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After years of searching, particle physicists say they have all but certainly pinned down the elusive Higgs boson. Popularly known as the "God particle," this boson will help provide a better understanding of how most of the particles of nature acquire their mass, improving physicists' understanding of the universe ...

Facebook's email drama continues to unfold a week after it was revealed that the social network unilaterally switched its users' publicly posted email listings to their "@facebook.com" addresses ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated that a civilian drone can be hijacked by spoofing its GPS signals ...

New Zealand police used invalid warrants to search and seize property from the mansion of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, a high court judge in that country has reportedly ruled ...

Google worked toward pulling together its ecosystem Wednesday, announcing an array of new products and services at its I/O Developer Conference ...

Google launched its Nexus 7 tablet on Wednesday at its Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco ...

A neural network built over the years by researchers from Stanford University and Google has managed to teach itself to recognize faces and cats ...

When Microsoft announced recently that Internet Explorer 10 will have its Do Not Track (DNT) feature turned on by default, it seemed those concerned about online privacy would hail the move as a step in the right direction ...

The month of June has not been kind to Microsoft hardware partners. ...

Google will unveil a 7-inch tablet based on the Nvidia quad-core Tegra 3 processor and running Android 4.1, aka "Jelly Bean," at the Google I/O developers conference this week, according to Gizmodo Australia ...

Microsoft announced its Surface tablet just last week, and already the whispers have begun. It's going to be WiFi-only, some rumors say. Its battery isn't quite as good as the iPad's, according to others. ...

The United States is battling over proposed United Nations regulations that could place new burdens and restrictions on Internet companies and users ...

Eager Windows Phone adopters with WinPho 7 devices will be out of luck when WinPho 8 rolls out. Existing phones won't be upgradable to the upcoming operating system ...

Online commerce giant eBay on Thursday announced that it will expand its flagship data center in Utah and use renewable energy to power the addition ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced a plethora of new features for app developers in Windows Phone 8, its next mobile operating system ...

HP announced on Monday that it will use an Intel Atom chip code-named "Centerton" in the first production server in its Project Moonshot program. This server is code-named "Gemini." ...

Netflix has announced changes to its public API (application programming interface) that will prevent developers from accessing information about its customers ...

Microsoft on Monday announced two Windows tablets in its new Surface line -- one running Windows 8 RT, and one running Windows 8 Professional ...

Samsung's forthcoming Galaxy S III smartphone will be the company's first device to be officially branded and sold under its new SAFE program. ...

IBM's Sequoia supercomputer has headed up the most recent Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers ...