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A federal rule banning fake online reviews is now in effect

The federal government plans to provide up to $325 million to Hemlock Semiconductor to produce a key material for computer chips, an announcement Monday with possible political significance as the new factory would be in the swing state of Michigan

Artificial intelligence’s recent rise to the forefront of business has left most office workers wondering how often they should be using the technology and worried about whether a computer will eventually replace them

New GoFundMe tools will make it easier to circulate causes across online platforms in a push to cater toward younger generations

Cyprus says it has successfully thwarted a digital attack aimed at blocking access to the government’s central online portal

The defense ministers of Japan, the U.K. and Italy have agreed to accelerate the joint development of a next-generation fighter jet

David Gruber, National Geographic Explorer and founder of Project CETI, discusses how AI is helping researchers decipher whale calls.

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Donald Trump paced his rally stage in silence for nearly 20 minutes Friday night in Detroit after his microphone cut out

A federal judge has delayed an order requiring Google to open up its Android app store to more competition

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A wave of influencers on TikTok and other social media platforms have started specializing in a trend they call “kindness content,” which usually entails recording a charitable act like giving money or goods to strangers in need

The U.S. government’s road safety agency is investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian

US opens probe into Tesla 'Full Self-Driving' system after crash reports in low visibility and a pedestrian death

Elon Musk has brought his support for Republican Donald Trump to the Philadelphia suburbs for a town hall and encouraged Pennsylvania voters to register to cast their ballots and vote early

One Direction member Liam Payne was found dead this week after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at just 31

Netflix says its subscriber growth slowed dramatically during the summer, a sign that the huge gains from the video-streaming service’s crackdown on freeloading viewers is tapering off

Scientists have pinpointed how sperm and egg fuse together across the animal kingdom, from fish to people

An Alabama man has been arrested for his alleged role in the January hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission social media account that led the price of bitcoin to spike, the Justice Department said

Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, TikTok still approved advertisements that contained election disinformation even though it has a ban on political ads

Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow’s war in Ukraine

The Orionid meteor shower is about to peak

Meta says it has laid off some employees, including staff at WhatsApp And Instagram, to realign its resources with its “strategic goals.”

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Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported better-than-expected third quarter earnings, mainly on the back of cost cutting measures, but saw its sales dive 8% largely due to a weaker India market

The annual college football bowl game held in Alabama’s capital is changing its name to the IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl

Elon Musk, the tech mogul who is the world’s richest man, plunged more than $70 million of his personal fortune into helping Donald Trump and other Republicans win in November’s election, making him one of the biggest donors to GOP causes this campaign...

The Federal Trade Commission has adopted a rule that will require businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships

Scientists say a celestial object discovered decades ago is actually twins orbiting each other

Tech giants Amazon and Google are investing in the next generation of nuclear reactors

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Mexican officials say companies have pledged $20 billion in new foreign direct investment in Mexico

October's supermoon is the closest of the year and it's teaming up with a comet for a rare stargazing two-for-one

Microsoft Corp. has settled a lawsuit from a group of gamers who sued to try to stop the company from buying video game publisher Activision Blizzard for $69 billion last year

Space weather experts say expect to see more northern lights in unusual places as the sun continues to sizzle

The parents of a Massachusetts teenager are suing his high school after they said he was accused of cheating for using AI on an assignment.

Anguilla is raking in extra unexpected revenue from registration fees for its

Meta’s oversight board has expressed serious concern over the company’s failure to take down a viral graphic video showing two men bleeding after they were apparently beaten up for being allegedly gay

Scientists have uncovered an underworld of animal life thriving beneath the seafloor

Russia, China and Iran are expanding their partnerships with cyber criminals to conduct cyberespionage and cyberattacks against the U.S. and other nations, according to a new report from Microsoft

The artificial intelligence boom is providing an unusual windfall for Anguilla, a tiny island in the Caribbean

The Biden-Harris administration announced plans to provide up to $750 million in direct funding to Wolfspeed, with the money supporting its new silicon carbide factory in North Carolina that makes the wafers used in advanced computer chips and its fact...

China has made great strides in exploring space in recent years, rocketing astronauts to its own space station and bringing back rocks from the moon

Hong Kong’s oldest zoo is seeking answers in a monkey medical mystery after nine animals died in two days, including three members of a critically endangered species

A California school has planted a tree that’s out of this world

The spacecraft will complete nearly 50 flybys of the Jupiter moon of Europa to determine if there are conditions suitable for life.

A NASA spacecraft has blasted off on a quest to explore Jupiter's moon Europa and reveal whether its hidden ocean might hold the keys to life

NASA spacecraft launches on a 5 1/2-year journey to Jupiter's moon Europa

Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed a Viking Age burial ground containing some 50 “exceptionally well-preserved” skeletons

A tech consultant has gone on trial over a year after the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco