National security hawks who normally side with U.S. President Donald Trump on foreign policy issues are up in arms over his announcement on Saturday that he would indefinitely delay the imposition of tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods and relax restrictions on U.S. firms doing business with Chinese telecommunications …

Augmented technology, or AR, has been around for a few years.  Just ask anyone who ever played the Pokemon Go game on a cell phone.  But at a university in London, Augmented Reality is literally taking on a new life.  Arash Arabasadi brings this story into the world. …

Professors at the University of Maryland are looking to dramatically improve basic artificial intelligence as they attempt to teach robots how to think and use their past experience to perform new tasks. Nastassia Jaumen visited the University to find out more. …

The desktop personal computer changed the world when it was introduced back in the 1970s. But lately laptops and phones have slowly eaten away at that market. But the creators of a new PC that costs less than a trip to the grocery store are hoping their little PC can …

Lowe’s has selected Charlotte, North Carolina, to house a 2,000-employee global tech hub. The city hopes the project will cement its reputation as a home for technological talent.   Lowe’s and city officials announced Thursday the company would put $153 million toward the project, while the state’s giving a $54 …

A second small city in Florida has agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom to cybercriminals who disabled its computer system. Days after ransomware crippled the city of about 12,000 residents, officials of Lake City agreed this week to meet the hackers’ ransom demand: 42 Bitcoin or about …

Twitter will begin labeling tweets by world leaders that violate its rules, but that it says still serve the “public interest,” the company announced in a blog post Thursday. The function will apply only to verified government officials and political candidates with over 100,000 followers.Twitter’s rules ban content that glorifies …

Facebook will seek nominations for a 40-person content oversight board “soon,” according to a blog post by the social media site Thursday.The review board would hear appeals to Facebook’s decisions to remove certain kinds of material from the platform and adjudicate cases independent of both Facebook management and governments, according …

A logo of Huawei marks one of the company’s buildings in Dongguan, in China’s Guangdong province, March 6, 2019. A U.S. jury on Wednesday cleared California semiconductor designer CNEX Labs Inc of stealing trade secrets from Chinese electronics giant Huawei Technologies.Huawei had sued CNEX in U.S. District Court, Sherman, Texas, …

Bitcoin jumped to an 18-month high on Wednesday, as investors looked for safety in alternative investments amid geopolitical tension, and cheered prospects that Facebook Inc’s Libra token could push cryptocurrencies into the mainstream.The world’s biggest cryptocurrency has surged in value since April and on Wednesday hit a peak of $13,666.02 …

With U.S. and Chinese leaders set to meet this week on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Japan, there is a glimmer of hope progress will begin to end the trade war between the two super powers. Fears of the U.S. slapping more tariffs on Chinese goods have rattled …

A United Nations investigator says the rise of the private surveillance industry and the targeting of individuals by digital surveillance technology is undermining freedom of expression and putting the lives of many individuals at risk.  The U.N. special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, submitted his report …

With U.S. and Chinese leaders set to meet this week on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Japan, there is a glimmer of hope progress will begin to end the trade war between the two super powers. Fears of the U.S. slapping more tariffs on Chinese goods have rattled …

5G wireless networks are touted as the fastest consumers have yet experienced. But beyond speed, what will the technology mean for different industries? At one incubator in New York, startups are taking 5G beyond the smartphone and building new products on networks that can handle all of their data. Tina …

Instagram is not spying on its users conversations, according to the social media company’s chief. In an interview on Tuesday with CBS, head of Instagram Adam Mosseri told CBS This Morning host Gayle King that Instagram was not listening to private conversations in order to tailor user advertisements. “We don’t look at …

In a world first, Facebook has agreed to hand over the identification data of French users suspected of hate speech on its platform to judges, France’s minister for digital affairs Cedric O said on Tuesday.O, whose father is South Korean, is one of French President Emmanuel Macron’s earliest followers, and …

It may be that the two major challenges to humanity’s future both involve water. When it comes to climate change, melting glaciers and sea level rise, it’s a problem of too much. When it comes to safe drinking water, it’s a problem of not enough. But some new desalination research …

Yesenia D’Alessandro loaded a GPS tracking app on her cellphone and trudged into a remote Hawaii forest, joining more than 100 other volunteers looking for a missing hiker.   She climbed through muddy ravines, crossed streams and faced steep drop-offs in the thick tangle of trees and ferns where her …

A senior Facebook executive says the social media site is in favor of regulation to address some of the dark problems of the internet.   Nick Clegg, the former leader of the U.K. Liberal Democrat party who now heads global affairs for Facebook, says it is not for private companies” …

Fifty years after humans first visited, businesses are still trying to make a buck off the moon.   Hundreds of millions of people were riveted when Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. Naturally, marketers jumped at the chance to sell products from cars and televisions, to …

U.S. tech giant Apple has reportedly asked its major suppliers, mainly China-based manufacturers from Taiwan, to consider moving 15 to 30% of their production outside of China to avoid higher tariffs imposed on U.S.-bound exports.The production migration, which analysts say is already ongoing, will hurt the tech giant’s profit margin, but also lead …

The world may be moving toward renewable energy sources, but fossil fuels are still the fuel of choice for the transportation industry. Especially when it comes to moving big things like planes and cargo ships, it’s all about petroleum. But Swiss researchers are looking to at least make the creation of …

U.S. military cyber forces launched a strike against Iranian military computer systems Thursday as President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike in response to Iran’s downing of a U.S. surveillance drone, U.S. officials said Saturday.Two officials told The Associated Press that the strikes were …

The World Health Organization says nearly half of the world’s population is at risk of contracting malaria. Efforts to fight the disease take two paths, fighting the disease itself and fighting the mosquitos that carry the disease. University of Maryland researchers are testing a novel new way to kill mosquitos …

Muslims started settling in America in the 1600s. From the Northeast to Midwest, they have left their mark on U.S. history. Even in some Midwestern states where few Muslims live, there are historic milestones of their presence. Muslim homesteaders in Ross, North Dakota, built a mosque in the 1920s, making …