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Doreen Bogdan-Martin of the United States has been elected to head the U.N.’s telecommunications agency

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says Australia could have tough new data protection laws in place this year in an urgent response to a cyberattack that stole from a telecommunications company the personal data of 9.8 million customers

A scientist who built a global COVID-19 website received this year's Lasker award for public service

Amazon says it’s raising its average starting pay for frontline workers from $18 to $19 a hour

For years, Facebook, now called Meta, has pushed the narrative that it was a neutral platform in Myanmar that was misused by malicious people and failed to moderate violent and hateful material adequately

Soon enough, an Amazon device might know whether you’re sleeping — or not

A new government report says oil spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. dropped dramatically from the last decade of the 1990s to the one from 2010 through 2019

NWS uses a system that only measures a hurricane's sustained wind speeds

More than 1,700 fake accounts have been removed, the company said.

Australia’s federal and state governments have called for Optus to pay for replacing passports and driver’s licenses after 9.8 million of the telecommunications company’s customers had personal data stolen by computer hackers

A Delaware judge heard more arguments over the exchange of information by lawyers in the Twitter lawsuit that seeks to force billionaire Elon Musk to carry through with his $44 billion acquisition of the social platform

NASA's moon rocket is safely back inside its hangar as Hurricane Ian approaches Florida, its launch now unlikely before mid-November

Here are some of your questions on hurricanes, answered by ABC News experts.

The top 10 apps on the Apple Store for week ending 9/25/2022

The "Prime early access sale" is a 2-day extravaganza promising Prime members hundreds of thousands of deals ahead of the holiday season.

A Delaware judge is hearing arguments over the exchange of information by lawyers in Twitter's lawsuit seeking to force billionaire Elon Musk to carry through with his $44 billion acquisition of the social media giant

Australia's second-largest wireless carrier says police are investigating the release by a purported hacker of stolen personal data from its customers and demanding a $1 million ransom in cryptocurrency

A NASA spacecraft has rammed an asteroid in an unprecedented test to see if a potentially menacing space rock could be knocked off course

Tesla CEO Elon Musk won a reprieve from questioning by Twitter lawyers Monday, according to several press reports citing anonymous sources

Mission tested devices that could stop a future asteroid impact with Earth.

Hurricane Ian is prompting NASA to move its moon rocket off the launch pad and into shelter

Amazon says it is holding a second Prime Day-like shopping event in October

Pfizer is asking the Food and Drug Administration to expand use of its updated COVID-19 booster shot to children ages 5 to 11

Hurricane Ian is prompting NASA to move its moon rocket off the launch pad and into shelter

Apple Inc. has announced it will make its iPhone 14 in India

The Australian government says it's considering tougher cybersecurity rules for telecommunications companies and blamed the nation’s second-largest wireless carrier, Optus, for an unprecedented breach of personal data from 9.8 million customers

According to a report from Bloomberg, the feature was supposed to debut on Sept. 12, but its rollout may be pushed back until spring.

A classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office has launched into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket

It comes after two previous launch attempts were delayed.

NASA is skipping next week's launch attempt of its new moon rocket because of a tropical storm that's expected to become a major hurricane

While the coronavirus pandemic was not the main focus of the U.N. General Assembly, the conversations were still happening on the sidelines

Tropical Depression Nine heads towards Florida and may make landfall as a major hurricane next week.

Young activists have staged a coordinated “global climate strike” to highlight their fears about the effects of global warming and demand more aid for poor countries hit by wild weather

NASA's new moon rocket could face more launch delays, this time by tropical weather

Windows on affected Tesla vehicles may cause bodily injury when automatically closing, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, cautioned.

Two more whales have died in Australia after a handful that had been refloated a day earlier stranded themselves again

Scientists are still trying to understand the effects of the Tongan volcano eruption earlier this year

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away

Days after Hurricane Fiona, power had not been restored for most people.

A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck Mexico, causing at least two deaths, damaging buildings and setting off landslides

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates combined characteristic optimism with sobering questions about persistent gender inequality and hunger at an event the Gateses’ foundation convened on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly

Saudi Arabia plans to launch a training program with the goal of sending its own astronauts, including a woman, into space next year

Wildlife experts have rescued 32 of 230 whales that were found stranded on the wild and remote west coast of Australia’s island state of Tasmania

Google and Meta plan to cut costs by reducing staff, the Wall Street Journal reported.

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 has caused buildings to sway in Mexico’s capital

A flood in 2019 in an Indian state started eight-year-old Jerifa, her brother Raju, 12, and their parents on a journey that led the family from their Himalayan village to a poor neighborhood in Bengaluru

A day after 230 whales were found stranded on the wild and remote west coast of Australia’s island state of Tasmania, only 35 are still alive despite rescue efforts that were to continue Thursday

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered the lone video speech at the U.N. General Assembly

The International Space Station is welcoming three new residents following a smooth Russian launch

NASA's new moon rocket sprouted more fuel leaks in a test ahead of a possible launch attempt next week