IPhone's Siri has a sense of humor. Ask the right questions, and you'll get amusing answers.
A gutsy team of researchers is traveling the high seas tagging great whites in a bid to solve a 450-million-year mystery.
Apple has been accused of kowtowing to the Chinese government by pulling from its China App Store a product enabling users to circumvent firewalls.
For many victims, California's new "revenge porn" law doesn't go far enough.
Almost all of NASA has been shuttered, one of many federal agencies affected when the government shut down at midnight Tuesday.
Apple's new CEO is no Steve Jobs, says Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, who first met Jobs when his company employed him in 1974 as a $5-an-hour developer.
A backhoe in Canada may have laid bare an extremely rare fossil find.
Just under ten years ago, the Dutch-British physicist Andre Geim stumbled across a substance that would revolutionize the way people understood matter and win
Google's new company Calico hopes to improve the lives of millions by tackling illness, aging and death
Apple's new operating system, iOS 7, has prompted a few complaints from users. Here are five of the most frequently heard, along with tips for how to fix them.
Mars researchers hoping to find ancient volcanoes may have been looking for the wrong kind of volcanic eruptions in the planet's ancient history.
Craig Hutto lost his right leg in a shark attack when he was 16 years old.
The Mars rover Curiosity has given scientists a wealth of data about the planet's soil composition. A new study suggests the soil is 2% water by weight.
A new Web page shows profile photos of 1.2 billion Facebook users, arranged in order of when they joined.
Facebook announced an update Monday that will enable users to search within status updates, comments and posts.
The Voyager 1 probe has made history as the first man-made object to enter interstellar space, NASA announced Thursday.
Apple and Google finish one-two on the 2013 "Best Global Brands" list, with Coca-Cola in third.
A designer and former NSA contractor has created four new fonts that he suggests Google won't be able to read with its current software
Exploring the heavens with spaceships and fancy orbiting telescopes like the Hubble is pretty routine stuff for NASA. But the space agency is going low-tech to get a good look at an eagerly anticipated comet.
Depending whom you ask, a new ad-blocking device called AdTrap is either a step forward for the Internet or a death knell for free content.
For years, when you moved, the first thing set up was the stereo system. Now audio is all about computers.
CNN humor columnist Jarrett Bellini celebrates the start of haunted house season.
Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer plays the 'Seaboard keyboard' -- a tech forward re-imagining of the piano that allows players to 'bend' pitch like a guitar
The largest search engine in the world is getting a few updates, Google announced on Thursday.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says the Control-Alt-Delete log-in on PCs was a "mistake."
Yes, they exist. And there might be more of them than you think.
A new service from Twitter allows government agencies and non-governmental organizations to send emergency messages directly to users' phones during emergencies.
The new Kindle Fire tablets feature a button that summons a live human tech support rep on your screen.
Amazon on Wednesday announced three new Kindle Fire tablets: a 8.9- and 7-inch Kindle Fire HDX and a lower-end Kindle Fire HD.
Samsung plans to introduce a smartphone with a curved display screen, an executive of the South Korean company said Wednesday.
Wristbands are the latest craze in high-tech fitness hardware. Nike+ and Fitbit might ring a bell.
I can't even remember the last time I thumbed a message on its itty-bitty qwerty keyboard.
Ronen Halevy is an information-security specialist who has owned a BlackBerry since 2005.
With latest financial issues, BlackBerry users have to decide: Is this the last straw? They have options.
Apple has updated its entire iMac line of products with Intel's latest quad-core processors, new graphics, next-gen Wi-Fi and faster PCIe flash storage.
YouTube has a new plan pull its infamous comments out of the muck and make them more readable, useful and personalized.
The family home where a young Steve Jobs built the first Apple computer may soon become a protected historical site.
A group of hackers in Germany says it has found a way to bypass the fingerprint-sensor security system on the new iPhone 5S.
A website is offering a cash bounty for the first person to successfully hack the iPhone 5S.
Microsoft is trialing the use of 'white spaces' -- empty TV channels -- to bring broadband to rural Africa.
Twitter has become the place to vent -- sometimes with nasty, bigoted comments, such as those seen after Miss America.
CNN humor columnist Jarrett Bellini looks at research being used to create a robot bartender.
You'll have to be doggedly clever to unlock Mike Linden's new iPhone 5S.
Apple's new operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch is out today. Here's what you need to know.
Apple could be facing tight supplies of the new iPhone 5S, according to sources.
Hiroshi Yamauchi, who built Nintendo into a video-gaming empire, died Thursday in Japan. He was 85.
What if you could buy a smartphone that would last you for the rest of your life?
A U.S. court of appeals gave Facebook a thumbs up when it ruled that "likes" on the social network are protected as free speech under the Constitution.
Police forces around the world are fighting crime with new tech tools such as predictive-analysis software.
So much for being underwhelmed. Early reviews of the iPhone 5S and 5C are are singing their praises.
Orbital Sciences Corp. sent up its first entry into the space freight business Wednesday, launching a new unmanned cargo carrier to the Intl. Space Station.
After losing a leg in an accident, Mike Schultz founded a company that makes prosthetics for amputee athletes.
The makers of the new Scorpion jet want to sell the low-cost aircraft to the U.S. military. The plane operates at a fraction of the cost of some fighter jets.
Apple is updating its Siri voice-assistant feature on Thursday with a male voice and improved search results.
Gamers on Tuesday get their hands on "Grand Theft Auto V," the latest in the controversial franchise.
Reddit on Monday shut down a section devoted to chasing down the Washington Navy Yard shooter.
According to a new study, 21% of phone owners use their devices as their primary way of accessing the Internet.
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK has acquired two models of the world's first 3D-printed gun.
The Wickr self-destructing messaging app is coming to Android phones Monday.
With news that Twitter will seek to go public, we look back at some of the key moments from its brief history.
Necessity, so the saying goes, is the mother of all invention. But as history often shows adversity is often the catalyst for creativity, inspiring inventors to life-saving feats of ingenuity.
Given privacy concerns, the idea of handing over one's fingerprints to Apple via its new iPhone 5S has some people nervous.
CNN humor columnist Jarrett Bellini looks at an amazing doomsday bunker for sale in Las Vegas.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to speak to one non-Facebook employee a day during 2013
The Blaze laser bike light could dramatically reduce cyclist fatalities around the world.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has unveiled an iPhone app called Operation Predator that asks the public for help in gathering information on suspected child sexual predators, including those who are fugitives.
The cassette should have died. Instead, it's turning 50 in an atmosphere of celebration.
CNN's Heather Kelly spent a few minutes with new newly launched iPhones Tuesday. Here's what she thought.
Mark Zuckerberg and Marissa Mayer are limited talking about dealings with the NSA, but one thing is clear: They want more transparency from the government.
Underwhelmed. That, in a word, was the response in many quarters to Apple's rollout of two new iPhones on Tuesday.
The new iPhone 5S's performance upgrades and 64-bit processing chip will make the smartphone more responsive and faster. And mobile game developers are excited.
Danny Lewin, who founded Akamai Technologies, died in the 9/11 attacks. There's a new book about his busy life.
For the first time ever, Apple unveiled two new iPhones on Tuesday, a traditional upgrade of its iPhone 5 as well as what's expected to be a cheaper version.
The most impressive feature of the new iPhone 5S may be its ability to turn your finger into a password.
The worst twerk fail EVER video was actually an awesome staged fail!
When Apple introduces new iPhones on Tuesday, the company that practically created the smartphone will face an unusual task: keeping up with the competition.
A slick YouTube confession by an alleged drunk driver is raising questions that go far beyond guilt or innocence.
How does the reality of the new Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch measure up to the fantasy? See some of the most fascinating concepts that didn't get made
Snapchat is trying to get away from its reputation as a service for randy sexting teens and secretive philanderers.
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Facebook fight to release more information about government surveillance orders, which companies say is their First Amendment right to provide. .
CNN is among a handful of news outlets partnering with Facebook on a feature that enables sharing data that shows what's being talked about on the site.
New website GhettoTracker.com was taken down this week amid charges of racial insensitivity.
NASA engineers fixed a glitch that threatened to derail a space probe called LADEE on its way to the moon, the space agency said.
IFA, one of Europe's largest consumer electronics exhibitions kicked off this week in Berlin.
CNN humor columnist Jarrett Bellini looks at all the fun and amazing things you can 'rent' online.
Apple is testing iPhone display screens as large as 6 inches, according to a new report.
After an extensive, month-long buildup, Yahoo has finally unveiled its new logo.
Billionaire Richard Branson's planned commercial spacecraft had a successful test flight Thursday, rocketing into the skies over California, his company says.
Here's how Samsung's new Galaxy Gear stacks up against the Pebble watch and other rival smartwatches.
In rolling out its Galaxy Gear on Wednesday, Samsung effectively launched the smart watch wars, becoming the biggest player in an emerging market.
With 7.1 billion mouths to feed, and plenty more on the way, the world needs to find new ways to feed its citizens.
Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg extracts DNA from genetic material and turns them into 3-D faces.
Google's next version of Android, its mobile operating system, will be named KitKat -- in honor of the candy bar.
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