China has begun to expand Internet access in western China’s Xinjiang autonomous region after cutting service because of deadly rioting over the summer, state-run media reported.

More kids than ever are roaming the Internet, and they’re not always finding content parents might deem appropriate. Enter a host of products — from Web sites and browsers to filters and search-tracking software — designed to help parents make the Web safer for young children.

Truckers who text while driving are 23 times more likely to crash or get into a near-wreck than an undistracted driver, while car drivers face the greatest danger when dialing their cell phones, a transportation study found.

Like Harvey “Two-Face” Dent, a new dual-screen device has two faces to match its double identity: It promises to be an electronic book reader and a netbook at the same time.

The world’s oldest known Christian Bible goes online Monday — but the 1,600-year-old text doesn’t match the one you’ll find in churches today.

If that dreamy blind date seems too good to be true, or the guy at the bar with a martini and a pencil-thin moustache looks a little sketchy, the truth about them — or at least some of it — could be found on your phone.

On Friday afternoons in the office, Kevin Grinnell’s employees often thank him by singling him out and shooting him in the head. (Only virtually, of course.)Companies are turning more to video games as a way of building bridges between employees, or even between employees and management.

Tuvalu, the fourth smallest nation on the planet, has announced it aims to be totally powered by renewable energy sources by 2020.

A frog that eats birds and a gecko with leopard stripes are among the 163 new species discovered last year in the Greater Mekong region of southeast Asia, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund.

China says the U.S. is damaging ties by highlighting the alleged cyber attacks on Google.

Two teams of explorers and scientists are on their way to the Arctic for the first international project to measure the amount of carbon dioxide in water beneath the ice.

General Electric plans to give its solar business a charge in two years with the introduction of panels with the same solar cell material used by industry cost leader First Solar.

The flashing banner ads, questionable color schemes and omnipresent “Under Construction” signs of GeoCities are no more.

Weather forced a postponement of a scheduled launch of space shuttle Endeavour for a third straight day Monday.

It’s hard to imagine a video of lawyers debating points of constitutional law going viral on YouTube, but the audience for the Proposition 8 trial — a lawsuit seeking to overturn California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage — is potentially vast.

Punch lines about hygiene products flooded the blogosphere on Wednesday only moments after Apple Inc. announced it would call its new touch-screen computer the “iPad.”