Roku Inc., the leading maker of devices for streaming internet video on televisions, hopes to raise up to $252 million with an initial public stock offering.

The Los Gatos, Calif., company's IPO registration filing Monday came the day after the growing popularity of streaming video platforms such as Netflix was evident at the Emmy Awards, where...Read more

Cassini, the NASA spacecraft whose breakthrough discoveries about Saturn and its many moons revolutionized the search for life beyond Earth, disintegrated Friday morning in the skies above the ringed planet. It was one month shy of its 20th anniversary in space.

The explorer's death was swift and deliberate. Traveling at 76,000 mph, it hurtled ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO -- The runaway success of "Pokemon Go" last year taught the world at least two things. One: Lots of people love Pokemon. And two: Creating good augmented reality -- the kind that superimposes 3-D objects into the real world and convinces people they're actually chasing a Pikachu -- is really, really hard.

"It's not so hard that it...Read more

SEATTLE -- The Amazon gold rush is on.

At least 101 cities, states, provinces and counties in the U.S. and Canada have indicated they are interested in the Seattle company's second headquarters in the week since Amazon announced it was seeking bidders for the megaproject.

They range from obvious big-city candidates like Chicago, to a joint ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Thwarting Uber's second attempt to push its high-profile, high-stakes trade secrets battle with rival Waymo into private arbitration, a panel of federal appellate judges on Wednesday ruled the case instead will proceed toward its October trial date.

That means the legal battle, which will have a major impact on Uber's self-...Read more

Q: Within two days of joining Weathercloud.net (a "weather social network" for consumers), I began getting a large number of emails containing advertising and pornography from an organization called "Beautiful Email." Where can I report these two organizations? I know there is a group that controls web addresses; would a complaint to them get ...Read more

Your passcode can be hacked, but your face is yours and yours alone. That's the thinking behind Apple's latest security measure, which is more high-tech and a bit more intimate than anything else on the market.

With Face ID, which Apple unveiled Tuesday, owners of the company's new top-of-the-line iPhone X will be able to unlock their phone, ...Read more

Nearly 60 million people play fantasy sports in the U.S. and Canada. Likely the same number want to improve their odds of selecting top-performing athletes.

The aptly named Fantasy Sports Co. promises to help players do just that.

Started around two years ago, the company makes three different web and mobile apps: LineStar for DraftKings, ...Read more

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Do you want the newest iPhone, or the best iPhone?

Those two things are typically one and the same, with Apple's latest phone being sleeker, shinier and more powerful than those that came before it. But with the announcement of the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X on Tuesday, Apple has created a tiered system: two phones, equally ...Read more

I've been using a device to import analog movies from a VHS player to my PC, digitizing the movie clips in the process. It's a time-consuming task done in real time: A two-hour VHS tape takes at least two hours to stream and preliminarily edit.

While the One-Touch Video Capture program allows for editing on the fly, I needed something more ...Read more

Is a phone worth a mortgage payment? That's what consumers may be asking themselves when Apple unveils its newest iPhone on Tuesday.

The latest iteration of one of America's most indispensable products is expected to come in at a record price befitting a laptop. Analysts expect the entry-level 64-gigabyte handset to cost about $1,000, the 256-...Read more

Q: Some mysterious malware has infected the Edge browser on our Windows 10 laptop, and none of our security programs can get rid of it. When we start Edge, it goes to the MSN login page, which has a scenic view of a small city along a bay. Then dark gray "smoke" begins to cover the picture and the field for logging in. We cleared the browser ...Read more