Millions of people around the world have been affected by slow Internet speeds after an unprecedented attack.

GENEVA, Switzerland (PNN) - March 27, 2013 - A Dutch web-hosting company caused disruption and the global slowdown of the Internet, according to a not-for-profit anti-spam organization.

The interruptions came after Spamhaus, a spam-fighting group based in Geneva, temporarily added the Dutch firm, CyberBunker, to a blacklist that is used by e-mail providers to weed out spam.

STUTTGART, Germany (PNN) - March 26, 2013 - The race to build the world’s first production electric supercar is over. And Audi blinked.

It’s not that Ingolstadt’s on again/off again R8 e-tron wasn’t a deliciously indulgent glimpse into what one-percenters will add to their rolling war chest. In fact, there’s still a glimmer of hope the four-ringed brand might actually develop and sell the electrified R8 in limited numbers. But it wasn’t long after Audi teased journalists with parking-lot-speed test drives on closed roads that the sleek EV disappeared from the product planning lineup.

SAN RAFAEL, Kalifornia (PNN) - March 25, 2013 - A San Rafael man who punched a Kalifornia Highway Patrol terrorist pig thug cop in the head during a chaotic traffic stop was acquitted of battery against a pig thug cop.

HOUSTON, Texas (PNN) - March 20, 2013 - Many news outlets are reporting that NASA’s Voyager 1 has left the solar system.

That's not true.

GENEVA, Switzerland (PNN) - March 14, 2013 - It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago.

In what could go down as one of the great Eureka! moments in physics - and win somebody the Nobel Prize - scientists said Thursday that after a half-century quest, they are confident they have found a Higgs boson, the elusive subatomic speck sometimes called the "God particle".

CARACAS, Venezuela (PNN) - March 7, 2013 - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has died aged 58, after 14 years in power.

Chavez had been seriously ill with cancer for more than a year, undergoing several operations in Cuba.

BREMEN, Germany (PNN) - March 4, 2013 - German university student Dennis Siegel invented a device that captures electromagnetic fields like WiFi and radio waves and converts them to stored energy in batteries.

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - March 1, 2013 - Eighteen-year-old Taylor Wilson has designed a compact nuclear reactor that could one day burn waste from old atomic weapons to power anything from homes and factories to space colonies.

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (PNN) - February 21, 2013 - Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr. has defended his comments from earlier this week under criticism from local reporters who said his remarks that strict gun legislation could lead to a “second Amerikan Revolution” were inflammatory.

Major solar storms possible.

GREENBELT, Maryland (PNN) - February 20, 2013 - A colossal sunspot on the surface of the sun is large enough to swallow six Earths whole, and could trigger solar flares this week, NASA scientists say.