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A new program that encrypts files to extort money from users highlights that attackers don't need advanced programming skills to create dangerous and effective ransomware threats, especially when strong encryption technology is freely available.

Researchers have shown that BMP and WNT proteins are the so-called 'Turing molecules' for creating embryonic fingers.

The Timeful app is based on the simple observation that what doesn't make it onto your schedule is less likely to get done.

COULD A COMPUTER DREAMED HER UP? Daenerys Targaryen , from George RR Martin's hit book series and TV show Game of Thrones.

Bamford was a key engineer who helped Oracle build its flagship database software and then went on to create other key database products.

Call it the invasion of the computer literati: on the last day of June, 78 PhD students converged on Cambridge, England, to begin five days of networking and knowledge exchanges during the Microsoft Research Cambridge 2014 PhD Summer School, our ninth edition of this annual event.

Emotions can be powerful for individuals. But they're also powerful tools for content creators, such as advertisers, marketers, and filmmakers.

No one really knows exactly how Facebook decides what we see when we log in. Reverse-engineering the algorithm behind it could help us find out WHO controls your Facebook News Feed? We are fed a specially selected diet of jokes, photos and gossip from our Facebook friends, but not by a person.

Moribund explorer Resource Star is poised to join the rush into the cloud, striking a deal to likely backdoor list a technology start-up involving company promoters Craig Burton and Ross Smith.

Tor, the prominent system for protecting Internet privacy, said on Wednesday many of its users trying to reach hidden sites might have been identified by government-funded researchers.

The best thing about this Johnny Depp techno thriller is that Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore Labs feature prominently.

Welcome to the era of "big data." We in EDA are starting to experience this trend, as Gary Smith suggested at this year's DAC, which we interpret to mean giga-scale design challenges.

SIGGRAPH 2014, 10-14 August, has released its list of 2014 Emerging Technologies highlights to be featured at this year's conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

Madbits, a year-old company that uses deep learning technology to assign relevant information to raw images, has sold itself to Twitter, according to the Madbits website .

German photographer Martin Klimas' latest exhibition, a series of images he calls "Sonic Sculptures," is so explosive and colorful, it just may change the way you look -- yes, look -- at music.

Back in 2011, a team from Texas A&M University carried out a cyber sting to trap nonhuman Twitter users that were polluting the Twittersphere with spam.

Powered by NVIDIA Tesla , NVIDIA Quadro and NVIDIA Tegra GPUs, the next generation of systems designed by eInfochips will accelerate performance for visual computing and imaging applications.

The majority of Android devices currently in use contain a vulnerability that allows malware to completely hijack installed apps and their data or even the entire device.

Fitle is a new service that aims to provide users with a 3D avatar of themselves with which to try on clothes when shopping online A new service is promising to end the uncertainty of how clothes will look or fit when shopping on the web.

Maybe you haven't heard of or seen hyper mixed media website BuzzFeed in its entirety, but if you use Twitter and/or Facebook, then you may have seen bits and pieces of it.