San Francisco / London, Jan 19 - Yahoo's co-founder Jerry Yang stepped down from its board along with all other positions he held in the company, it was announced Tuesday.

The 43-year-old Yang also resigned from the Boards of Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group Holding limited, Xinhua quoted the company as stating in a press release.

Having founded the online company in 1995 with David Filo, Yang served as Yahoo's chief executive from June 2007 until January 2009.

Software giant, Microsoft is planning to develop a new way to log in to its tablet computers instead of tradition way of typing software.

The company is working on a mechanism in which it will allow users to log in using gestures on the screen. A user will be able to choose a photo and perform certain gestures in the right order of taps, lines, and circles in order to log in.

The Roman Catholic Churches in the English speaking world began adapting themselves to the new translation of Mass from this Sunday after four decades of praying in another manner.

The new translation of the liturgy from a revised Roman Missal is more closely related to the church's original Latin. The new translation is expected to give a new deeper sense of transcendence, mystery and reverence toward God's presence.

Canberra, Sept 26 : An Australian technologist has claimed that Facebook can track the web pages you visit, even when you are logged out of the social networking giant.

According to Wollongong-based Nik Cubrilovic, when the user is logged out of Facebook, rather than deleting its tracking cookies, the site merely modifies them, maintaining account information and other unique tokens that can be used to identify its users.

London, Sept 24 : A quirk in Facebook''s latest redesign has now made it easy for the users to see who has removed them from their friend list.

Previously, the only way to tell someone had unfriended you was to go to their page and notice that you have lost access to their personal details.

But the social networking giant's newly introduced `Timeline', that shows all activities of a user in chronological order, enables users to see which friend `unfriended' them, Fox News reports.

London, Sept 24 : Dutch engineers have developed exoskeleton `robotic legs,' to help improve the movement of stroke patients.

The prototype device, called the Lower-extremity Powered ExoSkeleton, or LOPES, works by training the body and mind of a patient to recover a more natural step.

The machine, created by engineers at the University of Twente in Enschede in the Netherlands over several years, is also being tested on spinal injury patients who have recovered some restricted movement in their legs.

Washington, Sept 14 : The need for a better way to objectively measure the presence or absence of pain instead of relying on patient self-reporting has long been an elusive goal in medicine.

But now, using advances in neuroimaging techniques, researchers including one of Indian-origin from the Stanford University School of Medicine trained a computer algorithm to interpret magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of the brain and determine whether someone is in pain.

London, Sept 9 : Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking high-tech military system, which allows every soldier in a unit to see through the eyes of another.

The new technology, which features communication antennas woven into the fabric of military uniforms, means video from a helmet-mounted camera, voice commands and GPS data can all be transmitted at once.

The system is designed to improve the awareness of a military team as a whole, allowing soldiers to see through the eyes of their teammates in real time.

London, Sep. 9 : Controversial US security firm Blackwater has provoked outrage over plans to launch a video game where players perform the role of mercenaries.

The company, accused of some of the worst human rights violations of the Iraq war, has teamed up with games company 505 Studios to publish the game, the Daily Mail reports.

American space agency has released a set of impressive new photos of the Apollo landing sites on the Moon.

The images taken by the robotic Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), clearly shows hardware parts left over by the astronauts in the 1960s and 70s. Several probes have send pictures before but these are the best yet.

Washington, Sept 6 : A new study has suggested that cells, which have the power of communicating with each other, know exactly when to transmit signals and when to shut up letting other cells do the talking.

London, Sept 5 : Those who are struck with wanderlust can now explore the globe from the comfort of their homes, as long as they have access to the internet.

Google's Street View is heading down the Amazon to capture pictures of "some of the most remote and biodiverse areas in the world", according to its official blog.

London, Sept 5 : Sony Ericsson has announced its new line of smartphones, which can take 3D panoramic images on a standard 2D camera - the first of its kind on the mobile phone market.

Pictures taken on the new, top-of-the-range Xperia Arc S can be viewed on any compatible television set.

The phone, however, will display them only in two dimensions. Nor will it be able to produce 3D video output, reports the Daily Mail.

Melbourne, Sept 5 : Swiss researchers say they have made a "small step" towards getting robots to run like humans.

"The hot question is how we make robots that can run as effectively as humans do," ABC Science quoted Queensland University of Technology professor of robotics, Dr Gordon Wyeth, of the research, as saying.

"This is a small step on the way."

London, Sept 1 : Technology giant Sony has unveiled a head-mounted display that gives wearers a 3D personal theater for videos, music and games.

The HMZ personal 3D viewer is being targetted at people who prefer solitary entertainment rather than sitting in front of a television with family or friends.

Resembling a futuristic visor, the 480 pounds (800 dollars) device is worn like a pair of chunky goggles and earphones in one.

London, Sept 1 : Tech company Microsoft intentionally designed a mobile software to track its users without their consent, it has emerged.

According to a new lawsuit filed in a Seattle federal court, Microsoft designed camera software on the Windows Phone 7 operating system ignoring customer's requests that the tracking software be turned off, the Daily Mail reports.

Washington, August 31 : A study has suggested that mobile phone positioning data can be used to monitor population movements during disasters and outbreaks.

The study, conducted by Linus Bengtsson and colleagues from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden and Columbia University, USA, found that reports on the location of populations affected and in need of assistance could be generated within hours of receiving data.

London, August 31 : Are you worried that your friend will reshare all your Facebook private details to the world? Well, then dump the least discreet members of your social network and feel secure.

Pritam Gundecha at Arizona State University in Tempe had a technique for working out which friends are most likely to leak private information so you can remove them, if you choose.

London, Aug 30 : A 19-year-old hacker who developed an iPhone tool for users to download applications that was not approved by Apple, is reportedly set to start an internship at the software technology giant.

Nicholas Allegra, who has been a thorn in the side of the technology giant after launching ''JailbreakMe 2.0'' last year, claimed he has been hired as an intern at Apple, the Daily Mail reports.

London, Aug 25 : NASA's Swift satellite have spotted a truly extraordinary event, the awakening of a distant galaxy's dormant black hole as it shredded and consumed a star.

Two new studies provide new insights into a cosmic accident that has been streaming X-rays toward Earth since late March.

NASA's Swift satellite first alerted astronomers to intense and unusual high-energy flares from the new source in the constellation Draco.