File photograph shows the rear of a Lexus SUV equipped with Google self-driving sensors during a media preview of Google's prototype autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California September 29, 2015. Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage/Files Britain said it will begin trialing driverless cars on motorways fo...

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...

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...

The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to unveil details of a proposal on Thursday to protect consumers' internet privacy, safety advocates and industry officials said. FCC chairman Tom Wheeler is expected to unveil a long-awaited plan for new broadband privacy rules tha...

Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka March 8, 2016. Reuters/Ashikur Rahman A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1 billion heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank and the New York Fed, banking officia...

FireEye Inc's Mandiant forensics division and smaller firm World Infomatrix are helping Bangladesh Bank investigate a cyber heist last month that netted at least $81 million, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. (Reporting by Jim Finkle in Boston)

An Uber car is seen parked with the driver's lunch left on the dashboard in Venice, Los Angeles, California, United States July 15, 2015. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/Files The growing popularity of car- and ride-sharing services such as Uber, Lyft and Zipcar will not put a crimp in U.S. vehicle sales any...

A sign advertising the internet company Yahoo is pictured at sun rise in down town San Francisco, California February 5, 2016. Reuters/Mike Blake Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) said it appointed two independent directors, returning the size of its board to nine people as it explores the sale of its core busines...

Chihira Kanae is greeting visitors to the world's biggest travel fair in Berlin this week, answering questions and guiding people in the right direction. But one passer by's attempt to ask her out for dinner is met with silence. That's because Chihira Kanae, despite her lifelike features and long br...

A Yahoo logo is pictured in front of a building in Rolle, 30 km (19 miles) east of Geneva, in this file picture taken December 12, 2012. Reuters/Denis Balibouse Yahoo Inc has entered into a partnership to stream live National Hockey League broadcasts, part of its push to use sports to draw in millen...

European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager looks on as she addresses a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, January 11, 2016. Reuters/Francois Lenoir BRUSSELS - European Union regulators will release data from its year-long inquiry into barriers to cross-border e-commerce next week, the 2...

Opera, the pioneering Web browser developer, is introducing a new version of its desktop computer browser that incorporates ad-blocking features directly into the browser, promising faster page-loading times. Faster loading Web pages, increased privacy and security and a less intrusive web browsing ...

The Twitter logo is shown at its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California April 28, 2015. Reuters/Robert Galbraith Twitter Inc has been offering additional restricted stock and cash bonus to employees to prevent staff departure, the Wall Street Journal reported. Twitter granted varying am...

New Samsung S7 (R) and S7 edge smartphones are displayed after their unveiling ceremony at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 21, 2016. Reuters/Albert Gea Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has seen stronger-than-expected preorders for its new flagship Galaxy S7 smartphones l...

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square and CEO of Twitter, speaks during an interview with CNBC following the IPO for Square Inc., on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange November 19, 2015. Reuters/Lucas Jackson Mobile payments company Square Inc's revenue beat analysts' estimates in its first quarterly res...