Pink Floyd's back catalogue is being made available on Spotify after fans played their Wish You Were Here track more than 1m times in four days. The song was released on Spotify ... (more)

For 2 out of 3 people around the world, a fast and affordable Internet connection is out of reach. Google is trying to solve this problem with a network of balloons that fly above the ... (more)

"It's a new world" out there in terms of digital identity and security, Microsoft said Monday. And, this world is far more dangerous than it used to be. In order to mitigate e-mail ... (more)

A Chinese supercomputer known as Tianhe-2 was today named the world's fastest machine, nearly doubling the previous speed record with its performance of 33.86 petaflops. Tianhe-2's ... (more)

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed a bill giving Texans more privacy over their inboxes than anywhere else in the United States. On Friday, Perry signed HB 2268, effective immediately. ... (more)

A series of blog posts on Monday purportedly by Edward Snowden said he leaked classified details about U.S. surveillance programs because President Barack Obama worsened "abusive" practices ... (more)

After years of speculation about when it would finally happen, Microsoft is releasing a version of Office for Apple's iOS today. And it's free...sort of. I got a brief peek at the ... (more)

A security flaw in Adobe Flash thought to be repaired in October of 2011 has resurfaced again with a new proof-of-concept hack that can grab video and audio from a user’s computer ... (more)

California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced Friday that her office has filed criminal charges against three Bay Area brothers who allegedly operated websites on which people ... (more)

Surfing the web is more or less a solitary endeavor. Sure, you’ve got your friends on Gchat and followers on Twitter, but favoriting and @ replying is hardly a collaborative experience. ... (more)

Last week's disclosure of massive data collection efforts at the U.S. National Security Agency has generated heated debate in the U.S. and across the world about privacy. The NSA is ... (more)

Tweet this: The Oxford English Dictionary has expanded the definitions of "tweet," "follow," and "follower" to include their social media meanings. "The noun and verb tweet (in the ... (more)

Apple paid Microsoft something of a compliment on Monday when it unveiled iOS 7, the latest iteration of its mobile device operating system–which looks an awful lot like the software ... (more)

In an age of smartphones and social networking, e-mail may strike many as quaint. But it remains the vehicle that millions of people use every day to send racy love letters, confidential ... (more)

An internet user in France has been partly disconnected from the internet and with that he is the first victim of the controversial three strikes legislation introduced to fight piracy. ... (more)

Malaysian police have arrested a man suspected of running the media piracy site jiwang.org, which hosts links to illegal copies of music, TV shows and movies. According to the Malaysian ... (more)

As Intel tries something audacious - the creation of a virtual cable service that would sell a bundle of television channels to subscribers over the Internet - it is running up against ... (more)

In the late 19th century, a schoolteacher named Patty Smith Hill and her sister Mildred Hill composed the first version of a tune that would become internationally famous. In fact, ... (more)

If Internet traffic is going to triple over the next five years, as Cisco predicts, we're gonna need a bigger boat. On Wednesday, Cisco unveiled its latest solution to help wireless ... (more)

Starting in October 2015, all new cars in the European Union would have to be fitted with an eCall device, according to new draft legislation announced Thursday. ECall technology ... (more)

Data encryption could help enterprises protect their sensitive information against mass surveillance by governments, as well as guard against unauthorized access by ill-intended third ... (more)

Flying cars are yet to take off - could bikes have a better chance? Researchers in the Czech Republic have unveiled a 95kg (210lb) remotely-controlled bicycle that can hover a few ... (more)

Steven Spielberg on Wednesday predicted an "implosion" in the film industry is inevitable, whereby a half dozen or so $250 million movies flop at the box office and alter the industry ... (more)

Samsung has occasionally been criticized in the past for sticking with lighter, plastic-y, and presumably less tough materials in even its flagship phones like the Galaxy S4. But the ... (more)

Gaming Editor Kyle Orland and I are still in Los Angeles for this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, and while most of our attention so far has been devoted to liveblog madness - ... (more)

A vast array of heart defibrillators, drug infusion pumps, and other medical devices contain backdoors that make them vulnerable to potentially life-threatening hacks, federal officials ... (more)

Intel's K-series processors offer fully unlocked multipliers that place few restrictions on overclocking. With Sandy Bridge and its Ivy Bridge successor, Intel has also allowed limited ... (more)

The season 3 premiere of HBO’s Game of Thrones was the most pirated file on BitTorrent within 24 hours after its original broadcast – that was, until Sunday night’s season finale ... (more)

The program announced Wednesday will give Web surfers an opportunity to claim a new handle that had previously been unavailable. It also represents a last chance for Yahoo users who ... (more)

Anybody in the UK whom has ever purchased and downloaded a piece of digital software or content over their broadband ISP connection, and which later turned out to be faulty (e.g. didn’t ... (more)