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A New York regulator is ramping up a promised investigation of how Facebook Inc. gathered sensitive personal information from popular smartphone applications after a report by The Wall Street Journal revealed that many such apps were sending the social-media giant data, including users’ body weight and menstrual cycles.

The Navy has taken several new steps in its development of several large underwater drones designed to conduct undersea reconnaissance, share combat essential data with submarine “motherships,” search for and destroy mines and - in some cases - launch attacks on enemy surface and undersea vessels

The global scourge of robocalls shows no sign of stopping.

As more Americans keep loaded guns in their homes, efforts to sell them new kinds of safety locks are getting stuck by policies intended to block ads for firearms online.

The operator of a video-sharing app popular with teenagers agreed to pay $5.7 million to settle federal allegations it illegally collected personal information from children.

Michael Cohen, President Trump’s ex-fixer, delivered a hard-hitting testimony before Congress on Wednesday that, most would agree, was devoid of any humor.

The "Momo suicide challenge" is in the spotlight again.

British far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram for repeatedly violating the tech giant's hate speech policies.

In a sign of the deepening scrutiny faced by Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google, the Federal Trade Commission launched a new heavily-staffed task force to monitor competition and consider possible antitrust violations in U.S. technology markets. 

(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) If you were thinking about buying fake Amazon reviews to try to boost sales of your product, you might want to consider another tactic.

While the Navy may ultimately engineer a replacement for its 1980s era Trident II D5, the missile is being modernized with improved electronics, firing circuitry and targeting technology to arm the emerging Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines.

National Geographic’s Instagram account surpassed 100 million followers, joining 13 other accounts that have reached the milestone.

Cedars-Sinai is making some of its hospital rooms a little more like home for patients with the help of Amazon Alexa.

Don't know the difference between "affect" and "effect"?

Amazon could be facing a New York-style backlash in response to its plans for a massive second headquarters in Virginia.

Move over, Selena Gomez: Pop star Ariana Grande is now the most-followed woman on the photo-sharing platform Instagram.

The Air Force Research Laboratory is working with industry to build a new generation of smaller, faster, higher-throughput satellites that can bring higher resolution images, challenge Chinese space weapons, provide more sensor information from a single aircraft and deliver a larger amount of real-time, combat sensitive intelligence to war commanders.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's tweeting habits have triggered another legal challenge from stock market regulators worried about him using his Twitter account to mislead investors.

Facebook's low-paid army of content moderators suffer PTSD-like symptoms, are subjected to poor working conditions and deal with micro-managed bathroom breaks — while viewing some of most vile and fringe content posted to the social network every day — according to a scathing new report. 

Popular health and fitness apps scrambled to stop sending sensitive personal information to Facebook Inc. after The Wall Street Journal reported Friday many were transmitting detailed information about topics including their users’ weight and menstrual cycles.