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Google says it’s making progress on its plan to revamp Chrome user tracking technology aimed at improving privacy even as it faces challenges from regulators and officials

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning global leaders that the world not only faces a COVID-19 emergency and the worst economic crisis in nearly a century

The social media platform is blaming a "configuration change" for the problem.

New research links cloud top appearance to lightning during a snowstorm.

A cubical satellite small enough to sit on the palm of your hand is zipping around the world and sending data about radiation to the Louisiana students who designed and built it

The computer chipmaker Intel Corp. is blaming an internal error on a data leak that prompted it to release a quarterly earnings report early

A judge has ordered a Colorado geophysicist accused of dragging a police officer down steps to be beaten outside the Capitol building detained after a prosecutor says he tried to flee the country and commit suicide

California's public health agency recently surprised local officials by lifting a stay-at-home order in the 13-county Greater Sacramento region

Google’s parent company is letting the air out of an internet-beaming balloon company that was providing online access from the stratosphere

Google is threatening to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government proceeds with plans to make tech giants pay for news content

Plus, new shuffle option for Netflix users, and the hidden message on the White House website.

The company suspended the former president's account after the Capitol riot.

The U.S. government has approved routes for a potential system of pipelines that would move carbon dioxide across Wyoming

Plus, Touch ID may return to the iPhone, and Katy Perry's "Firework" races up the charts.

Google has signed a deal with a group of French publishers paving the way for the internet giant to make digital copyright payments for online news content

The digital transfer of power is complete.

The European Union has issued fines to a U.S. video game platform and five game makers after they blocked players from buying cheaper copies of the games in other countries

China’s highest-profile entrepreneur, e-commerce billionaire Jack Ma, has appeared in a video posted online, ending a 2 1/2-month disappearance from public view that prompted speculation about his status and his business empire’s future

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Alabama says it will restore the world's only full-sized mockup of the space shuttle along with its external fuel tank and twin rocket boosters

Major social platforms have been cracking down on the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol

NASA is considering a second firing of its moon rocket engines after a critical test came up short over the weekend

Researchers say the number of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has plummeted to a record low, putting the orange-and-black insects closer to extinction

The cybersecurity firm that discovered a cyberespionage campaign that has badly shaken U.S. government agencies and the private sector says efforts to assess the impact and boot the intruders remain in their early stages

General Motors is teaming up with Microsoft to accelerate its rollout of electric, self-driving cars

Mutations to the virus that causes COVID-19 are rapidly popping up and health officials say the pandemic could get worse unless people do more to curb cases

The top iPhone and iPad apps on Apple App Store for week ending 1/17/21

Lumentum Holdings will spend $5.7 billion to buy Coherent and expand its reach into lasers and photonics

Smartwatches may be able to detect the virus by showing small changes in the user’s heartbeat.

New research suggests Spanish conquistadores butchered at least a dozen women and children in an Aztec-allied town where the inhabitants sacrificed and ate a detachment of Spaniards they had captured months earlier

In a dig at the outgoing Trump administration, President-elect Joe Biden says his team of scientific advisers will lead with “science and truth

Plus, dating apps are swiping left on Capitol Hill rioters, and a wristband to track your mood.

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit has reached space eight months after the first demonstration flight of its air-launched rocket system failed

New research suggests that some beetles are adept at hiding their food from competitors

In a dig at the outgoing Trump administration, President-elect Joe Biden says his team of scientific advisers will lead with “science and truth

Major social platforms have been cracking down on the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol

Indonesia’s Mount Semeru has spewed hot clouds as far away as 4.5 kilometers

Major social platforms have been cracking down on the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen a pioneering geneticist to be his science adviser and is elevating the job to a Cabinet position

The U.S. government has blacklisted Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. and China’s third-largest national oil company for alleged military links, heaping pressure on Beijing in President Donald Trump's last week in office

Plus, a robocaller is fined nearly $10 million and President-elect Biden has a new Twitter account.

Plus, Airbnb is canceling and blocking reservations in the D.C. area, and a Space X capsule's unique cargo.