Chinese supercomputer named as world's fastest
A Chinese university has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost doubling the speed of the U.S. machine that previously claimed the top spot ...
McCain presses Obama on secret emails
Republican Sen. John McCain on Monday questioned President Barack Obama about his political appointees' use of secret government email accounts at ...

Russian tycoon wants to move mind to machine
Can the City That Never Sleeps become the City That Never Dies? A Russian multimillionaire thinks so. Dmitry Itskov gathered some of humanity's best ...

Current, former officials back secret surveillance
Top officials from the Obama and Bush administrations say the government's newly exposed secret surveillance programs have been essential to ...
Google begins launching Internet-beaming balloons
Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire ...

Microsoft brings Office to iPhone, but not tablets
Even as a pared-down version of Microsoft's Office software package arrived on the iPhone, the company is holding out on extending that to the iPad ...
Ideas for keeping your data safe from spying
Phone call logs, credit card records, emails, Skype chats, Facebook message, and more: The precise nature of the NSA's sweeping surveillance apparatus ...
Obama to take advantage of advances in wireless
The White House says President Barack Obama is taking advantage of advances in the wireless industry to help create jobs. Obama issued a presidential ...
Forecast sees big payoff for Google's mobile ads
Google will sell more mobile advertising than the rest of its rivals combined for the second straight year, according to a new forecast that ...

Utah home to NSA's new mega-warehouse for data
The nation's new billion-dollar epicenter for fighting global cyberthreats sits just south of Salt Lake City, tucked away on a National Guard base at ...
Panel backs introduction of digital learning in US
A week after President Barack Obama's call for U.S. schools to be outfitted with high-speed Internet within five years, an independent panel that ...
Yahoo to release IDs of inactive email accounts
Yahoo is trying to breathe new life into inactive email accounts by giving away the identifications beginning next month. The program announced ...

Voice-operated dashboard technology still risky
Dashboard technology that lets drivers text and email with voice commands — marketed as a safer alternative — actually is more distracting than simply ...
Waze sale signals new growth for Israeli high tech
Google Inc.'s $1.03 billion purchase of Israeli navigation software maker Waze marks an important milestone for the country that affectionately calls ...

Search for 1st Web page takes detour into NC
For the European physicists who created the World Wide Web, preserving its history is as elusive as unlocking the mysteries of how the universe began.

Apple unveils music streaming service
Apple unveiled an Internet radio service called iTunes Radio on Monday and said the service will personalize listeners' music based on what they've ...

US spy programs raise ire both home and abroad
The Obama administration faced fresh anger Monday at home and abroad over U.S. spy programs that track phone and Internet messages around the world ...

Microsoft hypes next-gen Xbox One games at E3
Microsoft has its head in the cloud with Xbox One. The company focused on how cloud computing will make games for its next-generation Xbox One console ...

Apple revamps look of iPhone, iPad software
Apple is throwing out most of the real-world graphical cues from its iPhone and iPad software, like the casino-green "felt" of its Game Center app, ...

APPLE EVENT: New software, MacBooks, music
Apple announced a digital radio service, new MacBook Air laptops and updates to its operating systems for Mac and mobile devices Monday.

Cable operators buff up guides for Internet age
After years of making money providing Internet service, cable TV companies are now tapping the power of the Internet to improve clunky program guides ...

Intelligence chief defends Internet spying program
Eager to quell a domestic furor over U.S. spying, the nation's top intelligence official stressed Saturday that a previously undisclosed program for ...

Globally, people resigned to little privacy online
U.S. government snooping does not surprise global Internet users, who say they already have few expectations of online privacy as governments ...

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 ...