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Hurricanes and severe storms are a part of summertime in Northern Virginia and experts predict that this year's season could yield four major hurricanes this year in the Atlantic in the 2013 season.

Importers of popular electronics such as big-screen TVs and MP3 players are ramping up their fight against federal tariff changes, accusing the government of misleading them by offering tariff breaks that it planned to claw back later.

Online retail titan Amazon announced Thursday it is expanding sales of its Kindle tablet computers to "over 170 countries and territories around the world," and its Appstore in nearly 200 countries.

Human interaction with computers could improve with the new Kinect for Windows sensor, which will be better at recognizing gestures, motion and voice.

This computer was the first Web server. It was used by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 to develop and run the first multimedia browser and Web editor.

In this era of ever-accelerating technological development, we all tend to be so fixated on the gizmos of the future that we rarely take the time to think about the glorious technology of the past.

An audit of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released Wednesday says it has failed to fully test a new $484 million computer system scheduled to begin processing Medicaid claims on July 1. The report issued by the office of State Auditor Beth Wood raises serious questions about the process used to affirm that the complex ... (more)

Co.'s latest quarterly report showed the company's earnings are holding up better than management and analysts anticipated, even as the world's largest personal computer maker struggled to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices.

ELECTRIC lights, including those illuminating laptop computers, smartphones and tablets, often play a key role in causing people to sleep badly, an expert has said.

Lenovo Group Ltd's bold acquisitions in its flagship PC business, a foray into mobile gadgets, and a relatively light debt load are setting it apart from PC rivals as industry shipments take their steepest fall in decades.

Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies at a Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee hearing on offshore profit shifting and the U.S. tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, 2013.

Improvements to Nvidia's virtualization technology are aimed at turning graphics processors into a more important resource in data centers and could speed deployment of virtual desktops and delivery of data over the cloud.

The latest evidence of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s continuing downfall came in a quarterly earnings report released Wednesday.

So what do you do with a computer than can carry out 16.3 quadrillion floating-point operations per second? At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, you simulate the interactions between ultrapowerful lasers and dense plasmas in a quest to unlock fusion energy.

Revenue is expected to fall, which would make it the seventh consecutive quarter of comparable declines.

CUTTING services may be the only way to finance an urgently-needed upgrade of the justice system's archaic computer network, the state's top judge has warned.

"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a brand new Man of Steel -themed Toshiba laptop and it could be yours!" - in conjunction with Man of Steel from Warner Bros.

It's exactly the sort of futuristic thinking you'd expect from Google and NASA: Late last week, the organizations announced a partnership to build a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at NASA's Ames Research Center.

A North Sioux City, South Dakota, computer technician has pleaded guilty to scheme that prosecutors say cost Apple more than $330,000. In federal court, Tuesday, Darin Moran, agreed to plead guilty to one count of mail fraud.

The University of Iowa's vice president for research and economic development will urge congressional lawmakers to support exascale computing, the next generation of supercomputers designed to tackle complex societal questions, from climate change to the human mind.