Onstage at the final day of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Calif. Wednesday, venture capitalist pioneers Tom Perkins and Don Valentine dish out details on running into Steve Jobs, their worst investments, and attending board meetings in hot tubs…….

As New York’s beautiful One World Trade Center nears completion, a powerful time-lapse movie shows the skyscraper’s construction from start to near finish…….

But why?……

From pre-orders to colors to the fingerprint scanner, CNET answers your burning questions about Apple’s two new smartphones…….

The day-after verdict: Apple blew its China chances by pricing itself into an even smaller niche. Not so fast…….

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Yahoo’s CEO said the once-troubled company’s user base is growing rapidly, most on mobile. She also said the company just passed 800 million monthly mobile users…….

The Boomtown Rats frontman is scheduled to be a passenger on a commercial flight to go see the cosmos up close and personal…….

The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing. ZAP provides automated scanners…

snydeq writes “‘No sooner did Microsoft release the latest round of Black Tuesday patches than screams of agony began sounding all over the Internet,’ writes Woody Leonhard, reporting on verified problems with Microsoft Automatic Updates KB 2817630, KB 2810009, KB 2760411, KB 2760588, and KB 2760583. The latest round of MS Auto Update hell comes…

Cofounder steps down to ‘pursue new ideas’ – but doesn’t say what they are……