n overall view of a massive fish kill in the Bayou Chaland area of Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana is pictured in this handout photograph taken on September 10, 2010. The cause of the fish kill has not yet been determined, but the area they were discovered in was impacted by oil from the BP oil spill. Among the fish dead were pogie fish, redfish, shrimp, crabs and freshwater …

Mazlan Othman, a Malaysian astrophysicist, is set to be tasked with co-ordinating humanity’s response if and when extraterrestrials make contact. Aliens who landed on earth and asked: “Tak …

Hossein Derakhshan, 35, who has both Iranian and Canadian nationality, won his nickname after developing a blog platform for Persian characters that was widely copied by online activists and commentators. While living in Canada and Britain he became known as a defender of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, against attacks from his many critics in the West. But he also …

Research In Motion may use a developers' conference next week to announce plans for a tablet computer to compete with Apple's iPad and Amazon's, the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday. RIM, the company that makes the BlackBerry smartphone, has been widely expected to join the tablet market this year with a product dubbed BlackPad. RIM recently claimed the www.blackpad.com …

The Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi has been in the news lately, all for the wrong reasons. There were plenty of complaints exposed by the international media like construction delay in the completion of stadiums, roads, other infrastructures makeover and even the athlete villages. Media pundits are betting that the Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010 which is scheduled to start this …

Twitterers should watch out for a security flaw on Twitter that can automatically redirect users to third-party sites and launch pop-ups--even without users clicking on the spurious links. Initially dubbed the Twitter "mouseover bug"--just hovering your mouse over an infected link can launch pop-ups and third-party sites--the exploit, which uses the onMouseover Javascript …

ONLINE scams targeting young people are proliferating faster than you can say, 'free trial offer, send money today'. As a result, billions are lost as online criminals target the young. About 10 per cent of all internet users lost a combined $1.2 billion in Australia to various scams last year, according to industry research. Hundreds of thousands also lost personal …

Seek adult contents and ye shall not find. A number of new internet search engines created by Christian, Jewish or Muslim entities aim to filter out queries from web users in a way that is more relevant to those users and keeps them from temptation, alcohol and pornography. Meaning, censored results. "We think that the other search engines are way too 'main street' oriented. …

Social networking website Facebook said on Sunday it is pushing deeper into the mobile phones sector, but denied an Internet report that it will build its own phone. Privately held Facebook has more than 500 million users worldwide and the company already has applications on a number of mobile phones that tie into its social networking website. But Jaime Schopflin, a …

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