
The Facebook fan page for Pittsburgh Tactical Firearm, the owner of which has been running a giveaway contest for an AR-15, has been inexplicably closed — along with a second page that the owner started as a replacement for the first.

Exxon Mobile unseated Apple Inc. as the world's largest company Wednesday, after the technology giant's steep slide in shares knocked it down to second place.

Privacy is more precious than ever, and getting scarcer. Government agencies continue to push legal boundaries with surveillance cameras, drones, GPS tracking devices, x-ray scanners, stop-and-frisk searches without a warrant, sometimes without a suspicion of wrongdoing.

Comedian Jonathan Winters, whose breakneck improvisations inspired Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and many others, has died at age 87.

About 3.4 million cars are being recalled worldwide due to faulty airbags that can rupture when deployed.

Millions of cars manufactured by Japanese automakers have been recalled due to defects found with the air bag system.

The reports of the PC's death may not have been greatly exaggerated after all.

Hijackers could remotely take over the computer-controlled flight guidance and navigational systems of a modern jumbo jet armed only with a smartphone and some special computer code, a "white hat" hacker told a security conference this week.

IRS attorneys have asserted in internal documents that the Fourth Amendment does not protect email and that a warrant is not needed to plant a GPS location tracker on a car in its owner's driveway.