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Smart bracelet protects aid workers

YoopyaApr 5, 20130

A hi-tech bracelet could soon be helping civil rights and aid workers at risk of being kidnapped or killed. When triggered, the personal alarm uses

Chatham House report: Famine risks are badly managed

YoopyaApr 5, 20130

Famine early warning systems have a good track record of predicting food shortages but are poor at triggering early action, a report has concluded. The

Mobile phone celebrates 40th anniversary

YoopyaApr 4, 20130

The first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago today, on 3 April 1973. Marty Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival

‘China’s Google’ Baidu is making smart glasses

YoopyaApr 4, 20130

Baidu, China’s largest search engine, is working on its own smart glasses technology – similar to Google’s Glass project. A spokesman for the Chinese firm

European data watchdogs target Google over privacy

YoopyaApr 3, 20130

Six European data protection agencies are contemplating legal action over Google’s privacy policy. The threat comes as a four-month deadline to change the policy expires

SEC says companies may announce key data on social media

YoopyaApr 3, 20130

(Reuters) – Regulators said on Tuesday that companies can use Twitter, Facebook and other social media to make key announcements as long as they tell

Italian Scientist Gian Paolo Vanoli Says Vaccines Produce Homosexuality

YoopyaApr 2, 2013January 15, 20230

An Italian scientist is arguing that vaccinations produce homosexuality. Gian Paolo Vanoli, a 70-year-old scientist, journalist and opponent of vaccinations, says that vaccines make people gay.

‘Petaflop’ supercomputer is decommissioned

YoopyaApr 1, 20130

A US supercomputer called Roadrunner has been switched off by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The machine was the first to operate

Soyuz spacecraft docks at ISS after just six hours

YoopyaMar 29, 20130

A Soyuz space capsule has docked at the International Space Station (ISS) after a journey of less than six hours. The three-man crew is the

Privacy ‘impossible’ with Google Glass warn campaigners

YoopyaMar 29, 20130

Google Glass and other augmented reality gadgets risk creating a world in which privacy is impossible, warn campaigners. The warning comes from a group called