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IBM Security Shares Tips To Stay Safe This Tax Season

54M Americans Wait Until Last Minute to File Taxes; Cybercriminals Poised to Exploit Tax Deadline to Cash in on Refunds

CAMBRIDGE, MA – 05 Apr 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) Security today released a new report taking a closer look at the techniques and motivations of cybercriminals targeting taxpayers in the United States. Between December 2016 and February 2017, IBM X-Force researchers saw a 6,000 percent increase in tax-related spam emails. The researchers see this increase and other factors as evidence that cybercriminals are not slowing down their attacks in the days leading up to Tax Day 2017. (more…)

Facts: Why we need to rethink about professional politicians and their roles

Media, Politics

Professional politicians, also known as career politicians, do their jobs with two crystal-clear instincts – higher ambitions and material success. (more…)

Neue Hoffnung für die Saigas?

Nature

Saiga-Antilopen waren deutlich flexibler als gedacht.

Senckenberg-Wissenschaftler haben herausgefunden, dass die heute vom Aussterben bedrohte Saiga-Antilope in der Vergangenheit sehr viel flexibler bei der Wahl ihres Lebensraumes und ihrer Nahrung war als bisher vermutet wurde. Die Wissenschaftler verglichen anhand von Kohlenstoff- und Stickstoffisotopen im Kollagen der Antilopenknochen die Ernährung fossiler und heutiger Saigas. (more…)

Write Ideas, a new app from the Microsoft Garage, helps students bring their ideas to the page

Education, Technology

For Claudia Vormbaum, 23, overcoming her academic struggles due to ADHD and dyslexia is a continuous work in progress. But as an intern for the Microsoft Garage in Vancouver, Canada, she spent four months with other interns on a team developing an inclusively-designed app that helps students with the pre-writing process. (more…)

Want to be friends with Britney Spears, know her philosophy about friends (first)

Entertainment

That’s important if you want to be friends with Britney Spears.

Britney’s philosophy tells all what the celebrity singer thinks about friends, how they really are 🙂 (more…)

Aspirin Use Found to Lower Risk of Pancreatic Cancer

Health

The regular use of aspirin lowers the risk for pancreatic cancer by almost 50 percent, a new study in China led by the Yale School of Public Health finds. (more…)

Should death penalty be brought back after Brexit?

Media, Politics

The recent YouGov Survey asking Brits on what things should or should not be brought back once Britain leave the EU, surprisingly shows ‘over one third of Brits says that one of the things that should be brought back after Brexit is the death penalty’, summarised Martin Armstrong from the Statista. (more…)

Ältester fossiler Riesenpinguin

Nature

Senckenberg-Wissenschaftler Dr. Gerald Mayr hat gemeinsam mit neuseeländischen Kollegen ein neu entdecktes Fossil eines Riesen-Pinguins mit einer Körperlänge von etwa 150 Zentimetern beschrieben. Der neue Fund stammt aus dem Zeitalter des Paläozäns und gehört mit etwa 61 Millionen Jahren zu den ältesten Pinguinfossilien weltweit. (more…)