Ancient chocolate: Archeologists find cacao traces older than any before

Our love of chocolate goes back 5,300 years, a team of archaeologists have discovered after finding the earliest trace of the tasty treat in artifacts in the Amazon River basin in South America. Researchers went to Ecuador to investigate the earliest evidence of cacao and discovered the origin of the world’s chocolate supply dates back […]

UK will either have to offer facts on ‘Russian traces’ in Skripal poisoning or apologize – Kremlin

The UK will either back up its claims of Moscow’s involvement in the poisoning of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, or it will have to apologize, the Kremlin spokesman has said. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Monday that Russia is wrong to deny responsibility for the nerve agent poisoning of Skripal. “The […]

‘WannaCry’ ransomware showed traces of North Korean code

For all the damage the “WannaCry” ransomware has done, there’s still one looming, unanswered question: who’s behind it? At last, there might be a clue. Google researcher Neel Mehta has noticed that an early version of WannaCry’s code shares similarities with a February 2015 sample from the Lazarus Group, a North Korea-linked outfit blamed for […]