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Apple is closing 11 stores in Arizona, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina that it had reopening just a few weeks ago

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says a "sophisticated state-based cyber actor” is targeting Australia in an escalating cyber campaign threatening all levels of government, businesses, essential services and critical infrastructure

Space Perspective plans to offer flights to the upper edge of Earth’s atmosphere.

A genetic analysis of COVID-19 patients suggests that blood type might influence whether someone develops severe disease

Plus, proposed double-decker seating on planes, and a new dating app for dog lovers.

It's one of the Minneapolis Police Department's latest reform measures.

NASA's next Mars rover is honoring all the medical workers on the front lines of the coronavirus battle

The latest challenge for the autonomous vehicle industry: How to assure passengers that the car they are getting in is virus free, even if it doesn’t have a driver

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, are donating $120 million toward student scholarships at historically black colleges and universities

Even though the six-month Atlantic hurricane season lasts as long as a typical Major League Baseball season, a Florida congresswoman thinks it needs to be longer

The top 10 Apple Movies on the iTunes Store for week ending 6/14/20

Facebook has removed hundreds more social media accounts that it says belonged to members of two different white supremacy groups

Russia's Health Ministry says that clinical trials of a Russian coronavirus vaccine have started

Businesses that suffered major losses during shelter in place are able to reopen again, and when they do, it won't be business as usual.

The Distance Assistant uses a monitor and a camera to show warehouse employees how they're doing in real time.

The company has long been embroiled in controversy for its political ads policy.

The economic fallout from COVID-19 causes the wireless carrier to eliminate more than 3,400 jobs.

The head of the U.S. communications regulator says T-Mobile’s nationwide, hours-long outage Monday was “unacceptable” and that the Federal Communications Commission will investigate

Researchers in England say they have the first evidence that a drug can improve survival from COVID-19

The global coronavirus crisis is disrupting summer internships for many university students and recent graduates even as economies slowly restart

Outside experts have concluded that the chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and an aide violated the agency's scientific integrity standards in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian

You can now buy one of those animal-like robots made famous on YouTube — so long as you don’t plan to use it to harm or intimidate anyone

A Harvard University professor has pleaded not guilty to lying about his ties to a Chinese intellectual property program

The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store for week ending 6/14/20

The app reportedly uses short-range Bluetooth to alert users when they may have been exposed to the virus.

T-Mobile blames a routing issue that knocked out phone service for many customers.

China has delayed the launch of the final satellite to complete its GPS-like Beidou Navigation Satellite System constellation due to technical reasons

The conviction of two Philippine journalists for libel is a blow to press freedom and comes as media watchdogs track declines in press freedoms and democratic institutions around the world

T-Mobile, one of the three largest mobile carriers in the U.S., says it’s working to fix widespread network issues

Facebook's WhatsApp chat platform is launching mobile payments in Brazil, a country often used to test out new services because of its large online population

The head of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog agency says Iran must provide inspectors access to sites where the country is thought to have stored or used undeclared nuclear material

Norway has suspended use of its smartphone app meant to track and trace coronavirus contagions after a public spat between health authorities and the information watchdog

The retail giant will decide on implementing the system in other stores after the test.

The artifact, a songbird on a pedestal, appears to be about 13,500 years old.

Meteorologists report that Earth's warming ties a record level for May

Twitter has removed a vast network of accounts that is says is linked to the Chinese government and was pushing false information favorable to the country’s communist rulers

Plus, YouTube donates $100 million to "amplify" black content creators; meet the robot "Kimberly."

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated “the gross inequality” of a world where almost half the population is unable to connect

A Japanese high court has upheld a lower court's decision that the French head of Mt

Video app company Zoom says it blocked several meetings and temporarily suspended the accounts of three activists at the Chinese government's request

Coronavirus cases are rising in nearly half the U.S. states

Amid a nationwide push for police reform, Amazon implements a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition technology.

Amazon says it will ban police use of its facial recognition technology for a year in order to give Congress time to come up with ways to regulate the technology

Google has released a test version of its annual upgrade to its Android software without the usual fanfare heralding the latest operating system powering most smartphones

The COVID-19 pandemic is drastically cutting the number of young whooping cranes to be released this fall to boost flocks of the world’s rarest cranes

Advanced technologies are being developed to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID-19 as the U.S. reopens.

A scientist whose modelling helped set Britain’s coronavirus strategy says the country’s death toll could have been cut in half if lockdown had been introduced a week earlier

In a June 8 letter to Congress, CEO Arvind Krishna spoke to IBM’s support of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020.

The government seeks a record $225 million in fines from health insurance telemarketers.

The CEO of CrossFit is stepping down after his tweet about George Floyd sparked a social media backlash and led to affiliated gyms and Reebok cutting ties with the exercise brand