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The European Union’s move on Tuesday to open an investigation into Google over alleged antitrust behavior in the digital ad tech sector's is the bloc’s latest move to crack down on U.S. tech giants

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GameStop raised more than $1 billion in its latest stock sale, capitalizing on a newly arrived and fervent army of online investors

Facebook’s live audio rooms will allow some public figures to host rooms through its app.

Six decades after University of California forestry professor Harold Biswell experimented with prescribed burns and was treated with ridicule, he is seen as someone whose ideas could save the U.S. West’s forests and ease wildfire dangers

Australia says it will fight against plans to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status due to climate change, while environmentalists are applauding the U.N. World Heritage Committee’s proposal

Nearly a hundred carcasses of turtles with throat and shell damage, as well as a dozen dead dolphins and a blue whale, have washed ashore in Sri Lanka since a container ship burned and sank

Dozens of baby squid from Hawaii are in space for study

Iran’s state TV says the country's sole nuclear power plant has undergone a temporary emergency shutdown

Consumers can find tech and other items for as much as 50% off.

Spacewalking astronauts have installed a powerful new solar panel outside the International Space Station

Pesticides can kill bees within a couple of days -- sometimes instantaneously.

Cities in the U.S. West are preparing for considerable growth in the coming decades despite a historic drought and shrinking water supplies

Extreme temperatures like the ones blistering the American West this week aren’t just annoying, they’re deadly

Cities in the U.S. West are preparing for considerable growth in the coming decades despite a historic drought and shrinking water supplies

A Connecticut aquarium plans to auction off the chance to name three of its five recently arrived beluga whales to raise money for their care and to offset the cost of transporting them from Canada

Ads will now display on Instagram’s video feed and can be identified by a small “sponsored” tag.

Three Chinese astronauts have begun making China's new space station their home for the next three months

Much of the American West has been blasted with sweltering heat this week as a high pressure dome combines with the worst drought in modern history to launch temperatures into the triple digits

Customers and employees of several Carnival Corp. cruise lines might have had personal information stolen

A proposal to bring down four hydroelectric dams near the California-Oregon border has cleared a major regulatory hurdle

The head of Detroit’s big international auto show says it will return to the Motor City next year, but with smaller indoor displays, and more emphasis on experiencing vehicles and technology outside

A coastal community in southeast Georgia hopes to soon find out whether the federal government will allow it to build a launch site for commercial rockets

California's reservoirs are shrinking quickly as a drought grips the western United States

A software bug at a major network provider briefly knocked offline dozens of financial institutions, airlines and other companies across the globe during peak Asian business hours

Struggling electric truck maker Lordstown Motors says it doesn’t have any firm orders for its new pickups

Three Chinse astronauts have arrived at China's new space station at the start of a three-month mission, marking a milestone in the country's ambitious space program

Officials say no breakthroughs have been made on key issues during three weeks of international climate talks that ended Thursday

Spotify launched an audio app called Green Room, and Google opened its first retail store in Manhattan.

State media say Chinese spaceship with 3-person crew has docked with new space station at start of 3-month mission

Adding a crew to China's new orbiting space station is another major advance for the burgeoning space power

An unusually early and long-lasting heat wave has brought more triple-digit temperatures to a large swath of the U.S. West

China launches first three-man crew to new space station in ambitious program's first crewed mission in five years

Spacesuit problems have prevented astronauts from completing the installation of powerful, new solar panels outside the International Space Station

Scientists have found a dead Asian giant hornet north of Seattle, the first so-called murder hornet discovered in the country this year

Two men from Estonia have been convicted of federal cybercrime charges involving ransomware and other attacks on computer systems around the globe

Amazon is providing $300 million in low-interest loans to support housing located near mass transit in the Washington, D

The self-driving car pioneer that was spun off from Google isn’t allowing a recent wave of executive departures to detour its plans to expand its robotic taxi service

The Hubble Space Telescope has been hit with computer trouble

The three members of the first crew to be sent to China’s new space station say they’re eager to get to work

Shoppers pick which items they want and their Amazon account will be charged.

A strong, shallow undersea earthquake has shaken parts of eastern Indonesia, cracking some walls and sending panicked coastal residents in Maluku province to higher ground

The standoff between the Indian government and Twitter has escalated after the country’s technology minister accused the social media giant of deliberately not complying with local laws

Online services that interview job applicants remotely by webcam and use artificial intelligence to assess their skills mushroomed in popularity during the pandemic and into the subsequent economic recovery

Worker bees experienced withdrawal symptoms when alcohol was removed from food.

The Associated Press says it will no longer publish the names or photographs of people charged with minor crimes, in a recognition of how such stories can have a long, damaging afterlife on the Internet

Neiman Marcus is hoping to capitalize on rebounding luxury sales by investing more than $500 million over the next three years in refreshing stores, speeding up deliveries and acquiring new technology

U.K. competition regulators are looking into Apple and Google smartphone operating systems, app stores and browsers, over concern that the two tech giants’ control of “mobile ecosystems” is harming consumers

Jurors are weighing the fate a University of Tennessee professor charged with hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving research grants from the federal government

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