TiVo settles with Cisco, Motorola and Time Warner
TiVo settled patent disputes with Cisco, Motorola Mobility and Time Warner Cable, averting a trial that was to begin next week and bringing to a close ...

AP PHOTOS: Where your online data get stored
Internet companies such as Apple, Facebook and Google have vast amounts of data on you. These include the photos and video you share, the email you ...

NASA's veteran Mars rover driving to new spot
NASA's Opportunity rover is rolling across the Martian surface again, leaving behind a clay-rich rock in search of more discoveries. Mission managers ...

Is Big Data turning government into 'Big Brother'?
With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by ...

Wet track on tap for the Belmont Stakes
It looks like a wet track for the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. Heavy rain soaked the area on Friday morning. That afternoon's card was run in the slop ...

Budapest prepares for floods as Danube waters rise
The crest of the flood-swollen Danube River surged toward the Hungarian capital of Budapest on Friday, while communities along the Elbe in Germany ...

Paper: UK government getting US spy agency's data
The U.K. has been secretly gathering communications data from American Internet giants with the help of fellow spooks at the U.S. National Security ...

Judge's ruling challenges US transplant system
It's a life or death matter: Who gets the next scarce donated organ? In an unprecedented challenge to the nation's transplant system, a federal judge ...

France studies how to track arms for Syrian rebels
France's government is investigating high-tech methods to prevent terrorists from using any weapons that Western governments send to Syrian rebels, ...

Alligator takes pit stop near Calif. intersection
A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was suspicious. When he heard two women were spotted near a Lancaster, Calif., intersection, and one of them was ...

Tropical Storm Andrea pounds parts of Florida
The first named storm of the Atlantic season hammered Florida with rain, heavy winds, and tornadoes Thursday as it moved toward the coast of Georgia ...
AT&T says it's connecting more devices
AT&T Inc. on Thursday said promotions are pulling in a large number of new phone customers, but the cost of subsidizing devices for them will hold ...
Motorola Mobility says it has settled with TiVo
Motorola Mobility said Thursday that it has reached a settlement with digital video recording pioneer TiVo Inc. ahead of a patent trial that was to ...

Tropical Storm Andrea bearing down on Fla. coast
The first named storm of the Atlantic season hammered Florida with rain, heavy winds, and tornadoes Thursday as it moved over land toward the coast ...

Texas site begins taking federal nuclear waste
Republican mega-donor Harold Simmons' remote hazardous waste dump in West Texas began accepting low-level radioactive material Thursday from a federal ...

Doctor, guide rescue baby moose from Montana river
A Pennsylvania doctor on a guided fishing trip in southwestern Montana went home with an amazing tale of hauling in a 25-pound lunker — a baby moose ...

What you should know about NSA phone data program
The government knows who you're calling. Every day. Every call. Here's what you need to know about the secret program and how it works: ___ Q: What ...
Icahn and Southeastern push against Dell buyout
Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc. are formally urging Dell shareholders to reject a buyout offer from the struggling ...

Floodwaters surge into Dresden, northern Germany
The surging Elbe River crested Thursday in the eastern German city of Dresden, sparing the historic city center but engulfing wide areas of the Saxony ...

Interior allows more comments for drilling rule
Companies that drill for oil and natural gas — and their critics — will have 60 more days to comment on a new rule regulating hydraulic fracturing ...

When mighty Danube floods, Europe is shaken
The mighty Danube is not the only river in Europe bursting its banks this week, but it packs the biggest punch. Winding 2,850 kilometers (1,777 miles) ...
2 suspected in Danish police data hacking
The Swedish founder of the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is suspected along with a Dane of hacking into a company handling sensitive information ...

UK PM's former spin doctor denies phone hacking
British Prime Minister David Cameron's former spin doctor has formally denied charges of phone hacking and bribery. Andy Coulson entered pleas of not ...
Tropical Storm Andrea nears Fla.'s west coast
The first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Andrea, formed Wednesday over the Gulf of Mexico and was expected to bring wet weather to ...

Meet your distant cousin: Tiny hyperactive primate
New fossil evidence of the earliest complete skeleton of an ancient primate suggests it was a hyperactive, wide-eyed creature so small you could hold ...