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The United States House of Representatives on Thursday passed the Innovation Act, a bipartisan bill seeking to curb frivolous lawsuits by patent trolls, by a vote of 325-91 ...

Every day, the United States National Security Agency collects nearly 5 billion cellphone location records worldwide, The Washington Post reported ...

A postulate stating that quantum-entangled black holes in our three-dimensional universe are connected by microscopic wormholes created when the black holes are pulled apart might be correct, based on findings by researchers Andreas Karch and Kristan Jensen ...

Following news that Amazon plans to use unmanned drones for rapid delivery of goods to customers, security researcher Samy Kamkar has developed a way to skyjack drones ...

Yahoo has purchased SkyPhrase with the intention of enabling computers to deeply understand natural language and intentions. SkyPhrase will be joining Yahoo Labs ...

The Google Compute Engine became generally available on Tuesday, almost 18 months after its introduction at last year's Google I/O ...

Microsoft's wave of operating systems updates planned for 2015 has been code-named "Threshold," ZDNet reported. ...

Akamai Technologies is buying Prolexic, which offers protection against distributed denial of service attacks. ...

iBuyPower is working on prototypes of a commercial Steam machine, Engadget reported ...

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The United States National Security Agency has seeded 50,000 networks worldwide with malware, according to a report published last week in Dutch newspaper NRC. ...

Following on from the launch of its Moto X in August, Motorola Mobility is taking the concept of building smartphones to order to the next level through a partnership with 3D Systems ...

Neptune Computer, founded by 19-year-old Simon Tian, has raised more than CA$250,000 since launching a 33-day Kickstarter campaign for its Neptune Pine smartwatch on Monday with a target of $100,000 ...

"Privacy may actually be an anomaly," Vinton Cerf, who's hailed as one of the fathers of the Internet, told participants in a workshop on privacy and security in the Internet of Things held by the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday ...

The United States Federal Communications Commission is ramping up efforts to transition the country's phone networks from their current time-division multiplexing, or TDM, technology to Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP ...

Bitcoin, the virtual currency that governments love to hate, came under the spotlight this week at a United States Senate committee hearing on virtual currencies ...

The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week launched a probe of the safety of the Tesla Model S automobile ...

Yahoo on Monday announced it will extend 2048-bit encryption planned for Yahoo Mail across its entire network ...

Google and Microsoft have ramped up their efforts to fight online child porn following months of pressure by the office of UK Prime Minister James Cameron ...

United States District Court Judge Denny Chin has ruled in favor of Google in a lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild over the Google Books project ...