- CBC - Technology & Science News
- 12/7/12 20:14
Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it is investigating reports of a security breach that might have exposed nearly half a million users' email addresses and passwords.
Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it is investigating reports of a security breach that might have exposed nearly half a million users' email addresses and passwords.
The B.C. government is dropping some of the last regulations preventing residents from ordering wine from other provinces over the internet, and it is hoping other provinces will follow suit.
The Supreme Court has scrapped a royalty paid to songwriters and music publishers for downloading music, but maintained the tariff for streaming music over the internet.
A handful of payphone kiosks in New York City are answering the call of the 21st century by becoming Wi-Fi hotspots. Would you like to see something similar in your home town?
Maine Gov. Paul LePage is expected to respond next week to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to strike down a law that blocks gaspereau from entering the St. Croix River.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says water conditions are too low and too warm.
The problem of anoxic rivers is becoming chronic on P.E.I., and has hit the province early this year.
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society says resource development and federal budget cuts are putting more pressure than ever on wildlife.
Researchers with the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre in Sackville had a productive year, finding several new species throughout the Maritimes in 2011.
Toronto city council is set to debate adding more LED billboards to the skyline, which at least one activist says will mean more distractions for drivers.
In many parts of Canada, people struggling to stay cool are at least free of the usual outdoor plague — the dreaded mosquito. It's almost been a swat-free summer for some.
Canada's first cargo airship is being prevented from getting off the ground by red tape and a lack of helium, according to the people behind the project.
The Supreme Court of Canada is set to issue decisions on five copyright-related cases, including whether a royalty can be collected for music downloads.
WEDNESDAY 11. JULY 2012
A Kickstarter for OUYA, a $99 Android-based video game console has raised more than $3 million since it was posted Tuesday.
A Canadian man has reportedly bought what may be the largest collection of vintage and modern videogames in history from a Parisian seller.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a new moon orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto, the fifth such satellite to be discovered and the smallest one to date.
A liquor-store receipt may lead to those responsible for the destruction of an "irreplaceable" dinosaur skeleton meant to be the centre piece of a new fossil museum in northern Alberta.
For the first time, regular First Nations people living in far-flung communities across Canada have readily accessible tools for a national conversation about their leadership in Ottawa — turning the traditional discourse among chiefs on its head.
A baby giant panda died at a Tokyo zoo on Wednesday, less than a week after becoming the first to be born at the facility in 24 years. The birth had created excitement across Japan, and the nation was mourning the baby's death.
Reggae star Bob Marley has scored a rare posthumous honour — a new species of crustacean has been named after him.
A baby beluga whale that was believed to be just two days old when it was found stranded after a storm in Alaska's Bristol Bay has died at the research aquarium where it had been receiving round-the-clock care by a team of marine mammal experts.
The mock funeral for the death of scientific evidence in Canada certainly inspired grief among CBC readers, who duked it out over the merits of Wednesday's protest.
Canadian and British scientists working at Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve in Newfoundland have discovered what they believe to be the first large grouping of "baby" rangeomorphs, 600-million-year-old, fern-shaped organisms thought to be the world's earliest...
China's broadcasting and Internet regulators have told Internet video providers they must prescreen all programs before making them available, tightening state censorship of increasingly popular online drama series and mini-movies.
Opponents of wind farms are hailing Health Canada's decision to study the possible connection between noise generated by the towering turbines and adverse health effects reported by people living close to them.