The independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has found the NSA's bulk collection of telephone metadata to be illegal and ineffective.

The recent detainment of an moviegoer wearing Google Glass wasn't a fluke – it's part of an MPAA program that offers theater works up to $500 for a catch.

Kickstarter says it's not a store. But its users – backers and creators alike – seem to disagree.

The hacker group known as the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has hit Microsoft once again.

President Barack Obama announced Friday a list of “concrete and substantial reforms” to the way the United States conducts its surveillance operations.

US spies have indiscriminately collected nearly 200 million text messages a day from people around the world, according to leaked top-secret documents.

The NSA has used secret radio signals to monitor nearly 100,000 computers around the world without the need of an Internet connection, report reveals.

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against the FCC's Open Internet rules.

Between increasingly entwined payment systems and increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals, the risk gap between shopping offline and online is closing.

CES 2014 has finally come to a close. Here's what we learned about the future of consumer tech in 2014.

TrackingPoint's new 500 Series AR Smart Rifles allow virtually anyone to hit targets at up to 500 yards away. At CES 2014, we got the world's first hands on.

Vuse e-cigarettes are the first to pack a microprocessor that adjusts battery output 2,000 times per second to deliver a consistent vape no matter what.

MakerBot debuts new Replicator, Replicator Mini, and the industrial-sized Replicator Z18 3D printers at CES 2014.

Orbotix debuts the next generation of Sphero robots at CES 2014 with the Sphero 2B programmable fun bot.

From wearable tech to the future of CES itself, here are the five big questions CES 2014 needs to answer.

The NSA’s practice of vacuuming up the metadata of virtually every American can continue, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has ruled.

Say what you will about the NSA – their names for in-house surveillance technology proves these spies like to have good laugh as much as anyone.

Thanks to the NSA and a stagnation in the world of mobile devices, 2014 is looking to be an ugly year of transition for tech.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced Monday the location of six sites where researchers will develop technology and safety standards for drones.

Forget peeping Toms – some drones spy on the people flying them.

Starting January 1, businesses will no longer be permitted to import or produce 40w or 60w incandescent lightbulbs.

Stanford University researchers have found that it is easy to connect telephone metadata to people's real names.

This year has been a bummer for technology in a variety of ways. But let's forget all that. Here are five key ways technology made the world a better place.

Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 hands-on review: Not perfect, but easily one of the funnest high-tech toys on the market.

Harvard student Eldo Kim allegedly used Tor to anonymize emails threatening to blow up four campus buildings, but still got caught. Here's why.

Obama's presidential NSA review panel has recommended sweeping changes to the way the spy agency conducts its operations.

A federal judge has ruled that the NSA's mass collection of phone metadata is likely unconstitutional. Here are five key facts every American needs to know.

CTIA and the FCC have reached a deal that will make it easier and faster for US wireless customers to have their devices unlocked.

The town of Deer Trail, Colorado, has delayed a town vote that would, if passed, allow residents to hunt drones. The vote is now set for April 2014

The NSA uses Google’s ad-tracking cookies to identify specific users, who are then hit with hacking software, documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal.

Meet Distiller, a start-up Web tool designed to take the guesswork out of whiskey

Google's 'mystery barge' project has been put on hold by the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies, recent reports show.

A coalition of eight major U.S. technology companies has launched a public campaign to overhaul the scope and oversight of government surveillance.

On the side of a US spy satellite that launched this week, you’ll find the logo for NROL-39: an Earth-encompassing octopus.

The Swann Quad Starship isn’t actually a drone – there are no fancy autonomous flying modes, or any of the other futuristic abilities packed into competing devices like the Parrot AR.Drone 2. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t an awesome bit of RC tech.

BitTorrent announced today that its BitTorrent Sync app's userbase has jumped from 1 million to nearly 2 million users over the past four weeks.

Microsoft researchers have developed a “smart bra” that senses the mood of whomever wears it to help combat “emotional eating.”

The NSA collects the cell phone location data of millions of phones around the world, a new report on the leaked Snowden documents reveals.