Along with the figure skating, ice hockey and snowboarding, another event will compete for attention at the Winter Olympics in Canada this month: Mind-controlled lights.

Google’s first search engine let people search by typing text onto a Web page. Next came queries spoken over the phone. Now Google is able to perform an Internet search by submitting a photograph.

James Cameron’s feverishly-awaited sci-fi blockbuster “Avatar” has enjoyed its world premiere to strong reviews.

It’s oh-so enticing: you find a copy of a brand new game like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on a pirate site and the temptation to download it is too strong.

An artful, witty or newsy status update is a pleasure — a real-time, tiny window into a friend’s life. But far more posts read like navel-gazing diary entries, this CNN writer argues.

The French National Assembly gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a measure that seeks to crack down on Internet piracy.

China will launch a second lunar probe next October, state-run media reported Friday.

Ancient man may have started global warming through massive deforestation and burning that could have permanently altered the Earth’s climate, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County.

For the hardy people of Shishmaref, Alaska, climate change is not a policy issue. The sea is eating away at the village’s thawing coastline, threatening to send it toppling into the ocean. | FULL COVERAGE |

Space shuttle Discovery launched just before midnight Friday on a mission to the international space station.

Worms, spam, viruses and hackers — they’re not just for your desktop or laptop anymore. According to internet security experts they could be well on their way into your pocket or purse.

Logging onto Facebook as a resident in the Golan Heights, should you enter Syria or Israel as your home country?

This week’s arrests of three men in connection with a massive computer-virus scheme may seem like great news. But some cybersecurity experts say the “get-the-bad-guys” effort is a futile way to secure the Internet.

The Internet is awash with hate. It is the favorite tool of racists, anti-Semites, homophobes and other bigots. They host Web sites, upload videos and post comments intended to propagate the lies of prejudice, to recruit like-minded haters, to mislead children and to hurt minorities.

Hjalti á Lava was searching his iPhone for a Bible app when he stumbled across Church Online, a service of Web site LifeChurch.tv. Soon he was regularly logging into the Oklahoma-based cyber-church — some 4,100 miles away from á Lava’s home in the Faroe Islands, west of Norway.

Hoping to capitalize on the momentum created by the release of its Pre smartphone, Palm on Wednesday will unveil a smaller, cheaper smartphone called Pixi.