Mar 27, 2017
Some galaxies are harder to classify than others, and Hubble’s trusty Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has captured a striking view of two such interacting galaxies located about 60-million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion). The more diffuse and...
Mar 24, 2017
Internet users will have less privacy protection if a resolution passed yesterday (23 March) in the US senate is passed into law. The Senate passed a resolution of disapproval to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s landmark broadband-privacy rules...
Mar 23, 2017
Apple has poured cold water on claims that up to 300-million iCloud accounts have been compromised. This follows reports that a group calling itself the Turkish Crime Family had gained information on 300-million Apple iCloud users. The group apparently demanded a...
Mar 22, 2017
Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit in Hannover – Don’t be lulled into a sense of false security because laws and behaviours in the US may be aimed at curtailing abuses pertaining to data collection about individuals. Edward Snowden, the world’s best-known...
Mar 20, 2017
As British royal families fought the War of the Roses for control of England’s throne in the 1400s, a grouping of stars in the Orion Nebula was waging its own contentious skirmish. The stars were battling each other in a gravitational tussle, which ended with...
Mar 17, 2017
The Constitutional Court has ensured that social security grants will be paid from 1 April, having extended the current contract with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) for 12 months, while the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) transitions to a new system. The...
