CHICAGO, April 27 (UPI) -- A 3-hour outage at the Chicago Board Options Exchange may have been caused by attempts to upgrade technology, The Wall Street Journal reported.
LONDON, April 27 (UPI) -- Unmanned, armed aircraft used by coalition forces in Afghanistan for the first time are being operated remotely from Britain, defense officials say.
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 27 (UPI) -- A filing with U.S. regulators reveals Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook, exercised $2.3 billion in options in 2012.
WASHINGTON, April 27 (UPI) -- Bill Gates is among four top U.S. tech executives to join a lobbying effort co-founded by Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, the group says.
DALLAS, April 26 (UPI) -- AT&T says it has begun taking orders for its new home automation system in 15 cities including Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco and New York.
LOS ANGELES, April 26 (UPI) -- Worldwide sales of smartphones in the first quarter of 2013 have surpassed those of feature phones for the first time, a report says.
TORONTO, April 26 (UPI) -- A Canadian group is using robots to teach elementary school students hands-on skills it says will serve them well in an increasingly technological world.
CUPERTINO, Calif., April 26 (UPI) -- Ticket sales for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco set a new record, selling out in just 2 minutes Thursday, the company said.
MOSCOW, April 26 (UPI) -- Russia has launched another satellite to join the orbiting fleet making up its GLONASS satellite GPS system, its Defense Ministry reported Friday.
SEOUL, April 26 (UPI) -- South Korea's President Park Geun-hye met with Google founder Larry Page Friday to discuss an innovative economy driven by technology, her office said.
WASHINGTON, April 25 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say the voice of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell has been recovered from a recording made 128 years ago.
BRUSSELS, April 25 (UPI) -- Google says it has agreed to change the way it presents search results in the wake of a European investigation of whether it unfairly promoted its own services.
WASHINGTON, April 25 (UPI) -- The chance that modified batteries in Boeing's 787 Dreamliner could have a major failure is very low, an official for the U.S. aircraft manufacturer says.
REDMOND, Wash., April 24 (UPI) -- Microsoft says it will unveil the successor to its Xbox 360 gaming console at an introductory event at its Redmond, Wash., campus next month.
SHANGHAI, April 24 (UPI) -- China says is has successfully conducted its first airline flight powered by self-developed biofuel made mainly from palm oil and recycled cooking oil.
MENLO PARK, Calif., April 24 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers report they've designed a low-cost, long-life battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid.
BALTIMORE, April 24 (UPI) -- Tools as small as a dust speck, can perform biopsies in narrow conduits in the body to find signs of cancer or other diseases, U.S. researchers say.
WATERLOO, Ontario, April 24 (UPI) -- Canadian smartphone-maker BlackBerry says its newest model phone, the Q10, features a physical keyboard harking back to the firm's beginnings.
SEATTLE, April 24 (UPI) -- Amazon will introduce a set-top box this fall dedicated to streaming video over the Internet and into its customers' living rooms, Business Week reported.
NEW YORK, April 24 (UPI) -- Nasdaq OMX Group anticipates a $10 million settlement with U.S. regulators to end an investigation of Facebook's public debut, The Wall Street Journal reported.
LOS GATOS, Calif., April 23 (UPI) -- U.S. streaming video service Netflix has announced a new "family" plan that will allow up to four devices to play video from one account simultaneously.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 23 (UPI) -- Drivers using smartphone speech-to-text systems rather than their thumbs to text are in reality no less distracted when driving, a Texas A&M study indicates.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 23 (UPI) -- Google says the Street View feature of its Google Maps has moved into 50 countries, racking up more than 5 million miles of roadway.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 22 (UPI) -- Google head Eric Schmidt says Google Glass, the wearable computer with display, is at least a year away and will require new social etiquette when it arrives.
Beyonce arrives on the red carpet at the Costume Institute Benefit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on May 6, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo
