Melbourne, Nov 20: Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, which have millions of users, are being used by extremist groups to recruit members, experts have warned.

Many experts have claimed that extremist groups use such sites to influence people via Web 2.0 tools like blogs, social networks, video sites and instant messaging.

"(These websites) are the ''killer apps'' of the internet today, and they''re used by millions, but the virus of hate certainly has infected those technologies," News. com. au quoted Christopher Wolf, chair of the International Network Against CyberHate (INACH), as telling the Global Summit on Internet Hate Speech.

Washington, November 18: A team of researchers from the University of Washington and Adobe Systems Inc. have unveiled an intuitive application called Zoetrope, with which an Internet user can easily search out old data.

"Your browser is really just a window into the Web as it exists today. When you search for something online, you''re only getting today''s results," said Eytan Adar, a University of Washington computer science and engineering doctoral student.

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Washington, Nov. 15 : Cyber hackers have broken into the computer system at the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a Fox News report has said.

The hacking took place last week, throwing the IMF into a major crisis.

It provoked a shutdown of IMF computers that lasted for several days.

FOX News has been unable to determine what, if any, information may have been obtained by the hackers. The IMF denies any critical intrusion took place.

Washington, November 13: A multi-university research team, including an Indian-origin expert, is testing the live broadcast of surgeries using the advanced networking consortium ‘Internet2’.

The technology, which allows for the transmission of high quality video to multiple locations in real time, may enable doctors from different hospitals across the world to collaborate on a surgery, without having to actually be in the operation theatre.