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Sony says to resore network services soon, gives no date * Says looks to insurers to help foot bill * Hardware sales could be hit by security breaches-analyst * Shares falls 3 pct in weak market * Internet vigilante group Anonymous denies involvement (Adds letter from CEO, details) TOKYO, May 6 (Reuters) – In his first... 

In the study publishing in the online open access journal PLoS Biology, the subjects’ sense of justice was challenged in a two-player monetary fairness game, and their brain activity was simultaneously measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). When bidders made unfair suggestions as to how to share... 

Altruism, the sacrificing of individual gains for the greater good, appears at first glance to go against the notion of “survival of the fittest.” But altruistic gene expression is found in nature and is passed on from one generation to the next. Worker ants, for example, are sterile and make the ultimate altruistic... 

Weizmann Institute scientists have added another piece to the obesity puzzle, showing how and why a certain protein that is active in a small part of the brain contributes to weight gain. Prof. Ari Elson and his team in the Institute’s Molecular Genetics Department made the discovery when working with female mice that... 

Scars on the jaw of a 120-million-year-old marine reptile suggest that life might not have been easy in the ancient polar oceans. The healed bite wounds were probably made by a member of the same species. Such injuries give important clues about the social behaviour of extinct sea creatures from the time of dinosaurs. The... 

(Reuters) – Sony disclosed on Monday hackers had stolen the names, addresses and passwords of nearly 25 million more users than previously known less than a day after the Japanese company apologized for one of the worst break-ins in Internet history. Sony’s latest revelation comes after Sony No. 2 Kazuo Hirai... 

ORLANDO—It looks like BlackBerry fans will have to wait for the new QNX operating system, and new phones, to enjoy some of the flagship features from the BlackBerry Playbook on their phones. Phones running BlackBerry OS 7, such as the new BlackBerry Bold 9900, will not get Android apps, even though RIM is developing an... 

Apple Inc. updated its iMac desktop computers with next-generation Intel Corp. processors and the chip company’s high-speed data-transfer technology, following similar upgrades to the MacBook notebook line from February. The largely expected iMac upgrade follows Apple’s pattern of releasing new products annually,... 

BANGALORE: Indian Space Research Organisation has built a supercomputer, which is to be India’s fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second). The supercomputer “SAGA-220″, built by the Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility located... 

NEW DELHI: If you’ve been dreading the start of work on phase III of the Delhi Metro network with the resultant traffic snarls, here’s a piece of good news. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will use the latest international technology in the third phase to save time and trouble during construction. Said...