Netflix cuts original TV deal with DreamWorks
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Netflix said Monday that it would offer new TV shows from DreamWorks Animation starting in 2014 in what the company described as its biggest transaction ever for original first-run content....

Apple details government requests for data
NEW YORK (AP) -- Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May....

Google settles suit, clears way for stock split
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year....

Russian tycoon wants to move mind to machine
NEW YORK (AP) -- Can the City That Never Sleeps become the City That Never Dies? A Russian multimillionaire thinks so....

Chinese supercomputer named as world's fastest
BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese university has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost doubling the speed of the U.S. machine that previously claimed the top spot and underlining China's rise as a science and technology powerhouse....

Ohio police chief takes criminals to task online
KENT, Ohio (AP) -- If you're up to no good in this pocket of northeast Ohio, especially in a witless way, you're risking not only jail time or a fine but a swifter repercussion with a much larger audience: You're in for a social media scolding from police Chief David Oliver and some of his small department's 52,000-plus Facebook fans....

How Britain spies on friends and rivals alike
LONDON (AP) -- Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks to the Guardian newspaper have thrown back the curtain on the world of diplomatic espionage, revealing - in explicit detail - how British spies monitor enemies and allies alike. So what does GCHQ, Britain's eavesdropping agency, actually do? And how does it do it? And is any of this really all that surprising?...

Israel picks team to build high-speed web network
JERUSALEM (AP) -- An Israeli committee has chosen a consortium led by Swedish company ViaEuropa to build a nationwide high-speed broadband network....

Scientists moving 15-ton magnet from NY to Chicago
UPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- New York to Chicago, in five weeks?...

Google begins launching Internet-beaming balloons
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) -- Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online....