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The European Union is moving to sharply increase customs duties on electric vehicles made in China

Chinese automaker BYD has inaugurated its first electric vehicle plant in Thailand, part of the company's effort to expand into Southeast Asia while also tackling wealthier markets in the U.S. and Europe

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the Threads platform has passed the 175 million monthly active users mark ahead of tomorrow's first anniversary of its launch.

Cybersecurity experts and French officials say Russian disinformation campaigns against France are zeroing in on legislative elections and the Olympic Games which open in Paris at the end of the month

Scientists in South Africa have been stunned to discover that termite mounds that are still inhabited in an arid region of the country are 34,000 years old, meaning they are the oldest known active termite hills

New Mexico's statewide public defenders office says a recent cybersecurity breach could delay some court proceedings across the state

Pennsylvania’s Senate has passed legislation to encourage school districts to effectively ban students’ use of cellphones during the school day

A snake in the U.K. has drawn attention to the ability of some female species to reproduce without a mate

Global software giant Microsoft Corp. will pay $14.4 million in California to settle allegations that it discriminated against employees who took protected leave from work

Imagine stepping into a life-sized whale carcass decoy and steering it into deep water

Scientists have identified a giant salamanderlike predator with sharp fangs that likely ruled waters 280 million years ago

New fossil study shows giant salamanderlike animal with sharp fangs existed some 40 million years before the dinosaurs

The U.N. intellectual property agency says China has requested far more patents than any other country when it comes to generative AI, with the United States a distant second

U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls in coming decades

To save West Coast spotted owls, US officials plan to use trained shooters to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls

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Anyone who shops or uses the internet probably has encountered a TikTok trend, whether they know it or not

TikTok and its bite-sized videos arrived in the United States as a global version of the Chinese app Douyin

The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against a gig work company, saying it misled people about the money they could make on its platform

Newborn white rhinoceros Silverio has taken his first giant steps in public at the Chilean zoo where he was born

Nine historians have been awarded the prestigious Dan David Prize

World UFO Day is being celebrated amid a surge in sightings and government studies on unidentified flying objects

Brazil’s national data protection authority determined on Tuesday that Meta cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence

Post a comment on Reddit, answer coding questions on Stack Overflow or share a baby photo on your public Facebook or Instagram feed and you are also helping to train the next generation of artificial intelligence

Tesla’s global sales fell for the second straight quarter despite price cuts and low-interest financing offers, another sign of weakening demand for the company’s products and electric vehicles overall

Tesla delivered 443,956 vehicles during the second quarter, a 4.8% decline from last year, but better than expected

The parent of Facebook and Instagram says the old label did not provide enough context.

The U.N. weather agency says it has confirmed that Tropical Cyclone Freddy, a deadly Indian Ocean storm that lashed eastern Africa last year, was the longest-lasting cyclone ever recorded — at 36 days

The Biden administration says it's providing $504 million in implementation grants for a dozen technology hubs in Ohio, Montana, Nevada and Florida, among other locations

The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a Chinese-sponsored resolution urging wealthy and developed nations to close the widening gap with poorer developing countries and ensure they have equal opportunities to use and benefit from artificial intelligence

California lawmakers have advanced a bill that would regulate powerful artificial intelligence systems

A federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law that would require users of websites and other digital services to verify their age

The Supreme Court is keeping a hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users

The Supreme Court keeps on hold Florida and Texas laws seeking to limit how social media platforms regulate user content

Dolores is going through the motions of life when she finds a potentially marriage-ending surprise in her garage: a high-end, lifelike sex doll imbued with artificial intelligence named Zoey

Shares of Chewy have fallen in volatile trading after a regulatory filing revealed that Roaring Kitty, an investor at the center of the meme stock craze, has taken a 6.6% stake in the online pet retailer

A well-regarded Apple analyst reports the next generation of AirPods could have built-in infrared cameras to improve spatial experiences with Apple's Vision Pro headsets.

A new museum in northern Arizona features the fossilized feces of prehistoric animals

European Union regulators have accused social media company Meta Platforms of breaching the bloc’s new digital competition rulebook by forcing Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them

Japan has succesfully deployed an upgraded Earth observation satellite for disaster response and security after it was launched on a new flagship H3 rocket

As Florida’s ban on “lab-grown” meat is set to go into effect, one manufacturer hosted a last hurrah with a cultivated meat-tasting party in Miami

Animal rescuers were trying to keep dozens of dolphins away from shallow waters around Cape Cod after 125 of the creatures earlier stranded themselves

In the last 10 days of June, on a frenetic pace of its own making, the Supreme Court has touched a wide swath of American society in decisions on abortion, guns, the environment, health, the opioid crisis, securities fraud and homelessness

States are trying to help workers beef up their tech skills before they become outdated and get outfoxed by machines that are becoming increasingly smarter

Amazon is reviewing claims that the artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI is scraping content — including from prominent news sites — without approval

The city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to a man who was wrongly accused of shoplifting

NASA says two astronauts will stay in space longer to continue troubleshooting Boeing’s capsule

NASA says two astronauts will stay in space longer to continue troubleshooting Boeing's capsule

The European Union is escalating its scrutiny of the artificial intelligence industry, including taking a fresh look into Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI

An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth this weekend