Apple held its highly-anticipated press event today, and for the first time in recent memory, streamed it live via the Web. Cult of Mac reports that Apple decided to stream the event to test its new new data center in Maiden, North Carolina, slated to go into full operation later this year. (The $1 billion data center is one of the largest ever built).

Engineers have started to design the research base whose initial construction cost is estimated to reach 495 million yuan.

Sony has won a temporary ban to prevent Australian distributors selling a hardware hack for the PlayStation 3 (PS3).

Because electtions in Inda are conducted almost exclusively using electronic voting machines, this research contains important lessons for Indian elections.

The Pentagon wants a flying car, and one seriously out-there military concept has been given the go-ahead. Here is a look at the Pentagon’s next armored, armed, airborne Humvee.

A company linked to Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen is suing 11 major corporations, including Apple, Google and Facebook, accusing them of infringing on technology patents.

Viruses have plagued humanity for millennia, but now they’ve been tapped to build batteries that can be sprayed onto uniforms.

Instead of storing flight data on board, aircraft could easily send the information in real time to the ground.

A Hawaii man is suing the makers of Lineage II, a product he says is so dangerously addictive that he played it for 20,000 hours over five years, forgetting to get dressed, bathe or call mom during that span.

A group of hardware hackers claim they are about to release the first product to allow gamers to play homemade and pirated games on the PlayStation 3.