A U.S. federal court ruled Tuesday that the Internet is effectively a public utility, upholding a hotly contested regulation requiring broadband firms to treat all online traffic equally.

The so-called "net neutrality" principle was upheld in a 2-1 decision by the U.S. Appeals Court panel in Washington, a major ruling in a decade-long legal battle and the first court approval after two past efforts failed.

A top Google official on Tuesday hailed Israel's tech sector, saying it trailed only Silicon Valley in the United States when it comes to "initiatives."

Hackers aligned with Russia's government breached US Democratic National Committee computers and stole data including a trove of opposition research on Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.

The cyber-attack was so comprehensive, including one access to the DNC network that lasted the course of an entire year, that the intruders were able to read all email and chat traffic on the committee's system, DNC officials and security experts said, according to the daily.

Want to end extreme poverty? Technology hyper-billionaire Bill Gates says the answer is chickens. And that's not the name of new Microsoft software.

Gates, the founder of the world's largest software company, says the best thing to improve the lives of the world's poorest is not computers or the Internet but raising a few roosters and hens.

Messaging app Line said Friday it will list its shares in Tokyo and New York, in a sale valuing the firm at about $5.5 billion, as it looks to spread beyond a strong base among smartphone users in Asia.

The Tokyo-based firm won approval for the sale -- likely to be among the biggest IPOs this year -- with the dual listing expected to raise about 98 billion yen ($917 million).

Uber was fined 800,000 euros ($900,000) in France on Thursday, half of which was suspended, over its controversial UberPOP ride-sharing service.

A new smartphone app designed to alert users to possible terror attacks will be launched by the French government Wednesday, amid growing security concerns over the Euro 2016 football tournament.

The application, which will be free to download in both French and English, will send users a warning "in case of a suspected attack," said the interior ministry, which has piloted and introduced the service.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg briefly found his Twitter account hijacked.

Screenshots preserved by the technology website Engadget appeared to show someone using the little-used account to say Zuckerberg was "in the LinkedIn database" and inviting the social media mogul to get in touch.

Dwarfed by huge jets all around, the mini-plane Thor was nonetheless an eye-catcher at the Berlin air show this week -- the small Airbus marvel is the world's first 3D-printed aircraft.

Windowless, weighing in at just 21 kilos (46 pounds) and less than four meters (13 feet) long, the drone Thor -- short for "Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality" -- resembles a large, white model airplane.

New Russian technologies, including phonecall interception and a facial recognition app, have stirred a fierce debate about privacy and data monitoring.

Infowatch, a Moscow-based IT security company managed by businesswoman Natalya Kasperskaya, found itself in hot water last month after it revealed it had invented a system that companies can use to intercept employees' mobile phone conversations.