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Think all of those advertising cookies installed on your browser are being used by the government to track people and hack into their computers? You're not paranoid you're right.

The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.

Weak computer passwords and vulnerable software have left some Kansas agencies vulnerable to hackers gaining access to confidential data or internal breaches, according to a new information technology audit.

Software engineer Mike Caldwell shows the front of a physical Bitcoin he minted in his shop on April 26, 2013 in Sandy, Utah.

Germany's leading provider of post and parcel services Deutsche Post DHL is equipping its employees with 55,000 Honeywell Dolphin 99EX mobile computers.

Tessera Technologies, Inc. announced today the appointment of Thomas Lacey as chief executive officer , effective immediately.

Rhian Poblete, with her dog Keno, right, speaks to Apple Family Room Specialists Joy Edquilang and Jessica Barron at the redesigned Apple Store at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, Calif., on Saturday, Sept.

It says the attackers have been flooding computer servers with fake traffic from many computers infected with malware.

What were the real game-changers in 2013? Inc. contributing editor John Brandon selects his picks for best new devices of the year.

The AllSeen Alliance is working on an open source framework that it says can be used to connect almost anything to the Internet Home appliances, cars and computers could soon be talking to one another thanks to an open source framework that has the backing of consumer electronics manufacturers in a new industry alliance.

The state will be offering $250,000 in matching grants to help businesses get access to supercomputers in Milwaukee.

If you've ever tried to move files from your mobile phone to your laptop or back again, you'll know that it's not that easy.

America Electronic Components, Inc., a committed technology leader, announces the HK3R enterprise solid state drive .

Mobile devices generated 20% of the world's browsing activity last month, the first time that the surging category reached the 1-in-5 milestone, according to a Web analytics company.

Regardless of how much cash you have, when buying a high-end laptop as a gift, you must take into account the needs of the person you are shopping for.

In this undated file photo made available by Google, hundreds of fans funnel hot air from the computer servers into a cooling unit to be recirculated at a Google data center in Mayes County, Okla.

For more than three decades, working class Americans receded as cultural heroes, replaced in the popular imagination by swashbuckling entrepreneurs, brilliant innovators and shrewd investors who make millions at the touch of a computer key.

The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded American Industrial Systems, Inc. , the leader in the design, manufacturing and deployment of embedded computing systems, monitors and displays , a schedule contract for their pre-designed, Commercial Off-the-Shelf displays and systems .

By now you may have heard about the United States' woeful lack of public coding classes , despite the economy's ever-growing need for technical workers.

Black Friday sales estimates by InfoScout report that Apple iPads were the top selling items at the nation's top two discount retailers, Walmart and Target .