Google is threatening to pull its search engine from an entire country - Australia - if a proposed law goes into effect that would force Google to pay news publishers for their content.

The amount of "currency in circulation" - the paper dollars wadded up in people's pockets and purses, stuffed under mattresses, or packed into suitcases and safes overseas - jumped again in the week ended December 30 to a new record of $2.09 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, where currency in circulation is a liability, not an asset.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft was hacked as part of the suspected Russian campaign that has hit multiple U.S. government agencies by taking advantage of the widespread use of software from SolarWinds Corp, according to people familiar with the matter. As with networking management software by SolarWinds, Microsoft's own products were then used to further the attacks on others, the people said.

A prototype jet engine can propel itself without using any fossil fuels, potentially paving the way for carbon-neutral air travel. The device compresses air and ionizes it with microwaves, generating plasma that thrusts it forward, according to research published Tuesday in the journal AIP Advances.

On the heels of President Donald Trump's annual State of the Union speech, where the president declared the US employment numbers, the stock market and the e...

The mighty Chinese juggernaut has been humbled this week, apparently by a species-hopping bat virus. While Chinese authorities struggle to control the epidemic and restart their economy, a world that has grown accustomed to contemplating China's inexorable rise was reminded that nothing, not even Beijing's power, can be taken for granted.