Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One court case is what stands between the Trump administration and race-based data from colleges regarding admissions, which could ...

A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry ...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — To end the war with the United States and Israel, Iran is demanding the right to collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz as a precondition for reopening the waterway vital to ...

If you’re an Android phone user in the US, Google could owe you some money as part of a $135 million class-action settlement. Google agreed to pay without admitting fault after a group of consumers ...

Commercial vessels are deploying high-tech sensors to map a shifting sea, providing critical data for scientists and some help for the industry. Bob Hersey Jr. fishes for lobsters and dives for sea ...

The Department of Justice acknowledged in court Thursday that it plans to share voter registration data it gets from states with the Department of Homeland Security, so that the data can be run ...

Just what portion of venture-capital investments are going to Black, Latino, female and other traditionally underrepresented founders will remain something of a mystery for the moment. Under the Fair ...

Android phone users can now claim their portion of a class-action settlement connected to Google's collection of their data. The lawsuit, Taylor v. Google LLC, alleged that Google needlessly collected ...

Americans may be so split that we can't even agree on which tech billionaires to hate, but a new survey finds extraordinary, bipartisan unease over how much data government agencies have about us and ...

The government’s effort to collect the names and phone numbers of Jewish people on campus as it investigates antisemitism has upset some people who worry about how the information will be used. By ...

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...