It sounds a little fantastical doesn’t it? But researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a new technology that allows people to do exactly that.

Your Twitter account now no longer needs you to survive — in a very literal sense. Even if you die, your account will keep on ‘tweeting on’ by sharing content similar to yours.

In what seems to be a flashback to a couple of weeks ago, when Oracle’s Java platform was found to have a vulnerability which could easily be exploited by hackers, the latest news from security companies says that Adobe’s popular multimedia platform Flash is under serious and immediate threat of exploitation by hackers.

Recently, a new form of cyber-security attack has made headlines. The agent is being termed Ransomware, and it has been spotted infecting computers in Germany.

The plan is currently in a trial phase, and the feature does not seem to have an official name yet. Facebook calls it a ‘small experiment’ to study ‘usefulness of economic signalling’ in determining the content shared by individuals.

It wasn’t long ago that I purchased a USB dongle that was advertising 2 Mbps speeds only to find that it was a struggle to get a tenth of that in major metropolitan centres. The situation has improved a little bit since then, but not much.

India has 568 universities, and thousands of autonomous degree granting education institutions- but only a few dozens of the myriad institutes are renowned for providing quality education.

Facebook is increasingly becoming a major part of many people’s lives, entire industries have risen and crashed on the platform (Think Zynga) and corporations are increasingly looking at it as a tool to advertise products and conduct market research.

In what sounds like a tale straight out of a science fiction story, researchers George Church and Sri Kosuri at Harvard University have developed a technique to encode information in the form of DNA.

We’ve all studied Charles Darwin’s theory of the survival of the fittest in school but most of us must have thought that we would never be in a position to see the effects of natural selection in a way that can be easily understood by many.