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The former Eagle Scout known as Dread Pirate Roberts must serve a life sentence for running the multimillion-dollar Silk Road online drug bazaar, a federal appeals court said even as it questioned the usefulness of such harsh penalties

Apple is already in your pocket, on your desk and underneath your television. Soon, a device embossed with “Designed by Apple in California” may be on your nightstand or kitchen counter as well

Step aside, bitcoin. There’s another digital token in town that’s winning over the hearts and wallets of cryptocurrency enthusiasts across the globe. The value of ether, the digital currency linked to

Ethiopia switched off Internet access in the country to prevent the leaking of information about school exams, The Guardian reported, without saying how it got the information. There has been no outbound traffic

Andy Rubin created the software that powers hundreds of millions of Android devices around the world. Now he has two gadgets of his own: the Essential Phone and the Essential Home. The phone’s display fills most of the

Intel, trying to head off a fledgling attempt by rival Advanced Micro Devices to compete in the market for high-end PC processors, introduced a new, more powerful chip. The company will begin selling

Amazon.com’s shares topped US$1 000 for the first time on Tuesday, marking a new milestone for a company wooing investors by dominating online commerce and cloud computing. Amazon shares hit $1 001,20 in New York

Big tech firms have halved their business travel emissions

US homeland security secretary John Kelly has said he may ban laptop computers in the cabins of all international flights into and out of the US amid continuing terrorist threats to bring down aeroplanes, but that a final decision hadn’t been made

British Airways said many of its computer systems are running again as the carrier pushed to recover from a massive technology failure that disrupted hundreds of flights and stranded thousands of passengers worldwide over the past two days