United bans researcher from flight after 'joke tweet'

United Airlines banned a security researcher from a flight after he tweeted that he might be able to hack the aircraft's systems.

Chris Roberts was due to fly from Colorado to San Francisco to talk at a major security conference on Saturday.

Earlier, he tweeted he thought he could deploy the oxygen masks on board.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg hits back in Internet.org India row

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has defended the aims of his Internet.org initiative after several Indian firms decided to pull out of the project.

In a blog post, Mr Zuckerberg argued that Internet.org's basic free services were not incompatible with net neutrality - the principle that all web services should be equally accessible.

"We fully support net neutrality," he wrote. "Universal connectivity and net neutrality can and must co-exist."

Intel's slowdown in PC business offset by growth in data centers

The chipmaker reports first-quarter revenue is mostly flat, though it does see a slight rise in income.

Intel kicked off the latest tech earnings season Tuesday, reporting first-quarter results mostly in line with lowered expectations, following the chipmaker's updated estimates last month.

The company reported a net income of approximately $2 billion, or 42 cents per share, a 3 percent rise compared to the same period last year. Non-GAAP earnings were 41 cents per share on a revenue of $12.8 billion, flat year over year. Wall Street was looking for earnings of 41 cents per share with revenue of at least $12.9 billion.

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge gets power slammed... and survives

Reviewers like to put phones through their paces to make sure they don’t break easily, but the punishment this Galaxy S6 Edge gets is nothing short of brutal.

We certainly don’t have the confidence to do what this one YouTube blogger did with the new Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.

Japanese woman is first recipient of next-generation stem cells

Surgeons implanted retinal tissue created after reverting the patient's own cells to 'pluripotent' state.

A Japanese woman in her 70s is the first person to receive tissue derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, a technology that has created great expectations since it could offer the same regenerative potential as embryo-derived cells but without some of the ethical and safety concerns.

In a two-hour procedure starting at 14:20 local time today, a team of three eye specialists lead by Yasuo Kurimoto of the Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital implanted a 1.3 by 3.0 millimetre sheet of retinal pigment epithelium cells into an eye of the Hyogo prefecture resident, who suffers from age-related macular degeneration, a common eye condition that can lead to blindness.