Japan set to power up nuclear reactor amid protests
Energy-starved Japan will regain nuclear-powered electricity on Sunday, as the first reactor to be switched on since last year's Fukushima disaster comes online.
View Article5 ways the iPhone changed our lives
On June 28, 2007, Nokia was the top selling mobile-phone company in the world, people stopped working when they left their computers, Android phones didn't exist, and high-powered executives were...
View ArticleChinese space capsule returns to Earth after ambitious mission
China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft returned to Earth on Friday, completing an ambitious mission that notched up a series of breakthroughs for the country, including putting its first woman in orbit.
View ArticleReview: Nexus 7 is best Android tablet yet
Note to all tablet makers not named Asus: This is how you make a 7-inch tablet.
View ArticleReport: Amazon is planning to sell its own smartphone
Amazon may be coming out with its own smartphone, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The company reportedly is working with Foxconn to develop the hardware, which will likely run Amazon's...
View ArticleFour ways the Internet could go down
The Internet was designed to be robust, fault-tolerant and distributed, but its technology is still in its infancy.
View ArticleWind industry pulled in to candidates' debate on outsourcing
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is attempting to flip attacks on his business record by accusing the Obama administration of shipping American jobs overseas, but experts in the industry...
View ArticleThe tiny island with a huge Web presence
If you're among the companies vying for one of the nearly 2,000 new generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, you've got big pockets. The application alone costs about $185,000.
View ArticleThree launched for rendezvous with space station
A Russian spacecraft was launched Sunday in Kazakhstan, carrying crew members from three countries to a four-month deployment aboard the International Space Station.
View ArticleCan a new Office suite keep Microsoft on top?
For Microsoft's latest version of its Office suite, the company is betting big that making documents accessible across multiple devices, a cleaned-up design and improved collaboration features will...
View ArticleBus driver who caught plunging Brooklyn child brushes off 'hero' talk
A veteran New York City bus driver on Tuesday played down any claims of heroism for snagging a 7-year-old girl who fell three stories from a Brooklyn apartment building a day earlier.
View ArticleThe myth of the 'drunk phone'
Some young adults are so fond of their expensive smartphones that they take a cheaper backup phone with them to bars and leave their fancier phones at home where they are safe from spilled vodka...
View ArticlePhotos surface of a large, early-2000s iPad prototype
Even before Apple came out with its iPhone five years ago, it was experimenting with iPad-like tablets.
View ArticleTheater shooting unfolds in real time on social media
The posts show how quickly life can change.
View ArticleOn Twitter, a curious spike for Romney
Either Mitt Romney got really popular last weekend, or something funky was going on with his Twitter feed.
View ArticleSally Ride, first American woman in space, dies
Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, her company said. She was 61.
View ArticleFalling out of love with my iPhone
I feel guilty. My iPhone has been great to me. Loyal. Hard working. Holds a charge well. Sure, we had some dropped calls, but who hasn't?
View ArticleWi-Fi fees drag hotel satisfaction down
Hotel guests across the continent are not happy. At least that's the conclusion from a survey released Wednesday by J.D. Power and Associates.
View ArticleReview: Mac's Lion adventure continues
How do you prep a venerable computer operating system to flourish in late 2012 and beyond?
View ArticleReport: Russia is stockpiling drones to spy on street protests
Small surveillance drones are starting to be part of police departments across America, and the FAA will soon open up the airspace for more to come. This drone invasion has already raised all kinds of...
View ArticleA future with fewer mobile apps?
How many apps do you have on your smartphone? If that's an unwieldy number today, expect it to slim down considerably in the future.
View ArticlePennsylvania court strikes down key part of law limiting local control of...
A Pennsylvania court has struck down a controversial provision of a state law that stopped municipalities from controlling where natural gas companies could drill.
View ArticleComputer hacking for 8-year-olds
The hacker who goes by the pseudonym CyFi won't share her real name and declines to be photographed without her signature aviator sunglasses.
View ArticleHow to follow the London Olympics online
It would take you almost five solid months -- without sleeping or bathroom breaks -- to watch every sporting event at this year's Summer Olympics. More than 3,500 hours of competition from London will...
View ArticleReports: iPhone 5 to be unveiled Sept. 12
Gadget fans waiting anxiously for the next iPhone to be released may be reaching the home stretch.
View ArticleAmazon takes on Netflix, Hulu with instant-video iPad app
A day after Hulu Plus landed on Apple TV, another player in the streaming video market, Amazon, has released a viewing app for the iPad.
View ArticleCybersecurity bill fails in Senate
The most comprehensive cybersecurity legislation proposed by Congress, which sponsors say would have helped protect the government and industry from potentially devastating cyberattacks, was voted down...
View ArticleSmartphone users report more phone problems, survey says
Nearly nine out of 10 U.S. adults have a cell phone -- and they're having a lot of problems with them. New research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that almost three-fourths of...
View ArticleTrial gives sneak peek into Apple's inner workings
Apple, one of the most famously secretive companies in the world, is giving the public a rare peek into how it makes and markets its products.
View ArticleOpportunity plugs away as new Mars probe nears landing
In more than eight Earth years, NASA's unexpectedly tough Mars rover Opportunity has been stuck in a sand dune, nursed a bad shoulder and endured five brutal winters on Mars.
View ArticleFCC asked to consider raising limit on cell phone radiation
The U.S. government is being asked to update its 16-year-old cell phone radiation standard to bring it in line with current research and the way people use smartphones.
View ArticleCuriosity causes Internet to explode with joy
It inspired childlike moments of wonder. It was a feeling that many had not felt since NASA's final space shuttle launch, Atlantis in July 2011.
View ArticleLab-grown meat gives food for thought
A burger grown in a laboratory. Sounds like science-fiction? Well up until very recently it probably was but now the prospect of lab-grown meat appearing on our supermarket shelves is closer than ever.
View ArticleNew NRC chair vouches for agency's independence, states goals
Is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission too cozy with the industry it regulates?
View ArticleObama, Romney spar over Medicare in battleground states
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney battled over Medicare and energy policy Tuesday as the November election campaign reached out to battleground states crucial to both sides' chances for victory.
View ArticleReport: Next iPhone goes on sale September 21
More details about the presumably imminent release of the next iPhone have emerged, if the typically anonymous spate of Internet sources are to be believed.
View ArticleRIM prepares next BlackBerry generation
Research In Motion has begun manufacturing "beta" or test units of its next generation BlackBerry 10 devices, signalling that the Canadian manufacturer of the BlackBerry family of smartphones is on...
View ArticlePinterest releases new iPad and Android apps
A week after dropping its invite-only requirement and letting the masses sign up for accounts, social-bookmarking service Pinterest has made another expansion, this time to Android devices and the iPad.
View ArticleObama campaign more active online, Pew says
Barack Obama's campaign is making better use of the Internet and social media to reach voters than presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney, according to a new study.
View ArticleSaudi Arabia objects to .gay and .islam domain names
The Saudi Arabian government is objecting to a number of proposed new Internet address endings, including .gay, .bar, .baby and .islam.
View ArticleTwitter founders unveil new blogging tool
There's yet another way to post writing and photos and share them with other people online. Medium is a new blogging tool for people who feel constrained by Twitter and overwhelmed by Blogger or Tumblr.
View ArticleReview: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet is mightier with pen
When Samsung's Galaxy Note smartphone went on sale in the U.S. in February, two things made it, um, noteworthy. At 5.3?, its display was the largest one ever offered on a phone. And the Note came with...
View ArticleApple and Samsung make final cases to jury in patent trial
After three weeks, the closely watched Apple versus Samsung patent trial wound down Tuesday with four hours of closing arguments.
View ArticleNikon's latest camera runs Android
The gulf between smartphones and cameras is getting smaller, thanks to a new point-and-shoot camera from Nikon that's powered by the Android operating system.
View ArticleFAA reconsiders limits on consumer electronics in the sky
Will the familiar warning for airline passengers to "discontinue the use of all portable electronic devices" become a relic of the past?
View ArticleApple ruling will hurt - but not for long
On August 24, a jury of nine in a California federal court handed down a ruling that sent shockwaves through the global wireless phone industry. Samsung, the world's largest phone maker, was found...
View ArticleNew York anti-fracking group draws celebrity support
The family of late Beatles music icon John Lennon on Wednesday voiced opposition to a controversial process of natural gas drilling known as fracking,
View ArticleWe never talk any more: The problem with text messaging
You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you on the phone. Nothing personal, I just can't stand the thing.
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