Author: WTN News

PARIS — The European Commission said Tuesday that it was examining the safety of Apple iPhones and iPods, after news reports said that several of the devices had exploded. Helen Kearns, a spokeswoman for Meglena Kuneva, the consumer protection commissioner, said Apple was cooperating with the...

Gail Nichols has suffered from depression for years. When the 49-year-old resident of St. Marys, Kan., cannot sleep, she falls back on a form of entertainment that is gaining increasing credibility as a medical intervention: video games. Nichols said she discovered the mental health benefits...

Microsoft Corp.'s souped-up Internet search engine gained a little more ground on industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. in July, according to data released late Monday. Despite the progress, Microsoft's search engine still remains a distant third in the United States - the main reason...

Calculating the melting point of oligos is one of the many capabilities of the BioMath Calculators now available on the updated Promega iPhone App.A suite of popular molecular biology calculators is now available for the iPhone™ and iPod® Touch. The Promega iPhone App has been updated...

Internet radio host Hal Turner disliked how three federal judges rejected the National Rifle Association's attempt to overturn a pair of handgun bans. "Let me be the first to say this plainly: These Judges deserve to be killed," Turner wrote on his blog on June 2,...

I've got Skype set to accept incoming calls, video calls or instant messages only from people in my Contact list. Yet every time I log into Skype, I see a few chat messages from obvious spam accounts, asking me to "rate my Webcam" or "meet...

An average of 40,000 Americans per day are given a radioactive isotope that acts as a light source within their bodies, illuminating cancerous tumors and heart problems that doctors otherwise couldn't detect - short of surgery and other procedures that are riskier, more costly and...

Google and Microsoft continue to spar over both their data center designs and how much information they reveal about the inner workings of their vast computing centers. In one corner, you have the do-it-yourself Google that builds its own servers and even switches. Microsoft doesn’t...