Project Loon to launch balloon-powered internet in Indonesia

Alphabet has announced that it will be partnering with Indonesia's top three mobile network providers to test and then roll out its Project Loon balloon-powered internet service across the country.

In a Google Blog post, the Project Loon Vice President Mike Cassidy described the

Snowden slams UK government over encryption 'backdoor' plans

The UK government wants backdoor access to communications for "everything people actually use", Edward Snowden has claimed.

The former NSA contractor took to Twitter to criticise comments from Baroness Shields, the UK minister for internet safety and security, over her position on encrypted data.

Shields said the government

Microsoft launches Windows laptop

Microsoft's surprise product launch was a laptop dubbed the Surface Book

Microsoft has launched a laptop dubbed the Surface Book, as part of a suite of new Windows 10 products.

It also showed off two new smartphones, an updated Surface tablet and a new fitness band.

Much is riding on the

Apple wins appeal over smartphone patents

Samsung and Apple have faced each other in court many times

Samsung could be forced to stop selling some phones after Apple won an appeal in a US court.

The decision comes after a lawsuit first filed in 2012 in which Apple claimed Samsung was using some of its technology without proper permission.

That case was decided in May 2014 when Apple was awarded $120m (£76m) damages.

Apple appealed, saying Samsung should stop selling phones using the disputed features. Judges disagreed but this

Darwinism At Your Doorstep: Why You Only Care About Amazon Now

I’ve seen a lot of people on social media talking about Saturday’s New York Times article by Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld about Amazon’s toxic workplace culture. Lots of people saying they find the level of stress and pain workers were put through unconscionable–80-hour work weeks,midnight emails, people

Company Awarded Patent For ‘Space Elevator’

The space game is hot and only the strongest are going to survive. One Canadian company feels like its in a good spot to succeed, having just been awarded the patent for a “space elevator.”

Back to the how’s and what’s in a second…the company, Thoth Technology, took an aggressive shot at Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the process of

Google unveils OnHub, a Wi-Fi router for the smart-home era

The search giant's newest device is a router Google hopes you'll display proudly, and gives the company a beachhead for tech in your home too.

Google has for years tried to remake several household items, from thermostats and speakers to smoke detectors and TVs. Now, it's tackling another device lots of people have in their house: Wi-Fi routers.

The search giant on Tuesday unveiled the OnHub, a sleek new router that Google developed with the networking hardware company TP-Link. The $200 device is also meant to eventually help control all the other disparate Internet-connected devices in your home.

The idea is this: Most Wi-Fi routers are ugly, with unruly cords, so people put them on the floor or out of the way where they