Would you pay 25 cents to send a tweet to space on the odd chance that an alien might read it? The founders of Lone Signal hope so.

The Oxford English Dictionary has finally gotten around to acknowledging that tweeting isn't just for the birds.

NASA has selected another generation of astronauts to travel to new destinations in the solar system, including an asteroid and Mars, and for the first time in its history half of the new candidates are women.

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.

U.S. law enforcement officials made thousands of requests for data about Apple users over the last seven months, the company said Monday.

Facebook and Microsoft disclosed that they received thousands of requests for user data from government agencies in the United States in the last half of 2012.

Facebook said it got between 9,000 and 10,000 requests targeting between 18,000 and 19,000...

Google is preparing to conquer a new dimension: the stratosphere. The Internet giant is releasing 30 high-tech balloons in a trial of technology designed to bring the Internet to places where people are not yet connected.

You're in no danger of falling in, but a large group of possible cosmic vacuum cleaners have just been identified.

Microsoft Office, the suite of productivity tools used by millions, has finally come to the iPhone.

When photographs of women displaying their surgical scars started disappearing from The SCAR Project's Facebook page and SCAR Project photographer David Jay was temporarily suspended from the site, an angry activist launched a Change.org petition demanding that Facebook "stop censoring photos of men and women who have undergone mastectomies."

Three or four years ago, it was supposed to be the next big thing in consumer tech: the magic of 3-D, right in your living room.

It hasn't been a blockbuster year for Nintendo, the video-gaming company that brought us "Donkey Kong," "Super Mario Bros." and the Wii.

After years spent lurking in the shadows, the indie gaming world is ready for its moment in the spotlight. When the Ouya "micro-console" hits shelves on June 25, it could make big waves in the industry.

As violent crime tied to smartphone theft continues to rise nationwide, law enforcers are publicly calling on manufacturers to install "killswitch" technology that would render a stolen device useless.

Think using hands-free technology to text, tweet or respond to e-mails while driving is safer than talking on a cellphone? You're wrong, AAA says.

You've been in an accident. The police officer goes through the normal drill, asking for your license and registration.

Then she goes a step further. "Could I have your cellphone, please?" she says.

New legislation proposed by a New Jersey state Sen. J...

Thinking about buying your dear old dad some argyle socks or monogrammed golf balls for Father's Day? Think again.

They are lowest on the totem pole, lack any kind of job security and assigned work no one else wants to do. But for almost $6,000 per month, who cares?

To give the badly slumping PC market a much-need jolt, Intel is thinking about using one of the most effective tools in its arsenal: lowering chip prices.

The controversy over National Security Agency data mining has spawned columns featuring ominous references to Orwell and Kafka, reassurances from politicians and jokes (made on the Internet, of course) about the government peeking through the blinds....

Google on Tuesday urged the Obama administration to let it be more transparent about secret data requests from the government.

In an open letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller, Google requested the ability to make pub...

It's called "Apple picking," a growing wave of crime in which thieves target mobile devices, particularly iPhones and iPads.

At a coming-out party for its upcoming PlayStation 4 console, Sony doubled up by leveling its guns on rival Microsoft's Xbox One device and firing until the chambers were empty.