Technology

News Hour: Yahoo provided more details on Wednesday about an epic hack of its services, including that the culprits may have planted software “cookies” for ongoing access to users’ accounts. In revelations that could jeopardize the...

News Hour: By the end of 2013, Mr. Faisal Karim came forward with the idea of making a computer game based on the Liberation war of Bangladesh. Later, he formed a team of a number of...

News Hour: Canada’s immigration website has suffered an intermittent fault that made it inaccessible to visitors during the US election vote. Officials have confirmed that the cause was a higher than normal level of traffic. It...

News Hour: China will have 58 million kilowatts of installed nuclear power by 2020 as it expands its clean energy network and pursues green growth, the country’s energy regulator announced on Monday. The government will have...

News Hour: Samsung Electronics America said on Friday it has replaced nearly 85 percent of all recalled Galaxy Note 7 devices as it works to resolve the issue of fire-prone phones. South Korean parent company Samsung...

Get your mind out of the gutter. The correct answer is polyvinylidene fluoride, a material NASA researchers have refined for use in morphing aircraft that shapeshift in response to their environment. But wait! There’s more: It...

News Hour: The NFL and Google announced this week they’re teaming up on an exclusive virtual reality series that will give viewers a behind-the-scenes looking into NFL life – from “players, to coaches, to executives, to...

News Hour: A March article in The New York Times shows how dire things have gotten. As Ben Sisario and Karl Russell wrote: Revenue from music sales in the United States has hovered around $7 billion since 2010,...

News Hour: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Tuesday it plans to invest more than $1 billion by end-June 2017 to boost production of system chips at its Austin, Texas, facilities to meet growing demand. Samsung...

News Hour: A drone forced Dubai international airport, one of the world’s busiest, to halt air traffic for an hour and a half on Saturday evening, the third such incident in less than five months. Air...