A teenager’s tefillin — leather boxes that are strapped to the forearm and forehead during prayers by certain Jewish sects — caused an emergency alert early this week by passengers

Forget the fake driver’s license templates for sale on the Web, the newest twist – and more dangerous – is the DIY cybercrime kit. It is driving a surge in

New research from Gartner indicates that the mobile Web, as in cell phones and smartphones, will overtake PCs as the most common devices used for Web access sometime during the

If you want to help with a donation in this disaster or any other, it's good to look for text-to-donate programs from legitimate organizations. They are a popular and efficient

A consortium of European researchers, coordinated by the Computer Vision Centre (CVC) of Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona (UAB), has developed HERMES, a cognitive computational system consisting of video cameras and

Just ask the folks at Chrysler where its Jeep Patriot line just received an exception from the NHTSA Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard.  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Last year, the number of firefighter killed while on duty was the lowest it has been in more than 15 years. Ninety firefighters died while on duty in 2009, according

The so-called homeland security experts that make much of their living spinning cable news TV scenarios out of homeland security incidents seem to have gotten their shorts in a bundle

There were 62 data breaches involving financial institutions in 2009 — three of them occurring in the last month of the year. These breaches represent only a portion of the

University of Michigan engineers have developed a biosensor that can quickly detect microcystin-LR (MC-LR) in drinking water, according to a press release. The new technology consists of an inexpensive strip