Los Angeles' subway will become the first mass transit system in the U.S. to install body scanners that screen passengers for weapons and explosives. The scanners do a full-body screening of passengers without slowing them down.

Airbnb faces tightening regulations in New York City that could take a big bite out of its profits, and on Wednesday the short-term rental company offered a counter-measure designed to appease hostile politicians: a $10 million contribution to charities.

Electric car maker Tesla's CEO Elon Musk admitted to The New York Times that stress is taking a heavy toll on him personally in what he calls an "excruciating" year.

Google clarified how it tracks users even if they've disabled a "location history" setting, revising a help page that erroneously said turning off that setting would stop the tracking.

Roughly nine months into his job as special agent in charge of the New Orleans office of the FBI, agent Eric Rommal is keenly aware of the danger that cyber-criminals pose to Mississippi River-related businesses and infrastructure.

Twitter says it is suspending the account of the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for one week after he violated the company's rules against inciting violence.

NASA astronauts who will be riding in the SpaceX Crew Dragon mission discussed the challenges they've faced and what they're looking forward to in the upcoming mission while speaking at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California on Monday.

Even if you have "Location History" off, Google often stores your precise location . Here's how to delete those markers and some best-effort practices that keep your location as private as possible.

A new study shows that Americans spend nearly half of their waking hours (42 percent) looking at a screen.

A transgender activism group is promoting use of Maine's lobster emoji while it rallies for an emoji to represent the transgender community.

Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.

Children's advocates want the American Psychological Association to condemn the tech industry's practice of using persuasive psychological techniques to keep kids glued to their screens.

Who knew connecting the world could get so complicated? Perhaps some of technology's brightest minds should have seen that coming.

A political argument on Facebook led to a 44-year-old Florida man driving to the home of a stranger he'd been arguing with and shooting him.

Pointing to growing threats and competition from Russia and China, the White House on Thursday announced ambitious plans to create the U.S. Space Force as a sixth, separate military warfighting service by 2020.