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Climatic conditions are threatening Antarctic glaciers as the region could face irreversible ice loss. As per researchers, if East Antarctic's Totten glacier would melt then it would lead to a 10 feet sea level rise in America.

The researchers affirmed that warm water that flows beneath the Antarctic glacier is the main reason considered for melting of the glacier. Through two earlier unknown pathways, the warm water is flowing from the ocean's depths and is reducing the thickness of Totten Glacier severely.

Earlier research suggested that warmer and saltier water could be flowing beneath colder water off the coast of Antarctic. The new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has unveiled that warmer water is moving up on the seafloor towards the coastline.

A former Facebook employee is taking legal action against the social media giant for number of claims involving sex discrimination, sexual harassment, race discrimination, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The lawsuit was filed at the San Mateo County Superior Court and named Facebook as the defendant and Chia Hong as the plaintiff. Hong, who started working at Facebook in 2010, claimed that the company had a 'hostile work environment', where she was asked to organize parties and serve drinks to male colleagues. According to Hong, Facebook fired her in 2013 because she submitted a complaint against her boss Anil Wilson.

Al Gore, former vice president and current chairman and founder of the Climate Reality Project, recently discussed about the climate crisis at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas.

In the discussion, he has focused on a need to punish politicians who deny the current problems in climate change.

SXSW, which is running from March 9 to 22 this year, is a large film and music festival running annually for around past 20 years. During SXSW, designers, developers, investors, entrepreneurs, and politicians come together for many days of discussions about technology, innovation, and the future.

More than a dozen California cab companies charged a lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. over misleading advertisements related to the safety provided by the company. According to the complaint filed by Yellow Cab Co. and other operators in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Barbara, the company gives the wrong impression about the background checks it employs for screening of its drivers.

Uber, an American international company headquartered in San Francisco, California, generated $1.2 billion in December at a valuation of $40 billion. The company has been criticized a lot in some cities over its app-based, on- demand transportation service, which used drivers with no taxi or limousine licenses.

Secusmart, a Blackberry-owned company, has recently partnered with IBM and Samsung in order to create a new, secure tablet. The tablet, named Secutablet, is based on the Samsung galaxy 10.5 and runs on Samsung hardware, the firm revealed.

Secusmart further said that the additional security offered by the new tablet aims at businesses and governments. But it said that some less protected social media and video platforms can also be used on the device.

The Secutablet which is also compatible with Blackberry 10 is presently undergoing security certification at the German Federal Office for Information Security. Also, IBM's app wrapping technology has provided the new tablet with extra layers of security.

Japanese consumer electronics company Sharp is again planning to lay off employees both at home and abroad divisions as the firm witnessed more losses in the fiscal year ending March 31.

According to Japan's Nikkei newspaper, the electronics giant would cut around 6,000 jobs, half of which would be in Japan through early retirement while the rest would be overseas, especially in the US.

The report about layoffs came as Sharp was expected to post a net loss of 200 billion yen ($1.65 billion) for the current financial year that will end this month. This would be the third annual loss in four years on the back of price competition with Chinese and South Korea rivals.