Smart watches gain interest and popularity
On a sunny day at a picnic table in Silicon Valley, Eric Migicovsky glanced down at his wristwatch. He wasn't checking the time, he was checking his ...
Tweets, pics give real-time peek into North Korea
"Hello world from comms center in (hash)Pyongyang." That Twitter missive, sent Monday from Koryolink's main service center in downtown Pyongyang using ...
BP exec outlines internal probe of Gulf spill
Once the object of ridicule and focus of outrage after the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, former BP chief executive Tony Hayward made a cameo ...
Wireless connections creep into everyday things
A car that tells your insurance company how you're driving. A bathroom scale that lets you chart your weight on the Web. And a meter that warns your ...
Storm brings deaths, travel problems, power losses
A Midwest snowstorm packing heavy snow and strong winds left six people dead in Kansas, hundreds of vehicles crashed or stranded in Wisconsin, and ...
Suit: 185K spyware images sent to rental computers
Spyware installed on computers leased from furniture renter Aaron's Inc. secretly sent 185,000 emails containing sensitive information — including ...
Tycoon wants to send married couple on Mars flyby
It's a road trip that could test the best of marriages: Mars. A tycoon announced plans Wednesday to send a middle-aged couple on a privately built ...
Shell suspends drilling for Arctic Ocean in 2013
An effort to give the United States a new source of domestic oil and refill the trans-Alaska pipeline took a hit Wednesday when Royal Dutch Shell PLC ...
Study: Boozy Brits underestimate their drinking
Truth and alcohol may not mix, particularly when people are asked how much they drink. That's the implication of a study released Wednesday that ...
Researchers marvel at world's deepest sea vents
Researchers using a remote-controlled submarine around the world's deepest known hydrothermal vents have been collecting samples from the sunless ...
Black holes in galaxies rotate fast, study finds
There's a new spin on supermassive black holes: They're incredibly fast, astronomers say. It's long been suspected that gigantic black holes lurking ...
Report: Stuxnet cyberweapon older than believed
The sophisticated cyberweapon which targeted an Iranian nuclear plant is older than previously believed, an anti-virus company said Tuesday, peeling ...
Colo. kids stranded at school overnight by snow
About 60 students spent the night at their school on Colorado's Eastern Plains after a windy snowstorm closed surrounding roads. Miami-Yoder school ...
Poland emerging as major European outsourcing hub
The first time Javier Bofarull Marques left Spain for Poland, it was for love. It was 2006, a boom time in Spain, and his friends thought he was crazy
At more colleges, classes on genetics get personal
Bakir Hajdarevic didn't have to study for the most important test in a class last fall. He just had to spit — a lot. The 19-year-old freshman at the ...
BP executive testifies at Gulf oil spill trial
A ranking BP executive testified Tuesday that the London-based oil giant and its contractors share the responsibility for preventing blowouts like the ...
2nd major snowstorm paralyzes parts of Midwest
For the second time in a week, a major winter storm paralyzed parts of the nation's midsection Tuesday, dumping a fresh layer of heavy, wet snow atop ...
Christie signs NJ Internet gambling bill into law
Get ready for betting in your jammies, at work, from the kitchen table, or at the beach: New Jerseyans — and possibly many others — will soon be able ...
Experts: Twin storms won't end drought in Plains
The blanket of snow covering much of the Great Plains after two big storms in less than a week may provide some relief for parched areas, but it's no ...
Momentum grows for alternative phone system Tizen
The junior league of smartphone operating systems is getting more competitive. Phones from yet another contender — Tizen — will go on sale this year ...
Video: Gates, Zuckerberg urge kids to code
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter creator Jack Dorsey are among the tech luminaries appearing in a new video ...
1st witness testifies in Gulf oil spill trial
BP failed to implement a new safety plan on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon drilling rig even though the company realized a blowout in the Gulf of ...
Coral comeback: Reef 'seeding' in the Caribbean
Mats of algae and seaweed have shrouded the once thick coral in shallow reefs off Jamaica's north coast. Warm ocean waters have bleached out the ...
AFP photo Twitter account hacked
French news agency Agence France-Presse says one of its photo accounts on Twitter has been hacked and is now suspended. Pierre Celerier, deputy global ...
Apple to hand out iTunes credits in settlement
Apple has agreed to give more than $100 million in iTunes store credits to settle a lawsuit alleging that the iPhone and iPad maker improperly charged ...
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