The Department of Justice wants to broaden the authority of the Americans with Disabilities Act in regard to the Internet and specifically websites. Today is the final day for public comment on that proposal. Meanwhile, new data has emerged that shows far fewer people with disabilities using the Internet than people without.

Google says that the results you see when you search for something are objective and put there only by algorithm. But a Harvard professor recently ran an experiment using common search terms on several different search engines. He says Google's results heavily favored Google's own products, casting the claim of objectivity into doubt.

The acquisition of NBC Universal by Comcast will formally take place later this month after the deal was approved by the FCC and the Justice Department. But that approval came with a host of provisions, rules that the new company must obey. Those new rules are going to have an effect on how people use the Internet and what they watch on television.

By now, we should all know that the Nigerian prince who emails you out of nowhere is not actually a Nigerian prince. Similarly, that email from your bank needing to "verify" your PIN code at some shady website? Yeah, probably not legit. But scammers, malware purveyors, and other bad guys are still out there, adopting new approaches.

When Defense Secretary Robert Gates presented the Pentagon budget earlier this month, it contained more spending than ever before for UAVs: unmanned aerial vehicles. These are planes without any humans inside, operated by humans on the ground. What are we investing in and how is the rest of the world responding with planes of their own?

Besides being Martin Luther King Day, today is also a national day of service. It's a day on which Americans are being called upon to volunteer in their communities to try to make things better. Jacob Colker is the co-founder of an organization that offers ways to volunteer from your computer.

A company called Spokeo has been freaking out a lot of people lately: the site is sharing information thought to be private. Spokeo creates profiles that contain where you live, how much money Spokeo thinks you make, if you're married, hobbies, what names you use online. But Spokeo is just the tip of the iceberg.

General Motors thinks you might do exactly that. This week at the Detroit Auto Show, GM CEO Daniel Akerson said the company will make 25,000 Chevy Volts this year. That's up from the earlier forecast of 10,000.

So the new Verizon iPhone gets announced and about a thousand people I've heard from have the same suspicion: all those new iPhone users on Verizon will make that network clunky and full of dropped calls while AT&T's networks suddenly gets zippier and more efficient. It makes sense, but is it true?

The Justice Department has been investigating Wikileaks for a while now, trying to figure out if it can go after the international organization with formal charges. Now it's asking Twitter to give detailed information about the official Wikileaks account and the accounts of people associated with Wikileaks.