They would travel trillions of miles; far further than any previous craft. A $100m (£70m) research programme to develop the computer chip-sized “starships” was launched by the bi... Read more
Not since the heyday of Dickens, Dumas and Henry James has serialized fiction been this big. In 1841, excited readers swarmed the New York docks to ask travelers from England whether Little... Read more
Kira Radinsky has written an algorithm that dissects old news stories and other Internet postings to look for past cause and effect, and then can alert us to possible disasters, geopolitical... Read more
Yuri Milner, the Russian entrepreneur and investor, attracted some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names to join him in starting a life sciences prize this year. Now, he has wooed a titan from C... Read more
In a bid to become ubiquitous, Dropbox unveils tools to help developers sync apps across mobile platforms. Dropbox, the fast-growing file-synching and file-sharing service, today announced n... Read more
As the tech world creates more and more young millionaires, the question is: How will they give back? The Facebook founder’s recent donations give some hints, and it’s clear that others are... Read more
In almost every state, computer science is taught as an elective, rather than a core requirement. Leandre Nsabi, a senior at Rainier Beach High School here, received some bluntly practical a... Read more
As expected, Facebook has announced Skype-powered video calling for its users, who now number more than 750 million according to the company. The new feature was unveiled by Facebook CEO Mar... Read more
Plenty of people want to build a popular Web site and become the next Mark Zuckerberg. But some technology entrepreneurs have a more old-fashioned goal: they want to make something you can h... Read more