High-tech equipment being installed at Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s five jails will make it more difficult for inmates to escape by impersonating detention officers and deputies.

A local company is using technology to combat copper thieves around the country.

NEW YORK - Biometric technology that scans faces, fingerprints or other physical characteristics to confirm people's identities is about to get its biggest, most public test: at U.S. border checkpoints.

OSAKA, Japan - A group of scientists in Japan have developed a robot that acts like a toddler to better understand child development.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. - Todd Fortier is banking on the day when ATMs will be required to confirm a user’s face, voice or thumbprint before spitting out cash. Fortier, 19, is seeking a degree in biometric security at Davenport University, one of the first such programs in the nation.

High technology and good luck fused Saturday as Mesa police investigating a minor disturbance nabbed a 30-year-old man wanted for first-degree murder.

As long there have been police, there have been suspects who’ve evaded justice with forged identification, fake names or not having any I.D.

A high-tech tool that makes lunch lines move faster is raising concerns about student privacy rights.

According to MyHeritage.com, everyone has a little celebrity inside. Largely meant for charting family trees and as a genealogy community, the Web site also boasts an addictive face recognition technology that blurs the boundary between the great unwashed and the thoroughly groomed.

Arizona State University, the University of Arizona and seven other border-state campuses have formed an alliance to develop cold science on one of the most heated topics of the day: the U.S.-Mexico border.

Rapidly advancing drone technology packing the latest surveillance tools into affordable and lightweight machines could help police do their jobs more effectively and with greater safety.

Ken Spector, a computer science student at Arizona State University, loves to read.

The days of academics pumping their fists in the air to protest covert activity by the CIA during the Vietnam era and into the 1980s are over.

The days of academics pumping their fists in the air to protest covert activity by the CIA during the Vietnam era and into the 1980s are over.

SAN FRANCISCO - They're technology celebrities who are responsible for one of America's hottest products (the iPad 2), its most transformative cultural trend (Facebook), and one of the coolest additions to the national vocabulary (Googling).