Yahoo fought PRISM, and PRISM won.

Court records obtained by The New York Times show that Yahoo had fought back against the National Security Agency's broad requests for user data in 2008. The company, which provides email service to hundreds of millions of people, argued...

With back-to-back events at the E3 video game conference on Monday in Los Angeles, both Microsoft and Sony had opportunities to show off what their next-generation consoles -- the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, respectively -- can do.

But if those scowls you hear echoing...

In a series of posts on the Xbox website on Thursday, Microsoft aimed to clear up lingering questions on always-online connectivity, playing used games and Kinect privacy. Instead, they managed to just get everyone more mad and confused.

Among the things confirmed were that the system

Thanks in part to a dreaded Captcha code on the White House's petitions website, it's nearly impossible for blind web users to sign a "We The People" petition seeking support for an international treaty intended to help ... the blind.

The treaty would make it easier for...

Some of gamers' worst fears were realized on Tuesday, when Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One, the company's first new gaming console in 8 years. Xbox enthusiasts who have built up extensive libraries of Xbox 360 and original Xbox titles since Microsoft got into the gaming business in 2001...

For years, director Steven Spielberg has been rumored as the one to finally bring Master Chief and the "Halo" universe to the big screen. While there's still no word on a "Halo" movie, how does the small screen sound?

During Microsoft's event announcing the Xbox One,...

After a prolific run across 8 years with over 70 million units sold for the Xbox 360, Microsoft announced its next generation system, the Xbox One, in Redmond, Wash. today. The Xbox One will be "available around the world later this year," though they did not give any...

America's disgruntled cable subscribers have found a fighter for them in Washington: former presidential candidate John McCain.

McCain (R-Ariz.) introduced the Television Consumer Freedom Act last week, a bill that would allow cable subscribers to pick the channels they want and pay for them on an a-la-carte basis....

If there's anyone who believes people should have access to whatever they want online, it's probably file-sharing advocate and Mega founder Kim Dotcom. But Kim's pro-sharing sentiment apparently doesn't extend to the blueprints needed to 3D-print a firearm.

In a statement to TechCrunch this week, Dotcom...

Remember being a little kid and taking toys apart to see what they were really made of?

Toronto-based artist and photographer Todd McLellan does. It became the inspiration for "Things Come Apart," a new book full of gorgeous and meticulously organized photographs of old school and...

Martin Scorsese worked a lifetime before finally winning a Best Director Oscar for "The Departed" in 2006. If only he'd been making 6 second Vines instead.

On Friday, the Tribeca Film Festival announced the winners of #6SECFILMS Vine competition, for which they received over 400 entires. Judges on...

The first administration of social media just ventured farther into the Interwebs.

On Friday afternoon the White House launched its own Tumblr account, establishing its presence in a world known for Ryan Gosling mash-ups and Texts From Hillary Clinton.

It was a surprisingly late...

There have been plenty of First Ladies, but there's only one First Lady Of Song.

On Thursday, Google celebrated what would have been Ella Fitzgerald's 96th birthday with a celebratory Doodle in her honor.

Known for her soulful voice that could "leap, slide or growl" across three octaves,...

Alt-rock trio the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have had it up to here with inconsiderate concertgoers. No, not attendees starting fires or hurting each other. In 2013, the most annoying are people filming the concert with a crummy smartphone cameras, thus forcing many attendees behind them to watch the...

Being the biggest tech company in the world means always having to say you're sorry.

This week, Apple apologized to Chinese consumers after criticism around the company's less-than-stellar warranty and repair policies frustrated the country's iPhone and iPad owners. China's media and foreign ministry accepted...

Mac OS Evangelist Tim Holmes was treating the night of December 20th, 1996 like any other as he worked at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino. That all changed when his manager came running by his office door, esoterically asking Holmes to come to the Town Hall theater room where Apple made...

If you're looking to see the most popular YouTube videos of the week, look no further.

Instead of just rounding up the top videos this week, we've sifted through the 20 or so most most trending YouTube postings, according to video service's "Charts" tool, and culled the...

Just one month after a release that generated a waiting list hundreds of thousands of people long, the app Mailbox has been acquired by cloud sharing service Dropbox. The companies reported the deal to the Wall Street Journal on Friday, emphasizing that they would remain separate...

Despite a loyal following, late Wednesday night Google tried to put down Google Reader, its longtime RSS reader, quietly. Judging by the scorn online that followed, it appears Google didn't do a very good job of offing Google Reader without a struggle from users.

The...

Before "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening sent Homer on a 23 year, 500-plus episode odyssey of "d'oh!" on FOX, he had another high profile employer: Apple.

Over at the blog Vintage Zen, Linus Edwards compiled the artwork Groening created for Apple during his pre-Homer days. While...