With Google Glass, a new quest to cure death and driverless cars, it can be easy to forget what Google's primary business is: search.
Yes, they exist. And there might be more of them than you think.
Mark Zuckerberg and Marissa Mayer are limited in what they can say about their companies' dealings with the NSA, but one thing is clear: They want more transparency from the U.S. government.
Matthew Cordle hasn't yet been found liable of killing a man while drinking and driving, but there's not much question about whether he's guilty.
Its name was an early clue that the venture was a badly executed idea.
I'm the Luddite professor: My students are not allowed to use cell phones or laptops in my classes. During the break, they can power up and engage in a text and email frenzy for ten minutes -- then it's time to unplug again. Not all professors are this stringent with technology in the classroom.
After an extensive, month-long buildup, Yahoo has finally unveiled its new logo.
If you're reading this somewhere in Africa, then perhaps you should thank Nii Quaynor.
In the aftermath of a failed relationship, jilted lovers have been known to lash out by posting sexually explicit photos or videos of their exes online.
The New York Times website was still experiencing some issues late Wednesday and early Thursday following a widespread outage. Evidence continued to mount that it was the result of an attack by the Syrian Electronic Army.
Martin Manley hated waking up early, but on his 60th birthday he did -- or more likely, never went to sleep the night before.
The National Security Agency has built a network that can access as much as 75% of all U.S. Web traffic -- a larger amount than has been publicly announced -- according to a new report.
Since taking the helm of Yahoo after years in Google's upper echelon, Marissa Mayer has been at the center of plenty of talk not focused on turning around the once-mighty Web giant.
Next time you wonder, "What am I doing today?" just ask Google.
The New York Times' website and mobile apps went down for more than three hours Wednesday, the apparent result of an "internal issue," according to the company.
An unknown hacker apparently gained access to a 2-year-old girl's baby monitor, calling her by name and harassing her, and her parents, with insults and profanity.
Facebook announced a new short-video service for Instagram to compete with Twitter's app, Vine.
On the same day that President Barack Obama spoke to the press about possible surveillance reforms?and released a related white paper on the subject?the National Security Agency came out with its own rare, publicly-released, seven-page document (PDF), essentially justifying its own practices.
A pro-privacy e-mail service long used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden abruptly shut down Thursday, blaming a secret U.S. court battle it has been fighting for six weeks ? one that it seems to be losing so far.
The people who created YouTube are getting into the quickie-video app business ... with a twist.
Under CEO Marissa Mayer, Yahoo might still be trying to shed its image as a relic of the 1990s Internet era.
You've never heard of XKeyscore, but it definitely knows you. The National Security Agency's top-secret program essentially makes available everything you've ever done on the Internet ? browsing history, searches, content of your emails, online chats, even your metadata ? all at the tap of the keyboard.
The National Security Agency's controversial intelligence-gathering programs have prevented 54 terrorist attacks around the world, including 13 in the United States, according to Gen. Keith Alexander, NSA director.
An internal report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found that it committed no wrongdoing in the case of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide while facing charges he hacked into the university's computers and stole millions of online documents.
Semi-ambidextrous Nicholas Cronquist rebelled against third-grade cursive lessons.
Flickr, the Yahoo-owned photo site, will be down for six hours Thursday evening for maintenance.
Land of the free. Home of the brave. Bastion of mediocre Internet speeds.
They've long been considered topics that aren't polite to discuss at the dinner table. As it turns out, politics and religion can get touchy on Wikipedia as well.
Everyone knows Google is big. But the truth is that it's huge. On an average day, Google accounts for about 25 percent of all consumer internet traffic running through North American ISPs.
Saying that "the darkest corners of the Internet" pose a real threat to children, British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday rolled out a plan that would, by default, block pornography on most computers, smartphones and tablets.
It's not the Internet to Evgeny Morozov. It's "the Internet" -- with quotation marks.
Silicon Valley, wary of being seen as accomplices in the National Security Agency's unpopular data-surveillance program, has a message for the Obama administration.
A broad coalition of groups supporting everything from religion, drugs, and digital rights to guns and the environment sued the National Security Agency today, demanding a federal judge immediately halt what they are calling an "unconstitutional program of dragnet electronic surveillance" stemming from the government's vast collection of Americans' phone-calling data.
When Chris Reynolds opened his June PayPal e-mail statement, something was off.
We enjoyed some chuckles last week over Spotify's list of its most misquoted songs. Looks like you did, too.
Most of the big tech companies implicated in the ongoing controversy over secret government Web surveillance insist they turned over data about users to the National Security Agency only after being compelled by court orders.
There's no bathroom on the right, and Jimi Hendrix never asked to be excused so he could kiss a dude. And, no, no matter how blinded by the light you may have been, you weren't wrapped up like ... a feminine hygiene product.
Google and related services were inaccessible to some users Wednesday morning, prompting confusion and consternation across the Web.
It may be a long way from home but it took just two years for a trio of young techies to take their web-based startup from a classroom in Ghana to the world's technology capital, California's Silicon Valley.
Anti-NSA protesters took to the streets in cities across the United States on Thursday, using the Independence Day holiday to call attention to recent disclosures about the U.S. government's telephone and Internet surveillance programs.
In 2013, no company can expect to be taken seriously if it's not on Facebook or Twitter. An endless stream (no pun intended) of advice from marketing consultants warns businesses that they need to "get" social or risk becoming like companies a century ago that didn't think they needed telephones.
Next Monday, Google is officially shutting down its popular RSS feed reader, Google Reader.
Yahoo has announced a plan to "recycle" old e-mail addresses, a move meant to free up accounts for folks who want them but that has sparked privacy concerns.
Mississippi's top prosecutor Wednesday threatened to subpoena the search giant Google over what he called its failure to crack down on ads touting unlawful sales of prescription drugs and pirated entertainment.
Feedly, the Web-content app that got a surge of new users when Google announced it was pulling the plug on its Reader service, is making a play to inherit even more.
Let's face it: Most of us don't e-mail, tweet, text or post anything worthy of clandestine scrutiny.
Google says it will spend $5 million on an effort to wipe pictures of child sexual abuse from the Web and another $2 million to research more effective ways to find, report and eradicate the images.
This week, the U.S. Navy forsook a tradition dating back to the 1800s. Why? Because it's now too easily confused with the musings of an Internet lunatic.
A pioneer in sales of digital music, Apple on Monday became a late entrant in the booming music-streaming wars.
A series of revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs sparked outrage among many this week, including the expected privacy activists and civil libertarians.
For Yahoo users who prefer old-school e-mailing, your grace period is over.
Last week's rumor was the real deal: Google is rolling out a new Gmail inbox today which autosorts incoming messages so important stuff is easy to find and clutter stays out of the way.
Since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO of Yahoo last year, there's been a lot of talk about how the famously detail-oriented ex-Googler will "refocus" the company.
Change.org was hacked late Friday by someone who made "cosmetic" changes on the popular petition website, officials said.
We can't settle iPhone vs. Android or "Star Wars" vs. "Star Trek" for you. But another long-running geek debate was put to rest Tuesday night.
Sure, serious-minded folks from the White House on down have taken to Tumblr, the popular blogging platform that Yahoo announced it had purchased this week.
Yahoo's purchase of hot blogging platform Tumblr, which it announced Monday, was big news for the hundreds of millions of folks who already post to the site or check in to follow those who do.
For two years, Google has pushed its Google+ as more than a social network or cool video-chatting tool. This week, it is working to hammer home that point with a spate of new features.
Google Maps are getting personal. The next version of the widely used maps tool, previewed on Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, will soon have a different look and some splashy new features including displays of real-time accidents and personalized recommendations.
Google's Bernhard Seefeld demonstrates how you can go sightseeing using the Google Maps and even watch the sun set.
Google is taking on music-streaming services like Pandora and Spotify with its own service called Google Play All Access.
Google is taking on music-streaming services like Pandora, Spotify and Rdio with its own music subscription service called Google Play All Access.
How would you like to do a search without touching a computer or phone? Or have your next question answered before you even ask it? Or get a reminder to pick up a carton of milk when you drive by a grocery store?
At 4:54 pm ET on Wednesday, someone downloaded the 50 billionth app from Apple's online App Store.
Chris Hadfield has conquered space. Now he's conquering the Internet, too.
Through some highly successful crowdfunding and skillful negotiation, the last remaining laboratory of futurist inventor Nikola Tesla is now in the hands of a nonprofit group that wants to preserve the site and make it a museum honoring "the father of the electric age."
We are using the Internet wrong. Smartphones turn people into horrible listeners. And cat videos aren't as riveting as we think they are.
It's a horrifying tale: Three young women are held captive for nearly a decade, spending some of that time in chains.
Should the government keep its hands off online shopping? According to the massive response to our 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.
Minimalist blogging platform Posterous drew its last breath earlier this week.
Twenty years ago, a team of researchers shared the Web with the world. Now they want to show a generation that grew up online what it was like in its earliest days.
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.
Apple CEO Tim Cook might soon be sharing Silicon Valley's most expensive cup of coffee.
It's been the rant read 'round the world this week -- its prose so gloriously profane and its priorities so shockingly misplaced that the Web hasn't been able to look away.
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.
Reddit general manager Erik Martin has had a busy few days.
The co-founder of the popular social news site Reddit has called on the leaders of Google, Facebook and Twitter to help defeat a controversial cybersecurity bill that would compromise the privacy of their users if passed by lawmakers.
Everybody in the world will be on the Internet within seven years. That's what Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said this weekend in public comments that inspired everything from excitement to incredulity.
By the time you read this Twitter may have already announced it's getting into the online-music business. If so, they will have plenty of company -- courtesy of some of the tech world's biggest names.
There's no better way to start off the afternoon than coming to terms with your mortality, which you'll need to do if you want to take advantage of Google's new Inactive Account Manager. 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.
The annual Webby Awards are always a treasure trove of fascinating sites and apps. The organization behind the awards, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, announced the latest, lengthy list of nominees on Tuesday.
Search results you can smell, a crowdsourced hunt for pirate booty and paying for vowels on Twitter are some of this year's attempts at tech pranks. Few fooled anymore, but the annual tech ritual is still fun to watch.
Internet users around the globe are facing slowed-down service, thanks to what's being called the biggest cyberattack in history.
Remember when you were 12 years old and you'd pass notes in class, making snide remarks about members of the opposite sex?
Forget Ashton Kutcher and Aaron Sorkin. The next Steve Jobs biopic you see will star the "I'm a Mac" guy and come from the twisted minds of Funny or Die.
It's a fear that keeps cybersecurity experts up at night: an attack on an online election system.
Feedly, a news aggregator which promised to make the migration from Google Reader ? which is being shut down on July 1 ? seamless, has already seen an influx of over 500,000 million Reader users.
In case you haven't heard, Mailbox is the iOS app that everyone wants to get their grubby little paws on. The hip new e-mail app is an alternative interface for Gmail accounts (yes, it only works with Gmail). People who have used it love the gesture-based interface and the ability to "snooze" messages?this latter feature prompts a pop-up message to remind you to reply at some point in the future, like later in the day, later that night, or over the weekend.
Google Reader, one of the best-known feeds through which users can pull together their favorite Web content in one place, will be shutting down, the company announced.
With its orange paint, muscular look and mounted steer horns, an unusual race car has been turning heads on the streets of this capital city.
To become Google's first female engineer in 1999 -- and, eventually, one of the most powerful women in tech -- Marissa Mayer had to get comfortable with risk.
Forget Elon Musk or Al Gore. The biggest star of the South by Southwest Interactive festival is less than a year old, sleeps all day and looks like she just swallowed a hairball.
Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg, Joanna Shields from Tech City, and Google's Eze Vidra share their tech tips for 2013.
Tens of millions of online note-takers found themselves worrying about their security Monday, as questions remained about a weekend hack of Evernote.
On Thursday, Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason summed up his day, and perhaps an entire niche industry, with a joke.
Mozilla Chairwoman, Mitchell Baker talks to CNN's Kristie Lu Stout about introduction of their new Firefox OS.
CNN's Patrick Oppmann reports Cuban techies got together for a festival without having any technology.
Craig Bell reports a new company has created software to help online job-seekers know where they stand in the process.
CNN's Eunice Yoon gets insights on Chinese hacking from a self-described godfather of China's hacker world.
Cyber sleuths try to learn details about mass shooting suspect Anders Behring Breivik. CNN's Kristi Lu Stout reports.
CNN's Felicia Taylor explains how "Bitcoin," an online currency works.
A young British woman and her grandmother demonstrate how different generations view internet security.
CNN's Michael Holmes looks at the digital footprint we leave behind and ways to hide our online lives.
In an exclusive interview, CNN's Felicia Taylor talks with Vogue Editor Anna Wintour about vogue.com's revamp.
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout explains how ISP-imposed limits on how much data you can download could affect cloud computing.
Major websites test new versions of Internet protocol in an experiment known as IPv6 Day. Kristie Lu Stout explains.
Will cloud computing make hacking and ID theft easier? CNN's Felicia Taylor reports.
CNN's Emily Reuben gets a rare glimpse inside the data center of a cloud facility at an undisclosed location in London.
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout explains what Apple's iCloud can and cannot do.
CNN's Liz Neisloss is in Singapore, where passions run high for food, photos of it and sharing both online.
A Buckingham Palace guard is removed from royal wedding duty over comments he put on Facebook.
For the first time, sales of electronic books in the U.S. exceed sales of print. CNN's Adriana Hauser reports.
CNN's Eunice Yoon travels to a village where the residents make their living selling through Taobao.com.
CNN's Jo Ling Kent in Beijing explains China's "Great Firewall" and how users circumvent it.
There are over 60 million bloggers in China, and he was among the first ones. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout talks to Isaac Mao.
CNN's Reggie Aqui explains how the internet has once again played a role connecting people after a disaster.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs appears at the debut of the iPad 2 in San Francisco.
One of the internet's founding fathers talks about Google's new boss and "Revolution 2.0" in Egypt.
Vint Cerf, one of the Web's founding fathers and Google Chief Evangelist, talks about Google's new boss, Larry Page.
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout spoke to Jimmy Lai, the man behind Taiwan's hit political animations.
A website claims to give "administrator" access to various web addresses for a price, causing serious security threats.
CNN's Dan Simon has an exclusive interview with the founders of "Qwiki," a new website that could compete with Google.
CNN Money's David Goldman discusses the new man filling the CEO hot seat at Google and why Eric Schmidt stepped down.
In August 2010, the CEO of Groupon.com discussed the success of the group coupon website.
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout examines the future of Microsoft Windows and its potential use on mobile devices.
CNN's Maggie Lake talks to internet guru Caterina Fake about her predictions for the web in 2011.
South Korea's government loses a legal battle over web control. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout brings you some of the best gift ideas for the geek on your shopping list.
Does Facebook's foray into e-mail fundamentally change how we use e-mail? And will it make e-mails shorter?
Openleaks founder Daniel Domscheit-Berg explains how Openleaks will differ from WikiLeaks.
CNN.com's John Sutter explains the recent denial-of-service cyber attacks and how they affect you.
CNN's Etan Horowitz explains why terms relating to WikiLeaks are not consistently trending on Twitter.
A CNN.com producer explains how the WikiLeaks site was reportedly targeted by a string of cyber attacks.
In this time of giving, Facebook's co-founder has launched a new social media site focusing on charity work.
A Japanese man's live video stream of his suicide sparks privacy debates. CNN's Kyung Lah explains.
Facebook announces a new messaging system that may create competition for e-mail providers. Affiliate KGO reports.
Is China's biggest search engine a Google clone with a home court advantage, or an innovator in its own right?
Tudou CEO Gary Wang tells News Stream how videos that go viral in China compare to those popular on YouTube.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales runs the gamut in a wide-ranging interview with News Stream.
The Chilean miners bring in big web traffic and Apple patents an anti-sexting program.
Cisco's Senior VP Carlos Dominguez talks to CNN's Ali Velshi about how we may use communications tools in the future.
"American Idol" meets the tech world. Some promising start-ups meet in San Francisco hoping to get buzz and money.
Facebook outages cause headaches for the addicted and an iPad plays a part in baby delivery.
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