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The law that could ban TikTok is coming before the Supreme Court

In 2024, the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached the highest annual levels ever recorded on the planet, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Earth records its hottest year ever in 2024 and passes major climate threshold

The company announced this week it was ending third-party fact-checking and moving toward community notes.

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole

A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but meteorologists say the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as usual

In a collision between free speech and national security, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the fate of TikTok, a digital age cultural phenomenon that roughly half the U.S. population uses for entertainment and information

A revolutionary mode of transportation known as electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs, could be the future of taxis.

So much of the technology showcased at CES includes gadgets made to improve consumers’ lives — whether by leveraging AI to make devices that help people become more efficient, by creating companions to cure loneliness or by providing tools that help pe...

An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice that's at least 1.2 million years old

Meta says it will allow some Facebook users to view eBay listings on its Marketplace service

New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction

Interior lighting aimed at reducing motion sickness

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A renowned Israeli TV journalist who lost his ability to speak clearly because of ALS is returning to the air using artificial-intelligence software that recreates his widely recognized gravelly voice

Rescue workers in the freezing, high-altitude Tibet region are searching for more survivors and victims, one day after a strong earthquake leveled thousands of houses and killed at least 126 people near a holy city for Tibetan Buddhists

ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with the founding CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate Imran Ahmed about Facebook and Instagram owner Meta ending its fact-checking program.

ABC News' Mike Muse and Alexis Christoforous break down what the changes will mean for Meta's platforms.

When he was still a boy making the long, tedious trips between his school and his woodsy home in the mountains during the 1980s, JoeBen Bevirt began fantasizing about flying cars that could whisk him to his destination in a matter of minutes

ABC News’ Alexis Christoforous explains the decision, which Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says will also be in place for Instagram and Threads.

Visual content companies Shutterstock and Getty Images will join to become a $3.7 billion visual content company

Chipmaker Nvidia has unveiled new technology for gamers and creators at CES 2025

At a time when North American bird populations are declining dramatically, the number of people watching them is increasing

A strong earthquake shook a mountainous region in western China near Nepal on Tuesday morning, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties

A Tennessee law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of its visitors was largely blocked in court before taking effect Jan. 1

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever put into space, has made a historic discovery.

The most powerful telescope ever put into space has made a historic discovery.

CES, the annual trade show of all-things tech, is upon us

The FBI says the New Orleans truck attacker who killed 14 people had previously scouted the French Quarter and recorded video with his Meta smart glasses

The fate of TikTok is keeping creators and small business owners in anxious limbo as they await a decision from the Supreme Court that could upheld their livelihoods

Data collected by Tesla on the driver and vehicle in the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion and then shared with law enforcement has shined a spotlight on a difficult ethical question for the auto industry: Are companies violating your privacy rights

Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of turning its virtual assistant Siri into a snoop that eavesdropped on the users of iPhones and other trendy devices in a betrayal to its long-standing commitment to pers...

The Quadrantids are one of the strongest showers of the year, astronomers say.

Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices

Two deadly incidents on New Year’s Day — an attack being investigated as an act of terrorism in New Orleans and an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas — both involved vehicles that were rented on Turo, a peer-to-peer car sharing company

South Korean cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon has pleaded not guilty to a freshly unsealed indictment released in time for his first U.S. court appearance

Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries

Tesla’s global annual sales fell for the first time in more than a dozen years, a blow to a stock that has soared since Donald Trump's election and its CEO billionaire became a top policy adviser to the president elect

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said it has exchanged lists of nuclear facilities with India as part of a bilateral pact that bars them from attacking each other’s nuclear facilities

Aerospace engineer and citizen astronaut Aisha Bowe discusses making her dreams come true aboard her upcoming Blue Origin spaceflight.

The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses

The Quadrantid meteor shower will be the year’s first chance to see fireballs in the sky