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Climate change will be one focus of the World Economic Forum's first in-person gathering of business and government leaders in two years

Chicago Public Schools says the personal information of more than a half-million district students and staff was compromised in a ransomware attack on a district vendor last December

The Valor of the Atlantic is exploring several shipwrecks off the East Coast.

Boeing's astronaut capsule has arrived at the International Space Station in a critical repeat test flight

ABC News' Phil Lipof speaks with New York Times technology correspondent and director of the documentary "Elon Musk's Crash Course" about the ongoing safety saga of Musk's self-driving Tesla.

A federal judge has dismissed a securities fraud and defamation lawsuit filed by a Tesla investor against CEO Elon Musk, the company and a Musk supporter

A judge says a driver who used a Tesla on autopilot must stand trial for a crash

The company says it will place warning notices on content deemed to be misleading from highly visible accounts.

Boeing's crew capsule has blasted off on a repeat test flight to the International Space Station

The mining company that wants to extract a rare heat-resistant element from the ground under southeast Nebraska says a new report shows the deposit it plans to mine holds a significant amount of other rare elements

Thursday is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and Apple marked the occasion by unveiling new features to make its devices more inclusive.

WhatsApp parent Meta is moving forward with its push to attract businesses to its popular chat app

Twitter is stepping up its fight against misinformation with a new policy cracking down on posts that spread potentially dangerous false stories

Japan has announced it will donate $2.1 million to the International Atomic Energy Agency for its efforts to ensure the safety of Ukrainian nuclear facilities that have come under Russian attack

Practically every minute of every hour, someone sends a tweet to Bill Pulte, a 33-year-old private-equity investor and heir to the mammoth PulteGroup homebuilding company

Millions of users have cancelled their subscriptions, the company said.

An Australian state attorney general has declined to pardon a mother convicted almost 20 years ago of smothering her four children to death and instead ordered a new inquiry into whether there could be a medical explanation for the tragedies

Federal officials are bracing for another difficult hurricane season

Federal forecasters say Hawaii and the Central Pacific basin should expect two to four hurricanes, tropical depressions or tropical storms this year

A state agency in New York has filed an administrative complaint against Amazon, alleging the e-commerce giant discriminated against pregnant and disabled workers by denying reasonable accommodations and forcing them to take unpaid leave

NASA's Mars lander, called Insight, is slowly losing power because its two solar panels are covered in dust and it will need to mostly shut down by the end of May.

The spacecraft landed in 2019 to study the deep interior of the planet.

The new series of features will include door detection for the blind and Apple Watch mirroring with voice control.

Japan’s nuclear regulator has approved plans to release treated wastewater.

A NASA spacecraft on Mars is losing power and is headed for a dusty demise

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can’t “move forward” unless the company shows public proof that less than 5% of the accounts on the platform are fake or spam

Dozens of environmental and anti-nuclear organizations are opposing any attempt to extend the operating life of California's last running nuclear power plant

An autonomous vehicle technology company that partners with Ford and Volkswagen says it has started driverless operations in two of eight cities where it is developing its technology

Authorities say a suspect in a 1988 sexual assault and killing of a 79-year-old woman in a small Northern California community has been identified thanks to advanced DNA testing on scrapings from the victim’s fingernails

Congress held its first hearing in half a century Tuesday on unidentified flying objects

Experts are calling for a broader discussion around livestreams after a white gunman killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket

The top 10 books on the Apple Store for week ending 5/15/2022

The top 10 books on the Apple Store for week ending 5/15/2022

An outbreak of avian flu is forcing farmers to cull their flocks and leading to concerns about even higher food prices

Verizon will increase its prices for consumer and business customers.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has given the strongest hint yet that he would like to pay less for Twitter than his $44 billion offer made last month

A U.S. senator is apologizing after getting booed and heckled for remarks she made on sexual identity during a university graduation speech

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years into the outbreak

Jeff Bezos this weekend became the latest centibillionaire to launch a political fight on Twitter by denouncing a tweet by President Joe Biden about corporate taxes as “disinformation” and “misdirection.”

Rival Disney+ offered a livestream of the Academy Awards in February.

New Zealand will help pay for lower-income families to scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cleaner hybrid or electric cars as part of a sweeping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Social platforms have learned to remove violent videos of extremist shootings more quickly over the past few years

Bernard Bigot, a French scientist leading a vast international effort to demonstrate that nuclear fusion can be a viable source of energy, has died

A SpaceX rocket has carried 53 satellites for the Starlink internet constellation into orbit

Lighter winds allowed for the most intense aerial attack this week on multiple wildfires in New Mexico, including the biggest U.S. wildfire burning northeast of Santa Fe

She has an unusual disorder that caused her front limb to bend the wrong way.

A total lunar eclipse will grace the night skies this weekend, providing longer than usual thrills for stargazers across North and South America

Scuba divers at Lake Tahoe are sorting through their haul.

Two top executives are leaving Twitter as a temporary hiring freeze goes into effect and Elon Musk tries to raise $44 billion to buy the company.

Nissan is considering adding a new auto plant in the U.S. to keep up with growing demand for electric vehicles