Technology

Cuba, with its authoritarian communist government in control of the Web, has the lowest Internet-penetration rate in the Western Hemisphere.

Pinterest drew 23.7 million unique visitors in February, up from 3.5 million in September, according to research firm Nielsen.

Bio-mimicry is an exciting frontier in engineering. This new zeitgeist looks to the ingenuity of evolution to solve the most pressing design problems of today, like renewable energy and efficiency. John Dabiri is doing just that.

On the plugged-in side of the digital divide, there's an extraordinarily swift change in how people are reading books and other media.

Social media has now become another way for employers to seek out information on candidates that may be deemed inappropriate, thereby costing them a possible job.

Chalk up another looming casualty of the Internet age: business cards.

Apple Inc.’s new iPad, dubbed iPad 3 by tech aficionados to identify it as the third generation of one of the world’s top-selling tablet computers, went on sale as scheduled at 8:00 a.m. local time today in the United States and nine other countries. With a price range between $499 and $829, it will be carried by more than 362 Apple stores around the world and by virtually every major technology retailer.

When AT&T activated its 4G LTE service in the New York City metro area and 10 additional markets on Jan. 5, it brought to 15 the number of markets in which the AT&T service was available. Since 2011, major markets such as Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., have offered the same service. AT&T now claims the titles of the nation’s largest Wi-Fi provider and the nation’s second largest wireless operator after Verizon.

Facebook profiles are supposed to be a digital representation of a person's self, but how much they reveal about a person might be far more in-depth than previously thought. That's because new research published by the Journal of Applied Social Psychology has indicated that Facebook profiles can serve as a stronger indicator of job performance than an IQ test.