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.

Hacker Samy Kamkar has created a system, dubbed SkyJack, that enables a person to use their personal drone to take over other drones.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to extend the Undetectable Firearms Act for another 10 years, but a loophole for 3D-printed guns remains.

Amazon's plan to use "drones" to deliver goods to customers might sound like a hair-brained idea. It's not – and this is how it's going to happen.

UPS has also begun testing a drone delivery system, similar to the one announced by Amazon on Sunday.

A team from NYU has designed the first-ever flying robot that is inspired by something that doesn't even fly: A jellyfish.

The NSA collected information about the online porn habits of six individuals thought to be preaching extremist Muslim views, leaked documents show.

Airlines balk at the idea of allowing passengers to make inflight cell phone calls. Here's why they're wrong.

Facebook now recognizes the territory of Kosovo as a "country" – something the United Nations has yet to achieve.

WikiLeaks founder Juilan Assange is unlikely to face charges by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Twitter has updated its system with "perfect forward secrecy" encryption to better protect user privacy.

The FDA has ordered DNA testing startup 23andMe to stop selling its DNA Spit Kit until the agency gives it further approval.

Lulu, the social networking app where women rate the men in their lives, plays fast and hard with guys' data without ever asking them for permission.

Apple now offers the option to purchase an iPhone 5S completely unlocked with the option to buy it either SIM card-free, or with a T-Mobile SIM.

The FCC is expected to consider lifting its ban on in-flight cell phone calls at a meeting in December.