Gadget fans waiting anxiously for the next iPhone to be released may be reaching the home stretch.
The hacker who goes by the pseudonym CyFi won't share her real name and declines to be photographed without her signature aviator sunglasses.
A journalist who has criticized NBC's coverage of the London Olympics has been suspended from Twitter after using the site to publish a network executive's private e-mail address and urge followers to message him.
A fake editorial about WikiLeaks, supposedly by the former executive editor of The New York Times, was making the rounds this weekend. It was mocked up so well that it even fooled at least one Times staffer.
CNN's Phil Han explains how the London Eye is being used to track the Twitter "mood" of the Olympics.
This is supposed to be the Twitter Olympics, but tweet- and text-clogged networks appear to have caused problems for broadcasters at the London Games.
CNN Money's Laurie Segall shares some summer travel apps that will help make your vacation more affordable and organized.
CNNMoney's Laurie Segall highlights noteworthy travel apps for the summer holiday.
Recently, one of the hottest trending articles on BuzzFeed was a picture collection of "The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed People." I clicked on this story with the index finger of my dominant right hand. It was quite easy. I would do it again.
Did Apple rip off Samsung's intellectual property to create the iPhone, or did Samsung pilfer Apple's patents when it took on the iPad and iPhone with a slew of mobile devices and tablets?
How many apps do you have on your smartphone? If that's an unwieldy number today, expect it to slim down considerably in the future.
Never before have so many people all of a sudden thought, "I wonder if Kansas City is a nice place to live?"
So, about all those experts and analysts who've spent the past year or so saying Facebook was going to make a phone. A new expert has stepped forward to say it's not going to happen.
When thousands of people converged on Madison, Wisconsin, for the Reclaim Wisconsin March this year in protest of Gov. Scott Walker, Jim Jorstad was there.
It would take you almost five solid months -- without sleeping or bathroom breaks -- to watch every sporting event at this year's Summer Olympics. More than 3,500 hours of competition from London will be crammed into just 17 days.
Social networking site Twitter apologized for a worldwide outage Thursday that left the site inaccessible for more than an hour. It blamed the outage on a technical fault and said that despite speculation, it wasn't related to the London Olympics, which open Friday.
Air traffic control technology is getting a major upgrade in the United States that is scheduled to be completed in 2014, but the new systems are susceptible to potentially dangerous manipulation, according to a security researcher.
Watching the Olympics, which kick off in earnest Friday with the opening ceremony in London, is more fun when you know the stories behind the Games.
Wildfires are fast-moving targets, so one of the most important weapons firefighting teams can have is timely, precise information about where the fire is, where it's likely to spread and what's in its path.
More than 400 million people trust Google with their e-mail, and 50 million store files in the cloud using the Dropbox service. People manage their bank accounts, pay bills, trade stocks and generally transfer or store huge volumes of personal data online. Who is ultimately in charge of making sure all this information is secure: the government, the companies or the users?
Little boxes on the Internet, little boxes made out of ticky-tacky. Little boxes on the Internet, little boxes all the same.
In a world of mass-marketed gadgets designed to be trashed and replaced after a few years, is there room for the Egg-Bot, a machine that lets you design and draw images on ... you guessed it ... eggs?
The stock photo, posted on a Facebook fan page for the accused Colorado shooter, shows two young men in a movie theater turning around to tell the people behind them to be quiet.
Ahead of Facebook's first earnings report, many are wondering whether the company can deliver on advertising revenue.
Small surveillance drones are starting to be part of police departments across America, and the FAA will soon open up the airspace for more to come. This drone invasion has already raised all kinds of privacy concerns. And if you think that's bad, across the ocean, Russia seems hell-bent on outdoing its former Cold War enemy.
How do you prep a venerable computer operating system to flourish in late 2012 and beyond?
Designer Dominic Muren discusses the "maker movement" and how its approach could aid the U.S. economy.
As the child of refugees growing up in Germany, architect Bo Le-Mentzal spent much of his life thinking about the meaning of the word "home."
Brittany Wenger learned about artificial intelligence during a seventh-grade school project. She was immediately enthralled, bought a book on programming and taught herself how to code.
Architect Van Bo Le-Mentzal gives his view of what a home is, and discusses his new project "One-Sqm-House."
Sally Ride became the first American woman in space when she flew into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983, but that was far from her only achievement.
Either Mitt Romney got really popular last weekend, or something funky was going on with his Twitter feed.
Samsung has taken another hit from Apple in Europe, thanks to an appeals court in Germany.
Most of the time reading comments on the Internet is like attending a slightly dysfunctional family dinner, full of passionately argued, half-baked political theories and tasteless jokes.
The video calling service Skype recently made a change to how it routes calls.
Former astronaut Dr. Norm Thagard talks to HLN's Evening Express about working with Sally Ride.
Before their historic 1983 flight, then President Ronald Reagan honored Sally Ride and her fellow Challenger astronauts.
As video game technology improves, games are getting quicker, deadlier and more reactive. This, in some cases, is requiring gamers to be faster on the draw, more reflexive in their actions and to be able to act with little time for a thought-out strategy.
It's a truth of the digital age. When a person is plucked from obscurity, for good reasons or bad, the first thing curiosity-seekers do is turn to the Web.
Demand for Google's 7-inch Nexus 7 tablet seems to have well exceeded the tech giant's expectations.
Police agencies across Australia put out alerts Monday declaring as fake text messages and emails sent to thousands of Australians that said they had two days to pay $5,000 or die.
Tech expert Marc Saltzman tells us about some alternative energy sources for your gadgets.
Three-dimensional (3-D) printers have come a long way from their 1980s origins as machines for building prototypes for industrial engineers and architects.
While the nation wrestled with the aftermath of a shooting in Colorado that left 12 people dead, a Twitter account for the National Rifle Association had this to say:
With NASA's "Curiosity" rover due to land on Mars on August 6, Mars exploration is once again on the space agenda.
An app lets you pay for items by using your voice. HLN's Clark Howard has more.
Google's technology certainly can map out driving directions and organize e-mail (or even make cars drive themselves). But can its digital tools take down drug cartels?
For all the heady talk about misleadingly "deific," recently confirmed quantum specks named after Scottish physicists, another kind of historic event just transpired: a record-shattering laser beam that, in a single shot fired on July 5, 2012, generated more power than the United States does at any single instant.
Even before Apple came out with its iPhone five years ago, it was experimenting with iPad-like tablets.
Google says the Nexus 7, its hotly anticipated new tablet computer, is shipping to customers who preordered it this week, amid reports of heavy demand.
Dropbox, the popular cloud-storage service, is investigating whether a security breach is to blame for a recent wave of spam e-mail sent to users.
Once upon a time, people thought that swarming creatures such as fish, bees and locusts communicated their movements by "thought transference," or telepathy.
In the wake of Google alum Marissa Mayer's surprise hiring as CEO, variations of the same question are popping up again and again:
Thanks to the growth of smartphone adoption, about half of U.S. mobile phone owners use their devices while watching TV, a new study suggests.
Collective behavior researcher Lain D. Couzin explains how he uses an X-box to aide in his study of locust swarms.
It's a phrase uniquely hated by high school teachers and internship coordinators everywhere: "Could you write me a reference?"
Some young adults are so fond of their expensive smartphones that they take a cheaper backup phone with them to bars and leave their fancier phones at home where they are safe from spilled vodka tonics, pickpockets and uncoordinated drunk people.
Marissa Mayer's appointment as Yahoo's next CEO has inspired a lot of feelings and opinions online. She's the Band-Aid on a bullet wound, a web giant's last hope, a difficult manager who'd run out of ways to move up, a feminist icon, a fresh start.
Facebook may be more populous, but Google+ is better-liked.
This week, 37-year-old Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo, an internet provider with many problems, although an audience isn't one of them -- the company claims more than half a billion people currently access its products a month, and Mayer told the New York Times she considers it "one of the best brands on the internet."
Marissa Mayer, who was Google's first female engineer and its 20th employee when she joined that company in 1999, has been named CEO of Yahoo.
How do you tell if a new technology product is a brilliant breakthrough?
For Microsoft's latest version of its Office suite, the company is betting big that making documents accessible across multiple devices, a cleaned-up design and improved collaboration features will keep the product relevant to today's users.
Google's first female engineer, Marissa Mayer, has made a career out of bucking expectations -- and she did so once again on Monday by announcing she will leave Google to be the new CEO of Yahoo, the struggling company that once was Google's main competitor.
Conventional webmaster wisdom holds that changing the name of a website leads to a drop in its popularity.
Video captured by the Solar Dynamic Observatory's (SDO) AIA instrument shows a solar flare occurring on July 12, 2012.
Geek is chic these days, especially around the San Diego Convention Center. The worlds of Hollywood, video games and comic books collided for four days at the annual International Comic-Con 2012.
Some Apple Store employees have been told to plan an all-nighter for July 24, leading to speculation that the company's new Mac operating system, OS X Mountain Lion, will be released the next day.
Dressed in a wet suit, air tanks strapped to his back, poised to head overboard is an image of Jacques Cousteau most people would recognize.
Remember payphones? This might sound crazy, but if New York City has its way, people might actually start using them again to communicate with each other.
Calling its decision to abandon a green certification system for electronics "a mistake," Apple on Friday announced it would again submit its products for EPEAT certification.
When a website that claims more than a half-billion monthly visitors gets hacked, users pay attention.
The evidence that people are getting tired of 3-D continues to pile up.
On Wednesday, all over the Web, "Slurpee" was the big trend. The date was July 11. Seven. Eleven.
Despite their green credentials, electric cars still come up short against their petrol-powered cousins when it comes to range -- how far they go before the battery needs recharging.
One of Amazon's biggest advantages over local stores and mega-chains like Walmart is its lack of sales tax in most states.
Hackers posted online what they say is login information for more than 450,000 Yahoo users.
Communication on Facebook started with the simple, emotionally vague "poke."
HLN's Evening Express team talks with aviation expert Jim Tilmon about turbulence and how pilots prepare for it.
It's a first-world problem of epic proportions, and the couch potatoes of the Web aren't pleased.
There are a ton of old sayings about music: that it's the food of love, that it soothes the savage beast, that it makes the people come together (yeah). And for good reason: Over the years, music has remained one of the few things, genres notwithstanding, that most people can agree to enjoy.
Back in April, a company called Next Issue Media launched its digital-magazine app. A joint venture of five big publishers -- Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp and TIME's owner, Time Inc. -- it bundled a bunch of famous publications into a single app with all-you-can-read pricing.
Virgin chief Richard Branson has put a time frame on his plan to launch tourists into space, claiming he and his family will blaze a trail for hundreds of fare-paying passengers by blasting off in December 2013.
Could the days of trying to cram all your professional accomplishments onto a single sheet of paper be a thing of the past?
Yosef Abramowitz has helped create the Middle East's first commercial solar power on an Israeli kibbutz.
Professor Ayse Saygin explains why androids and cartoons in the "uncanny valley" end up looking like zombies.
Wikipedia once again is diving into Internet politics.
The Internet was designed to be robust, fault-tolerant and distributed, but its technology is still in its infancy.
It was only a matter of time before someone shrunk the dazzling computer wizardry used to pilot a fighter jet into a device the size of an iPhone.
CNN's Lisa Sylvester reports on why federal and state governments are moving toward an Internet sales tax.
It's been impossible to go online or turn on a TV Monday without seeing all the breathless chatter about the "Doomsday" for the Internet, when hundreds of thousands of people were expected to abruptly lose their connection to the world's computer brain.
CNN's The Next List profiles Ayah Bdeir, inventor of a new generation of LEGOs called littleBits.
Ayah Bdeir explains the long journey to inventing her innovative and wildly popular littleBits.
For something that predicts the future, the software is deceptively simple looking.
Worried about a computer virus? CNN tech guru Mario Armstrong tells you all you need to know.
Come November, Amazon's Kindle Fire Android tablet will be a year old, which means that its successor is shortly on the way.
Imagine a near future when a single touch on your tablet or smartphone will start your coffee maker, lock your doors, turn on (or off) the lights and open a window.
Tech expert Marc Saltzman explains how a few high-tech gadgets and phone apps can help you get in shape.
Thousands are facing an Internet blackout. The FBI is warning computer users of a damaging virus.
CNN's Tom Foreman explains why a computer virus will impact Internet connections for millions worldwide.
Amazon may be coming out with its own smartphone, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The company reportedly is working with Foxconn to develop the hardware, which will likely run Amazon's version of the Android operating system.
Apple says it has fixed a glitch that was causing apps downloaded from its online store to crash this week.
When you're sitting on your couch on a quiet Monday night searching the Web for a decent trending topic and the almighty Twitter gods give you Doink the Clown, you take it. And if you happen to have a goat, it's polite to offer them a sacrifice. I was fresh out of goats, so I murdered a Klondike Bar.
Ayah Bdeir has invented littleBits - an open-source kit of circuit boards that you build creative projects.
Aside from the iconic (and sadly discontinued) TV ads, the "I'm a Mac" vs. "I'm a PC" battle has never been a particularly close one, at least in terms of sheer numbers. To put it bluntly, Apple gets creamed.
Note to all tablet makers not named Asus: This is how you make a 7-inch tablet.
In downtown Austin, dozens of new technology companies are about to be born.
Last year, Gideons International distributed more than 84 million printed copies of the Bible around the world to students, hospitals, members of the military and, of course, hotels, where they are a ubiquitous sight in bedside tables.
A new round of Apple rumors and leaks are suggesting what some tech observers have been predicting for the past year: that a smaller, less expensive iPad is on the way.
Raise your hand if this has ever happened to you: You wake up bleary-eyed on a weekday morn, lazily scroll through your newsfeed or Twitter feed or Google reader or whatever medium you use to absorb small bits of inanity, and there it is -- an opinionated update on a season finale, new movie or hot book, filled with important plot points.
Scientists said Wednesday that they had discovered a new particle whose characteristics match those of the Higgs boson, the most sought-after particle in physics, which could help unlock some of the universe's deepest secrets.
Last week, a U.S. District judge dealt a serious blow to Google and Samsung by slapping an injunction on the Galaxy Nexus phone and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in a patent infringement lawsuit.
Ayah Bdeir has invented the next generation of Legos; tiny electronic components called littleBits.
Ayah Bdeir invented the next generation of LEGOs, and is making science and engineering fun for kids.
Students went toe-to-toe with major corporations and created a hybrid car that gets more than 65 miles per gallon.
CNN's The Next List takes a look an innovative teacher helping kids to solve real world problems.
What's the cost to science if the U.S. slows down its exploration of other worlds? Bill Nye explains.
CNN's Samuel Burke explains how you can make money selling photos on an app.
In June, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone 4 equipped with a glass front and stainless steel edges.
Alejandra Oraa @Alejandraoraa (Twitter) presents you the top traveling applications to use during the summer.
Affiliate WAVE reports on new devices that tell parents when they leave their child behind in the car.
Google takes aim at the Kindle Fire and iPad with its own tablet, as CNN's Rosemary Church reports.
Transforming education in Philadelphia. Simon Hauger and a real "David and Goliath," Sunday, 2 p.m. ET on CNN.
LeVar Burton talks about bringing Reading Rainbow from TV to children's hands through an iPad app.
An Indian scientist invents a contraption he says can help solve the world's global warming issues using algae.
Many people spend about 8 hours a day on the computer. Some gadgets can keep you from hurting your neck and wrists.
CNN's Rob Marciano shares the best photo apps for your next vacation.
Zain Verjee talks to two web entrepreneurs who are helping create the new technologies we won't be able to live without.
In 2010, shoppers were using new technology and smartphone apps to find the best discounts while on the go. KGO reports.
Tech expert Marc Saltzman and CNN's Fredricka Whitfield discuss the top four gadgets for family road trips.
The new MacBook Pro with Retina display has the sharpest screen on the market, but its price may be too high for many.
Microsoft's tablet OS can run as a desktop, making it an all-in-one machine for use at home or on the go.
A new touch-screen phone has buttons that appear to rise up from the screen when you need them. Clark Howard reports.
HLN's Clark Howard puts Apple's Siri and Android's Skyvi voice command to the test with a familiar name.
Forget old .com and .org. ICANN is launching a huge expansion of Web domains. CNNMoney's Julianne Pepitone reports.
Black hole-hunting satellite NuSTAR launched from a plane over the Pacific Ocean.
ZDNet's Larry Dignan talks about Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook, unveiling the company's next generation notebook.
HLN's Evening Express team reveal video of a new invention where a bed automatically makes itself.
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