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It's a firefighter. It's a sailor. It's a lifelike robot about the size of a man able to perform both jobs, with the added ability to toss grenades. The latest addition to the military's ever-expanding humanlike-robot force is a mechanized … Continue …

YouTube has altered its suggested videos algorithm to favor videos that are watched for the longest periods of time.

Zynga shareholders may sell up to $400 million of stock through a public offering, three months after the online game maker went public, to try to avoid a drop in its stock price.

Federal regulators filed charges Wednesday against two managers of investment funds that buy stocks of privately held Internet companies including Facebook Inc. They were accused of misleading investors and failing to disclose fees.

A California man who used the social networking site MySpace to exploit and abuse young girls across the country was convicted Wednesday of dozens of felony charges.

For me, spring has already sprung. I’m going send out invites to a BBQ (Evite), go for a swim (Coral City), and shoot some outdoor hoops (Dude Perfect), all with my Android and some fresh apps.

A computer operating system named Anonymous-OS has been made available for download, and although originally believed to be the work of the hactivist group with which the OS shares its name, its legitimacy and raison d’être has since been called into question.

(Reuters) - Cisco Systems said on Thursday it will buy NDS, a developer of software for multi-channel television networks, for $5 billion. Founded in Israel in 1988 and headquartered in London, NDS is 51 percent owned by private equity fund Permira and 49 percent by News Corp. It maintains a large research and development …

Reviews have begun to trickle in as the launch of Apple’s new iPad draws near on Friday – and as one might expect, they’re generally very favorable.

Here’s some more fuel for the Nokia tablet fire: According to Nokia’s executive vice president of design a “third of his time” is being spent on making such as device.

AT&T is offering to discuss a settlement with an iPhone user who won a small-claims case that alleged the company was slowing down his "unlimited" data service.

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories.

At the start of the year we reported on the Gizmon iCA iPhone case, a pretty snazzy looking item designed to make your Apple smartphone resemble a retro film camera.

YouTube has altered its suggested videos algorithm to favor videos that are watched for the longest periods of time.

TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) - An expected $3.5 billion record net loss as TV sales slumped is raising a red flag with investors worried that Sharp has fumbled its business strategy. Takashi Okuda's appointment as its new boss suggests it is not about to flinch and abandon making TVs. Okuda 58, who replaces Mikio Katayama as …

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia design chief Marko Ahtisaari is spending a third of his time on creating a tablet for the cellphone maker, which would stand out among hundreds of iPad-challengers, he said in an interview with Finnish magazine Kauppalehti Optio. "We are working on it," he was quoted as saying. Nokia's Chief Executive …

Apple has announced that it will start selling the third generation iPad at 8am local time in Australia, the US, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland and the UK on Friday, March 16.

After releasing a new version of its browser, Firefox 11, the Mozilla foundation has laid out its plans for 2012, and there are definitely some interesting things in the works for one of the most popular web browsers out there.