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Fans of the popular BitTorrent site Demonoid were teased earlier this week when the domain's server went through an update, leading many file-sharers to believe the site would be up and running again soon. Although hope isn't dead yet, Demonoid's tech administrator told Torrent Freak that they are "not looking into putting the site back up at the moment."

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, said it’s blocked access to the controversial “Innocence of Muslims”on YouTube in countries with large Muslim populations, including India, Libya and Egypt. But Afghanistan's government blocked all access to YouTube, claiming the video is offensive.

As of Monday afternoon, all sites being hosted by Internet domain registrar GoDaddy were down. The company confirmed the issue on Monday afternoon and is working to resolve the problem.

In his first speech in front of the League of Arab Nations on Wednesday, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down.

One scientist says a new kind of way to detect Down syndrome, which looks for traces of the baby's DNA in the mother's blood sample as early as the first trimester, will pick up nearly all cases of the genetic disorder in the womb.

Reliance Industries will close down a diesel hydrotreater at its 660,000 barrels per day (bpd) Jamnagar refinery in Gujarat for routine maintenance from Tuesday for about two and a half weeks.

LL Cool J's chiseled abs and protruding muscles aren't just for show, the "Mama Says Knock You Out" rapper protected his own, when he took down an intruder with his bare hands this morning at his home, according to the gossip website TMZ.

Trading in U.S. stocks has been going on at a snail's pace recently, a fact market-watchers are blaming on policy uncertainty, but could also be the result of investors fed up with the fragmented, unpredictable nature of the market.

Etsy, the online craft marketplace, is looking to crack down on drug paraphernalia, according to Mashable. Transactions of those pertaining to the sale of drug-related culture and content will be prohibited, in an update that has gone live on the website.

Search giant Google has announced plans to phase out products that are not fetching expected results and focus on products that are doing well, in order to provide better service for users.

At each Olympic Games the same scenario unfolds: Organizers and government officials tout the astounding economic benefits. The city, basking in the glow of Olympic pride, goes along with the officials. In the end, however, the so-called benefits rarely surface.

Democrats and Republicans in Congress reached a deal on Tuesday to fund federal government activities through next March and eliminate any threat of agency shutdowns that could upset voters ahead of the November 6 presidential and congressional elections.

Much like Google Talk going down earlier today, Twitter is experiencing service issues all over the globe, according to TechCrunch.

Google has confirmed that its Google Talk service has been experiencing outages around the globe. The most recent status update from the company states that the Google team is “continuing to investigate the issue.”

Asian stock markets slumped Monday as renewed concerns over the euro zone debt crisis and worries about the Chinese economic slowdown dented investor sentiment.

The Indian rupee touched 55.84 against the dollar Monday, its lowest mark in a week in morning trade, weighed down by heavy demand for the dollar by petroleum companies.

The Grum botnet, which experts believe is responsible for about 18 percent of the world's spam email traffic, has been shut down, according to security company FireEye, based in Milpitas, Calif. According to M86Security, Grum was responsible for roughly 17.4 percent of the worldwide spam email traffic, which made it officially the third largest active botnet in the world, after Cutwail and Lethic, respectively. In January 2012, however, Grum became the No. 1 spam botnet in the world, accounti...

Memantine, a drug given to Alzheimer's disease patients, improved verbal episodic memory function in a small trial of Down syndrome patients.

Andy Murray tried and failed to become the first British National to win Wimbledon since before World War II.

The race to become Yahoo Inc's next chief executive appears to have come down to two candidates: current interim CEO Ross Levinsohn and Hulu CEO Jason Kilar.

Instagram, Pinterest and Netflix were among the casualties of a powerful storm in Virginia as the social media and streaming companies took to Twitter to update users on the status of their services. Why were Instagram, Pinterest and Netflix down?