Modernization

Google nails the timing on its iOS Maps release

The tech giant released the app the same week that Apple maps made headlines for leading users astray.

Emerging Tech

John McAfee can't stay out of the spotlight

Software magnate posts a Q&A while in a Guatemalan detention center.

Cybersecurity

John McAfee just got arrested

Guatemalan police took the software company founder into custody Wednesday.

Cybersecurity

Thus begins the odd era of John McAfee, political refugee

The former software entrepreneur is seeking political asylum in Guatemala.

Digital Government

North Korea's very unpopular rocket is almost ready for lift off

Satellite images show North Korean workers walking around the launch pad.

Emerging Tech

The 3D-printed gun for the masses doesn't actually work very well

The weapon's first test at a shooting range only fired six bullets before falling apart.

Digital Government

France is sick of getting ripped off by Google

French authorities estimate the tech company owes more than $2 billion.

Cybersecurity

Reddit is literally writing our laws now

Rep. Zoe Lofgren hopes to enlist the power of the crowd to write new Internet laws.

Modernization

Everybody loves the iPad Mini

The reviews for Apple's latest device are in, and mostly positive

Emerging Tech

Martian soil is a lot like Hawaiian soil

NASA's Curiosity Rover is starting to get some analysis from its soil scooping mission

Emerging Tech

Twitter censors users for the first time

Following the request of local government, the company shut down an account run by neo-Nazis.

Emerging Tech

Mars Curiosity discovers evidence of alien life (Spoiler: It's us)

A foreign object in Martian soil has made the rover stop in its tracks.

Emerging Tech

Facebook wants to make every user an advertiser

The social network will begin rolling out a service that enables users to promote their status updates.

Cybersecurity

Google is the latest victim of Iran's war on the Internet

Some speculate the decision to restrict the search engine is connected to the widely despised anti-Muslim video that recently went viral on YouTube.

Cybersecurity

We'll never know what Google's doing with the NSA

An appeals court turned down a FOIA request on NSA's relationship with Google.