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In 1995, Angie Hicks compiled a list to help people find plumbers, roofers and other service providers. Angie’s List is now in 170 markets.

As unlimited data plans fade away, services and applications are being designed to help users manage their consumption.

Scientists planning a four-month mock mission to Mars in 2013 have received about 700 applications from aspiring "astronauts." But only six lucky volunteers will make the final cut.

As a founding member of the Stony Brook University  Center for Communicating Science, actor Alan Alda is challenging scientists to do a better job answering questions of  youngsters. His challenge opens a month-long contest whose entries — in writing, video or graphics —are to be judged by 11-year-olds.

A warm spell and a low-dipping jet stream are fueling the monster storms that are spawning tornadoes today across a wide swath of the country, weather experts said.

AT&T on Thursday clarified the limitations of its "unlimited" data plan. Here's what you need to know so you don't exceed AT&T's limits and see your data connection reduced to something unusable.

The personal information of Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley was leaked on the Web Friday, a security and privacy breach perpetrated by a "pOisAnON," a merger of Team Poison and Anonymous hackers.

Got a smartphone? You can win up to $40,000 if you're first to find all of the U.S. military's special QR codes hidden across the continental United States. But the huge geographical scope of the contest means that people will probably need to turn to their social media networks to find all the codes.

A three-day 'GameFest' will coincide with the March 16 opening of "The Art of Video Games" exhibition at the Smithsonian‘s American Art Museum.

If you read every privacy policy on every website you encounter throughout the year, it would take you 76 work days.

The planned March 9 launch of an unmanned European supply ship to the International Space Station has been delayed due to minor cargo packing issues discovered during a pre-flight inspection, officials announced Friday.

The U.S. State Department has a new "game" out: "Tag Challenge" offers a $5,000 reward to the person (or team) that nabs five fake suspects supposedly being sought by law enforcement. The catch: You have to catch the culprits by using social media such as Twitter and Facebook.

Technology security professionals seeking wisdom from industry leaders in San Francisco this week saw more of the dark side than they had expected: a procession of CEO speakers whose companies have been hacked.

There are security threats everywhere, but it turns out that we, not some hackers or silly tricks, are our own worst enemies. According to a report, most of us don't even bother automatically locking our devices with a password.

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Astronomers are mystified by a galaxy cluster in which concentrations of visible matter and dark matter have come unglued.

Henry Markram plans to build a brain from scratch. A neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he believes the only way to truly understand how human brains work — and why they often don't — is to create one, then subject it to a barrage of experiments.

A combination of breakthroughs in solar and battery technologies will allow them "to go viral in the same way that cell phones went viral," U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said at a recent energy innovation conference.

About a year ago a video showing a Russian woman swinging a baby over her head went viral. Her routine was part of something called "dynamic baby gymnastics" and it was real. Now the yoga guru has returned — to teach others about the art of tossing babies.

The method of photography known as tilt-shifting has become popular in recent years, especially the off-shoot known as "miniature faking." As it turns out, it works great in video games.

After almost eight years, the website that redefines "santorum" as the very graphic byproduct of a sex act, is no longer the No. 1 result for Google searches on Santorum's name. 

The issue came to widespread attention last August, when Bay Area Rapid Transit in San Francisco shut off cellphone service in some stations to hinder planned protests on the transit system.

With Ava, left, iRobot is trying to do "The Jetsons'" Rosey the Robot one better. Ava will have an or an tablet for a brain and Xbox motion sensors to help her get around.

Mike McCullough never intended to start freeze-drying beloved pets for grieving owners. But more than a decade ago, a friend of a friend asked the Fort Loudon, Penn., taxidermist to save his beloved dog from the grave or cremation by preserving the animal instead. McCullough agreed.

The ocean underneath the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa might be too acidic to support life, due to compounds that may regularly migrate downward from its surface, researchers say.

Tumblr recently announced that it's prohibiting blogs "that actively promote self-harm." This policy change was attempt to cut down on content which promotes or glorifies many forms of self-harm. Now the micro-blogging service's staff is clarifying the terms of that ban in an attempt to address user concerns.

Kodak said Friday it has agreed to sell its online photo services business to Internet-based publishing service Shutterfly for $23.8 million as it continues to trim its businesses.

Twitter has turned over data for one of its subscribers involved in the Occupy movement to the Boston police, who are investigating tweets associated with the hacking of the department's website last fall.

Anonymous supporters who willingly enlisted their personal computers to launch denial-of-service attacks against the groups' enemies may have unwillingly donated their personal banking information in the process.

When Apple holds a press event Wednesday, everyone who's paying attention expects to see the much-anticipated iPad 3.

Mars will make a close approach to Earth Saturday, and interested skywatchers can follow the action live online.

American companies launched just five licensed commercial rockets into space last year, but they might be able to loft nearly that many every day by the end of the decade, a federal space official contends.

More and more cellphone carriers are capping the amount of data that customers can use each month, and cutting speeds for those who exceed the limit. (Recently, one AT&T customer successfully sued the carrier for cutting back speeds on what had been advertised as an “unlimited” plan.)

A German court on Friday dismissed two cases brought by Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics against each other as part of a global battle for dominance in the market for smartphones and tablet devices.

Canon has finally made the highly anticipated EOS 5D Mark III official and photographers everywhere are already drooling — and reaching for their wallets. The $3,500 gadget is a follow-up to the insanely popular 5D Mark II, launched in 2008.

Siri, the iPhone's voice-activated personal assistant, often feels like a real person. She says silly things, causes controversies and can embarrass her users.

Justin Bieber's fans marked his 18th birthday on March 1 by raising money for charity. They may also have broken a world record for the most widespread social media message.

Within one day of its release, the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 has reached more than one million downloads.

Looking for more attention when shopping for a Gucci or a Prada? Got an iPhone?

Shares of the reviews site for local businesses jumped as much as 73 percent on Friday morning, after pricing above their expected range.

Some of the nation’s largest wireless phone companies, like AT&T and Verizon, use a process called throttling to slow down customers who exceed data limits — even if they have unlimited data plans.

The government has published a public tender for the “development, deployment and operation of a national-level URL filtering and blocking system.”

How to judge those offers of faster Internet service that you get from your cable or telephone company.

More cars are including integrated mobile technology. But some fear these vehicles could be hijacked by hackers.

A Frenchman took Google to court Thursday over a photo published online by its Street View application showing him urinating in his front yard which he believes has made him the laughing stock of his village in rural northwest France.

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: The debate over a "Jesus Discovery" tomb that may, or may not, contain the earliest known evidence of Christian iconography has taken on some of the fervor of a holy war.

Yelp, the online hub for local business reviews.

It’s not just Apple. Android apps do not need permission to access a user’s photos either, and Google, maker of the Android operating system, takes it a step further.

Some of the nation’s largest wireless phone companies, like AT&T and Verizon, use a process called throttling to slow down customers who exceed data limits — even if they have unlimited data plans.

Chimpanzees can learn from each other, but their knowledge doesn’t appear to accumulate and become more complex over time — the characteristic of humans that has given rise to achievements such as computers and modern medicine.

Vortex guns capable of firing doughnut-shaped rings of air have sat around as toys or oddball gadgets for years. Now a U.S. lab has added an extra kick with electrically charged rings that could clear out smoke-filled hallways for firefighters, or deliver clingy shots of tear gas or pepper spray without the need for accuracy.

Planning to go into warp drive to visit friends in a faraway star system? Better not make it a surprise visit — your arrival may end up disintegrating anyone there when you show up.

Three key research centers and a consortium of Internet companies said on Thursday they would work together on a European cloud computing platform to handle the continent's rapidly growing demand for computer capacity.

Zynga is launching a new games service that allows users to play on the company's website instead of Facebook, potentially driving traffic away from the world's No. 1 social network that is its biggest partner.

A phishing scam preying on Skype users is a perfect case study in what to look for when you think an email may be out to get you. This particular email scam addresses potential victims with "Hello dear," and then asks them to "verify" their Skype accounts. The subject of the email is "Your Skype account needs update."

Ever wanted an identical twin? A clone to do your chores? If you were a coral embryo, you could just break in two and make yourself a body double, new research suggests.

Eight top Republicans introduced a cybersecurity bill on Thursday aimed at stopping an overarching, bipartisan measure proposed earlier this month in order to better protect critical infrastructure.

Researchers taught nine flying mini-robots to play James Bond's 007 movie theme, to demonstrate the capabilities of robo-swarms for reconnaissance and coordinated action.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak reflects on the tech giant's $500 billion market cap. He also tells CNBC's Brian Sullivan the stock will hit $1000. Discuss this on Facebook.

It's not only iPhones that may share users' photos with various apps; Android phones, too, have the same flaw.

Thanks to its new unified privacy policy, Google is now better equipped to help out law enforcement officials and the government when it comes to finding out about you.

Get an outer-space view of Martian marvels, galactic glories, our own "Blue Marble" and other cosmic highlights from February 2012.

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