A little-known service has been leaking the real-time locations of US cell phone users to anyone who takes the time to exploit an easily spotted bug in a free trial feature, security news site KrebsOnSecurity reported Thursday.
LocationSmart, as the service is known, identifies the locations of phones connected to...
The bizarre recent tale of ZTE is getting another wrinkle. Earlier today, a bipartisan House Appropriations Committee unanimously voted to accept an amendment to uphold sanctions against the company.
The amendment to the 2019 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations bill is, of course, being viewed as a rebuke of the...
Healthier diets were associated with larger brain tissue volume in a long-running Dutch cohort study, suggesting that nutrition might affect neurodegeneration through brain structure.
Better overall diet quality was related to larger total brain volume, gray matter, white matter, and hippocampal volume, according to Meike Vernooij, MD, PhD, of the...
Earth-like planets with severe tilts and orbits could enter abrupt "snowball states," in which entire oceans freeze and surface life cannot survive, according to new research.
Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have found a new reason why, just because a planet is located in a "habitable zone" —...
Don't write off department stores just yet.
Traditional retailing may still be under pressure from online retailers such as Amazon, but results released Wednesday by Macy's show there's still plenty of hope as the sector evolves and transforms itself.
Macy's experienced a sales surge at the start of the year as...
Since 2016, more than two dozen senior executives have left Elon Musk's electric vehicle company, Tesla. The stream of exits begs the question: What's it like to work for the billionaire boss?
The president and chief operating officer of another one of Musk's companies, SpaceX, who's worked with the iconic...
A common cause of female infertility - polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) - may be due to a hormonal imbalance before birth, researchers have found.
Researchers have been able to cure it in mice, and a clinical trial in human women is due to begin later this year, the New Scientist...
The horizon seems to stretch toward infinity on Earth's surface, where the vast majority of us will spend our entire lives.
But photos from space don't lie about the real stature of our home planet.
Earth is a puny, insignificant speck that floats in an endless black void, and a new...
Seattle’s newly passed employee head tax includes a pledge to spend millions on affordable housing, but the tax will add just 5.5 percent more affordable housing units than are currently in the city.
There’s already 12,400 income and rent-restricted affordable housing units that are funded by the city of Seattle,...
Japan’s economy contracted more than expected at the start of this year, breaking the longest run of growth seen for decades, in a blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s reflationary ‘Abenomics’ polices.
Wednesday’s data marked the end to eight straight quarters of economic expansion, which was the longest sequence of...
