Twitter has announced it is deploying a long-awaited security measure: two-factor verification. The move comes about a month after The Associated Press’ Twitter account was hacked.
Users can activate the new security by accessing their account settings and opting to have a verification code sent to a smartphone. Upon logging in to Twitter, they must then type in a six-digit code.
Twitter is late to the game with this security tactic. A number of companies, including Google and Dropbox, already feature it. However, the company must h [...]
Twitter Learns How to Do the 2-Step
Twitter has announced it is deploying a long-awaited security measure: two-factor verification. The move comes about a month after The Associated Press’ Twitter account was hacked.
Users can activate the new security by accessing their account settings and opting to have a verification code sent to a smartphone. Upon logging in to Twitter, they must then type in a six-digit code.
Twitter is late to the game with this security tactic. A number of companies, including Google and Dropbox, already feature it. However, the company must h [...]
Boy Scouts of America vote ends long-standing ban on gay scouts
By Marice Richter
GRAPEVINE, Texas |
Thu May 23, 2013 7:30pm EDT
GRAPEVINE, Texas (Reuters) – The Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to lift a ban on openly gay scouts that had been in place throughout the organization’s 103-year history, capping weeks of intense lobbying on both sides, the group said in a statement.
More than 60 percent of the group’s National Council, composed of some 1,400 delegates, voted to end the ban effective January 1, 2014.
A prohibition on openly gay adult l [...]
US Boy Scouts to allow gay members
23 May 2013
Last updated at 19:09 ET
The group has about 2.6 million young members in the US
The Boy Scouts of America organisation has voted to welcome openly gay scouts, ending a divisive ban.
But a ban on openly gay adult scout leaders will remain in place.
More than 60% of the national council, with 1,400 voting members, supported the change at a meeting in Texas.
The campaign over the ban pitted conservatives, especially religious groups that sponsor local scouting chapters, against liberals opposed to what they deem [...]
Avalanche name Hall of Fame goalie Roy as head coach
Thu May 23, 2013 7:12pm EDT
(Reuters) – Hall of Fame goalie and four-times Stanley Cup champion Patrick Roy has been named head coach of the Colorado Avalanche, the National Hockey League (NHL) team said on Thursday.
Roy, who won two Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens and two with Colorado before retiring in 2003 after a 19-year career, reached an agreement in principal to become the sixth head coach in Avalanche history.
“This is an unbelievable day for me,” Roy, 47, said in a statement rele [...]
Errors acknowledged in “rushed” stem cell paper
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WASHINGTON: A high-profile study in which U.S. researchers reported they had turned human skin cells into embryonic stem cells contained errors, its lead author has acknowledged.
Shoukhrat Mitalipov nevertheless adamantly stood by the conclusions of the study published last week in journal Cell, which reported that human stem cell lines for the first time had been created via cloning.
The journal Nature contacted Mitalipov after an anonymous online critic on PubPeer spotted four separate problems in the paper [...]
IRS official at center of scandal put on administrative leave
By Kim Dixon and Patrick Temple-West
WASHINGTON |
Thu May 23, 2013 7:20pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lois Lerner, an Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the scandal over the agency’s extra scrutiny of conservative groups, was put on administrative leave on Thursday after she refused to resign, a U.S. senator said.
Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa said new acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel was the one who asked for Lerner’s resignation.
An IRS spokesman declined [...]
Studies Cast Doubt on Cancer Drug as Alzheimer’s Treatment
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Bexarotene, a cancer drug touted as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, may not be the blockbuster remedy scientists were hoping for, according to several analyses published in Science on 24 May. Four independent research groups report that they failed to fully rep [...]
Protect children from internet pornography, report demands
Children are exposed to violent and sadistic imagery which risks distorting their attitudes towards relationships and sex, according to the children’s commissioner for England.
A report released on Thursdayby the commissioner’s office found that children who watch pornography are more likely to develop sexually risky behaviour and become sexually active at a younger age.
It called for urgent action to “develop children’s resilience to pornography” after discovering that a significant number have access to se [...]
Father of Chechen shot by FBI says he thinks son was tortured
GROZNY, Russia |
Thu May 23, 2013 5:23pm EDT
GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) – The father of a Chechen immigrant killed during questioning over his links with one of the Boston Marathon bombings suspects said on Thursday he plans to travel to the United States where he thinks his son was tortured and killed.
Ibragim Todashev, 27, was killed by a federal agent in his apartment complex when he became violent during questioning over his ties to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of two brothers suspected of planting tw [...]
WHO urges sharing over coronavirus
23 May 2013
Last updated at 19:11 ET
The World Health Organisation says it is closely monitoring the virus
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged countries with possible cases of novel coronavirus to share information.
The move comes after Saudi Arabia said the development of diagnostic tests had been delayed by patent rights on the NCoV virus by commercial laboratories.
Twenty-two deaths and 44 cases have been reported worldwide since 2012, the WHO says.
NCoV is from the same family of viruses as the one that cau [...]
Stoke reject Nzonzi transfer request
Stoke have rejected a written transfer request from midfielder Steven Nzonzi.
The 24-year-old Frenchman, who was recently voted the club’s young player of the year, has told the Potters he wishes to leave less than a year after
his £3m move from Blackburn.
Peter Coates, the Stoke chairman, said: “I can confirm that we have received a written transfer request from Steven Nzonzi.
“He is our player and has three years remaining on his contract.”
The former France Under-21 international was fro [...]
How Many Calories in Your Fast-Food Meal? Guess Again
THURSDAY, May 23 (HealthDay News) — People who eat at fast-food restaurants are consuming significantly more calories than they realize — and teens are the worst offenders, a new study found.
“Teens underestimate the number of calories in their meals by as much as 34 percent, parents of school-age children by as much as 23 percent, and adults by as much as 20 percent,” study lead researcher, Dr. Jason Block, said in a news release from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which helped fund the study [...]