Although Toyota has reclaimed the top spot as the world’s largest automaker, it is, once again, announcing a major recall of one million of its Corolla, Corolla Matrix and Lexus IS vehicles due to faulty windshield wipers and airbags sold in the United States. 270,000 Lexus IS models are affected by the windshield wiper issue […]
Anonymous, the hacker-activist group, said it hijacked the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s website in order to avenge Aaron Swartz’s death. Swartz, who was an Internet activist, recently committed suicide. The commission’s website, which is a single entity of the judicial branch, was hijacked early Saturday morning and had a warning message on it that read that […]
Facebook recently announced its big secret to its popular social network: graph search, which is a smart search engine. With graph search, users can conduct “natural” searches of content their friends share. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, said graph search is not a web search tool so it’s not a direct challenge to […]
When Tanya Angus was a teenager, she stood at 5 feet, 8 inches tall. When she died on Monday at the age of 34 in Las Vegas, she was 7 feet, 2 inches tall and 400 pounds. Angus suffered from the condition acromegaly – or gigantism. The condition would not let her body stop growing. […]
Oracle, after a warning from the Department of Homeland Security to users, released an immediate fix on its Java software security flaw that made computers vulnerable to take overs by hackers. According to the agency, the Java 7 Update 10 and early has an undetermined susceptibility that allows a remote, unauthenticated invader to perform an […]
“Les Miserables” moviegoers at the Reading Cinemas Camel Mountain in San Diego ducked and crawled for cover and exits after police located an armed domestic violence suspect and shot and wounded him. Two officers were going from theater to theater, looking for Escondido resident Tom Billodeaux. He was found in a theater where he was […]
Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz was found in his seventh-floor Brooklyn apartment in an apparent suicide Friday morning. According to police sources, he was found hanging by a belt and there has been no note recovered. Swartz, 26, was to face trial next month for his role in a controversial computer-hacking case. An autopsy will be […]
The Food and Drug Administration issued new guidelines regarding many popular sleep aids, like Ambien, that have the active ingredient Zolpidem. The agency now demands that the recommended dosage from women be reduced by half from 10 milligrams to five milligrams and have recommended to doctors that men have the same cut. According to the […]
Over 150,000 Nap Nanny baby recliners are being recalled by four well-known national retailers – Toys R Us/Babies R Us, Diapers.com, Buy Buy Baby and Amazon.com – upon reports that five infants have died. At the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s request, the companies have recalled both Generations One and Two of the Nap Nanny along […]
Ex-President George H.W. Bush is in guarded condition in the ICU of a House hospital after hitting a series of setbacks that include a persistent fever. Bush’s spokesman in Houston Jim McGrath said the ex-president was admitted into Methodist Hospital’s ICU unit on Sunday but is alert and speaking with the medical staff. The 88-year-old’s […]