Industrials

Europe's air safety agency has issued new guidelines allowing passengers to use portable electronics including cell phones and tablet computers any time during flights.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk says his company expects to spend $100 million in South Texas over the next three to four years on the first commercial orbital spaceport.

Alibaba Group's U.S. stock offering is a wakeup call about an emerging wave of technology giants in China's state-dominated economy.

The boundary between the online and physical worlds got blurry last week when Sony's PlayStation Network was disabled by an online attack, while simultaneously an American Airlines passenger jet carrying a Sony executive was diverted due to a bomb threat on Twitter.

An unmanned SpaceX rocket exploded shortly after launch on a test flight at the company's Central Texas development site.

Federal prosecutors say several addicts died soon after receiving shipments of illegal prescription drugs sent by FedEx.

Federal investigators say they found no evidence of any mechanical malfunctions in an experimental airplane before a 2012 crash that killed Micron CEO Steve Appleton.

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the United States and India must seize opportunities to collaborate more on defense development and not let government red tape and other problems stymie progress.

Google Inc. is confirming that the so-called "Google barge" it docked in Maine has been sold.

Management failures by the Obama administration set the stage for computer woes that paralyzed the president's new health care program last fall, nonpartisan investigators said in a report released Wednesday.

The next big thing in aviation may be really small.

A lot is at stake in the Farnborough International Airshow, the aviation industry's biggest annual event, which opens Monday.

U.S. authorities have charged a Chinese businessman with hacking into the computer systems of U.S. companies with large defense contracts, including Boeing, to steal data on military projects, including some of the latest fighter jets, officials said Friday.

The Army's vice chief of staff, Gen. John Campbell, last year cited his son's experiences as a soldier in Afghanistan to answer a senator's tough questions about a troubled intelligence technology system.

Packed planes Less legroom.

A submarine that was among the most secretive vessels in the U.S. undersea force has been put on display at the Navy's Submarine Force Library and Museum in Groton.

Planes you can park in your garage.

When hackers broke into a database filled with the private information of U.S. security clearance holders, they likely got access to the names of foreign relatives of some of those officials who are living abroad.

Billionaire Elon Musk wants to jump-start his Hyperloop high-speed transit system.

Newsgathering by drone is gaining traction as an industry practice, but how the technology can actually be used to cover the news of the day is murky given its legal limitations.