SAN FRANCISCO – Google Inc.’s Gmail service was knocked offline Tuesday in a severe outage that the company said affected a “majority” of users. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the disruption, which led Gmail users to get an “Unable to reach Gmail” error...

By Ayesha Tejpar CNN (CNN) — Hurricane experts are throwing cold water on an idea backed by billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates aimed at controlling the weather. Bill Gates and scientists have applied for patents aimed at reducing the strength of oncoming hurricanes. Gates and a dozen...