Apple releases `malware removal tool` following computer hack

Last Updated: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 10:39

Apple will release a malware removal tool after a number of Mac systems were infected by computer hackers who targeted Facebook last week.

Facebook’s new privacy control tool unveiled

Last Updated: Thursday, December 13, 2012, 09:38

The tool also allows users to request that any objectionable photos they're featured in be removed.

Microsoft demos ‘human-brain-like’ instant language translation tool

Last Updated: Saturday, November 10, 2012, 12:02

Software giant Microsoft has demonstrated a tool that ‘works like a human brain’ to instantly translate spoken language.

Facebook turns off facial recognition tool in Europe

Last Updated: Saturday, September 22, 2012, 12:38

Social networking giant Facebook has stopped using facial recognition software that automatically identifies people in photographs after an investigation by privacy regulators.

Microsoft urges Internet Explorer users to install security tool

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 10:39

The security flaw affects hundreds of millions of Internet Explorer browser users. Microsoft said attackers can exploit the bug to infect the PC of somebody who visits a malicious website and then take control of the victim's computer.

Bonobo chimp makes stone tools like early humans did

Last Updated: Thursday, August 23, 2012, 09:11

After learning sign language or making up “words” for things like banana or juice, Kanzi, the 30-year-old male bonobo chimp, continues to impress researchers with his new skill of making stone tools like early humans did.

Ornaments, tools show that Modern man emerged 44,000 years ago

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 17:22

Modern man emerged 44,000 years ago, earlier than archaeologists thought, a new study said.

YouTube offering ways to blur faces in video uploads

Last Updated: Friday, July 20, 2012, 09:46

Video-sharing website YouTube is now adding an amazing feature with the help of which people can blur faces in a submitted video.

Laser tool maps quake-related devastation in 3D

Last Updated: Sunday, February 12, 2012, 19:09

A new laser guided tool is helping geologists map in 3D exactly how earthquakes wreck landscapes, down to a few square inches of the devasted zone.

Soon, crime-fighting tool ‘to deter and nab terrorists’

Last Updated: Friday, February 10, 2012, 14:20

: Scientists are striving to develop technology for “fingerprinting” and tracing the origins of chemical substances that could be used in terrorist attacks and other criminal acts.

New tool to detect pesticide presence in a jiffy

Last Updated: Friday, December 16, 2011, 12:31

A new screening tool could help detect pesticide traces instantly in large water samples.

Now, a new tool to build a more stable genome!

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 12:32

An Indian-origin researcher-led team has for the first time developed a computational tool which it claims can help experts assemble DNA sequences more accurately.