The White House is reportedly bringing on Twitter's Nicole Wong as part of its legal team.
Technology has been changing the way we access, enjoy and discuss our entertainment. From smartphones and tablets with streaming movies to video game consoles offering TV shows alongside game play, consumers have increasingly become accustomed to their entertainment colliding and intertwining in new and interesting ways.
Should the government keep its hands off of online shopping? According to massive response to stories on a proposed Internet sales tax, many of you think so.
Internet shoppers could be one step closer to having to pay sales taxes on online purchases.
William Gibson's popular science fiction tale "Johnny Mnemonic" foresaw sensitive information being carried by microchips in the brain by 2021. A team of American neuroscientists could be making this fantasy world a reality.
A Texas group run by a self-described anarchist has posted what appears to be the first video of the live firing of a handgun created with a 3-D printer.
Electronic Arts will be the exclusive provider of games based on the Star Wars series, Disney and the game developer announced jointly on Monday.
Some people hire florists and caterers when planning their wedding. Former Google employee Brit Morin brought on a programmer to create a custom app.
CNN humor columnist Jarrett Bellini looks at a new shirt that can be worn over 100 times before washing.
Your Instagram profile is about to have a lot more "you" in it.
Minimalist blogging platform Posterous drew its last breath earlier this week.
Are you starting to take for granted the popping colors and hyper-detail of your HDTV? Fear not. 4K TV is on the way.
The next generation of digital cameras could show us how bugs see the world.
Forecasting future technology has never been easy. In the 1950s, scientists and technologists envisaged that by now the world would be free from disease, traversed by flying cars, and fueled by minerals from distant planets.
Scientists say they have created the world's most sophisticated bionic arm -- ultra-mobile and controlled by the user's thoughts.
It's a mesmerizing, surreal scene. Eight tiny, unmanned aerial vehicles -- called quadrotors -- begin to rise from the ground in unison.
New apps have no intention of ushering you somewhere quickly. Instead, they want to help you get out, get moving, and get a little lost.
If your smartphone is attached to your hip and your blood flows like a Twitter feed, maybe it's time to disconnect for a bit.
Twenty years ago, a team of researchers shared the Web with the world. Now they want to show a new generation what it was like in its earliest days.
Stronger than steel, thinner than a human hair, is graphene the "miracle material" that could transform the face of materials science?
NBA veteran Jason Collins on Monday revealed he is gay, making him the first U.S. professional athlete to do so while actively playing.
For all of their advantages, smartphones still fall a little short for some — specifically, for those living with visual impairment.
The Google Now predictive search feature is rolling out for the iPhone and iPad, 10 months after coming to Android
Apple has elicited a lot of hand-wringing by investors and fans alike lately, even as its chief competition Samsung seems to be prompting nothing but applause. Turns out selling a wider variety of phones and tablets is a good strategy after all.
If you've been to the RoboGames, you've seen everything from flame-throwing battlebots to androids that play soccer. But robo-athletes are more than just performers. They're a path to the future.
Spanish police say they've arrested the man behind what's been called the biggest cyberattack in history.
CNN humor columnist Jarrett Bellini looks at why we take awful cell phone photos and videos at concerts.
Producer's note: CNN Ideas has covered everything from mapping the human brain to 4-D printing. We've even looked at cool robots because, well, they're cool robots.
A deleted Instagram account once belonged Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, say sources close to the accused Boston bomber.
Officials say that blanketing a city in surveillance cameras can create as many problems as it solves.
On April 28, 2003, Apple threw open the virtual doors to its iTunes Store, and music -- all digital media, really -- hasn't been the same since.
The new Facebook Home smartphone interface is for people who live and breathe the social network above any other site or service.
With computer technology advancing at an ever bewildering pace, it's comforting to know that one little feature remains steadfastly future-proof and, more importantly, foolproof.
Apple CEO Tim Cook might soon be sharing Silicon Valley's most expensive cup of coffee.
Amazon is making a set-top box that would stream content to a TV, a report says.
A screed from an officer of Delta Gamma sorority at University of Maryland has gone viral with a capitol "V."
Gadget fans eagerly awaiting the next wave of Apple products just got some good news, and some bad news.
Cyberattacks by the Syrian Electronic Army -- pro-Syrian regime hackers -- spark more questions about the group.
Misinformation can spread quickly on Twitter, each retweet exposing it to wider audiences and even resulting in real world impacts.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has been thinking a lot about our digital future.
For listeners of police scanners, last week's tragic events offered one real-time drama after another.
Living in Texas is unimaginable without air conditioning, especially on steamy summer afternoons. Unfortunately, there simply isn't enough power to go around -- and when the energy companies suggest that residents not cool it during those hours, people ignore the pleas.
Code in the software for Google's Glass eyewear suggests users will be able to snap photos with a wink of an eye.
Website Reddit received record traffic and harsh criticism for its treatment of the Boston Marathon bomber case.
Video producer's note: To some, it may seem like Caltech professor Frances Arnold is playing God. But to hear her say it, she is improving upon what nature started and solving some real-world issues in the process.
The Raspberry Pi is all the rage for hobbyists in search of cheap, credit card-sized computers that can run a full PC operating system.
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is urging tech leaders to help defeat CISPA, the cybersecurity bill.
Questions, messages, and stern commands that people have been whispering to Siri are stored on Apple servers for up to two years, Wired can now report.
The bite-tracking HapiFork counts how fast someone eats and gently vibrates if they're going too fast.
Memo to tweeters: Chechnya is not the Czech Republic.
CNN humor columnist Jarrett Bellini explains his Diet Coke addiction and a new idea for drinking more water.
San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum reopens Wednesday in a $300 million new home.
Twitter lit up Friday morning with dramatic reports from confused and terrified residents of suburban Boston.
Stomping through the fields and industrial wastelands of Britain, this giant six-legged walking robot is a world first, say its creators.
Seeing people have their limbs cut off in Sierra Leone's civil war inspired David Sengeh to create incredible bionic limbs to help amputees the world over.
Google is barring anyone deemed worthy of a pair of its $1,500 Google Glass computer eyewear from selling or even loaning out the highly coveted gadget.
As surprised defendants have discovered, law enforcement can obtain virtually anything posted online and use it against a person.
Thousands of cell phones and cameras on Boston streets are giving authorities a wealth of evidence.
A movement urging Verizon to get rid of wireless contracts appears to be gaining steam.
The investigation of the deadly bombings in Boston will rely on crowdsourced surveillance by marathon spectators.
Whether malicious or accidental, fake stories about the Boston attack have gone viral on social media.
Comedian Patton Oswalt's Facebook post about the Boston bombings has gone viral.
A California tech company has launched a tool that turns the iPhone into a powerful biometrics scanning tool.
Doing for our oceans what Google Street View has done on land, a team of marine scientists is building up an extraordinary picture of the world's coral reefs.
Microsoft is working on a touch-enabled smartwatch, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Everybody in the world will be on the internet in the next few years, Google's chairman said this weekend.
CNN humor columnist Jarrett Bellini explains a new scientific study that confirms size does matter.
By the time you read this Twitter may have already announced that it's getting into the online music business.
Family heirlooms are often packed away for safe keeping. For one man from China, hiding a 26-carat black diamond worth $14.5 million was not in his plans.
Google launched the service on its account settings page to give users options with their account should it remain inactive for an extended period of time.
Twenty-five year-old student Greg Dash was frustrated. He wanted to take "fisheye"-style camera pictures without having to pay for an expensive lens, or fiddle around with a smartphone app. He wanted something light and small that he could pull from his pocket at a moment's notice. Unfortunately such a device did not exist.
Here are six digital tools that offer timely warnings about impeding storms and tornadoes.
A laser keyboard demonstrates progress in assistive technology.
A German security consultant, who's also a commercial pilot, has demonstrated tools he says could be used to hijack a plane remotely, using an Android phone.
Here are five reasons why you should want Google Fiber ultra-fast Internet service to come to your city.
The predictive power of social media: Noreena Hertz on how to see into the future by studying social platforms
In this digital era of virtual relationships and "oversharing", is it fair to say that privacy is becoming an outdated concept?
An app that helps users find other apps for free has been banned from Apple's store in what some say is a new round of black-listing for apps Apple doesn't like.
If you're looking for a speedy, sturdy, cloud-based laptop, the Chromebook Pixel may be for you.
The annual Webby Awards are always a treasure trove of fascinating sites and apps.
The next generation of Xbox could finally be announced this spring.
President Obama's social media accounts have been handed over to a non-partisan group, a report says.
The new Facebook Home Android app isn't scheduled to launch until Friday, but the Internet is getting some early peeks.
A California court just ruled that screwing around with your phone's map app is as illegal as texting.
In that never-ending search for "the next big thing in tech," talk has turned to wearable gadgets, especially in the form of a smartwatch.
CNN humor columnist Jarrett Bellini explains Bracket Town and the Final Four madness happening in Atlanta.
Nintendo's most popular game designer says that skeptics should give its new Wii U console some time.
On Twitter, in his final years, Roger Ebert interacted with his fans more freely and personally than ever before.
Facebook Home, a new Android app, has some pundits and privacy experts concerned about potential data grabs.
To understand Jay Silver, it helps to go back some 10 years, to a night he spent flying kites on a beach in Florida with the woman who would become his wife.
As described by Zuckerberg and others, Home is a "family of apps" that essentially push Facebook content front and center on your Android phone.
Is a teen's awkward Angelfire page from 1999 the first-ever website by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg?
It's been described as the solution to a problem nobody realized existed.
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