New York Times

PayPal's new iPhone application promises to let you quickly divide a restaurant bill and send a friend the portion you owe just by bumping your iPhones together.

As research libraries and archives are discovering, "born-digital" materials — those initially created in electronic form — are much more complicated and costly to preserve than anticipated.

Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet.

Smart electric grids are championed by the federal government, conservation groups and industry as good for the economy and the environment. But some technology policy organizations worry that smart meters pose a potential threat to privacy and could be exploited by online marketers, government agencies, criminals and others.

The Chinese authorities have warned major partners of Google's China-based search engine that they must comply with censorship laws even if Google does not.

After firing up the Foursquare application on their phones, users see a list of nearby bars, restaurants and other places, select their location and "check in," sending an alert to friends using the service.

Television, historically an extremely passive way of consuming media, could become something else, a hybrid form of professionally produced content and crowd-sourced comments.

To the consternation of Internet companies and civil liberties groups, lawmakers in Britain are seeking to punish those who illegally copy music.

A look at an effort to unlock the thousands of videos tucked away in the National Archives by making it available over the Internet.

Some people placed emergency calls reporting heart attacks, others rushed in a panic to buy bread and residents of one border village staggered from their homes and dashed for safety — all after a television station in Georgia broadcast a mock newscast on Saturday night that pretended to report on a Russian invasion of the country.