How much would you pay to save the world from the threat of global warming? We might find out soon. "Everything we do is tied to energy and climate," says climate economist Graciela Chichilnisky of Columbia University.

GENEVA - Scientists running the world's largest atom smasher used the $10 billion machine's accelerator to speed up proton beams for the first time Tuesday, in a step toward experiments about the makeup of the universe.

STRASBOURG, France, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The European Union said on Tuesday a US pledge to propose an emissions target at UN climate change talks in Copenhagen in December could improve the chances of success at the meeting.

Nokia introduced two spunky 3G slider phones - the 6700 Slide and the 7230 - that offer email, messaging and quick uploads between their cameras and social-networking sites.

New ads for Apple's iPhone find Apple sticking up for iPhone carrier AT&T by throwing jabs at Verizon and the Motorola Droid.

PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Even 150 years after it first appeared in print, Charles Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" still fuels clashes between scientists convinced of its truth and critics who reject its view of ...

Google's plans to double-down in display advertising were underscored with its announcement Monday that it would acquire San Mateo, Calif.

It's almost too humiliating to admit, but I'm going to suck it up and confess my secret shame. Consider it a gift for the holidays.

eBay is playing virtual Santa this holiday season with a free "Deals" app for the iPhone that leads consumers to the better buys on the auction site.

Navigating your way out of town for Thanksgiving got easier for more Android users, thanks to Google. In a blog post , Google announced that Google Maps Navigation Beta (of course) is now available for free for mobile devices running Android version ...

Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch models account for as much as one third of worldwide mobile data traffic. A recent report from mobile advertising specialist Admob said that the Apple handsets accounted for 32 per cent of its worldwide mobile data ...

That's the question some are asking in the wake of the release of the code behind Google's Chrome OS, which is known as the open-source Chromium OS.

Microsoft Corp. has just released its new Windows 7 operating system for client computers, but already now the world's largest software giant is hard at work developing the next-generation Windows 8 system, which is, apparently, ...

A year ago, Swype launched a new way to type on a touchscreen phone at techcrunch50. Swype was created by the inventor of the T9 predictive typing system used on most phones today because he felt that new text input methods for small touchscreens are ...

This is BMW's sixth generation 5 Series and the first to receive BMW's new 'F' model nomenclature. Codenamed the F-10, the new 5 Series is bigger and more plush, has a new range of engines and is less controversial in its design than the outgoing E60.

The company is offering buyouts to 2500 members of its workforce as it seeks to trim its employee headcount by nearly a third. By W. David Gardner With AOL scheduled to be reincarnated as a single entity in two weeks, the company will debut with at ...

Recently, the first ever iphone worm attacked jailbroken iphones and messed around with the lock screen background. Now, a new worm attacking jailbroken iphones and ipod Touch devices has been discovered by Security.

PARIS, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Ubisoft (UBIP.PA) said on Tuesday its Assassin's Creed 2 adventure game had record sales in the first week of its launch, quashing fears the potential Christmas season blockbuster was not doing as well as expected.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's new dad in space, shuttle astronaut Randolph Bresnik, said Tuesday he had no problems focusing on his job while awaiting his daughter's birth.

LONDON (Reuters) - Almost half the financial sector workers in London and New York say they would take sensitive company information with them if they were fired, according to a new transatlantic survey.