HTC America has been ordered to develop and release software patches to address widespread security vulnerabilities that have potentially affected millions of HTC devices as part of a settlement deal announced by the Federal Trade Commission Friday. ...
Corporate intellectual property thieves, beware: The Obama administration says it has you in its sights. The White House released a report Wednesday detailing its strategy for combating the theft of American trade secrets, which are often the target ...
Rejoice, oh sufferers of terrible wireless connections: The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to approve the regulated use of signal boosters to extend the range of wireless networks. The Commission's decision, however, co...
NASA confirmed that Curiosity rover has successfully drilled into a Martian rock for the first time in history. Here's how the big event played out.
NASA has unveiled the first radar video of an asteroid flyby that sent a space rock half the size of a football field buzzing by Earth last week.
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve, as proposed, a series of changes that would pave the way for so-called "Gigabit Wi-Fi" in a Wednesday vote, according to FCC officials. If the vote succeeds, as expected, the FCC's five co...
Tax season is upon us. And you know what that means: filling endless paperwork and hopefully getting some refunds. But what most people don't think about is how to stay safe during this time of the year. Identity theft is a concern. According to the ...
Asteroid 2012 DA14 will come within 17,200 miles of Earth, closer than some satellites. Here's how to watch it online as it passes by Earth today.
Just two days after Obama issued an executive order on sharing cyber threat information, a new survey indicates that the vast majority of Americans are concerned about cybersecurity. According to the survey conducted by Tenable Network Security, a se...
As Obama heads to the teleprompter, White House speechwriters spot the tired phrases he should avoid.
The White House announced today a new directive expanding access to publicly funded scientific research, which could pave the way for scientific papers to be available on the Internet -- for free. In a memo, along with an official response to a We Th...
The New York Police Department is building a team whose sole mission is tracking down stolen iPhones and iPads with a helping hand from Apple, according to a report. The new squad of iCops, first reported by the New York Post, will work with Apple to...
Jaw-dropping displays of the northern lights can be seen in a stunning series of time-lapse videos captured in Sweden this month by astrophotographer Chad Blakley. Blakley has been filming in Sweden's Abisko National Park, which offers a view of glow...
When Islamist militants were forced from the historic city of Timbuktu, Mali by French soldiers last month, they left in the rubble a document that's extremely telling of the realities of modern asymmetrical warfare: a 22-point tipsheet prepared by a...
The bubbling tumult of the sun's surface regularly produces some pretty jaw-dropping sights, but it's rare that we get to see something like this -- and in motion to boot. Last summer, an eruption on the sun's surface scored a solar weather hat trick...
Buzz is building about a planned 2018 private mission to Mars, which may launch the first humans toward the Red Planet. A nonprofit organization called the Inspiration Mars Foundation — which is led by millionaire Dennis Tito, the world's first space...
Landsat 5 has secured a new world record title for being the longest-operating Earth observation satellite after almost three decades in orbit.
An online petition to legalize the practice of unlocking cell phones crossed Thursday the 100,000 signature threshold that qualifies for an official response from the White House. Unlocking a cell phone frees it up to be used on carriers other than t...
Image by Chuck Kennedy, courtesy of Flickr, White House. The White House released First Lady Michelle Obama's new official portrait Wednesday, showing her new hairdo in its full glory. The image -- taken by White House photographer Chuck Kennedy -- i...
If you're a social innovator looking for new data to play around with, the federal government might have just the thing. The General Services Administration, which helps support federal agencies' day-to-day functions, released yesterday a new API fea...
Perhaps school administrators were sick of the meme? A 17-year-old high school student was arrested and suspended for five days after organizing a failed "Harlem Shake" video shoot on campus Friday, according to the New York Post Arnis Mehmetaj, a se...
An online fundraiser has accumulated more than $100,000 for a Kansas City homeless man after he returned an engagement ring to its owner.
Chicago's Chief Information Officer Brett Goldstein fundamentally believes the secret to a smarter and more responsive city lies in finding meaning in the vast quantity of data cities collect about themselves. "I would argue cities are ecosystems, th...
A man in Chile is facing 18 months in jail after a businessman accused him of identity theft over Twitter parody accounts. Rodrigo Ferrari Prieto is accused of being behind three now inactive accounts that mocked Chilean business mogul Andrónico Luks...
An Israeli solider is in hot water after posting an Instagram photo showing a sniper scope pointed at an unidentified child.
If a Mars colony is truly in our future, how will we fulfill one of the most basic human needs?
An Air Force simulation says researchers are at work on killer robots so tiny that a group of them could blend into a cityscape.
It's no Russian meteor, but Californians experienced a shooting star of their own on Friday night. Residents reported seeing a flash of light over the San Francisco Bay area, with some sharing their sightings on Twitter: Just saw meteor over San Fran...
By now, you're probably familiar with the meteor that exploded in the earth's atmosphere on Friday. About 930 miles east of Moscow, in remote Chelyabinsk, a speeding space rock hurtled through the sky, injuring over 1,000 Russians (and frightening th...
The world will have to live with surprise asteroid attacks on the scale of Friday's Russian fireball, at least for a while. The meteor that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk without warning Friday (Feb. 15), damaging hundreds of buildings...
