The internet is a giant vault where people store some of their most private information, trusting that the company holding on to it can keep it all safe.

How do the United States and China compare? The superpowers face off in this ambitious, if flawed, infographic from the Guardian.

Audi is a company that loves to make its cars do the work for you. Its self-driving car may not be on the market yet, but its latest addition to its Audi Connect service solves a greater headache than having to actually steer: Finding parking.

TechCrunch has a nice look at a new API from Lambda Labs, an "early-stage startup" (meaning, brand-new) from San Francisco, that's causing a bit of consternation. Lambda Labs makes a facial recognition API, which you can actually try out here in your browser. But now Lambda has released a version of that API specifically for Google Glass.

Noticed any outages on your bank's website over the past year? They could have been the work of Iranian hackers. Hackers that intelligence officials identified as Iranian have affected some of the biggest U.S. banks, including JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and others, Reuters reported.

Most independent inventors don't have bottomless bank accounts. To fund their dreams, many innovators are appealing to strangers on the Web for help. Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler weighs in on this growing source of grassroots venture capital.