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The U.N. counterterrorism chief says a 350% increase in phishing websites was reported in the first quarter of the year

The U.S. Treasury Department has fined Capital One $80 million for careless network security practices that enabled one of the biggest bank security breaches on record

General Motors' Cadillac brand is the latest to roll out an electric vehicle with the promise of taking sales from market leader Tesla

The Tennessee Valley Authority says it will rescind a decision to lay off its in-house technology workers

Uber lost $1.78 billion in the second quarter as the pandemic carved a gaping hole in its ride-hailing business, with millions of people staying home to reduce the spread of the coronavirus

Early in 2020, Apple appeared to be caught in a horrible bind

Two tests by AAA during the past two years show that partially automated driving systems don’t always function properly

Joe Biden’s Democratic presidential campaign has launched a new national ad focused on Black Americans, urging them to stand up to President Donald Trump the way their ancestors stood up to “violent racists of a generation ago.”

California won't put any more counties on its coronavirus watch list until it's solved a problem that has delayed reporting of COVID-19 cases

Facebook has deleted a post by President Donald Trump, citing its coronavirus misinformation policy

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday called for a major expansion of the U.S. government’s push against Chinese technology, saying that it wants “untrusted Chinese apps” pulled from the Google and Apple app stores

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday called for a major expansion of the U.S. government’s push against Chinese technology, saying that it wants “untrusted Chinese apps” pulled from the Google and Apple app stores

Virginia has rolled out a smartphone app to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus

An online bond hearing for a Florida teen accused of hacking prominent Twitter accounts was interrupted by rap music and pornographic videos from users who apparently disguised their names

Samsung aims to lift sinking smartphone sales with two new models that will test consumers' willingness to buy high-priced gadgets during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression

Facebook’s Instagram is launching its answer to the hit short video app TikTok — Instagram Reels

The New York Times Co.’s digital transformation continued during the second quarter, with its online subscription and ad revenue now exceeding its print revenue, even as the economic aftershocks of the coronavirus pandemic slammed its ad sales

A U.S. House committee has obtained more than a million internal documents from Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple in its yearlong investigation of Big Tech’s market dominance

Facebook’s Instagram is launching its answer to the hit short video app TikTok — Instagram Reels

Virginia has rolled out a smartphone app to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus

Teladoc will spend more than $18 billion to buy digital health platform operator Livongo in a deal aimed at stoking explosive growth in remote care spurred by the pandemic

California's top health official says figures showing California has slowed the rate of coronavirus infections may be in doubt

A former Google engineer who helped steer the company’s self-driving car project has been sentenced to 18 months in prison

Alabama education officials say 4,000 laptop computers bound for a school district were held up over issues with manufacturers