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South Korea extends cyberattack emergency system for nuclear plants

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s nuclear operator and the energy ministry will keep emergency teams on stand-by to the end of this year in case of any cyberattacks on nuclear plants as threatened by a hacker.

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Russia wants to collect the DNA of every creature

Institutions have already been amassing huge DNA collections to catalog the world’s creatures but Moscow State University might just top them all. It’s planning to build “Noah’s Ark” a repository for the genes of every creature living or extinct -…

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Toshiba CEO says will consider overseas locations for chip plant

TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp will decide during the next business year from April on where to build an additional memory chip plant and will consider overseas locations for the facility Chief Executive Hisao Tanaka said on Friday.

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PlayStation Network is back online following Christmas Day attack

Three days after Lizard Squad’s latest denial of service attack knocked the PlayStation Network offline (and Xbox Live we’d add) the internet gaming service is gradually getting back on its feet. Sony now says that PSN should be up and running for …

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Fly across the Earth on board the ISS with this timelapse video

Photos of the Earth from up high make for some very stunning imagery so astronauts aboard the ISS make it a point to capture tons of photos for our sake. Take for example the 12500 images astronaut Alexander Gerst took during his six-month stint o…

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Amazon draws 10 million new Prime members over holidays

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc said on Friday it drew more than 10 million new members to its Prime shipping and digital content service over the holidays and intends to offer one-hour shipping to more cities in 2015.

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D-Link’s latest smart home hub lets you add devices with a scan

How cheap is too cheap? D-Link has found the sweet spot between low-priced but low-quality smart home systems (from the likes of Archos) and pricey security systems. It’s now planning on opening up its system to many more accessories judging by the…

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How the e-retailers keep us spending

How the e-retailers keep us spending