A meeting to determine how the internet should be governed gets under way in Sao Paulo, Brazil later. The country's president, Dilma Rousseff, organised the two-day NetMundial event ... (more)

An Israeli start-up plans to release a printer early next year that is small enough to fit inside its owner's pocket but works with any-sized paper. Zuta Labs is proceeding with ... (more)

A plan by the New York Police Department to use Twitter to boost its image seems to have backfired. Users were asked to tweet a photo of themselves with officers and add the hashtag ... (more)

The site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, where Atari is rumored to have buried some 3.5 million copies of the video game cartridge E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is set to be dug up this Saturday. Never ... (more)

AOL Mail has been hacked and several users have reported their accounts are being used to send spam to others. Although AOL has confirmed the hack, which thousands were complaining ... (more)

China has fully lifted a 14-year ban on selling video game consoles, but foreign console makers hoping to make a killing in a potentially huge new market will first have to find a way ... (more)

Broadcasters seem to have the edge after oral arguments at the Supreme Court in the case of American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo. The justices expressed concern about Barry Diller's ... (more)

The founder of Russia's most popular social network site says he has been fired and that allies of President Putin have taken over his site. Pavel Durov who ran VKontakte had previously ... (more)

Today's Google Doodle is home to a hummingbird, a puffer fish, a dung beetle and a moon jellyfish. It must be Earth Day! With hundreds of events planned in cities all over the world, ... (more)

Apple is offering to recycle its products for free worldwide and has included even third-party products like mobile phones and PCs in the program in some countries. The company said ... (more)

NEC has launched a biometric security program that uses face recognition to unlock access to PCs. NeoFace Monitor is being billed as an alternative to passwords, which can be forgotten, ... (more)

OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has created a fork of OpenSSL, the widely used open source cryptographic software library that contained the notorious Heartbleed security vulnerability. OpenSSL ... (more)

For many Americans who wished they could change the weather - whether it be in the Northeast during this past winter or in drought-stricken California - researchers may have found a ... (more)

Everyone knew that many of these wearable computers weren’t long for this world. Few predicted that the first big failure would be Nike’s Fuelband. Yet Nike’s experiment with ... (more)

The Comcast financial juggernaut continued this winter. The largest U.S. cable operator added 24,000 new video customers to start 2014, which marked the second-consecutive quarter of ... (more)

Security researchers have uncovered an active malware campaign in the wild that steals the Apple ID credentials from jailbroken iPhones and iPads. News of the malware dubbed "unflod," ... (more)

For many crypto-minded libertarians, Bitcoin is the future of money. But that dream hasn't been helped much by the numerous high-profile legal cases involving the currency in recent ... (more)

The screen was tiny, the graphics limited to shades of gray on a dull green background, but the Nintendo Game Boy was a revolution when it launched in Japan 25 years ago today. The ... (more)

The Supreme Court has granted the U.S. government's motion to argue against Aereo in Tuesday's oral argument, the Court's docket revealed. As The Hollywood Reporter previously reported, ... (more)

AT&T is giving Google a run for its money when it comes to building ultra high-speed gigabit broadband networks. On Monday, AT&T announced that it has begun talking to municipalities ... (more)

I've been using Siri for years, even before it was purchased by Apple (AAPL) and incorporated into the company's mobile operating system, iOS. When Siri was an independent product, ... (more)

The man dubbed as the ring leader in a scam that lowered monthly bills for customers but cost Comcast over $2 million between April 2011 and August 2012 pleaded guilty to running the ... (more)

A police car dash cam captured Santa Clara deputies plotting to plant drugs in a woman's home after their first illegal search turned up nothing, the woman claims in court. Allison ... (more)

The world's top 1,000 websites have been patched to protect their servers against the "Heartbleed" exploit, but up to 2% of the top million were still vulnerable as of last week, according ... (more)

OS X Mavericks powered half of all Macs that went online in March, the largest percentage of any individual version of Apple's operating system since 2009's Snow Leopard, statistics ... (more)

Social news site Reddit has downgraded the status of its "technology" section after a censorship row. The category is no longer a "default subreddit", meaning it stops being one ... (more)

Intellectual Ventures (IV) is the world's biggest patent-licensing company and boasts of having collected tens of thousands of patents since it was founded in 2000. It's raised about ... (more)

A cybersecurity scare is forcing Obamacare enrollees who used the HealthCare.gov site to sign up for an insurance plan to now change their passwords. The Obama administration says ... (more)

The U.S. commercial drone industry is still struggling to get off the ground more than two years after President Obama signed into law a bill that permits the civilian use of unmanned ... (more)

Need an excuse to hide from improving weather conditions around the country? Sony has you covered. Just a day after announcing its trouncing of Microsoft in the next-gen sales wars, ... (more)