Four brothers from New York state were arrested and charged by federal authorities Wednesday in …

Gmail appears to be working again Thursday after people worldwide reported disruptions to a number of Google services over about seven hours.  A widespread outage of the popular Google services began shortly after 9 p.m. PT Wednesday. People reported issues in the US, Europe and parts of Asia including India, Japan, Singapore and Australia, according to outage monitoring site DownDetector. …

IBM has doubled the performance of its quantum computers compared with last year’s model, a key step in delivering on the promise of the revolutionary machines. But it’s only an early step, and rivals are breathing down Big Blue’s neck. The fundamental data processing element in a quantum computer is called a qubit, and having more of them is better. …