If the new MacBook Air looks identical to its predecessor, then why is everyone making such a big deal about it? Because this ultraportable laptop beats the last Air and every Windows Ultrabook by a mile when it comes to endurance. Thanks to Intels new 4th generation Core (Haswell) processor and a beefier battery on the inside, the new Air doesnt need an extended battery or slice to last all day...

House Republican leaders want to push for outposts on the moon and Mars and they want to push NASA's plan to snare an asteroid into the dustbin, according to a discussion draft of their space spending plan."It is the policy of the United States that the development of capabilities and technologies necessary for human missions to lunar orbit, the surface of the moon, the surface of Mars, and beyo...

Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.Facebook's throwing a press event to unveil some "big ideas" on Thursday. Rumor is that those ideas involve videos on Instagram.Speaking of Facebook ... the social network suffered some "internal issues" on Tuesday night.Google asked the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow ...

Facebook was down Tuesday night for some users, with an outage that seemed to peak at about 9 p.m. ET.The problem, a spokesman for the social network said, should be fully resolved."Earlier today, an internal issue in our Web infrastructure caused the site to be slow or unavailable for a brief period of time," Facebook said in a statement. "We resolved the issue quickly, and should now be back to ...

Facebook was down Tuesday night for some users, with an outage that seemed to peak at about 9 p.m. ET.The problem, a spokesman for the social network said, should be fully resolved."Earlier today, an internal issue in our Web infrastructure caused the site to be slow or unavailable for a brief period of time," Facebook said in a statement. "We resolved the issue quickly, and should now be back to ...

Facebook appeared to be down Tuesday night for some users. Website service monitoring site DownRightNow noted that as of 9:10 p.m. ET, the social network was dealing with a disruption, although it wasn't known how widespread it was.Going to Facebook's website resulted not in the usual sign-in, but this message for some "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we...

The National Security Agency is reviewing whether to stop collecting a vast stockpile of records of Americans telephone calls the most controversial component of its surveillance programs by allowing telecommunications companies to retain the data until U.S. intelligence officials have a specific reason to review it for possible connections to terror plots, U.S. officials said TuesdayThe NSAs...