ζέτα Αιμιλιανίδου.

Η κ. Αιμιλιανίδου δήλωσε ότι η επέκταση του ωραρίου των...

These Emotional Heatmaps Could Unlock The Secrets Of How We Feel

A new study maps how different emotions are felt within the body, with profound implications for ways to control how we feel.

"We often think the emotions are something that happen only in the mind, but there's also lots of evidence suggesting that they also happen in our bodies," lead author Lauri Nummenmaa, of the Aalto...