HP will integrate Leap Motion controllers with PCs
Leap Motion's 3-D motion controllers will be included in some personal computers from Hewlett-Packard Co. this year, a move that the San Francisco ...
Facebook brings 'chat heads' feature to iPhone app
Facebook has updated its iPhone and iPad applications to let people keep using its chat feature even when they are doing other things, such as reading ...
Rights group sues UK over exports of spy tech
A human rights group is suing the British government over the export of sophisticated surveillance technology that has been used to spy on dissidents ...

Online nonprofit InsideClimate News wins Pulitzer
In a sign of a rapidly changing media world, a relatively unknown New York-based online nonprofit news site joined some of the country's most ...
Softbank says its bid for Sprint Nextel superior
SoftBank Corp. says it believes its bid for U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel is a better choice than the $25.5 billion counteroffer by Dish Network ...

French farmers, anarchists unite in airport fight
They hurl sticks, stones and gasoline bombs. They have spent brutal winter months fortifying muddy encampments. And now they're ready to ramp up their ...

Boat filled with protected species hits coral reef
A Chinese boat that ran into a coral reef in the southwestern Philippines held evidence of even more environmental destruction inside: more than ...
BP manager testifies at trial over Gulf oil spill
A BP team leader who supervised managers on the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 testified Monday that he was frustrated by ...

Judge holds self in contempt for his smartphone
A Michigan judge whose smartphone disrupted a hearing in his own courtroom has held himself in contempt and paid $25 for the infraction. Judge Raymond ...

Lion Air jet that crashed into sea must be cut up
A new Lion Air jet that slammed into the sea as it tried to land on the Indonesian resort island of Bali over the weekend remains stuck in shallow ...

Dish Network offering to buy Sprint in $25.5B deal
Dish Network Corp. is trying to snag U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. away from its Japanese suitor in a recognition that satellite dishes ...
Israeli high-tech pioneer Efraim Arazi dies
Efraim "Efi" Arazi, a pioneer of Israel's powerful high-tech industry who helped develop technology that allowed for a video recording of the first ...
Abbott Laboratories recalls blood glucose meters
Abbott Laboratories is recalling its FreeStyle InsuLinx Blood Glucose Meters after finding that they display and store incorrect test results for ...

Spring storm socks Midwest, Deep South; 3 dead
A powerful spring storm unleashed tornadoes and winds strong enough to peel the roofs from homes in the Deep South and heaped snow and ice on the ...
Hawaii land board approves Thirty Meter Telescope
A plan by California and Canadian universities to build the world's largest telescope at the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano won approval from ...
Coding boot camps promise to launch tech careers
Looking for a career change, Ken Shimizu decided he wanted to be a software developer, but he didn't want to go back to college to study computer ...
Verizon to extend phone-upgrade waiting period
Verizon Wireless, the country's largest cellphone carrier, on Friday said that it is extending the time it takes to earn a subsidized phone upgrade ...
RIM seeks probe into report on BlackBerry returns
The maker of the BlackBerry said Friday that it wants U.S. and Canadian regulators to investigate a "false and misleading" report by a financial ...

FDA finds safety issues at specialty pharmacies
The Food and Drug Administration says it has uncovered potential safety problems at 30 specialty pharmacies that were inspected in the wake of a ...

Greenhouse gases make high temps hotter in China
China, the world's largest producer of carbon dioxide, is directly feeling the man-made heat of global warming, scientists conclude in the first study ...

Lithuanian woman shares home with 3 puma cubs
A Lithuanian woman says she has been raising three pumas in her three-room apartment after fearing for their lives at the local zoo. Rasa Veliute, a ...

Russia to continue using Kazakhstan's space center
Brushing off reports that Russia may ditch its space base in Kazakhstan, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow would continue to ...
Woodside shelves $47 billion Australian LNG plant
Woodside Petroleum's chief executive said he is confident that a major gas field off the northwest Australian coast will be exploited despite the ...

3 die in spring storm packing ice, snow, tornadoes
A strong spring storm that socked the Midwest with ice and heavy, wet snow made its way east, raking the South with tornadoes Thursday, with three ...

Report: Global warming didn't cause big US drought
Last year's huge drought was a freak of nature that wasn't caused by man-made global warming, a new federal science study finds. Scientists say the ...