The massive breach at Yahoo means that a treasure trove of stolen data is in the hands of hackers -- putting millions of internet users at risk. At least half a billion Yahoo accounts have been affected in one of the biggest data breaches in history ...

Microsoft gave the first look at its Windows 10 operating system on Tuesday, a major release that will span all hardware from PCs to phones and try to address the ills that have dogged Windows 8. The event in San Francisco was aimed mostly at enterprise ...

At an event in Tokyo on Thursday, Chief Engineer James Dyson, known for creating slick, bag-free cyclone vacuum cleaners, showed off the new Dyson 360 Eye. The name refers to an omnidirectional camera that sits atop the circular machine, with which it ...

Microsoft's 14 percent staff reduction, the largest in its history and focused heavily on employees acquired from Nokia's devices and services business, has some observers thinking Satya Nadella got a bad case of Lumia-induced indigestion. Where his ...

Microsoft staffers worldwide should buckle their seat belts because a big culture shakeup is in the works at the company. In a long letter sent to employees on Thursday, CEO Satya Nadella said that he and his lieutenants are taking “important steps to visibly ...

A computer-powered chatbot that supposedly passed the Turing Test for artificial intelligence may not be all it's cracked up to be. The conversation program, dubbed Eugene Goostman, poses as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy and supposedly tricked a third of ...

The G3 from LG Electronics has a jaw-dropping quad-HD screen that will help set it apart from competing products, but some users may be turned off by the fact that it's made of plastic. LG's new flagship smartphone was finally launched on Tuesday. The unit ...

The G3 from LG Electronics has a jaw-dropping quad-HD screen that will help set it apart from competing products, but some users may be turned off by the fact that it's made of plastic. LG's new flagship smartphone was finally launched on Tuesday. The unit ...

Hackers appear to be exploiting Apple's “Find My iPhone” service to lock up phones and tablets and send ransom demands to their owners. A number of reports on Apple's support forum tell of devices displaying messages that they have been hacked by ...

Google Glass is getting a big software update to coincide with its one-day sale on Tuesday, but video calling is one feature that's been put on hold. The Internet-enabled headset will get KitKat, the newest version of the Android operating system for mobile ...

Amazon might not be first out of the gate with a streaming media box, but its new Fire TV device hints at bigger plans for reaching consumers in their living rooms. Priced at US$99—the same as Apple TV and the Roku 3—Amazon's slender box lets users ...

Alibaba Group's hold over China's e-commerce market is facing a new challenge from rival Tencent, which is joining forces with a local online retailer to expand in the nation's growing mobile Internet market. Tencent, the maker of China's most popular ...

Twitter has decided to clamp down on the posting of explicit sexual content on its Vine video-sharing service. The company said it did not have a problem with such content on the Internet, but did not want to be the source for it. A number of social networks ...

Users of Yahoo services will down the line have to use a Yahoo username to sign on to its services, as the company plans to phase out signing up to these services using Facebook and Google credentials. The Internet giant is updating its sign-in process to ...

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange and its owner Mark Karpeles, seeking damages in the hundreds of millions of dollars and the return of bitcoins to users whose accounts were frozen on the site. The lawsuit lays out a ...

With developing markets in its sight, Microsoft is making a number of changes to Windows Phone that it hopes will result in a wider range of less expensive devices. A forthcoming update of the Windows Phone 8 operating system will drop several key ...