The Federal Trade Commission named a former federal prosecutor to lead its antitrust inquiry in a sign that the agency is prepared to take the Internet giant to court.

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The European Space Agency has signed a contract to send a spacecraft closer to the sun than ever before.

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The Federal Trade Commission named a former federal prosecutor to lead its antitrust inquiry in a sign that the agency is prepared to take the Internet giant to court.

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Amazon.com’s net income dropped 35 percent in the first quarter as the company spent on its Kindle Fire and other projects, but earnings still beat Wall Street’s expectations.

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Amazon.com’s net income dropped 35 percent in the first quarter as the company spent on its Kindle Fire and other projects, but earnings still beat Wall Street’s expectations.

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The Federal Trade Commission named a former federal prosecutor to lead its antitrust inquiry in a sign that the agency is prepared to take the Internet giant to court.

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Samsung Electronics says profits rose 81%, boosted by smartphone sales and increased profitability at its display panel unit.

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Amazon.com’s net income dropped 35 percent in the first quarter as the company spent on its Kindle Fire and other projects, but earnings still beat Wall Street’s expectations.

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The Federal Trade Commission named a former federal prosecutor to lead its antitrust investigation in a sign that the agency is prepared to take the Internet giant to court.

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A bill allowing access to private web data on suspicion of a cyber threat passes the US House of Representatives, despite a White House veto threat.

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Amazon.com’s net income dropped 35 percent in the first quarter as the company spent on its Kindle Fire and other projects, but earnings still beat Wall Street’s expectations.

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Samsung Electronics says profits rose 81%, boosted by smartphone sales and increased profitability at its display panel unit.

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Now that hay fever season has started, sufferers are well aware of the effect of histamines. However it is easy to forget that histamine is also a neurotransmitter involved in controlling memories, regulating sleep, and controlling secretion of gastric acid. New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Developmental Biology shows that for the purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) histamine is also responsible for controlling metamorphosis from a free swimming larval form to the spiny adult living on the sea floor.

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Conservationists tackle hostile terrain to snap rarest mammals

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The Federal Trade Commission named a former federal prosecutor to lead its antitrust investigation in a sign the agency is prepared to take the Internet giant to court.

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Samsung Electronics says profits rose 81%, boosted by smartphone sales and increased profitability at its display panel unit.

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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a cyberthreat information-sharing bill that critics say will give U.S. government agencies access to the private communications of millions of Internet users.

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A bill allowing access to private web data on suspicion of a cyber threat passes the US House of Representatives, despite a White House veto threat.

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Putting the Raspberry Pi through its paces

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The Federal Trade Commission named a former federal prosecutor to lead its antitrust investigation in a sign the agency is prepared to take the Internet giant to court.

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The Federal Trade Commission named a former federal prosecutor to lead its antitrust investigation in a sign the agency is prepared to take the Internet giant to court.

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Amazon.com’s net income dropped 35 percent in the first quarter as the company spent on its Kindle Fire and other projects, but earnings still beat Wall Street’s expectations.

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A team of American researchers have created a portable, miniature microscope in the hope of reducing the time taken to diagnose oral cancer.

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A leader of Google Inc.’s driverless car project said Wednesday that the company is in discussions with major auto insurance companies about the implications of integrating its technology into real-world vehicles.

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Red Hat released a feature-packed beta of Enterprise Linux 6.3 earlier this week, making major changes in areas ranging from security to virtualization.

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The Federal Trade Commission named an outside litigator, a former federal prosecutor, to lead an antitrust investigation in a sign that the agency is preparing to go to court.

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The Feb. 27 letter from the chairman of the Colorado River Indian Tribes was pleading and tough. It asked President Barack Obama to slow the federal government’s "frantic pursuit" of massive solar energy projects in the Mojave Desert because of possible damage to Native American cultural resources.

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New technique is first step towards pan-European network for connecting optical clocks

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Increased light emission boosts cell performance

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US authorities have ordered the seizure of 36 websites engaged in selling and distributing stolen credit card numbers, officials said Thursday.

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(AP) — Clearwire Corp., which runs a wireless data network, on Thursday reported its first drop in quarter-over-quarter revenue, as a new deal with major customer Sprint Nextel Corp. kicked in.

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The agency named an outside litigator to lead an antitrust investigation in a sign that it is contemplating going to court.

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The Federal Trade Commission named an outside litigator, a former federal prosecutor, to lead an antitrust investigation in a sign that the agency is preparing to go to court.

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Online retail titan Amazon.com saw its stock price soar after the release of quarterly earnings figures that trounced forecasts, with sales skyrocketing in the first three months of the year.

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(AP) — Wal-Mart shoppers now will be able to pay cash for online purchases.

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With the advent of Google Drive, we talk about cloud computing as if the bits and bytes of our lives are stored somewhere up in the air, but, really, the "clouds" are very terrestrial. What’s more up in the air are the laws that govern who can access your stuff and how.

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Ariane Friedrich, an Olympic high-jump hopeful, published the personal details of a fan who sent her a sexually explicit message, prompting a stir in a country where the right to privacy is sacrosanct.

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Samsung, which makes the Galaxy smartphone, says its next flagship handset will use a new quad-core processor.

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The hacker who stole Facebook’s source code has gone public with a deeper explanation of how he penetrated the world’s most popular social network. Glenn Mangham, of York, England, posted a lengthy writeup on his blog and a video, saying that he accepts full responsibility for his actions and that he did not think through the potential ramifications.

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Amazon.com’s net income dropped 35 percent in the first quarter as the company spent on its Kindle Fire and other projects, but earnings still beat Wall Street’s expectations.

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(Phys.org) — Images from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveal an old star in the throes of a fiery outburst, spraying the cosmos with dust. The findings offer a rare, real-time look at the process by which stars like our sun seed the universe with building blocks for other stars, planets and even life.

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(Phys.org) — Recent discoveries of planets similar to Earth in size and proximity to the planets’ respective suns have sparked scientific and public excitement about the possibility of also finding Earth-like life on those worlds.

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The Federal Trade Commission named an outside litigator, a former federal prosecutor, to lead an antitrust investigation in a sign that the agency is preparing to go to court.

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By giving the famous and those who aspire to be an unfettered soapbox from which to spout, Twitter has become a platform for celebrities’ public spats.

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Science magazine has awarded a Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction (IBI) to Rice University’s hands-on engineering education program Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB) as a model for other schools. In the program’s first six years, more than 10 percent of Rice undergraduates have participated in BTB and produced 58 low-cost health technologies, including two that have already been broadly distributed at a national level.

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Google on Thursday confirmed that it has sold 3D computer modeling program SketchUp as the Internet titan continues streamlining its product line with co-founder Larry Page at the helm.

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French energy giant Total said Thursday it had succeeded in diverting gas that is leaking from a platform in the North Sea so that it no longer gathers in a cloud around the wellhead.

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Google Translate marked its sixth birthday on Thursday with news that more than 200 million people use the free online translation service monthly.

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Philippine government websites are under heavy attack from hackers, apparently from China, amid a tense territorial dispute between the two countries in the South China Sea, officials said Thursday.

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(AP) — Online games company Zynga reported a net loss in the first quarter because of stock compensation expenses, but adjusted earnings were better than what Wall Street expected.

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Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has accused US politicians of not having "a plan", when it comes to ensuring energy supplies in the future and becoming more energy efficient.

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The Federal Trade Commission named a former Justice Department prosecutor to lead an antitrust investigation of Google, a sign the agency is preparing to go to court.

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Oracle on Thursday is releasing updates to the standard edition of Java and the JavaFX rich client application platform, including the first delivery of the Java Development Kit and JavaFX Software Development Kit for Mac OS X. The latest enhancements for Java garbage collection and the Java Virtual Machine are featured as well.

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By giving the famous and those who aspire to be an unfettered soapbox from which to spout, Twitter has become a platform for celebrities’ public spats.

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Social media can become a source of irritation for couples. Some spouses have started insisting their partners ask for approval before broadcasting comments and photos.

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(AP) — The newest board member of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion says a turnaround could take three to five years.

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This week, virtualization software maker VMware acknowledged that a single file posted online came from the source code to its ESX hypervisor.

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By giving the famous and those who aspire to be an unfettered soapbox from which to spout, Twitter has become a platform for celebrities’ public spats.

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Ericsson posted profit that more than doubled on higher demand in Asia and Latin America and the sale of a stake in a cellphone venture with Sony.

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Anyone who has admired centuries-old sculptures and portraits displayed in museums and galleries around the world at some point has asked one question: Who is that?

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Now that you’ve got a high-definition TV, you may want to start saving up for a super-high-definition one.

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IBM’s PowerLinux product line got a substantial upgrade on Wednesday, as the company announced three new integrated offerings and two Linux-specific servers. MORE ON IBM: IBM posts flat revenue, falling hardware sales

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LinkedIn’s new application for the Apple iPad serves as a hub for
business connections, news, and social networking in one slick, though not perfect, package.

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A new study has shown that adding boron-nitride nanotubes to the surface of cancer cells can double the effectiveness of Irreversible Electroporation, a minimally invasive treatment for soft tissue tumors in the liver, lung, prostate, head and neck, kidney and pancreas. Although this research is in the very early stages, it could one day lead to better therapies for cancer.

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Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have determined the three-dimensional atomic structure of a human protein that is centrally involved in regulating the activities of cells. Knowing the precise structure of this protein paves the way for scientists to understand a process known as RNA-silencing and to harness it to treat diseases.

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Iran is busy acquiring the technical know-how to launch a potentially crippling cyber-attack on the United States and its allies, experts told a congressional hearing on Thursday, urging the US to step up its defensive measures.

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After two decades of examining a microscopic algae-eater that lives in a lake in Norway, scientists on Thursday declared it to be one of the world’s oldest living organisms and man’s remotest relative.

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Apple’s dominance over Android in the corporate tablet market grew in the first quarter, according to a survey from mobile device management and wireless email vendor Good Technology. The iPad accounted for 97.3 percent of tablets activated by enterprise users in that time period, the research found.

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Social media can become a source of irritation for couples. Some spouses have started insisting their partners ask for approval before broadcasting comments and photos.

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United States should pay attention to threat of Iranian cyber-attacks, say members of Congress and panelists.

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The EU’s energy chief Thursday deemed an almost year-long study on nuclear plant safety in Europe as short on detail and numbers and demanded further work before publication of the critical report.

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(AP) — Google is firing back at the Federal Communications Commission on an investigation that led to a $25,000 fine against the Internet search leader.

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(Phys.org) — Thanks to advances in polymer chemistry and a wide variety of monomer constituents to choose from, the world of multiblock polymers is wide open. These polymers can result in an astonishing array of materials, customizable to almost any specification. However, the flood of options could be overwhelming, without a theoretical framework to guide research. UC Santa Barbara scientists Glenn Fredrickson and Kris Delaney address that issue in their paper, "Multiblock Polymers: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?" The paper appears in the latest edition of the journal Science.

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More than 6 million birds die every year as they migrate from the United States and Canada to Central and South America, according to a new study published Apr. 25 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. The birds are killed by the 84,000 communication towers that dot North America and can rise nearly 2,000 feet into the sky.

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British industry will lead the production of Solar Orbiter, a spacecraft that will travel closer to the Sun than any satellite to date.

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Spirals newly glimpsed on the floor of a Martian valley settle a poetic debate over whether the valley was carved by fiery lava, or ice

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Microsoft has finally released Skype for Windows Phone. See what InformationWeek’s Eric Zeman had to say about it after taking it for a spin on his Nokia Lumia 800.

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Skype is one of those consumer technologies that IT hates and tries to banish, but it’s probably too late for that. There is a good consumerization-of-IT case to be made for Skype, even in use with professional unified communications products, such as Microsoft Lync.

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High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars reveal coiling spiral patterns that resemble snail or nautilus shells. Such patterns have been found in a few locations on Earth, but never before on Mars. The discovery, made by Arizona State University graduate student Andrew Ryan, is announced in a paper published April 27, 2012, in the scientific journal Science.

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Bacteria provide a well-known playground for scientists and the evolution of these earliest life forms has shed important perspective on potential therapies for some of the most common, deadly diseases. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have now discovered that, the gas nitric oxide (NO), produced in all cells of the human body for natural purposes, plays a fundamental regulatory role in controlling bacterial function, via a signaling mechanism called S-nitrosylation (SNO), which binds NO to protein molecules. In addition, the researchers discovered a novel set of 150 genes that regulate SNO production and disruption of these genes created bacterial cell damage resembling the cell damage seen in many common human diseases. Collectively these data point to new classes of antibiotics and several new disease treatments.

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One of the most debated developments in human history is the transition from hunter‑gatherer to agricultural societies. This week’s edition of Science presents the genetic findings of a Swedish‑Danish research team, which show that agriculture spread to Northern Europe via migration from Southern Europe.

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A camera which develops written descriptions rather than pictures has been created by a student in New York.

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Ninety percent of the Internet’s top 200,000 HTTPS-enabled websites are vulnerable to known types of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) attack, according to a report released Thursday by the Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM), a nonprofit organization dedicated to solving Internet security, privacy and reliability problems.

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By giving the famous and those who aspire to be an unfettered soapbox from which to spout, Twitter has become a platform for celebrities’ public spats.

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Levels of copper, cadmium, lead and other metals in Southern California’s coastal waters have plummeted over the past four decades, according to new research from USC.

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A new study from Educational and Psychological Measurement (published by SAGE) found that when it comes to homophobic bullying, there could be a gender gap. While male victims are more likely to be bullied by male homophobic bullies, female victims are bullied by both males and females equally. Additionally, those surveyed for the research reported hearing a low number of verbal homophobic remarks towards gay men compared to other forms of non-verbal homophobic bullying.

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Reports indicate that the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone will be announced by mid-August and will be launched in October, somewhat earlier than expected. An October launch would give Research in Motion several weeks’ advantage with holiday sales, which are much needed by RIM, especially in North American markets.

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Facebook has launched Anti-virus Marketplace – a new portal to protect the social network’s users from malware.

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Is this really the golden age for inventors?

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She has been the US secretary of state, a senator and nearly became president, but Hillary Clinton joked Thursday that she might want to try another role — space tourist.

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(AP) — Any new arrival to New York City wants to visit the sights – and the space shuttle Enterprise is no different.

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(AP) — Time Warner Cable Inc. reported an 18 percent increase in first-quarter net income Thursday, as acquisitions and new broadband customers boosted revenue.

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Increased intake of dietary calcium may be key to addressing widespread dental health problems faced by millions of rural residents in Ethiopia’s remote, poverty-stricken Main Rift Valley, according to a new Duke University-led study.

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Nintendo, the Japanese game giant, has reported its first annual loss after disappointing sales of its Wii game console and a strong yen hit revenues.

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Researchers reporting in the April 27 issue of the journal Cell have devised a new and improved method for producing genetically modified animals for use in scientific research. The method relies on haploid embryonic stem cells (haESCs) instead of sperm to artificially fertilize immature egg cells. Such stem cells are similar to sperm in that they carry only genetic material from a mouse "dad."

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Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have unraveled a complex chemical pathway that enables bacteria to form clusters called biofilms. Such improved understanding might eventually aid the development of new treatments targeting biofilms, which are involved in a wide variety of human infections and help bacteria resist antibiotics.

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New York University biologists have discovered new mechanisms that control how proteins are expressed in different regions of embryos, while also shedding additional insight into how physical traits are arranged in body plans. Their findings, which appear in the journal Cell, call for reconsideration of a decades-old biological theory.

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Nearly a year after U.S. Special Forces killed Osama bin Laden, the events of May 1, 2011 remain one of the busiest traffic periods in Twitter history. More than 5,000 tweets were sent per second when Twitter became the first source with news of bin Laden’s death. But how did the news break and quickly spread across the Twittersphere?

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Ericsson posted profit that more than doubled on higher demand in Asia and Latin America and the sale of a stake in a cellphone venture with Sony.

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Hacker Hardcore Charlie reveals stolen VMware source code and documents from Asian defense contractors, promises more disclosures in May.

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