Marissa Mayer apologizes for Yahoo mail outage affecting 1% users
Washington – Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer reportedly posted an apology on the company’s Tumblr page about the Yahoo Mail outage, which, according to her affected only 1 percent of the users. Mayer said that the company experienced a major outage that not only interrupted the connection of... read more »
Material heal thyself
Washington – Researchers have developed computational models to design a new polymer gel that would enable complex materials to regenerate themselves. Principal investigator is Anna C. Balazs, PhD, the Swanson School’s Distinguished Robert v. d. Luft Professor of chemical and petroleum... read more »
Locker` malware demands ransom to restore infected files
London – A latest malware reportedly demands ransom to restore the files that the hackers have encrypted. Security company IntelCrawler discovered the malware, dubbed Locker, which demands 150 dollars to restore the files. According to the BBC, the cyber criminals behind Locker tried to... read more »
New drug shows promise for `triple-negative` breast cancer patients
Washington – Researchers have found that adding the chemotherapy drug carboplatin or the angiogenesis inhibitor Avastin to standard chemotherapy drugs resulted in a sharp decline in women suffering from “triple-negative” breast cancer. Study’s senior author, Eric Winer, MD, chief of the... read more »
