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A service rolled out on Thursday, called Amazon’s Choice, effectively turns over a shopper’s decision-making to Amazon. The new designation comes in an update to Amazon’s Echo voice-activated speaker, which now allows customers to order goods just by saying them aloud.

Google’s self-driving cars are leaving the campus behind and turning on to public roads.

At the heart of AOL's video distribution and advertising technology lie three startups that AOL snapped up over the past five years, all with strong connections to Israel.

The state-owned electricity company, which says it fends off between 150,000 and 300,000 hacking attempts a day, is betting its future on cyber-security exports – software, hardware, training, and consulting to foreign governments, utilities companies and airports.

This is ‘Silicon Milkroundabout’, a twice-annual job fair for the London tech scene in which talent-starved startups will do almost anything to attract the attention of skilled job seekers.

Internet pioneer Vinton G. Cerf warned Thursday that political and technological forces threaten universal access and integrity, which he described as the foundation of the Internet’s value.

Reddit, the popular link-posting and discussion website periodically plagued by personal attacks and leaked explicit photos, announced a new way to report harassment Thursday, providing an email address and direction for users who are seeking relief from abusive posts.

Microsoft encountered a shock earlier this year: Networking issues suddenly cropped up across the company's sprawling Redmond, Wash., campus, causing headaches for engineers and pushing the company toward substantial expenditures.

Google is facing pressure from 80 academics to disclose more data on how it decides what information to scrub from search results in Europe.

Publishers are still digesting the details of Facebook’s new “Instant Articles” initiative, which in the first 24 hours has set off reactions ranging from panic to confusion to envy across the online news landscape.

John Chambers has never been stingy with words during Cisco earnings calls. The CEO didn't disappoint during his swan song.

For those in the know, this week's Verizon-AOL deal was code-named "Project Hanks." Can you guess why?

Gametime United, which makes a mobile app that sells last-minute tickets to sporting events, raised $13 million.

The company is one of many U.S. tech firms that have planted their flag in Dublin, including Apple, Facebook and Airbnb. Recently, Twitter and Dropbox said they would consider Ireland their regulatory home.

Forget passcodes or fingerprint scans. Now you can unlock a smartphone with the blink of an eye.

Two Japanese companies, DeNA and ZMP, will join the race to make human drivers obsolete.

Cloud computing companies scrambled Wednesday when a computer security company disclosed a previously unknown vulnerability in popular data center software.

Today's robots may just be too hungry and unfit to take over the world any time soon.