Imagine if the light bulbs in your house could be not just lighting up a room but transmitting and receiving data as well. That's idea behind the emerging technology of Li-Fi.
You know those nature shows where they put a little tracking device on an animal and then release it into the wild? Some guys at MIT have done that with electronics.
Rupert Murdoch's News International is at the center of a growing inquiry into information hacking. Corporate hacking activity might not get the press that some citizen hackers get, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is said to be soon submitting a new bill to allow sales taxes to be collected from online stores. This happens at a time when cash-strapped states are hungry for the revenue.
The Network Advertising Initiative is a set of standards that online companies have created and agreed to follow in order to protect consumer privacy. Problem is, some aren't following them.
The Pentagon says 24,000 files were stolen during a single attack on a defense contractor in March. Plus, the online music service Spotify arrives in the U.S. And New York is hosting a robot film festival. Busy day!
When's the last time you took a good close look at your phone bill? You might want to go get it. A new Senate report says millions of Americans are getting ripped off to the tune of billions of dollars.
Google's new social networking…thing hasn't even officially launched yet but it already has, by one estimate, 10 million users. What are we supposed to actually use it for?
A case in Colorado involves a woman accused of running a mortgage scam. Investigators found a laptop full of encrypted data in her bedroom. Should she be forced to reveal what's on the hard drive?
