Have a complaint about potholes or hot subway cars? Look to your phone for answers. Larger cities across the U.S. are turning to mobile technology to collect and disseminate information. Some call it Gov 2.0.

The United States plans to express formal concern to the Chinese government soon after Google said a cyber attack from China targeted human rights activists.

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.

Esra’a al Shafei, a recent university graduate in Bahrain, is young, Muslim and frustrated.

Just after midnight on July 15, 1969, Jack King kissed his wife goodbye at their Cocoa Beach, Florida home, jumped in his car, and drove to Dunkin Donuts for a doughnut and a cup of coffee.

Yahoo will let people in the United States start selecting a new, more personalized version of its home page beginning Tuesday afternoon. The revamp lets people select basic applications to use not just Yahoo sites, but also others’ such as eBay, Facebook and Twitter.

The Middle East represents a vast, largely untapped market for Internet businesses, according to industry experts. So what’s holding everyone back?

An independent research group predicts that cyberwarfare will accompany future military conflicts and is recommending international action to blunt its impact.

Hidden under a quaint resort 60 miles northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, lies a treasure trove of potential energy that’s free and available 24/7.

Tracy Rodriguez of Houston, Texas, is not a trained private investigator or police officer. But with a gentle tap on her iPhone screen, the mother of three can access information revealing the sex offenders who live within a 10-mile radius of where her children practice sports or watch movies.

A former Florida high school student who was suspended by her principal after she set up a Facebook page to criticize her teacher is protected constitutionally under the First Amendment, a federal magistrate ruled.

Shelly and her husband, Daren Forney, were the happily married parents of three beautiful girls, 13-year-old Jessica, 9-year-old Erica and 4-year-old Valerie. “Erica is my little sunshine because she lit up the house,” Shelly says. “She was making us laugh before she was a year old.”

The first landing opportunity for space shuttle Discovery was scrubbed Thursday because of bad weather near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said.

Police in China have shut down what is believed to be the largest Web site for training computer hackers, according to local media reports.

The tone of tweets on Twitter and posts on Facebook in reaction to President Obama’s State of the Union speech Wednesday night were in contrast to the optimistic comments on his speeches to Congress in September and during his inauguration.

Google’s threat to pull out of China and the devastating Haiti earthquake are causing people to reassess the impact of social media on the world. But new media can’t effect change by itself.