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Two private companies are aiming to get the U.S. back in the moon-landing business, more than five decades after the Apollo program ended

A U.S. labor agency has accused SpaceX of unlawfully firing employees who penned an open letter critical of CEO Elon Musk and creating an impression that worker activities were under surveillance by the rocket ship company

Bloomberg reports that TikTok is planning a major e-commerce expansion.

President Joe Biden's administration is providing $162 million to Arizona high-tech manufacturer Microchip Technology to support the domestic production of computer chips

Starting this month, some new personal computers that run Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system will have a special “Copilot key” that launches the software giant’s AI chatbot

Rescue workers are braving the cold to save people still trapped under collapsed buildings in western Japan

For decades, political battles in Bangladesh have been fought on the streets by parties led by two powerful women

The falling-block video game Tetris has met its match in 13-year-old Willis Gibson

Scientists have found a way to help Alzheimer's drugs seep inside the brain faster — using sound waves to jiggle a temporary opening in its protective shield

For the first time in the United States, turbines are sending electricity to the grid from the sites of two large offshore wind farms

Customers may be canceling their streaming subscriptions, new data appeared to show.

Protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war have disrupted the first day of California's legislative session

Rescuers in Japan are braving the cold in a race against time as they search for survivors along the country's western coastline after a powerful earthquake earlier in the week smashed homes and left at least 78 people dead and 51 people missing

The possibility of college teams using NFL-style communication technology has been viewed with a little more urgency in the aftermath of the Michigan sign-stealing scandal

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Content creator Travaine Barnett hit the streets asking women how owning an Android affects their perception of men.

According to Axios, Fidelity estimates the platform is worth 71% less than when Elon Musk bought it.

Death toll from Japanese quakes rises to 48, government officials say

The death toll in a series of powerful earthquakes in Japan has risen to 30, local officials say

A series of powerful earthquakes has hit western Japan, leaving at least 62 people dead

Officials say several people suffered minor injuries and service was disrupted when a train derailed and caught fire on New Year’s Day in the San Francisco Bay Area

A foreign exchange student from China who was reported missing last week in Utah has been found

Chief Justice John Roberts is turning his focus to the promise and shortcomings of artificial intelligence in the federal courts

Google has agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit alleging it spied on people who used the “incognito" mode in its Chrome browser — along with similar “private” modes in other browsers — to track their internet use

The toys contain powerful magnetic balls that could pose a hazard if swallowed.

Former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge in New York

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Dan Levy's directorial debut, the return of NBC's rebooted “Night Court” for its second season and new game shows on Fox

The U.S. military has launched its secret space plane on another mission that's expected to last at least a couple of years

As native trees in the Pacific Northwest die off due to climate changes, the U_S_ Forest Service and others are turning to a strategy called “assisted migration.”

A judge in New York has ruled that Alibaba must face a lawsuit by a U.S. toymaker alleging that the Chinese ecommerce giant's online platforms were used to sell counterfeit Squishmallows

What we learned about forms of generative A.I. like ChatGPT, and how it could re-shape our world.

A juvenile sperm whale that appeared to be in poor health has been euthanized after stranding on a North Carolina beach

If you are an Amazon Prime Video user, get ready to see ads on movies and TV shows starting next month

Two higher-end models of the Apple Watch can go on sale again after a federal court temporarily lifted a sales halt ordered by the International Trade Commission due to a patent dispute

Contributor Mike Muse talks about a recent lawsuit from The New York Times alleging that artificial intelligence companies infringed on its copyright.

Gaston Glock, the Austrian developer of the handgun that bears his name, has died

A study from Harvard says social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, trying to end the practice of using its stories to train chatbots

Apple is filing an emergency motion asking a court to let it keep selling two of its most popular watches until a final decision on its broader appeal in a patent dispute is decided

Experts are warning that the spread of misinformation could get worse in the coming presidential election contest

Daihatsu, a unit of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp., has shut down production lines at all its four factories in Japan while transport ministry officials investigate improper tests for safety certifications

She’s an important figure behind today’s artificial intelligence boom, but not all computer scientists thought Fei-Fei Li was on the right track when she came up with the idea for a giant visual database called ImageNet that took years to build

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include the return of “Night Court” and the release of an early K-pop sensation, the boy band TVXQ

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