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On Friday officials unveiled the Cray XMT2 supercomputer at the new Noblis Center for Applied High Performance Computing.

Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge are bracing for an announcement of NASA's budget in anticipation of major cuts.

The CIA's Web site was down this afternoon in what looked like a distributed denial-of-service attack publicized by members of the online activist group Anonymous.

Websites affiliated with the CIA, Mexico's mining ministry and the state of Alabama were down Friday, allegedly done in by hackers, government officials and a well-known hacking group reported.

It's a rumor that won't die: Apple and a 7-inch iPad . On Thursday, Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research , told Computerworld that he expects Apple to release an iPad in a 7-inch screen size later this year, after a speculated March introduction of an iPad 3 with a 9.7-inch touchscreen.

If anyone can pull off the labyrinthine deal between Alibaba Group and Yahoo Inc, it is Jack Ma, who founded the e-commerce group and within a decade unlocked The former tour guide and English teacher, who is now worth around $1.6 billion according to Forbes and has dubbed himself ' Ma is now said to be contemplating taking his flagship listed ... (more)

Electronics almost never gain value after they've been sitting around for a while, but some stand the test of time better than others.

This will be the first product offering from Cloudscaling, which built its business as a services company that helped others design and create their cloud infrastructures.

Scientists say NASA is about to propose major cuts in its exploration of other planets, especially Mars.

Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs, hailed as one of the greatest technology visionaries of his generation, dabbled in illicit drugs in his youth and alienated colleagues yet commanded universal respect, according to interviews conducted by the FBI in the 1990s.

A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s reworked tablet PC does not look like a copycat version of the iPad, a German court said, affirming a preliminary assessment and dealing another legal blow to Samsung changed the design of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 for the German market naming it Galaxy Tab 10.1N to get around a sales ban imposed by a court in September, ... (more)

If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.

A group of young social innovators with ideas that might change the world spent three months living in a house having their lives taped 24/7 for an online reality show.

A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month.

This product image provided by First Act, Inc., shows the Soulo Digital Wireless Mic and App, a consumer electronics product that turns an iPad into a karaoke machine.

The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office says a federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

Researchers lower a underwater robot into Long Island Sound off the Westerly coast Wednesday to explore a shipwreck thought to be the USS Revenge, commanded by navy hero Oliver Hazard Perry.

Technology licensing company Rambus Inc. said Wednesday it has signed a licensing agreement with chip maker Nvidia Corp.

Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous hacking group obtained more than 150 police officers' personal information from an old website for the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted it online.