High-profile people and groups on the site deemed to be authentic will now get a blue check mark.

A research team led by Bell Labs' Xiang Liu has published an article in Nature Photonics describing a way to send and receive information at 400Gbps across 12,800km of optical fiber - an enormous potential gain of both speed and effective distance compared to current technology.

Google just acquired a company that makes flying wind turbines that can harness wind power anywhere.

Now available for multiple Linux distributions, this new update brings numerous tweaks and enhancements.

Support for Blackberry 10 and Windows Phone 8 will also be added for free.

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The EFF isn't endorsing the Bitcoin system but feels it is on stable legal ground to accept the virtual currency.

The company said entrants must make use of its "Smart Chord" interface for building peer-to-peer applications

CEO Larry Page was asked eight questions by a congressional privacy group and given until June 14 to answer.

A House committee takes the first step toward a rewrite of US copyright law.

HP's tools for managing servers, databases, middleware, and workflows have been updated

Facebook is reportedly very close to buying crowdsourced navigation app Waze for anywhere between $500 million and $1 billion.

Parliament struggles to reach consensus on new data protection law.

When it comes to image editing, Adobe Photoshop is in a class by itself. Despite its humble beginnings as a plug-in to a long-defunct commercial scanner, Photoshop now stands as Adobe's flagship and most famous app, and the default standard worldwide for professional print and online image editing and graphic design.

The U.S. Department of Defense said in a new report that some attacks appear 'directly attributable' to China.

Twist in the planned U.S. attack is to target small banks.

U.S. Department of Defense clears the use of devices running BlackBerry 10 as well as a version of Android.

Samsung, Lenovo, and HP are expected to release Chromebooks soon as well.

Intel's new CPUs will feature improved graphics--and a new brand at the end of the scale.

No good news from April's usage share numbers for Microsoft as Windows 8 continues to underwhelm and XP resists retirement.