Netflix has reached an agreement with AT&T to give its streaming service direct access to AT&T's network, with the goal of reducing buffering when subscribers watch shows like House ... (more)

On the verge of retirement, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig probably doesn't want baseball fans to read this story. In fact, he's threatened to "impose the strongest sanctions ... (more)

Uber and Airbnb, which have already proved popular with travelers and urbanites with smartphones, have unveiled new features and links to other services designed to attract more business ... (more)

Early one morning in April last year, someone accessed an underground vault just south of San Jose, California, and cut through fiber-optic cables there. The incident blacked out phone, ... (more)

NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars has now boldly gone farther than any vehicle has before on the surface of another world, space agency officials announced Monday. As of Sunday, the ... (more)

For all the ways that digital distribution has revolutionized how we get games, the actual process of buying those games in the console space has mostly changed very little - it's still ... (more)

Consumer advocacy group Choice has criticised anti-piracy proposals contained in a leaked government discussion paper as likely to be ineffective and failing to deal with the root causes ... (more)

In cooperation with 15 major anime production companies and manga publishers, the Japanese government will next month start a huge extermination operation against 580 foreign sites ... (more)

It's increasingly rare for Congress to actually pass bills into law, but Friday brought some good news from Capitol Hill: More than a year after the exemption covering phone unlocking ... (more)

Anti-piracy police have come up with a scheme to strangle the flow of money to online pirates by hijacking adverts on websites accused of copyright infringement. Britain's Police ... (more)

University and college professors are complaining that government restrictions on the use of small drones are likely to stifle academic research. In a letter to the Federal Aviation ... (more)

Google appears to have reached an agreement to buy Twitch, a company whose main business is live-streaming videos of people playing video games. A pending deal was first reported by ... (more)

On Friday, Xbox Entertainment Studios (XES) released a trailer for Atari: Game Over, a feature-length documentary about Atari's downfall after the 1983 North American video game crash. ... (more)

With 130,000 ravenous consumers of geek culture in attendance, it's no wonder video game publishers have increasingly taken to revealing new titles at the San Diego Comic-Con. Just ... (more)

A federal judge awarded Black Eyes Peas songwriter will.i.am $1 million in costs and attorney's fees for defending against a claim that the band infringed copyright in the 2009 hit, ... (more)

Vulnerabilities in the Tails operating system could reveal your IP address, but you can avoid trouble by taking a couple of precautions. Tails, a portable operating system that employs ... (more)

There was a time, just over 20 years ago, when the music industry seemed to have figured out a way to get paid every time someone bought a device that enabled the digital copying of ... (more)

Hustler Magazine Owner Larry Flynt discusses his magazine turning 40, the company’s presence on internet and cable TV platforms and the importance of free speech. He speaks on "Market ... (more)

Even Microsoft wants a piece of the development board market made famous by Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Microsoft has teamed up with Intel and hardware maker CircuitCo to design the ... (more)

The Federal Communications Commission just started taking public comments on whether it should preempt state laws that limit the growth of municipal broadband in Tennessee and North ... (more)

Attackers have figured out a new way to get Amazon's cloud service to wage potent denial-of-service attacks on third-party websites - by exploiting security vulnerabilities in an open ... (more)

Have the UK police successfully broken anonymity on the internet? They certainly seemed to imply as much when the National Crime Agency proudly announced last week that it had made ... (more)

You are trying to book theatre tickets online with a rarely used credit card. Prompted to give a password, you find you can no longer remember it. The result is a failed transaction ... (more)

A little over a decade ago, federal prosecutors used keystroke logging software to steal the encryption password of an alleged New Jersey mobster, Nicodemo Scarfo Jr., so they could ... (more)

Yesterday we filed a motion for partial summary judgment in our long running Jewel v. NSA case, focusing on the government's admitted seizure and search of communications from the Internet ... (more)

Just last month, T-Mobile started offering its customers more streaming music. Now - just in time for the back-to-school shopping season - the wireless carrier is following up with ... (more)

Gary McKinnon, the computer hacker who was the subject of a 10-year legal battle over US extradition, has reinvented himself as a search expert. Mr McKinnon launched Small SEO, a ... (more)

Verizon Wireless today confirmed that it will begin slowing down LTE data speeds when customers who have unlimited plans and use a lot of data connect to congested cell sites. This ... (more)

Alleged police brutality caught on camera in New York and Los Angeles has prompted public outcry for better police officer training. But in some cases, authorities say the full story ... (more)

Ride-sharing service Lyft has made its New York City debut, minus the sharing part. The car service debuted Friday night in all five of the city's boroughs after weeks of setbacks ... (more)