Google can continue to scan books without paying authors after a court rules it was 'fair use'.

The Google Street View car has been spotted photographing Auckland this week - giving city dwellers the opportunity to be immortalised on the spot.

According to research by the cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, "digital amnesia" is gradually blotting out our brains.

Which company has topped the list of local business searches on Google?

When Google was young, the technology company did one thing well. It helped people on desktop computers search the Internet.

Last year a European court ordered the online search giant to bow to people's interest in obscurity.

Google has ridiculed demands by European Union antitrust regulators to change the way it displays search results as "peculiar and problematic".

Jojo Stewart has managed to edge out the boys in the male-dominated field of computer science.

A U.S. appeals court struggled over the rules to block electronic transmissions that violate U.S. property rights.

It's a bold move, typical of Google, which may be connected to the internet and which earns vast amounts of money, but isn't really part of anyone's life, writes Juha Saarinen.

France's data privacy authority has ordered Google to extend the so-called right to be forgotten to its websites globally.

Amazon is creating a blueprint for an air-traffic system and the necessary technology is rapidly developing.

Google is introducing a new feature to its Maps application that allows users to see where they have been on any given day, month or year.

As Google and Apple start making car apps, automakers must decide whether to hold them off or open the door to the tech giants.

We don't have Pitbulls or Mattel hoverboards yet, but Japanese car company Lexus recently unveiled a prototype for a real, rideable hoverboard.

Spotted a typo just as you hit send, or just sent the email to the wrong person altogether? Here's how to take it back.

Tech giants are racing to find the next "I need it" home gadget.

Google says one of its least expensive innovations - virtual reality headgear made of cardboard - has become a huge hit.

Systems that drive autonomous vehicles benefit from never getting tired or distracted by texts.

Google, Facebook and other big internet companies will be forced to hand over encrypted conversations of suspected terrorists and criminals under plans to bolster surveillance powers.

The United States space programme is famous for what it invented and also for how much it spent putting men on the moon.

Twitter's ad team will do about anything to win clients yet ad agencies still devote most of their budgets to Facebook and Google.

Consumer groups say that YouTube Kids is filled with inappropriate content, including pornographic cartoons.

After Google Maps was slammed for labelling Obama a very bad word, people have taken to typing their names into the search engine — the results have been creepy.

There are certain TV tropes about computer scientists that drive programmers nuts. Disney has made moves to change that.

That Apple should buy Greece with all the useless cash it has on hand is just a joke that won't go away.

NZME's website Driven has matched the Autotrader audience after just a month in market.

Dave Vos, the chief of Google's experimental cargo-drone program, expects to see pilotless commercial aircraft within his lifetime.

Microsoft's upcoming annual developer conference is seen as crucial by industry experts to introduce appealing new products from the tech giant.