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Five Charged After Chinese Teen Sells Kidney to Buy iPhone

The five included a surgeon who removed a kidney from a 17-year-old boy in April last year. The boy, identified only by his surname Wang, now suffers from renal deficiency, Xinhua quoted prosecutors in Chenzhou city, Hunan province as saying. According to the Xinhua account, o …

Java-based Web Attack Installs Hard-to-detect Malware in RAM

A hard-to-detect piece of malware that doesn't create any files on the affected systems was dropped onto the computers of visitors to popular news sites in Russia in a drive-by download attack, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab. Drive-by downl …

When did you get your very first computer? (Poll)

This is a great question: over 24 years ago in 1987. That was the time when mainly businesses had computers, not people at home.

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Kenyan chief foils robbery via Twitter, highlights reach of social media

Chief Francis Kariuki said he got a call in the dead of the night that thieves had broken into a neighbor's house. He turned to Twitter, which allows users to send messages in 140 characters or less, to reach his community instantly.

Major nanotechnology advance: DNA robot could kill cancer cells

Report: "The researchers designed the structure of the nanorobots using open-source software, called Cadnano, developed by one of the authors — Shawn Douglas, a biophysicist at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

'Anonymous' hackers intercept conversation between FBI and Scotland Yard on how to deal with hackers

The conversation covered updates to on-going court cases, the recent arrest of a 15-year-old for hacking his school website, and even touched on cheese and the merits of Sheffield.

Saudi Hacker 0x0mar from Mexico - identity uncovered by Israeli Student

 After few hours, Amir Fedida, an Israeli blogger uncovered the identity of the Saudi hacker 0xOmar who leaked the personal details of Israeli, Saudi hacker denying them as “another failure of Israeli”

Twitter unhappy about incorporation of Google+ into Google search

Twitter has complained about changes made by Google to integrate its social network Google+ into search results. The new feature, called Search plus Your World, will automatically push results from Google+ up the search rankings.

Apple founding papers sold at auction for nearly $1.6m

The documents were signed by the firm's three co-founders, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on 1 April 1976. The papers include an amendment added 11 days later when Mr Wayne quit.

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