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May 22, 2019
If you've spent countless hours looking for Bigfoot, don't give up: there's still hope.
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May 22, 2019
A smartphone app developed by Japanese police is being widely downloaded by women trying to protect themselves from gropers on packed rush-hour trains.
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May 22, 2019
"I'd blush if I could."
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May 22, 2019
Instagram has accidentally leaked the private information of 49 million of its users including major influencers and bloggers.
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May 21, 2019
Almost nobody knows where they are at any given time, yet nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines quietly patrol dark domains of the undersea realm in strategically vital waters around the globe, bringing the prospect of unprecedented destruction upon potential enemies -- all as a way to keep peace.
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May 21, 2019
The estate of Harold Arlen, who wrote classic songs like "Over the Rainbow" and "I've Got the World On a String," is taking several Silicon Valley giants to court.
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May 21, 2019
Google unveiled an artificial intelligence system that demonstrated an amazing ability to detect lung cancer in early testing and even outperformed radiologists.
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May 21, 2019
As the 2020 U.S. presidential election campaign draws nearer, an independent study has uncovered a coordinated troll campaign using Instagram in an attempt to damage President Donald Trump.
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May 21, 2019
YouTube has cracked down videos posted by crackpots and fringe figures who promote a host of "miracle cures," including a holy elixir bleach peddled by a self-described archbishop from another galaxy, according to a report.
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May 21, 2019
Scammers are using Facebook Messenger and other apps to trick Americans into thinking they gave money to terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda.
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May 20, 2019
Cybersecurity experts say Baltimore is playing with fire as a deadline to pay thousands of dollars in ransom to hackers holding several of the city's servers hostage has come and gone.
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May 20, 2019
Almost everyone has an eerie a tale to tell. Perhaps you've been talking to a friend about an island vacation, when suddenly deals for the Maldives or Hawaii pop up on your Facebook feed. Creepy or coincidence? Was your smartphone eavesdropping on your conversation?
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May 20, 2019
The former chairman and chief executive of Google said that calls for breaking up the tech giant have "no basis in law" and would harm consumers by pushing up prices and decreasing transparency.
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May 20, 2019
Apple CEO Tim Cook told graduating students at Tulane University that it was their job to remake the world and leave it better for humanity -- while also throwing some shade at Facebook.
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May 20, 2019
Apple CEO Tim Cook told graduating students at Tulane University that it was their job to remake the world and leave it better for humanity -- while also throwing some shade at Facebook.
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May 20, 2019
Visit any of the major digital music stores and you'll find unauthorized copies of songs for sale and streaming.
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May 20, 2019
The biggest threat to the dominance of AirPods is coming from within Apple.
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May 20, 2019
Amidst a wave of employee organizing, Google's top legal executive sent an all-staff email telling employees that accessing certain "need to know" documents without permission could get them fired.
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May 20, 2019
Despite the Air Force's stated intention and the widespread assumption that a low-cost off-the-shelf Light Attack airplane would primarily perform counterinsurgency missions, it seems entirely conceivable that the plane could have limited uses for major power warfare as well.
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May 19, 2019
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said recent calls for the tech giant to be broken up won't address the issues that have prompted a backlash against Big Tech.
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May 19, 2019
The Oregon office of the FBI issued an advisory this week on an ongoing scam that has resulted in losses totaling tens of millions of dollars.
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May 19, 2019
Somehow, money gets lost. We leave cash in odd places. Given how hard we work for money, it's hard to believe how easily we misplace it.
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May 18, 2019
Intel is facing a new chip vulnerability that could allow attackers to steal personal information from your PC.
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May 18, 2019
Here's how to protect your identity, get a free television and try out some unique features of your iPhone.
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May 17, 2019
As anticipation grows for 5G technology to be rolled out in big cities, nearly 15 million people in rural pockets across the country are still waiting for reliable high-speed internet.
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May 17, 2019
Grumpy Cat may be gone, but the memes that helped propel her to fame live on.
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May 17, 2019
A new fake account problem has recently bedeviled Facebook.
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May 17, 2019
Amazon was hit with a social media backlash in India after a range of items bearing images of Hindu gods, including rugs and toilet seat covers, were being sold on its website.
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May 17, 2019
Aerospace company Hermeus unveiled plans to develop an aircraft that could travel at speeds of up to Mach 5 -- cutting travel time from New York to London from 7 hours to 90 minutes.
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May 16, 2019
Drones are nimble little flyers, but one strike and their fragile structures come tumbling to the ground.
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May 16, 2019
The U.S. Navy's stealthy new first-of-its-kind destroyer will incinerate targets with lasers, fire advanced weapons to destroy moving targets at sea and use upgraded interceptor missiles to track and knock-out approaching enemy fire -- all as part of a broader strategic shift to prepare the high-tech ship for massive, "blue-water" maritime warfare on the open seas.
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May 16, 2019
The U.S. Navy's stealthy new first-of-its-kind destroyer will incinerate targets with lasers, fire advanced weapons to destroy moving targets at sea and use upgraded interceptor missiles to track and knock-out approaching enemy fire -- all as part of a broader strategic shift to prepare the high-tech ship for massive, "blue-water" maritime warfare on the open seas.
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May 15, 2019
President Trump's administration rolled out a new tool on Wednesday, calling on the public to help identify social media accounts that may be subjected to unfair censorship because of "political bias."
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May 15, 2019
Two months after the deadly white nationalist terrorist attacks in New Zealand, Facebook has announced new restrictions on who can livestream video on the social network.
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May 15, 2019
Microsoft Corp. took the unusual step of warning that a computer bug it has now patched could be used by a cyber weapon similar to the WannaCry worm, which spread across the globe two years ago.
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May 15, 2019
The U.S. Air Force is now integrating new weapons onto 143 F-22s to massively expand their target envelope, air-to-air attack range and lock-on-launch precision -- to preserve the widely held belief that the stealth fighter is the most advanced and dominant air-to-air fighter ever to exist.
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May 14, 2019
San Francisco is to become the first U.S. city to outlaw a rapidly developing technology that has alarmed privacy and civil-liberties advocates, as the liberal city's supervisors voted Tuesday to ban the use of facial recognition software by police and other city departments.
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May 14, 2019
That's a different choice.
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May 14, 2019
Amazon is retraining its staff after incorrectly blocking several Christian sellers from advertising online for crosses, Bibles, and religious symbols and statements.
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May 14, 2019
When Amazon makes a big push to deliver your order faster, the competition has to react.
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May 14, 2019
Amazon's shopping experience and Prime subscriptions rely heavily on the company's ability to deliver orders extremely quickly.
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May 14, 2019
Spyware crafted by a sophisticated group of hackers-for-hire took advantage of a flaw in the popular WhatsApp communications program to remotely hijack dozens of phones, the company said late Monday.
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May 14, 2019
Twitter says it "inadvertently" collected iOS location data from some of its users and shared it with one of its "trusted" advertising partners — marking the fourth time in the past year that people's private information has been made public.
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May 13, 2019
Facebook is pushing back hard against calls from several Democratic lawmakers and its co-founder Chris Hughes to break up the embattled tech giant.
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May 13, 2019
ISIS extremists still use Instagram "to promote jihad and incite support for terror attacks on the West," according to an investigation by British newspaper The Daily Telegraph. However, Instagram maintains terrorists aren't welcomed on the platform as parent company Facebook continues to crack down on dangerous users.
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May 13, 2019
India's antitrust watchdog is investigating whether Alphabet Inc.'s Google used its Android platform to block rivals, New Delhi's latest move to try to tamp down American tech behemoths.
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May 13, 2019
Amazon is using new machines that would automate a job held by thousands of workers -- boxing up orders inside the company's cavernous warehouses worldwide.
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May 13, 2019
Google's Top Stories box provides users with articles from left-leaning news organizations such as CNN 62.4 percent of the time -- with only 11.3 percent coming from outlets that are considered conservative, according to a study by Northwestern University researchers.
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May 13, 2019
The Wikipedia page of Doris Day was defaced with a graphic image just hours after it was confirmed that the former actress had passed away.
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May 13, 2019
The Navy has begun work on a new generation of attack submarines with never-before-seen weapons, quieting technology, undersea attack drones, sonar and communications networking… to emerge at some point over the next 10 years or more.
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May 13, 2019
On Friday, President Donald Trump raised the tariff rate on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports from 10 percent up to 25 percent.
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May 12, 2019
Upcoming satellite technology could lower prices for Internet services, a new report predicts.
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May 12, 2019
Everything you need to know about GPS trackers, and more.
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May 11, 2019
The FBI has shut down a shadowy website that helps criminals monetize contraband and launder money on the web.
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May 11, 2019
Ever click something in an email or on the web and right afterward thought, "Boy, that was dumb." You're not alone. Every week on my national radio show, I take calls from people just like you who know better but make common tech faux pas.
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May 10, 2019
A rare, unopened first-edition of an Apple iPod is listed for sale on eBay for a whopping $20,000.
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May 10, 2019
It looked like streaming balls of fire lighting up the air, accompanied by a very loud noise, smoke and the sight of a large fiery explosion on the other side of a desert canyon.
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May 10, 2019
Several US senators are asking Amazon for more information about its Echo Dot Kids Edition, which advocacy groups claim violates kids' digital privacy.
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May 10, 2019
Louis Farrakhan spoke at a Catholic church Thursday night in the wake of his Facebook ban and denied that he hates Jewish people while ranting about "Satanic Jews."
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May 10, 2019
Google has launched a new set of tools designed to help military spouses find opportunities for remote working.
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May 09, 2019
A rare working Apple 1, the computer that began the legacy of Steve Jobs and Apple, is set to go up for auction later this month and experts believe it could sell for nearly $650,000.
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May 09, 2019
Chris Hughes, who helped Mark Zuckerberg create the company that eventually becameFacebook Inc., is calling for the social-media giant to be broken up.
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May 09, 2019
Microsoft is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to boost the use of "inclusive language" in Word.
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May 09, 2019
How did the robot cross over the creek?
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May 09, 2019
The US Army's Rapid Equipping Force is fast-tracking new technology to war that can track, jam and destroy attacking enemy drones as a way to respond to an explosive amount of new combat threats,
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May 09, 2019
A US senator wants to ban loot boxes in video games directed at children, claiming they can promote addiction.
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May 08, 2019
Baltimore Mayor Bernard "Jack" Young said Wednesday that IT teams were working to recover from a devastating cyberattack the day before that had forced officials to shut down most of the city's Internet servers.
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May 08, 2019
In Silicon Valley, tech workers who are apparently too cool for actual beer have taken to something called Liquid Death.
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May 08, 2019
A ‘speeding' pigeon has gone viral after it was caught on a speed camera in Germany.
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May 08, 2019
Apple may be adding a new swipe-to-type function for iPhone keyboards in the next big update.
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May 07, 2019
Google first introduced Incognito Mode years ago with the release of the Chrome browser.
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May 07, 2019
The Navy has introduced new prisoner uniforms for all pretrial and post-trial inmates in shore military correctional facilities (MCFs).
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May 07, 2019
The FBI appears to have taken down DeepDotWeb, a site that publicized links to online black markets on the dark web.
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May 07, 2019
Two nonprofits are mobilizing to push shareholders to remove Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from his post as chair of the tech giant's board.
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May 07, 2019
In case you haven't been paying attention, gadgets with artificial intelligence are getting even smarter. Feel free to panic about "Terminator"-style robots taking over the world, but for now, these gadgets save us time by thinking for us. Some are so smart they trick a criminal into looking at a security camera; another senses how much detergent you need for your dirty clothes. And in a coup for Google, a word processor now watches for every grammar mistake.
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May 07, 2019
Three dating apps have been removed from Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store after allegations from the FTC that the apps allowed children as young as 12 to access them and appeared to violate multiple laws.
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May 07, 2019
The Coast Guard's vigorous push to equip its entire Cutter fleet with deck-mounted surveillance drones offers an interesting window into the service's expanding mission scope - to include an increased focus upon great power threats and potential military attacks such as small boat raids, submarine missions, enemy surveillance drones and even incoming fire.
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May 06, 2019
Don't call back phone numbers that ring once and hang up, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has warned.
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May 06, 2019
Google, Facebook Inc. and other tech giants have long tinkered with ways to grow outside the core businesses they dominate. Now those efforts are becoming urgent.
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May 06, 2019
Apple is exaggerating the maximum battery life for several of its iPhones, a new consumer advocacy report concludes.
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May 06, 2019
SEATTLE—Much of the news coming out of this year's Microsoft Build developer conference has already been announced, including Windows 10 updates, the next HoloLens 2, and specific new capabilities for Azure, artificial intelligence, mixed reality, cloud and data services, and the Internet of Things.
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May 06, 2019
If a US Army infantry unit, engaged in massive mechanized warfare, were suddenly ambushed by a large number of enemy fighters attacking from multiple angles -- location information or intelligence about air support would hinge almost entirely upon timely access to information.
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May 06, 2019
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez were spotted for the first time publically since reports broke earlier this year of their romance.
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May 05, 2019
Here are some best practices to keep your passwords safer.
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May 05, 2019
I am a freelancer working from home, and I want to record calls with my clients. How can I record calls on my smartphone?
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May 04, 2019
Your home router is open to attacks, as Huawei ‘backdoor' shows.
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May 04, 2019
Streaming video is still a relatively young technology, but most of us can no longer imagine sticking a disc into a DVD player. Yes, some of us still enjoy our Redbox rentals, and Blu-ray still offers some of the best imaging available.
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May 03, 2019
Emily Compagno, co-host of "The Five," suggested on Friday that Facebook banned a host of controversial figures — author Milo Yiannopoulos, Infowars founder Alex Jones, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan — because the platform wanted to distract from the fact that it amplified violence.
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May 03, 2019
A man in Taiwan who accidentally swallowed an Apple AirPod got a big surprise after it passed through his digestive system, the Daily Mail reports.
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May 03, 2019
22 VA rehabilitation centers around the country will receive Xbox adaptive controllers specially designed for gamers with mental or physical disabilities.
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May 03, 2019
The city by the bay is bracing for a brand new tech boom triggered by a rebound of initial public offerings, partly driven by the rising stock market and rebound in the U.S. economy.
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May 03, 2019
The Video Game Hall of Fame today inducted a familiar computer game: Microsoft Solitaire.
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May 03, 2019
Two million home security cameras, webcams, electronic doorbells and baby monitors are vulnerable to spying and hacking, according to Paul Marrapese, an independent security expert from California who found security flaws in 140,000 devices in the United States.
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May 03, 2019
Known for an ability to keep flying after taking multiple rounds of enemy machine gun fire, land and operate in rugged terrain, destroy groups of enemy fighters with a 30mm cannon and unleash a wide arsenal of attack weapons, the A-10 is described by pilots as a "flying tank" in the sky -- able to hover over ground war and provide life-saving close air support in high-threat combat environments.
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May 03, 2019
A new report from The Wall Street Journal indicates that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has spent $59 million buying two properties in Lake Tahoe, continuing to expand his vast real estate portfolio around the country.
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May 02, 2019
An ambitious but controversial social media project has used Instagram to tell the heartbreaking story of a 13-year-old victim of the Holocaust.
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May 02, 2019
New technology would allow retailers to show shoppers targeted, real-time ads on video screens placed throughout their stores.
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May 02, 2019
Facebook has permanently banned several far-right or hate figures and organizations including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, Infowars host Alex Jones, Laura Loomer, and Milo Yiannopoulos, for being "dangerous" -- a signal that the social network is enforcing its policies against hate speech more intensely.
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