If you’ve noticed that Instagram on your Android handset has been unusually sluggish lately, you’re not alone. Many of us have noted an unfortunate combination of slower feed load times and an uptick in overall bugginess. Quitting and restarting occasionally… Continue reading →

Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel leader employed high-tech communications gadgetry and sophisticated counterespionage practices to elude an international manhunt for 13 years, The Associated Press has learned. In the end, however, life on the run unraveled for Joaquin “El Chapo”… Continue reading →

Nowadays, consumers expect everything to be instantaneous, especially when it comes to tech: loading websites, downloading files, sending messages and receiving updates from friends and businesses alike. Amazon has hooked into the consumer’s desire for fast service and revealed a… Continue reading →

Netflix on Tuesday released a satirical video promising “Drone to Home” delivery of DVDs to customers, taking an obvious swipe at Amazon’s plan to deliver items to consumers via small octocopters, a.k.a. drones.

The Netflix video quickly bounded across the… Continue reading →

The Hennessey Venom GT (American Supercar) has set a speed record for a production car after hitting 270.49 mph on the space shuttle’s landing strip. At that speed, former race driver Brian Smith was covering nearly 400 feet per second… Continue reading →

Having let the parade pass it by, BlackBerry first tried to reinvent itself. That went over like a lead balloon. Now, with its customers and prospects dwindling, BlackBerry is backtracking, trying to restore the things people used to love about… Continue reading →

Twenty-one-year-old Spaniard Alba González Camacho was convicted of inciting terrorism thanks to some ill-conceived tweets about a far-left terrorist organization. She became the first person in Spain to be convicted of such charges for Twitter posts.

Among her missteps, González… Continue reading →

BARCELONA – Major announcements from WhatsApp, the Internet messaging services, are like city buses: You can wait a long time for one, then two show up at once.

On the heels of its $16 billion deal to be bought by… Continue reading →

Apache Attack Helicopter

Until now, Apache helicopter pilots were seeing in black and white.

New tech just revealed by the U.S. Army allows AH-64 Apache helicopter pilots to see targeting and surveillance data in full, high-resolution color — helping ensure… Continue reading →

The first so-called “smart gun” has hit the shelves at U.S. retail outlets, including one of the biggest firearms stores in California, according to the Washington Post.

The Smart System iP1, a .22-caliber pistol made by the German gun-maker Armatix… Continue reading →