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Shares of Adobe soared in heavy trading Thursday on a report that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed a possible buyout of the company. A report posted in the "Bits" blog of The New York Times ...

Virus-infected computers that pose a risk to other PCs should be blocked from the net, a senior researcher at software giant Microsoft suggests. The proposal is based on lessons from public healt...

China will be able to send humans to the moon ahead of India, a Chinese scientist said Thursday, following the successful launch of a second unmanned moon orbiter, according to Yonhap news agency. ...

Saturn's rings may have formed when a large moon with an icy mantle and rocky core spiralled into the nascent planet. A US scientist has suggested that the tidal forces ripped off some of the moon...

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has announced the list of 145 new species discovered in the Mekong River region since 2009 as a proof for the "biological treasure" of the river, Vietnam news ag...

Facebook has introduced new features aimed at giving users more control over their information and who can see it. There are yet more new features being added to the updated Facebook   The ...

Google has denied Oracle's complaint of copyright infringement in development of Android smartphone software and asked a U.S. court to dismiss Oracle's lawsuit, court documents showed. Oracle sued...

A potentially fatal dengue-fever like virus has emerged in Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency (VNA)reported, citing the Health Ministry. The Chikungunya virus is thought to be transmitted by the Asian ...

Three scientists have shared this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing new ways of linking carbon atoms together. The Nobel was awarded to Professors Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Ak...

Babies are less likely to get flu if their mothers have had the vaccine during pregnancy, a US study says. Researchers examined 1,169 women from an American Indian tribe, finding it reduced infect...

Two scientists have shared this year's Nobel Prize for Physics for their "groundbreaking" work on a material with amazing properties. Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both at Manchester Unive...

A diet rich in walnuts and walnut oil may prepare the body to deal better with stress, according to a team of Penn State researchers who looked at how these foods, which contain polyunsaturated fats...

U.S. teens are not as reckless as some people might think when it comes to sex, and they are much more likely to use condoms than people over 40, according to a survey released on Monday that could ...

LG Electronics Inc said on Monday that it had scrapped a plan to launch a tablet computer based on Google Inc's Android 2.2 operation system known as "Froyo," a decision that may delay the rollout o...

Putting thousands of jellyfish in a blender to make a smoothie sounds like the start of bad joke. In fact, it's one way to source ingredients for a new generation of solar power solutions that could...

British scientist Robert Edwards, the man who devised the fertility treatment IVF, has been awarded this year's Nobel prize for medicine. His efforts in the 1950s, 60s and 70s led to the birth of ...

The FBI says it has cracked a major international cyber crime network after more than 90 suspected members of the ring were arrested in the US. The suspects worked as so-called mules for fraudster...

Germany has begun a six-month trial period of controversial full-body scanners at Hamburg airport. Passengers will be given the choice of passing through the scanners or undergoing the traditional...

Older adults with moderate kidney disease may require screening for hearing loss, according to the authors of a new study. In the study, of adults aged 50 years and older, 54 percent of people wit...

Last month, a few hundred Microsoft Corp employees acted out their fantasy with a mock funeral for Apple Inc's iPhone at its Redmond, Washington campus. The bizarre gathering, which morphed into a...

There is a 60% global shortfall in funds for malaria control, according to a report by UK and African experts. Researchers found only 21 out of 93 countries where malaria is common have received e...

Signage for Motorola is displayed outside their office building in Tempe, Arizona October 29, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Joshua Lott Microsoft Corp sued Motorola...

Computer experts have warned that a "super" virus has attacked more than 6 million personal computers and almost 1,000 corporate computers in China, Xinhua said Friday. The Stuxnet cyberworm can ...

The fossil of a giant penguin that lived 36 million years ago has been discovered in Peru. Scientists say the find shows that key features of the plumage were present quite early on in penguin evo...

Women using IVF to get pregnant should be aware that they will be more likely to have a boy than a girl, say experts. Australian researchers found the odds of a boy went up from 51 in 100 when con...

Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has claimed he is the victim of contaminated food after testing positive for a banned drug. The muscle-building and fat-burning drug clenbuterol...

The life expectancy of Singaporeans has improved slightly, where those born last year can expect to live up to 81.4 years compared with 80.9 years in 2008, according to a latest population trends re...

Social networking website Facebook and Internet telephone company Skype are in talks to establish a partnership that is aimed at integrating their communication services, Wall Street Journal said, c...

The world's top cellphone maker Nokia said on Thursday it has started to ship its flagship smartphone model the N8. Last week Nokia said it has delayed by a few weeks deliveries of the N8 model to...

Cyclist Alberto Contador, winner of the 2010 Tour de France, has revealed that he has tested positive for a banned substance. Contador's press officer said he had tested positive for clenbuterol d...