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After its popular streaming video service endured months of declining performance on home internet connections provided by Comcast — the country’s largest cable TV and broadband internet provider — Netflix has agreed to pay a fee for more direct access …

One way to address our farming challenges is through various high-tech practices collectively known as precision agriculture. Precision farmers use technology such as self-steering tractors and aerial drones to find ways of more efficiently using water, fertilizer, and other resources. …

Harvard University runs a massive supercomputing cluster called Odyssey. With this vast farm of computer servers, budding academics can simulate the mysterious workings of the human brain or design brand new materials for generating clean energy. But that’s not all. …

Women are seriously underrepresented in the world of computer science. But in small ways, things are beginning to move in the right direction. At the University of California, Berkeley — a school traditionally at the heart of the computer science …

Richard Nixon called it the most historic telephone call ever made from the White House. It was the one that called the moon.

If you did a double-take yesterday when Facebook announced that it was spending an astounding $19 billion to buy mobile messaging software company WhatsApp, you’re forgiven. After all, the software isn’t widely used in the United States, and WhatsApp is …

Facebook looks and feels like a single application, like Microsoft Word or Adobe Photoshop. But behind the scenes, in the company’s data centers, you’ll find that the world’s most popular social network is really a multitude of different applications working …

PayPal has hired its first head of open source software: Danese Cooper, a veteran of such tech giants as Apple, Sun Microsystems, and Intel.

Google may expand its ultra-high-speed internet service into several other major metropolitan areas, including Atlanta, Phoenix, San Jose, Portland, Salt Lake City, and San Antonio.

Ubuntu, one of the most popular versions of the Linux open source operating system, is set to arrive on smartphones by the end of the year.

A week after the bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox said it would temporarily prevent people from cashing out their bitcoins, it has become the cheapest place in the world to buy the digital currency. Why? Because some investors think the company …

The trouble is that each new hack means the workshop has more to deal with. In addition to writing the code for each project, it has setup and run the servers that operate them. That’s why Montes wants to put …

Google is already exploring the next thing: 10 gigabit per second connections, connections that are over 1,000 times faster than the average connection in the U.S. today.

The rather complicated relationship between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates spanned nearly four decades. Their love-hate affair had all the makings of a modern reality TV melodrama — an early partnership giving way to jealousy, intrigue, and alleged theft, not …

In an effort to further hone its recommendation engine, Netflix is delving into “deep learning,” a branch of artificial intelligence that tries to mimic the structure of the human brain to solve problems that are usually too difficult for computers.

Nobody wants to pirate Windows Mobile phones, and that’s a problem for Microsoft.

A second major bitcoin exchange suspended withdrawals on Tuesday, amidst widespread attacks on the vast software system that drives the digital currency.

Get ready for another day of activism on the web. Today, marks the beginning of “The Day We Fight Back,” a campaign to end the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance programs.

Google has taken over the lease at the airfield that houses Hangar One — the giant eight-acre aircraft hangar that was built in 1933 to house massive dirigibles and now is one of the most recognizable landmarks in Silicon Valley.

These days, Hadoop is everywhere. It began as an esoteric data-crunching platform used by vanguard web companies like Yahoo, Facebook, and Twitter, and now, less than a decade later, it’s a sensation that spans industries. IBM uses Hadoop inside Watson, …