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A federal magistrate in Los Angeles ordered the girlfriend of an alleged gang member to open her phone using her fingerprint so prosecutors could look at the data on it for a case they were working on, the Los Angeles Times reported last week ...

Apple on Thursday made its CareKit platform available through the GitHub open source community ...

As consumers turn to ad blockers to avoid advertising on their mobile and computer screens, marketers and content providers who depend on pitches to pay the bills are searching frantically for ways to counter the pesky programs.BlockIQ offers them one ...

Some major players in both the new and old economies on Tuesday announced an alliance to pave the way for self-driving cars in America ...

A white hat hacker last week announced the discovery of more than a half-dozen security flaws in some software Facebook used on its corporate network ...

Opera on Wednesday announced that it would add a free VPN service to the latest version of its browser ...

If the rash of data breaches in recent months has done anything for businesses, it's raised their awareness of cyber liability insurance ...

The European Commission on Wednesday charged that Google breached EU antitrust rules by seeking to maintain and expand the dominance of its Android operating system ...

MIT researchers have developed a fast, accurate system for identifying security flaws in Web apps written in Ruby on Rails, according to news reports published last week ...

Facebook on Wednesday demonstrated at its F8 developer conference how socializing could take place in a virtual world ...

Facebook's WhatsApp last week announced it would roll out end-to-end encryption for its users to better protect their privacy, but the move could make the service more attractive to spammers, too ...

Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a high-quality 360-degree 3D camera suitable for creating virtual reality content ...

Most of the changes in the next version of the Apple Watch will be on the inside and not the outside of the case, according to an investors note issued Monday by Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities ...

It appears that the Obama administration will refrain from giving its outspoken support to any legislation that aims to compel high-tech companies to help law enforcement agencies crack mobile phone encryption ...

The battle between the FBI and Apple over access to the iPhone of San Bernardino, California, killer Syed Farook came to an abrupt end last week when the agency announced it no longer needed the company's assistance to crack the device ...

WhatsApp on Tuesday told its 1 billion users that their communications would be better protected from prying eyes with end-to-end encryption ...

Apple appears to have experienced a lost weekend with the 4-inch iPhone SE failing to rack up significant sales ...

Despite its computer systems being infected with malware since Monday, MedStar Health, which operates 10 hospitals and more than 250 outpatient facilities in and around Washington, D.C., has continued to provide patient care at near normal levels, according to several updates released this week ...

Hackers in recent weeks have stepped up their efforts to steal employee tax information from companies in all kinds of industries ...

Instagram on Monday moved to calm concerns among some users about a proposed change in the way content appears in their feeds ...