Stories by Sharon Gaudin

Retailers who have avoided spending money on R&D are gong to need guidance to keep up with the changes technology is bringing to their industry.

By 2025, some stores will be operating as showrooms, providing customers with an experience and product information but little inventory, with purchases shipped from warehouses to the shoppers' homes, according to an IBM report.

When Intel brings a Segway hoverboard on stage at CES and says it can transform into a robot, people tend to notice.

Twitter may be getting ready to allow tweets with more than 140 characters, a lot more, according to reports.

At least one in 10 U.S. homes will have a consumer robot by 2020, according to a study from Juniper Research. That number is up considerably from the one robot in 25 homes this year.

Researchers from Cornell University have published a study showing that it's tough to break away from using social networks like Facebook. They found four reasons that some people can't resist going back for more.

Facebook is testing a local events service designed to help users find things to do in their location.

After Donald Trump's call for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S., Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on Wednesday that Muslims will always be welcome on the social network.

After not faring well in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, NASA is hoping its Valkyrie humanoid robot will do much better working on Mars. To aid in sprucing up its robot, NASA is enlisting robotics scientists from MIT and Northeastern University work on research and development upgrades for the robot.

Google just made it easier to have a business meeting, or any kind of meeting, via Google Hangouts. The company announced that people no longer need to have a Google account to use Hangouts. They just need to be invited to one.

In timea of grief and fear, people from around the world turned to social networks to search for loved ones and to share feelings of support, anger and sadness.

Facebook is now running a small test of a Snapchat-like feature, enabling users to send messages that will automatically disappear.

Simbe Robotics, based in San Francisco, unveiled its first product – a 30-pound robot that can move up and down a store's aisles checking inventory.

The About Me page, tailored for each user and editable, contains information including work history, contact information, educational background and places the user has lived, along with gender and birthday.

Facebook today unveiled Notify, a standalone app designed to push news directly to users' smartphone lock screens.