The U.S. government should allow disclosure of how often NSA taps into user data, argue Facebook, Microsoft, and Google
The founders of Google and Facebook say the NSA’s access to Verizon call records is too broad.
Privacy advocates have warned for years about the kinds of surveillance revelations that were aired this week.
Cloud storage company Box introduces a novel way for business-centric mobile apps to make money
Researchers work to develop passwords so secret that only your unconscious mind knows them.
Thad Starner thinks people will soon crave the ultrafast communication that Google Glass makes possible.
A clever new approach could help monitor an incredibly complicated, increasingly automated system that thrives on secrecy.
The creators of Ushahidi, a crisis mapping platform, have developed hardware that keeps wireless communication going in the midst of chaos.
A home science experiment that probed billions of Internet devices reveals that thousands of industrial and business systems offer remote access to anyone.
The quest to gather ever more information can make us value the wrong things and grow overconfident about what we know.
A new feature makes it easy for mobile apps to sync data—and poses direct competition to Apple’s iCloud.
With a new mapping service, called Here, Nokia hopes to get smartphone users hooked on its mapping technology.
A $125,000 hardware-and-software system could help researchers analyze data securely and with less IT support.