Tens of thousands of computers in nearly 100 countries were infected, Britain's health system was disrupted and global shipper FedEx was impacted by a global cyber attack leveraging hacking tools believed to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency.   Malicious malware...

In order to help iron out the imbalances that are present on Germany's power network, a pilot project that will tap home photovoltaic (PV) systems has bene undertaken and launched by grid operator Tennet and solar battery maker Sonnen GmbH.   By the end of the month of May, 6,000 household...

Just four days after Tesla Inc boss Elon Musk offered to save the state from blackouts by installing large-scale battery storage, a A$510 million ($385 million) to keep the lights on was outlined by South Australia, the country's most renewable-energy dependent state.   The development of a...

Jokers are sending messages stuffed with emojis which cause recipients’ iPhones or iPads to freeze by exploiting a bug in iOS.   Aimed at crashing iPhones and iPads using the power of simple text, flag and rainbow emojis, a bug in iOS  is being exploited in a prank.   There...

After being separated from her mate, a leopard shark in an Australian aquarium has reproduced asexually.   It is only the third reported case among all vertebrate species and the first reported case of a shark switching from sexual to asexual or parthenogenetic reproduction.  ...

Funding for more testing of Argus II, otherwise known as the 'bionic eye', would be provided by the National Health Scheme (NHS), the British agency has recently announced.    NHS (National Health Service) England said very recently that surgery that will see an implant placed in their...

Aiming to cut the journey time between Abu Dhabi and Al Ain to as little as eight minutes is an American hyperloop company.   To explore locations for stations and tracks within the next few months, Abu Dhabi's Department of Municipal Affairs and Transport signed an agreement on Monday with...

Bitcoins, the web-based digital currency, would be sold on its ticket machines by Switzerland's national railways firm SBB as the firm is branching out next month with the launch of a new service.   The state-owned company announced on Friday that in a two-year experiment that will test...

Diamond has always faced a conflict question - Why not grow a stone in a laboratory, free from bloody wars and ethical conflicts that taint the $79 billion diamond industry?   And it is questions like these that was the reason for the birth of companies like Ada Diamonds — a start-up make...

A millennial who had only recently been allowed to set foot on a Wall Street floor, was obviously in deep trouble as he made bad bets and lost $4.9 million in a single afternoon  in a panic to recoup his losses.   But this wasn’t the end to his career as he was simply taking part in a...

Joshua Neally was helped to reach the nearest hospital in time by his brand-new Tesla Model X when he started having severe chest pains and potentially saved his life.   The 37 year old Neally felt a sudden biting pain in his chest when the air was sucked from his lungs while he was...