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The hacker attack on the Armenian beta version of the famous social networking web site Facebook was over by yesterday afternoon. Facebook's Armenian users identified ...

The discoveries were made in Happisburgh, in the north of Norfolk. At the time there was a land bridge connecting what is now southern Britain with continental Europe ...

Here is an important tip that will be of help: if there are more than three translation versions of the same word or expression, then only the first three can be seen simultaneously ...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II received a BlackBerry handset as a gift while touring the headquarters of its maker, Research in Motion, and even donned some 3D glasses during her Canadian visit ...

"The docking was executed flawlessly by Progress' Kurs automated rendezvous system," said the US space agency Nasa. The cargo vessel, which launched on 30 June, is carrying 2.6 ...

While some cyber criminals handcraft their own attack tools, many others take advantage of the so-called malware kits that are widely available online ...

“The main upgrading works of the network are finalized, and we now observe a much higher usage and quality. But we still continue working on its improvement every day ...

"I think that pan-national issues must not be solved by people who have had foreign education - something our prime minister and education minister are seeking - because those who get ...

"Traditionally clean and dirty tasks are carried out by the same person," infection control nurse Lesley Shepherd said. "Here, you'll have the robots that do dirty tasks, so they may take dirty ...

Sony has lifted the lid on the games it hopes to release over the next 12 months, with 3D a key aspect of the new range. At a press briefing at the E3 games expo ...

"The social network should tighten up the way it handles the 'liking' of external webpages before it is more widely abused by malicious hackers and spammers ...

The Moon might be much wetter than previously thought, a group of scientists has said. A US-led team analysed the mineral apatite in lunar rocks picked up ...

A 5,500-year-old shoe recently found in Armenia during an excavation jointly conducted by Armenian, Irish and American archeologists will in 3-4 days be exhibited in ...

Privacy International has revealed it will approach the Police regarding Google's recent admission it had mistakenly collected data from unsecured ...

As a first step the researchers trawled pornographic sites to classify what they found and how the industry was structured. The big distinction was between free sites ...