Cellphones may be helping to connect and organize the pro-democracy protesters massing in the streets of Cairo and Alexandria. But they're also offering a new method for authoritarians to track those ...

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has found an Earth-sized planet, in an Earth-like habitable zone. In fact, it’s found several–though we, obviously, don’t know if they’re Earth-like. It’s also found six ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

CONCORD, Mass., April 21 (UPI) -- Technical Communications Corp., based in Massachusetts, says it has been contracted to supply encryption equipment to the Egyptian government. The $5.75 million ...

Deep-packet inspection is the one of the most invasive things a country can do to its internet. Employed by repressive regimes from Russia to Bahrain, it lets governments look into the content of web ...