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A bug in the software used by Google Cast devices such as Chromecast and Home can slow down or crash WiFi networks ...

Community-owned fiber-to-home broadband networks generally charge less for entry-level service than private providers, according to the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, which released its findings last week ...

Apple on Monday responded to an open letter from investors who called for the company to address the negative impact of the iPhone on children and teens. Though the company listed a number of controls provided to help parents screen content, it offered little to address the investors' chief concern: the amount of time teens and younger children spend on phones...

The mushrooming popularity of smart speakers like Amazon Echo and Google Home will fuel e-commerce in the coming year ...

Scientists at Harvard University on Monday unveiled a metalens that has the potential to shrink the size of any device that uses a camera while at the same time improving performance ...

Moves that allowed major e-commerce players to jockey for position both off and on the Internet made headlines in 2017 ...

The United States on Tuesday accused North Korea of responsibility for a global ransomware attack that locked down more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries earlier this year ...

Is social media evolving into an antisocial medium? Days after one of its former execs argued that the answer is yes, Facebook published a post addressing the issue ...

Apple will release a professional version of its all-in-one iMac desktop computer with a US$5,000 price tag on Thursday ...

Some HP laptops users came with a preinstalled program to capture the keystrokes of users, a security researcher recently discovered ...

A method for scrambling data to protect it from the super powerful computers of the future has received a speed boost from a team of researchers from Duke and Ohio State universities and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ...

Four big tech players this week moved to improve their handling of open source software licensing violations ...

A popular technique used by website operators to observe the keystrokes, mouse movements and scrolling behavior of visitors on Web pages is fraught with risk, according to researchers at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy ...

Facebook on Tuesday raised the ante for messaging apps photo quality with the announcement of 4K support for Messenger ...

New version releases of browsers don't get the buzz they used to get, but Firefox Quantum is an exception ...

Facebook on Tuesday announced that it was preparing a plugin for its popular Messenger platform that will allow website visitors to chat with a human or bot without leaving the site ...

A three-pronged banking malware campaign has been infecting Android phones since the beginning of this year, according to security researchers ...

Reviews of Apple's next generation iPhone X have started appearing online, and for the most part, critics have showered praise on the product ...

Researchers have found a way to use neural networks to create DSLR-quality photos from snapshots taken with low-end smartphones ...

A new feature that Facebook recently has been testing in a handful of countries could hurt publishers everywhere if it should roll out globally ...