Washington is expanding its power by turning state governments into instruments of federal policy.

The PC may be having a slight revival, but tablet sales are a big worry. Oh, and Best Buy will match Amazon's prices "with a smile."

Foreign programmes aim to spread information inside the secretive state. But listening is considered a 'crime against the state' and can carry the death penalty. NK News reports

A few years ago, I was offered two very good tickets to a New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden. I invited my daughter to the game, but almost immediately my wife complained, “Why don’t you ever let me go?” So I gave them the two tickets and ...

Battlefield Hardline has been delayed to early 2015, Electronic Arts announced today, saying that the development teams want to spend more time developing the game to ultimately deliver a better product.

Samsung Electronics said it has found "evidence of suspected child labour" at a factory of its Chinese supplier Dongguan Shinyang Electronics. The firm conducted an investigation into the supplier after New York-based campaign group, China ...

Yahoo, the last living fossil of the internet dinosaurs, is coming to grips with its own mortality. The lumbering tech giant once bought 48 acres of land in Santa Clara for a massive office expansion. Now it's turning the land into a parking lot ...

There was a time when flip phones ruled the world… just ask Motorola. Those are long gone, but LG is working on the next generation of screen technology that could make rollable phones the next most highly coveted genre of smart phone.

A Northern California sheriff's deputy who shot and killed an unarmed 13-year-old Santa Rosa boy will not face charges. Sonoma County Dist. Atty. Jill Ravitch said Monday that Deputy Erick Gelhaus shot Andy Lopez as a response to what "he h ...

The Cassini spacecraft has made another profound discovery in what’s being celebrated as one of the most successful space missions in history: the hint of a new moon being formed in the rings of Saturn.

The lemon ninja! Incredible kitchen hand speedily slices his way through a mountain of citrus fruit

The buyer, an Italian, was in town for a week, with a million or so dollars to spend. We met one Sunday morning at 20 Pine, a Financial District condo building. She wore a red scarf, jangly jewelry, and a pair of lime-green sunglasses perched atop he ...

In a touching moment, the NBA "selected" Austin, whose career was ended by discovery of a genetic disorder.

Eli Wallach, who was one of his generation’s most prominent and prolific character actors in film, onstage and on television for more than 60 years, died on Tuesday. He was 98. His death was confirmed by his daughter Katherine.

Security tester Oren Hafif says that he found and helped fix a bug in Google's Gmail service that could have been used to extract millions of Gmail addresses, if not all of them, in a matter of days or weeks.

On Friday, the Central Intelligence Agency scored a PR coup when the agency’s first-ever tweet was retweeted nearly 270,000 times. For a government entity not often on the right side of feel-good stories, the cheeky leveraging of social media was a t ...

Internet activists and rights groups have launched a massive online campaign against mass government surveillance, urging users and websites to use encryption. The campaign’s inspiration – NSA whistleblower Snowden – has called to join ResetTheNet.

Red tape and a moderate earthquake did not deter a private group from meeting its goal of making contact with a 36-year-old NASA spacecraft that has been slumbering in deep space since 1997.

College is one of the world's last institutions left largely unchanged by the corrosive torrent of digital data and Wi-Fi beams, but it's the one that needs the Internet's help most.

Bookshops are closing down like nobody’s business. So do they need rethinking for the electronic age? Rosanna de Lisle asks four firms of architects and designers to create the bookshop of their dreams