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Growing mobile malware threat swirls (mostly) around Android
Mobile devices are getting hit by a boom in malware similar to the one that hit PCs starting with the rise of the Web, a security software executive said Tuesday. "Mobile platforms, for a lot of attackers, represent a new target-rich environment," said Chris Doggett, senior vice president, North America, at...
pcworld.com (10 minutes ago)
Godolphin will not have Classic taken away from St Leger winner Encke
Encke will retain his status as a Classic winner despite Monday's revelation that he returned a positive test for an anabolic steroid this spring. Racing's ruling body said on Tuesday there was no reason to disqualify him from his victory in September's St Leger but there is a chance that another horse caught up in...
guardian.co.uk (23 hours ago)
Scientists finally identify unique pathogen that caused Irish potato famine
An international team of researchers studied preserved plant samples at Kew Gardens in London and identified the HERB-1 pathogen which caused the potato famine.
dailymail.co.uk (23 hours ago)
Supermarket curries: second to naan?
First it was the pub, now another great British institution, the curry house, is under threat from supermarket competition. A recent report from consumer analysts NPD Group calculates that visits to ethnic restaurants and takeaways dropped by 123m between 2009 and 2012, with curry lovers increasingly turning to...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Eastern State Penitentiary is hosting ‘Prison Food Weekend’
[caption id="attachment_154010" align="alignnone" width="4043"] Eastern State Penitentiary's Soup Alley. (Credit: Collection of Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, gift of the family of Howard H. Haines, Captain of the Guards).[/caption] Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary will this summer host "Prison...
metro.us (1 day ago)
New rice contamination reported in China
BEIJING - Authorities are investigating rice mills in southern China following tests that found almost half of the staple grain in one of the country's largest cities was contaminated with a toxic metal. An official notice Tuesday said mills in Hunan province's Youxian county were ordered to suspend business and...
bostonherald.com (1 day ago)
New rice contamination reported in China
Authorities are investigating rice mills in southern China following tests that found almost half of the staple grain in one of the country's largest cities was contaminated with a toxic metal. An official notice Tuesday said mills in Hunan province's Youxian county were ordered to suspend business and recall their...
foxnews.com (1 day ago)
Are These The Most Intimate Self Portraits Ever?
Photography often produces incredibly intimate results, but these self portraits by Erno-Erik Raitanen offer a different take-showing off his bacteria in fine detail. The pictures weren't created using a camera, but his own bacteria, cultivated on the gelatin surface of film negatives. He explains: “I have gathered...
gizmodo.com (1 day ago)
Irish potato famine pest identified
Scientists have used plant samples collected in the 19th Century to identify the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine.
bbci.co.uk (1 day ago)
Indio area under water emergency
The Indio Water Authority has begun providing water on an emergency basis to a neighborhood of more than 100 homes after samples taken from a well detected high levels of perchlorate.
mydesert.com (1 day ago)
Salmonella linked to Krinos brand tahini
Two Minnesota children, both under 1 year old, have become ill with salmonellosis linked to eating Krinos brand tahini sesame paste that has been recalled by the manufacturer. State health and agriculture officials today said consumers should not eat Krinos brand tahini from the affected lots and sizes noted below....
brainerddispatch.com (1 day ago)
Listen to Daughn Gibson's "You Don't Fade"
Daughn Gibson’s career is one that’s been as eclectic as his current output. Beginning as a drummer in various punk and metal bands, Gibson (whose real name is Josh Martin) has adapted the dark undertones of these heavier projects and morphed them into an amalgamation of deep vocals, choppy samples and pop mastery...
pastemagazine.com (1 day ago)
Half of U.S. public pools contaminated by feces
WASHINGTON - Human feces taints more than half of public swimming pools, a finding U.S. health officials are using to urge better personal hygiene as the summer months approach. E. coli, which indicates the presence of fecal matter, was detected in 58 percent of samples taken from pool filters by the U.S. Centers...
sltrib.com (1 day ago)
Attack on Telenor was part of large cyberespionage operation with Indian origins, report says
A recent intrusion on the computer network of Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor was the result of a large cyberespionage operation of Indian origin that for the past few years has targeted business, government and political organizations from different countries, according to researchers from security...
pcworld.com (2 days ago)
Measles Surges In UK Years After Vaccine Scare
LONDON — More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of now discredited research that linked the vaccine to autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the contagious disease. This year, the U.K. has had more...
huffingtonpost.com (2 days ago)
Encke one of seven more Godolphin horses tested positive for steroids
Seven horses at the former yard of disgraced trainer Mahmood al-Zarooni, including Encke, last year's St Leger winner, have tested positive for stanozolol following drug-testing of the Godolphin organisation's entire string in Newmarket in the wake of the steroid-doping scandal which emerged last month. Tests on...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
Boil water advisories still in effect for some
Gainesville Public Utilities issued a boil water advisory Sunday for 18 homes at the end of Trudy Drive off Lights Ferry Road in Flowery Branch. A Gainesville water line located under the road broke after the heavy rains and was reported at about 6 a.m. Sunday. Water was restored at about 10 p.m. Sunday. Crews...
gainesvilletimes.com (2 days ago)
China suspects presumed guilty until proven innocent
It was a short drive that would cost them a decade. In May 2003, Zhang Gaoping and his nephew, Zhang Hui, picked up a hitchhiker en route to Shanghai and dropped her off in the coastal metropolis of Hangzhou. The following morning, the 17-year-old girl's naked corpse was pulled from a drainage ditch. The two were...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
JoAnna Grof
JoAnna Grof, 81, of Medina, passed away Saturday, May 18, 2013 in Medina. She was born May 17, 1932 in Wolfs Run, West Virginia, to Frank and Gladys (Scherick) Bolton. JoAnna worked in International Samples for American Greetings for 11 years. She enjoyed playing cards, sewing and gardening. She was a longtime...
medinagazette.northcoastnow.com (2 days ago)
Why Google will crush Nielsen
The web user is the most watched consumer ever. For tracking purposes, every large site drops literally dozens of cookies in the visitor's browser. In the most comprehensive investigation on the matter, The Wall Street Journal found that each of the 50 largest websites in the United Sates, weighing 40% of the US...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
Police take DNA samples from children every ten minutes
Police take a DNA sample from a child every ten minutes, new figures have revealed.
telegraph.co.uk (2 days ago)
Photos: The Taste of Putnam
The Taste of Putnam hosted 12 restaurants from the area that offered samples of their best entrees and desserts to attendees. ...
dailymail.com (2 days ago)
Thousand Oaks jazz & wine festival raises money for school music programs
The event hosted by the Rotary Club of Westlake Village Sunrise drew jazz and wine aficionados to Conejo Creek Park North, where there was music, samples from 19 wineries, wine merchants, breweries and 20 restaurants and catering companies.
vcstar.com (2 days ago)
Area residents screened for hepatitis C on Sunday
LANSDALE - Fingers pricked, and then fingers crossed, about two dozen people sat in a makeshift waiting room inside the Lansdale United Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon, anticipating the results of an antibody test to determine if they are infected with the hepatitis C virus. It was part of National Hepatitis...
thereporteronline.com (2 days ago)
Child’s DNA taken every ten minutes
Police take a DNA sample from a child once every ten minutes, according to figures published today. Officers took samples...
thetimes.co.uk (2 days ago)
Trace volcano ash reaches small Alaska city
Trace amounts of ash from a remote Alaska volcano have fallen on an Aleutian Islands community, but the latest ash cloud remained just under the 20,000-foot threshold considered to be a major threat to trans-continental aircraft. Geologist Kristi Wallace of the Alaska Volcano Observatory says the aviation color code...
foxnews.com (2 days ago)
Eve Samples: Big Sugar's sweet deal common enemy for unlikely set of allies
Find out what candy makers, free-market capitalists and St. Lucie River advocates all have in common, according to columnist Eve Samples.
tcpalm.com (3 days ago)
Bay Bridge inspection records
Three samples from inspector's diaries.Click to Continue »
sanluisobispo.com (3 days ago)
Water official repents in court
WORCESTER - Henry C. Papuga, former manager of the Milford Water Co., told a judge Friday he realized almost immediately that he had made a terrible mistake after he made a spur-of-the-moment decision to add bleach to water samples in an effort to end a prolonged 2009 boil water order in his hometown.
telegram.com (4 days ago)
China Bird Flu Death Toll Rises To 36
LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from 131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. The United Nations health agency said the four deaths were from cases that had already been...
huffingtonpost.com (4 days ago)
