Technoculture

The rumors are true. Amazon is providing cloud services to the CIA. But what’s most intriguing about the multi-million-dollar deal is not what Amazon is doing, but how the company is doing it — and what that means for the future of that thing called cloud computing.

Once a staple of authoritative communication across the Indian subcontinent, the telegram has lost too much ground to smartphones. One devotee is threatening a Gandhi-style fast.

A Chinese supercomputer Milky Way-2 has toppled the US Titan system from the number one spot in the latest TOP500 list of the most powerful computers in the world.

Lynda Obst: When you stopped buying DVDs and started streaming on Netflix, Hollywood's economics changed. So did the movies

Google, the Internet giant, is to create a global database of child abuse images - which it will share with its rival companies - in a bid to eradicate child pornography from the Web.

Embedded in a show about gaming's future is a booth celebrating its past.

A look into the origins and current reception of the Internet's most spunky file format — the animated GIF.

The Turkish government is mulling a draft law that aims to crack down on those who post 'provocative material' on social media. Meanwhile, a new form of protest is sweeping Turkey, taking Twitter by storm under the hashtag ‘standing man'.

A study that looked at more than a billion tweets and the geographic connections between 71 million users across the globe shows how Twitter has changed the way we communicate and helped erase geographical barriers.

PRISM, it turns out, is essentially a method for the government to focus its data collection practices. Happily, its disclosure via Snowden has allowed our society another discussion about what privacy should entail, and what our constitutional right to privacy in fact is. This isn’t a small question.

Early reports suggested Twitter was going to emerge as one of the few top Silicon Valley companies to refuse government requests for information under its PRISM program. Turns out, Yahoo tried to fight as well.

More than half of teens and young adults online are affected by cyberbullying. From North America to Europe to Australia, suicide after cyberbullying is becoming a more common problem. For some people, the solution is simple: blame technology. But, how much responsibility do social networking sites have when cyberbullying turns deadly?

The potential for distraction and cost were the two most-cited reasons against Google Glass in a recent survey conducted by Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.

Politiwoops keeps track of politicians' deleted tweets.

A boycott of Facebook, Microsoft, Google et al is easy to talk about, but almost impossible to achieve, writes John Naughton

Before allegedly becoming part of the secret National Security Agency surveillance program PRISM, Yahoo fought against it in court, in what was until now a secret challenge. The company eventually lost and had to comply, according to new reports.