WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department said it's investigating whether technology giants are harming competition, stepping up its scrutiny of the industry's biggest companies.

The department's antitrust division will look at concerns that consumers, businesses and entrepreneurs have expressed about search, social media, and online retail, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General William Barr issued a sharp warning that time may be running out for Facebook Inc. and other technology companies to come to a voluntary agreement providing law enforcement officials with access to the encrypted communications of their users.

"While we remain open to a cooperative approach, the time to achieve ...Read more

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. reportedly helped build North Korea's commercial wireless network, a revelation sure to increase scrutiny on a company already banned from doing business in the U.S.

According to unnamed sources and documents obtained by the Washington Post, Huawei worked with a Chinese state-owned firm ...Read more

Step through the Cinder Lake Crater Field roughly 12 miles outside Flagstaff, Ariz., and you might encounter a white crystal-filled rock that has absolutely no business being there.

The chunks of anorthosite weren't deposited there by nature -- they were trucked in from the mountains around Pasadena. And the craters were carved not by meteors, ...Read more

Good news, ladies: Americans now think women are just as smart and just as competent as men.

And it gets better: Among the 25% of respondents who did perceive a gender difference in the smart category, most said that women were more intelligent and competent than men.

So says a scientific study published Thursday in the journal American ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump recently demanded more information about how the Pentagon crafted a massive cloud-computing contract it's poised to award to Amazon.com Inc. or Microsoft Corp., in order to decide whether he should intervene.

The Defense Department is set to give the contract, worth as much as $10 billion over ten years, to ...Read more

On a lake trip over July 4th weekend, my daughter's iPhone 7 Plus ended up taking a dive. It was found in about 3 feet of water 24 hours later, still working but with some permanent damage. The experience provided a few lessons.

Immersion in water used to ruin a cellphone. That's less true today because many newer phones are "water-resistant" (...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies have weighed in to support Qualcomm's efforts to put antitrust sanctions on hold pending appeal, claiming immediately imposing the stiff requirements could harm national security.

In a filing Tuesday with the U.S. Ninth District Court of Appeals, the Department of Justice said it had an ...Read more

The passage of half a century has blurred many of the reasons that the United States was able to accomplish what seemed like science fiction: the July 20, 1969, landing of Apollo 11 on the moon.

The Apollo program's stunning technical success depended on a government leadership culture, an industrial organization, a tolerance for risk and a ...Read more

I didn't need the fancy dog treats.

Seriously, my dog has plenty of treats. She hates most of them. But I'd just bought her a new bowl, and Amazon told me that other people who bought the bowl also bought these delicious dog treats.

Obviously, I bought the fancy dog treats.

The psychology behind that decision will be on full display, on a ...Read more

Around 210,000 years ago, an early human died in southern Greece -- leaving scientists with the earliest evidence of human migration out of Africa and prompting them to reconsider the story of how our species spread throughout the planet.

A new analysis of that ancient person's skull suggests Homo sapiens left their birthplace in Africa about ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Malicious apps from a campaign called "Agent Smith" have been downloaded to 25 million Android devices, according to new research by cyber-security firm Check Point.

The apps, most of them games, were distributed through third-party app stores by a Chinese group with a legitimate business helping Chinese developers promote ...Read more

SEATTLE -- Zunum, the Bothell, Wash.-based startup developing a small hybrid-electric airplane, has run out of cash, and much of the operation has collapsed.

The company promised to develop a family of small jets to serve lucrative short-hop routes with on-demand air-taxi services. A graphic produced by the company showed three different ...Read more

SEATTLE -- Edith Gustan's name appears in the fourth paragraph of a Seattle Times article from 1970, a skinny strip of text above a nearly full-page ad for Sears' Mother's Day sale that advertises, among other things, "incontestably female ... cardigans!"

Gustan was a biologist and longtime Boeing employee who conducted research on subjects at ...Read more

A tragic accident and a faulty rhinestone dog collar are at the center of a court drama that could have far-reaching effects on how products are sold online.

In 2015, Heather Oberdorf took her dog for a walk outside her Pennsylvania home, attaching a retractable leash to a collar she bought from Amazon seller The Furry Gang. The collar broke ...Read more