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Google has sought to brush off a $100m celebrity lawsuit against its promulgation of stolen celebrity nude photos by reiterating its active stance toward the removal of ‘tens of thousands’ of illicit images ‘within hours’ of being requested to do so.

Today is a big day for Actua. Joining Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google and participants from one of Actua’s local member programs, we announced a 3-year, $1.5 million project, powered by a grant from Google.org. That makes us the recipients of the single largest investment Google has made in Canada to support learning about computer science. We couldn’t be …

Four teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of bludgeoning 920 chickens to death with a golf club at a Foster Farms facility in Fresno County, authorities said Thursday.

Lynsey De Paul, the first female winner of an Ivor Novello award, has died at the age of 64 from a suspected brain haemorrhage.

A larger tongue with a higher percentage of fat could be a sign of sleep apnea in obese adults. The new study found that obese participants who had sleep apnea had much greater tongue volumes, tongue fat and percentage of tongue fat than obese controls without sleep apnea.

Go Pink Day – Breast Cancer Awareness Month kicked off Wednesday and Panera Bread is baking some special bagels. All seven Mahoning Valley Panera cafes will host Go Pink Day. The proceeds from Pink Ribbon bagels sold Wednesday will go to the Joanie Abdu Comprehensive Breast Care Center.

A U.S. personal genetics company, 23andMe, is now offering health and ancestry information based on analysis of DNA to Canadians.

Canadian health officials are doing what they can to calm public fears that the Ebola virus could spread to Canada. Speaking in Banff, Alberta on Wednesday during a meeting of provincial health ministers, Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose said the risk of a Canadian incident is low.

Yes, there really is a Tetris movie in development from Threshold Entertainment, the makers of bad but somehow still fun Mortal Kombat movies. At least it can’t be worse than Battleship.

Researchers may have discovered a new way to tackle life-threatening asthma attacks. Research published in Science Translational Medicine journal, which sought to explain why the common cold could bring on life-threatening asthma attacks has been hailed as an “exciting” potential development in the treatment of the chronic illness.

Mounties in Selkirk are warning the public about a medication scam. They say a 70 year old woman handed over two weeks worth prescription meds after getting a knock on her door yesterday.