Facebook’s data harvesting practices are facing yet another probe in Europe. This time the German federal competition authority (the Bundeskartellamt) is initiating proceedings — rather than it being a European Member State’s national data protection watchdog. By creating user profiles and having clients sign a permit for their data collection, Facebook helps its advertising customers to better target users, Bundeskartellamt …

Scientists at the University of Calgary are disputing the value of PSA screening and say testing increases the number of cases diagnosed but only minimally reduces mortality rates if at all. The PSA test was introduced as a non-invasive prostate cancer screening tool in Canada in the early 1990s. A blood test, it measures the amount of prostate specific antigen …

It seems that Eva Amurri Martino isn’t the only person whose nanny ever had an eye for her husband – as Sharon Osbourne revealed. The ‘Talk’ presenter admitted the women she hired to look after the couple’s three children when they were younger were the “bane of her existence” and she even caught them in bed with her rocker spouse.

A meteor shower has been caught on camera streaking through the sky over Scotland. The spectacle on Monday evening was witnessed across the country and prompted many to report a violent bang and a “fireball” in the sky to police.

Known Montreal Mafia member Lorenzo Giordano, 52, had been in prison for two years, serving a 15-year sentence, when he was transferred to a different prison in 2011 to ensure his own protection. Multiple sources say Giordano was hit with several bullets at around 8:45 a.m. near the Carrefour Multisports in the Chomedey district, across the street from the Carrefour …

Officials say a woman was stopped at an airport security checkpoint with a pair of gun-shaped stiletto heels. The shoes, which had stiletto heels in the shape of handgun barrels and also featured what looked like bullets, were in the woman’s carry-on luggage, TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said.

Google’s robot dog ‘Spot’ has received his first experience in canine rivalry, after the mechanized pet got ‘trash-barked’ by an agitated terrier unwilling to surrender his turf to the suspicious intruder. Our canine friends’ decision to fight alongside us is shown in the video above, filmed by venture capitalist and Tesla Motors board member Steve Jurvetson. It shows a small …

Director Alex Proyas has hit out at film critics after his latest film Gods of Egypt met with negative reviews. The Australian film-maker, who was also behind I, Robot and The Crow, released a long Facebook post, calling critics “deranged idiots” and “diseased vultures”. It followed his latest film receiving a string of bad reviews and failing to perform at …

Scott Kelly is back on Earth following an unprecedented yearlong mission in space for NASA. Scott Kelly now holds the NASA record for 340 consecutive days in space. Counting his last three trips to space, he will have spent a total of 520 days in orbit. Scott Kelly landed in a Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan Tuesday at 11:26 p.m., along …

Microsoft will begin accepting HoloLens developer kit pre-orders later today, the company has officially announced. The $3,000 kit will start shipping in the U.S. and Canada on March 30, bundled with three games, a variety of holographic experiences and documentation on how to build HoloLens-compatible Windows 10 universal apps.

The analysis of a long-forgotten femur bone has revealed just how large a predatory dinosaur called an abelisaur might have gotten, according to a new study in the journal PeerJ. Alessandro Chiarenza, a PhD student from Imperial College London, last year stumbled across a fossilised femur bone, left forgotten in a drawer, during his visit to the Museum of Geology …