The school year is wrapping up for many but for those who are graduating high school - thoughts are already on the upcoming school year this fall and starting college. Starting college ... (more)

Hewlett-Packard’s chief executive, Meg Whitman, plans to cut 30,000 or more jobs next week, according to officials familiar with the plan. Her goal, they said Thursday, is to spend ... (more)

Built by historian and classicist Walter Scheidel and Stanford Libraries' digital humanities specialist Elijah Meeks, with the assistance of geographer and Web developer Karl Grossner ... (more)

The scene last week at the Intercontinental Dallas Hotel looked like any generic corporate event held in any generic hotel ballroom - until the protesters crashed the party. Trade ... (more)

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the august body that keeps straight the top-level domains of the Internet, would like you to know the Internet has gotten ... (more)

In a land whose leading social network includes baked-in file-sharing, the government seems keen on encouraging a legal digital media ecosystem. Russian multi-media portal store ... (more)

Don’t worry about hackers illegally accessing government systems. It turns out government workers and civil servants who are trusted with private citizen data are more likely to access ... (more)

A House of Representatives panel called the hearing on the Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act, aimed at protecting people from being tracked by police through their phones without ... (more)

Under a new policy announced today, Twitter will be suggesting accounts for Twitter users to follow based on data collected from an individual’s browsing habits on websites that have ... (more)

The Metropolitan Police has implemented a system to extract mobile phone data from suspects held in custody. The data includes call history, texts and contacts, and the BBC has learned ... (more)

An injunction issued by an Indian court in a copyright infringement case has forced Indian Internet service providers to block access to the video-sharing sites Vimeo and DailyMotion, ... (more)

In the wake of its decision to suspend its 250GB per month data caps while it considers two plans that would increase them to at least 300GB per month, Comcast execs took questions ... (more)

As police departments around the country are increasingly caught up in tussles with members of the public who record their activities, the U.S. Justice Department has come out with ... (more)

Disco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as Last Dance, Love to Love You Baby and Bad Girl became the soundtrack for a glittery age of sex, drugs, dance and flashy clothes, ... (more)

Researchers in Japan have smashed the record for wireless data transmission in the terahertz band, an uncharted part of the electro-magnetic spectrum. The data rate is 20 times higher ... (more)

People lucky enough to be in Southeast Asia and the western U.S. this weekend will have the chance to view the first annular solar eclipse of its kind since 1994, according to NASA. ... (more)

George Hotz, an infamous hardware hacker better known online as Geohot, has a PlayStation that he’s not allowed to play with - at least not the way he likes to, which involves figuring ... (more)

The UK governments Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has confirmed that Ofcom is expected to publish its final Initial Obligations Code of Practice proposal for tackling ... (more)

TalkTalk and BT the worst offenders in mystery shopping exercise that showed broadband companies often fail to offer a speed quote to potential customers Broadband companies are ... (more)

Fifty leading U.S. legal scholars cast fresh doubt on the constitutionality of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in an open letter to the Senate Finance Committee today. (Press ... (more)

File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The site has been largely inaccessible for the last 24 hours, and the service ... (more)

Ahead of a nationwide deadline over regulating the use of cookies, the BBC has learned that the "majority" of the UK government's own websites will fail to comply in time. All UK ... (more)

Preinstalled trial versions of useless software have been slowing down new PCs for years, and Microsoft is finally offering a solution: bring your PC into a Microsoft Store and pay ... (more)

Verizon sees a way out of unlimited data plans through its upcoming shared plans, Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said at a JP Morgan conference on Wednesday. Shammo said ... (more)

A new fraud campaign aims to separate users of Facebook, Google Mail, Hotmail, and Yahoo from their debit card data. "We've recently discovered a series of attacks being carried out ... (more)

The copyright lobbyist argument that an IP address linked to piracy allows them to not only force an ISP to hand over customer details, but that the owner of the address is legally ... (more)

Actor, author and celebrity geek Wil Wheaton is pleading with ISPs not to degrade or downright block BitTorrent traffic and with studios not to push for laws that would force ISPs to ... (more)

A group of Chinese engineers have smashed the records for quantum teleportation, by creating a pair of entangled photons over a distance of almost 100 kilometers. Quantum entanglement ... (more)

What does an API look like? Sometimes, says Brian Pagano, it looks like this: /users. Or this: /products. Brian Pagano is a software architect at Apigee, an outfit that does nothing ... (more)

Google just pumped out another stable release of its web browser as Chrome 19 sees the light of day. It seems as though new browser releases are becoming an almost daily occurrence ... (more)