Forget having to lift smudges from a touchscreen to copy someone’s fingerprints. According to a Chaos Computer Club presentation you only need a camera… well that and a little luck. The hacking association’s Jan Krissler recently demonstrated tha…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s new iPhone goes on sale on Friday with a bigger screen and 4G wireless technology as the company seeks to safeguard its edge over rivals like Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Google Inc.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg soothed investors in his first major public appearance since the No. 1 social network’s rocky May IPO breathing life into its struggling shares after hinting at new growth areas from mobile to search.

LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists in the United States have made an invisible version of square modern barcodes using nanoparticles and fluorescent ink to help in the fight against counterfeiting.

The boss of social network Facebook has spoken for the first time of the drop in his company’s market value.

Iran’s current approach to internet censorship typically isn’t subtle — either you get unfettered access or (more often) you don’t see a site at all. However the country’s government is about to take a more measured approach to blocking online con…

There was a ton of hoopla about Sony releasing The Interview through internet services before it even hit theaters but how much did this not-entirely-intentional experiment in online distribution pan out? Quite well if you ask Sony. It just reveale…

Tumblr founder excited about social storytelling

You don’t have to wait for an FAA rethink to use your iPad on an airliner below 10000 feet — if you’re part of an American Airlines crew that is. As of this month the air carrier is the first cleared by the FAA to use iPads in the cockpit at every point during a flight. The program starts just with Boeing 777 pilots at first but it should eventually grow to save $1.2 million in weight-related fuel costs per year across the airline not to mention a few trees and the strain of 35-pound fli… [read more]

SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Reuters) – The settlement of China’s anti-trust probe into Qualcomm Inc is likely to intensify global scrutiny of the firm’s highly profitable patent licensing business and may even call into question its worldwide contracts with smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung.