Starting Tuesday, ABC will let viewers in New York and Philadelphia watch their local stations over the Internet. But this is not a way to cut your cable bill. The new Watch ABC service will require a cable account to log in.
Facebook is expected to pay out $20 million in a settlement over its "Sponsored Stories" advertising service, after placing user images in personalized ads. But the settlement doesn't stop the service, and a legal expert says Facebook's option to let users opt out creates more problems.
Four in 10 teenagers admit that they text while driving. Not only is that behavior dangerous, but those same teens are more likely to skip the seat belt and drive while drinking, too.
This is a big moment for the deaf, many of whom haven't been to the movies in a long time. The new glasses display closed captions just for the wearer, and they're headed for 6,000 theaters across the country.
A dropped cigarette butt, a chewed-up piece of gum, a stray hair. Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg uses DNA from trash she's picked up around New York City to generate 3-D portraits of those who left it behind.
Bitstrips is a popular website and Facebook app that has teens and others making their own cartoons. Using templates they can modify, users can tell stories or jokes online and share them with friends. And the app is catching on in several foreign markets, including Mexico and Portugal.
Also: rare footage of William Faulkner; drag and Virginia Woolf; and the art of translation.
The Internet has managed to disrupt many industries, from publishing to music. So why not lending? Google's recent investment in Lending Club has raised the profile of peer-to-peer lending, which gets borrowers and lenders together outside the conventional banking system.
Eight people are charged with helping steal $45 million from ATMs around the world by using compromised prepaid credit card data.
Defense Distributed put its gun-making blueprint on the Web for downloading. It says it's been asked by the government to stop doing that. But with more than 100,000 copies already distributed, it would seem the recipe is out there.
NASHUA, N.H. — Many who bemoan the gender disparity in the tech industry see a great deal of promise in the victory of Nashua teenager Jennie Lamere who attended high school at Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, Mass.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts made a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in hopes of plugging a serious ammonia leak.
Tesla, the electric car manufacturer in Silicon Valley, had two big wins this week: It posted a quarterly profit for the first time ever, and it tied for the highest ranking ever given to a car by Consumer Reports.
The future of the library in the digital age.
The high-tech end of immigration reform. Silicon Valley is buying a lot of access on Capitol Hill. They want more to welcome more foreign engineers. We’ll look at why.
Happy birthday, iTunes Store. A look at how the revolutionary media player, library and sales portal has upturned the way we consume media.
BOSTON — Google has teamed up with the MBTA to provide free public WiFi access inside Boston’s South Station, starting Thursday.
An expression of anger or anguish on social media is like a single, errant bullet in a crowd, alerting most, grazing some, but impacting nobody in particular.
The non-profit Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood wants kids and parents to let their digital devices go black this week. The organization is encouraging families to read and play instead.
The FDA has approved the first treatment that gives limited sight to people blinded by the genetic condition retinitis pigmentosa. The device, called the Argus II, works like an artificial retina.
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