GENEVA—Governments on every continent are hiding an increasing reliance on private companies to snoop on citizens’ digital lives, the U.N. human rights office said Wednesday. Stepping...
MANILA — The Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur warns Filipinos against falling victims to Internet scams, most of which involve asking for money on the pretext...
SPOKANE, Wash.—The solar panels that Idaho inventor Scott Brusaw has built aren’t meant for rooftops. They are meant for roads, driveways, parking lots, bike trails and,...
SEOUL, South Korea—LG Display Co. has developed an 18-inch flexible display that can be rolled into the shape of a thin cylinder, a step toward making...
BRUSSELS, Belgium—The European Union’s highest court says Apple’s characteristic retail store layout may be registered as a trademark. The Court of Justice on Thursday overturned a...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.—A Silicon Valley success story turned sordid this week with the arrest of an upscale prostitute who allegedly left a Google executive dying on...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio reading device to be worn on the index finger of people whose...
LONDON—Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, a onetime aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail...
SEOUL, South Korea—The display manufacturing unit of Samsung Electronics Co. says it has secured approval from Vietnam to build a $1 billion factory in the Southeast Asian country....
ALPENA, Mich.—Student teams controlling underwater robots from the United States, Canada and Russia were the winners Saturday in a global competition at the only federal freshwater...