Google's artificial intelligence (AI) program on Saturday took a 3-0 lead in a five-match series against one of the world's top players of the complicated board game Go. The victory for the AlphaGo program, designed by Google subsidiary DeepMind, over South Korean professional player Lee Sedol, the ...

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday made a passionate case for mobile devices to be built in a way that would allow the government to gain access to personal data if needed to prevent a terrorist attack or enforce tax laws. Speaking at the South by Southwest festival in Texas, the president said h...

Shadows are cast near the Intel logo at the 2015 Computex exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, June 3, 2015. Reuters/Pichi Chuang Intel Corp is looking to sell part of its venture capital portfolio, assets that could be worth as much as $1 billion, Bloomberg reported. The world's biggest chipmaker was work...

A video screen depicting the view of a self driving vehicle is shown on a graphic display at Nvidia in Santa Clara, California in this February 11, 2015 file photo. Reuters/Robert Galbraith The top U.S. auto safety agency said Friday significant legal hurdles must be cleared before self-driving cars...

The GM logo is seen at the General Motors Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant in Lansing, Michigan October 26, 2015. Photo taken October 26. Reuters/Rebecca Cook General Motors Co (GM.N) is buying Cruise Automation, a San Francisco self-driving vehicle startup, the latest move by the auto giant in it...

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony R. Foxx speaks at the 2015 International Air Transport Association (IATA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in Miami Beach, Florida, June 8, 2015. Reuters/Joe Skipper The U.S. Transportation Department and NXP Semiconductors NV are j...

Autodesk Inc said on Friday it had reached a settlement with two activist investors, appointing three directors to its board and avoiding a proxy fight ahead of its annual meeting. Autodesk's settlement with activists Eminence Capital LP and Sachem Head Capital includes a so-called "standstill" agre...

Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka March 8, 2016. Reuters/Ashikur Rahman Investigators suspect unknown hackers managed to install malware in the Bangladesh central bank's computer systems and watched, probably for weeks, how to go about withdrawing money fro...

A man walks past an advertisement for young customers of China Construction Bank, in Hong Kong, China November 30, 2015. Reuters/Tyrone Siu Investors poured a record $4.5 billion into financial start-ups in Asia last year, four times as much as the previous year, data shows, putting the region at th...

Staminus Communications Inc., a California-based Internet hosting provider that specializes in protecting customers from massive “distributed denial of service” (DDoS) attacks aimed at knocking sites offline, has itself apparently been massively hacked. Staminus’s entire netwo...

Staminus Communications Inc., a California-based Internet hosting provider that specializes in protecting customers from massive “distributed denial of service” (DDoS) attacks aimed at knocking sites offline, has itself apparently been massively hacked. Staminus’s entire netwo...

Eventually, we all have an accident or get hacked. And when we do, backups are often the only way to recover. Backups are cheap and easy; make sure you are backing up all of your personal information (such as family photos) on a regular basis.

A model demonstrates a Samsung Electronics' new smartphone Galaxy S7 during its launching ceremony in Seoul, South Korea, March 10, 2016. Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) has seen stronger preorder volumes for the new Galaxy S7 phones compared to last year's mode...

Steve Ballmer speaks at a news conference after being introduced at a fan event at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California August 18, 2014. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson Fifteen years after calling the open-source operating system Linux a "cancer," former Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) Chief Executive Steve...

The Apple Store is seen in Santa Monica, California, United States, February 23, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) rhetoric was "false" in a high-profile fight over the government's bid to unlock an encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the...

Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. Reuters/Mike Segar Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) primary e-commerce website was down for a brief period for some users on Thursday afternoon. The world's No. 1 online retailer was not immediately avai...

The Obama administration is planning to publicly blame Iranian hackers for a 2013 cyber attack against a small dam in New York state, CNN reported on Thursday. Citing unnamed U.S. officials familiar with the investigation, the network said the Justice Department had prepared an indictment and an ann...

A group of former Skype technologists, backed by the co-founder of the messaging platform, has introduced a new version of its own messaging service that promises end-to-end encryption for all conversations, including by video. Wire, a 50-person start-up mostly made up of engineers, is stepping into...

An Apple logo hangs above the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in New York City, in this file photo taken July 21, 2015. Reuters/Mike Segar Apple Inc (AAPL.O) sent an invite to reporters on Thursday for an event at its Cupertino, California headquarters on March 21, possibly signaling the u...

A prototype of Google's own self-driving vehicle is seen during a media preview of Google's current autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California September 29, 2015. Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage The top U.S. auto safety regulator said on Thursday the agency is seeking additional details of a recent c...