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The Chaos Computing Club, a group of German hackers, claimed to have cracked Apple's new iPhone fingerprint scanner ...

Tencent Holdings' WeChat mobile messaging service, which is akin to WhatsApp, stands to gain more users as China makes it more and more risky to vent opinions online ...

In a loud declaration of, "Because we can!" plans have been hatched to build a skyscraper in South Korea that will be able to turn invisible ...

Syrian rebels have taken to using an iPad app to help guide mortar fire ...

Facebook and Twitter were widely available to Iranian netizens on Monday. Come Tuesday, however, things were back to normal: The sites were blocked ...

A Google Street View car dinged a pair of public transport buses and a truck in Bogor, Indonesia ...

Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei is taking a PR victory lap following reports suggesting that the National Security Agency spied on the company ...

The National Security Agency's efforts to include "backdoors" in U.S. companies' security products, networks and devices -- thereby making it easier for the NSA to snoop around -- could hurt business abroad ...

Smugglers who have long taken advantage of delays in Apple product releases in China will have a harder go of it when the company launches its newest iPhone models ...

China's Supreme Court announced new guidelines for Internet use, including years-long jail stints for people who author "online rumors" that are viewed more than 5,000 times or reposted 500 times ...

Shi Tao, a Chinese reporter who was incarcerated in 2005 after Yahoo divulged his email details, has been released from prison ...

Sonny Dickson, a teenager in Australia, leaked photos on his website purportedly showing an Apple fingerprint scanner. The photos were published less than one week before huge Apple events in California and China ...

Apple has invited Chinese journalists to a Sept. 11 event in Beijing to announce... well, no one really knows, but it could be a big deal ...

Ministry of Sound, a London night club and dance music brand, is suing music streaming service Spotify for copyright infringement ...

Yahoo China ceased providing news and community services Sunday, a move experts say signals that Yahoo is pulling the plug on its Chinese service ...

Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish software developer that specializes in compression algorithms for mobile phones ...

BlackBerry is looking to spin off its BlackBerry Messenger service into a separate business to compete with other instant messaging apps ...

Nokia sent a letter to India's commerce ministry threatening to leave the country because of Indian taxes ...

China's Communist Party used Twitter-like social media platform Sina Weibo to report the details of the trial of Bo Xilai, a former Party star who is in the process of being taken down on corruption charges ...

The U.S. government is investigating bribes that Microsoft is alleged to have given to officials in Russia and Pakistan in return for contracts, marking the expansion of an ongoing probe ...