The supermarket revolution is sweeping across Africa, transforming everything from the way people eat to the crops farmers grow. Is this good news for the continent's poor?
When veteran legislative staffer Howard Posner began working on a bill that would allow driverless, computer-controlled cars to roam California’s highways, he figured lawmakers would find the idea alarming. They didn’t.
Airports in California could soon see the second generation of full-body scanners used to detect nonmetallic weapons and explosive devices after earlier machines raised privacy and health concerns.
Internet security experts say complaints about Facebook's Timeline have created an opportunity for hackers – special apps or browser plugins that promise to turn off the feature while also possibly misusing your sensitive personal information.
Private tech firms have found a new market for software capable of analyzing vast segments of the Internet – local police departments looking for ways to pre-empt the next headline-grabbing event.
Federal regulators are relying on decades of aviation rules that imagined a human being in the cockpit – not an onslaught of remotely piloted aircraft – prompting questions about whether federal flight rules for drones are strong enough to prevent accidents and midair collisions.
In Arizona, Customs and Border Protection is experimenting with a security kiosk with "credibility assessment" technology that seeks to capture physiological cues we give off emotionally and cognitively.
Success stories about U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s quarter-billion-dollar drone program are in short supply, according to a Homeland Security Department inspector general’s report.
On Monday, we rolled out The Rainmakers, a look at the top 50 individual and top 50 group donors to California state political campaigns between 2001 and 2011.
