Energy labels are hugely exaggerating the efficiency of televisions, fridge-freezers and dishwashers - with some appliances consuming almost twice as much energy as they claim to. That s according to a survey of European Union products, which show that domestic appliances seriously fail to measure up to their purported energy efficiency savings when tested outside the laboratory in real-world conditions. The findings are reminiscent of Dieselgate. The tests revealed that the current outdated official test formats on which appliances color-coded A to G gradings have been based are "vulnerable to misuse."

Think we re on the back foot with cybersecurity? Well the deeper we explore space the more we are going to need an interplanetary internet, and the more we ll need it to be secure. Could photon entanglement help? When E.T. said he wanted to phone home in 1982 he probably wasn t bothered about using a secure line. He just wanted to call his people back home. In 2082, millions of humans in colonies on the moon or Mars might also want to phone home - if our dearly beloved planet still exists. And they probably will want a secure line.

An additional seven websites have been blocked in Egypt, raising the total number of blocked sites to at least 101 as of Tuesday. The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) published on its website on Tuesday that newly blocked sites include Akhbar al-Sabah, Hermes Press, Waraa el-Ahdath, Sada net, Al-Araby TV, Masr al-Ekhbaria, and Aml al-Ommah.

The Global Cyber Security Index (GCSI) ranked Egypt’s advances in cyber security as the 14th worldwide out of a total of 165 countries, and second among the Arab states, in a report published on Monday. The GCSI ranks countries based on the pillars of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Global Cyber Security Agenda: legal, technical, organizational, capacity building and cooperation. Oman came in as the top country in cyber security followed by Egypt, at 14th worldwide; Qatar, at 25th worldwide; Tunisia, at 40th worldwide; Saudi Arabia, at 46th; and the United Arab Emirates at 47th worldwide.

DW: When it comes to gravitational waves - was Einstein right? Karsten Danzmann: Of course he was right. We didn t really have a doubt about that. Still, it was a big challenge to directly listen to the universe and not just indirectly, or just look at the universe with our eyes. For thousands of years we have only looked at the universe, but the sense was missing. Now, finally, with detecting gravitational waves we are also able to hear the universe and this whole new sense opens the dark side of the universe that we ve never had any glimpse of before.

How do rainbows form? First things first - why do we even get to see glorious arches of color in the sky? It all has to do with the various colors contained in what we perceive as white sunlight. When seen through a prism, it splits into different colors which come from the different wavelengths of lights. A rainbow is born when sunlight hits raindrops in the atmosphere. Each little droplet works as a prism, which splits up the light and makes for one of the most beautiful weather phenomena nature has to offer. What colors are in a rainbow? Starting on the outside, the colors in a rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. In English speaking countries, children sometimes learn to remember them with the acronym Roy G. Biv. There s even a spiffy song about a magical elf with that same name. Quick sample: "Roy G. Biv is a colorful man and he proudly stands at the rainbow s end."

Five additional websites offering VPN services, including TunnelBear, CyberGhost, Hotspot Shield, TigerVPN and ZenVPN were blocked on Tuesday, along with news websites Yanair Gate and Avaaz, raising the total number of websites blocked in Egypt to 62. “Egypt has expanded its website ban to include VPN sites that allow users to bypass blocked servers by re-routing connections through servers abroad,” the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) said on Tuesday.

For whatever reason, working from home has tended to suffer from something of an image problem over the years. Take how "The Simpsons" depicted it back in 1995: Homer bends the rules so he can do his job as a nuclear safety inspector from home but his laziness and the lack of supervision in his living room almost causes a nuclear meltdown at the power plant. Yet while office banter about home workers slacking off has stubbornly persisted, the remarkable technological changes in communications of the last two decades combined with rapidly evolving social attitudes around a so called "work-life balance" have helped make telecommuting a reality for millions of people.

Minister of State for Military Production Mohamed Saeed el-Assar, and President of Cairo University Gaber Nassar inaugurated on Sunday a solar power station with a capacity of 660 kilowatts to feed 13 buildings in the university campus and the building of the Arab Council for Postgraduate Studies.

A court in Switzerland has convicted a man on several counts of defamation after he “liked” libelous comments on the social media platform. The court in Zurich found that the man indirectly endorsed and further distributed the comments by using the ubiquitous Facebook (FB, Tech30) “like” button.

How long has our species been around? New fossils from Morocco push the evidence back by about 100,000 years. The bones, about 300,000 years old, were unearthed thousands of miles from the previous record-holder, found in fossil-rich eastern Africa. The new discovery reveals people from an early stage of our species’ evolution, with a mix of modern and more primitive traits.

Facebook said it wanted to make its social media platform a “hostile environment” for terrorists in a statement issued after attackers killed seven people in London and prompted Prime Minister Theresa May to demand action from internet firms.

Indian mining conglomerate Adani has approved plans for the contentious Carmichael coal mine project in northeast Australia, despite warnings from environmentalists that it will further damage the Great Barrier Reef. “We are still facing activists. But we are committed to this project. We are committed to regional Queensland and we are committed to addressing energy poverty in India,” Chairman Gautam Adani said Tuesday.

Mostafa Meisami has given up on the farming life, trading his old job raising cattle for a better-paying gig ferrying commuters through the notoriously traffic-clogged streets of the Iranian capital Tehran.

President Donald Trump may abandon US pledges to reduce carbon emissions, but global economic realities ensure he is unlikely to reverse the accelerating push to adopt cleaner forms of energy.

Syria was a provocation against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Speaking at an economic forum in St. Petersburg on Friday, Putin strongly reaffirmed Russia’s view that Assad’s forces weren’t responsible for a fatal chemical attack in Syria in April.

In November, Ahmed Zaki, an Egyptian journalist based in London, wrote a post on his Facebook account that went viral telling of how a private conversation with a friend resulted in him receiving online ads pertaining to his conversation. According to Zaki, he and his friend were speaking of a rare disease that his friend had, after which he found ads promoting medicines to treat this specific disease on his Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram accounts. Zaki believes his conversation was recorded using his phone's microphones. In January 2016, Zaki posted about a tablet he bought from online shopping company Amazon.

Details about the new anniversary iPhone are starting to emerge, and here's a big one: The price is likely to start at about $1,000. Following independent reports for Nikkei, FastCompany and famed Apple analyst Ming Chi-Kuo, Goldman Sachs has become the fourth major source to state the so-called iPhone 8 will be the most expensive phone Apple has ever made, Forbes reports.

A Google artificial intelligence program defeated a Chinese grand master at the ancient board game Go on Tuesday, a major feather in the cap for the firm’s AI ambitions as it looks to woo Beijing to gain re-entry into the country. In the first of three planned games in the eastern water town of Wuzhen, the AlphaGo program held off China’s world number one Ke Jie in front of Chinese officials and Google parent Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) chief executive Eric Schmidt.

In celebration of the World Information Society Day, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) issued a statement regarding the current local status of communication technology. The press release aimed at focusing on the importance of information and communication technologies (ICT); meanwhile, it also monitored the evident increase in general awareness regarding the benefits of ICT. The World Information Society Day is celebrated on 17 May of each year on the occasion of the establishment the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The global day was adopted by the UN General Assembly in March 2006.