GOOGLE will be fined around €4.3 billion ($5 billion) by the European Union over Android apps, setting a new record for antitrust penalties, according to a person familiar with the EU decision.

BEIJING -- Along a quiet residential street on the outer edges of Beijing, a yellow and black cube about the size of a small washing machine trundles leisurely to its destination.

FACEBOOK INC. is hiring five well-regarded computer scientists in the US and Europe, adding new facilities to bolster its artificial intelligence research division, and focus on robotics and related-technologies.

DNA TESTING at home in Japan is starting to gain traction as more people age and seek answers about their risks for diseases.

LONDON -- Britain’s information regulator said on Wednesday she intends to fine Facebook FB.O for breaches of data protection law as her office investigates how millions of users’ data was improperly accessed by consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

THESE five laptops are guaranteed to meet your work and play needs, whether you’re bored in a business-class suite, dashing off PowerPoint slides in a hotel room, or banking on the Shinkansen. Based on a global road test that took Bloomberg test drivers from New York to Los Angeles and Tokyo to Paris, these were the best of roughly a dozen new options -- all standing out for their excellent portability, keyboard comfort, battery life, and computing power.

MICROSOFT Corp. is going for the low-end of the personal computing market with a smaller, cheaper Surface Go tablet that takes on Apple, Inc.’s cheapest iPads.

IT SOUNDS like something Q, the tech guy in James bond movies, would create: A plane that lands on a runway, shrugs its wings off, turns into a train and rolls on to rails to drop you off at your station.

IT’S AMAZING to think that within our lifetime we will travel to work in a self-driving car; we’ll have conversations with our refrigerators about what’s for dinner; and we’ll receive customer service from Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chat bots. Developments in technology are taking these once-fictional scenarios and planting them in our very near future.

Alphabet Inc. is facing another day of demands from top Republican lawmakers to explain reports that hundreds of outside app developers had access to...

FULLY digital screens are replacing speedometers and dials in vehicles, making industry leader Japan Display Inc. (JDI) optimistic about boosting sales to global car makers.

THE GAMING industry has changed considerably and so did the behavior and the profile of the typical gamer, a new study by PC giant Dell has shown.