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  • FILE PHOTO -The rear of a Lexus SUV equipped with Google self-driving sensors is seen during a media preview of Google's prototype autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California September 29, 2015.  REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo

    Self-Drivings Cars May Change Where You Want to Live

    By Deborah Findling, CNBC

    Menlo Ventures managing director Venky Ganesan says that urban spaces will change dramatically once self-driving cars become widespread. "The average house is roughly 3,000 sq ft and it's been going...

  • Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin poses for a portrait wearing Google Glass glasses before the Diane von Furstenberg  Spring/Summer 2013 collection show during New York Fashion Week in this September 9, 2012 file photo. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/Files

    Remember Google Glass? It's Not a Flop After All

    By Christina Farr, CNBC

    Google Glass isn't dead. In fact, it's a growing business. That's according to developers who license the smart glasses technology from Google Glass' enterprise-focused " Glass at Work " program...

  • Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk talks at the Automotive World News Congress at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, January 13, 2015.  REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

    Tesla Is Now Worth More Than Ford as It Shares Surge Higher

    By Robert Ferris, CNBC

    Tesla shares hit an all-time high on Monday, after the electric carmaker announced strong first-quarter delivery numbers Sunday that outpaced analysts' expectations. Tesla shares surged as high as $...

  • File photo of Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk standing on the podium as he attends a forum on startups in Hong Kong

    Why China Is a Big Part of Tesla’s Future

    By Evelyn Cheng

    Elon Musk's Tesla is a growing player in China, where the global fight to develop electric, self-driving cars is raging hot. Hong-Kong traded Tencent, a company best known for its WeChat messaging...

  • FILE PHOTO: A Tesla charging station is seen in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. on September 28, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo

    The New Tesla Model 3 Could be the Safest Car Ever

    By Robert Ferris, CNBC

    Tesla's Model 3 sedan could end up being significantly safer than the average car currently on the road, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas. And customer preferences suggest that level of...

  • U.S. Homeland Security contractor reports computer breach

    U.S. Homeland Security contractor reports computer breach

    By Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A company that performs background checks for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Wednesday it was the victim of a cyber attack, adding in a statement that "it has...

  • Time Warner to go it alone as Fox exits stage

    Time Warner to go it alone as Fox exits stage

    By Jennifer Saba and Aurindom Mukherjee, Reuters

    (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc <TWX.N> will not have to worry about any overtures from Twenty-First Century Fox <FOXA.O> for the foreseeable future. "As you know, yesterday, we walked away...

  • From Syria to Ukraine, social media opens up warfare

    From Syria to Ukraine, social media opens up warfare

    By Peter Apps, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 2013, Eliot Higgins used videos posted online from Syria to track weapons and pinpoint a chemical strike in Damascus from a computer in the English Midlands. This year, the...

  • The Virus That’s Threatening U.S. Government Computers

    By Aliya Sternstein, Next-Gov

    A surge of malicious software hit news media websites during the first half of 2014, unleashing a threat to federal agencies that rely on those sites to get information, cybersecurity researchers say...

  • Samsung Electronics, Apple call end to patents war outside U.S.

    Samsung Electronics, Apple call end to patents war outside U.S.

    By Hyunjoo Jin and Dan Levine, Reuters

    SEOUL/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd <005930.KS> and Apple Inc <AAPL.O> said they had agreed to drop all patent litigation outside the United States, scaling down a...