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One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors from mines in a western North Carolina community harmed by Hurricane Helene is operating again

Thousands of flights in and out of the U.S. have been canceled this week as Hurricane Milton barreled into the Gulf of Mexico and plowed across Florida

Expectations are high for Tesla’s long-awaited robotaxi unveiling at a Hollywood studio Thursday night

Marriott International has agreed to pay $52 million and make changes to bolster its data security

With its mighty strength and its dangerous path, Hurricane Milton has powered into a very rare threat that is flirting with experts’ worst fears

Twin brothers who were born conjoined recently celebrated their first birthday after undergoing successful separation surgery

Space weather forecasters say a severe solar storm heading to Earth could stress power grids even more as the U.S. deals with major back-to-back hurricanes

Scientists now know what the head of the biggest bug to ever crawl the Earth looks like

The social media platform X is returning to Brazil after remaining inaccessible for more than a month following a clash between its owner, Elon Musk, and a justice on the country’s highest court

Elon Musk's X platform is back in Brazil after a nearly six-week suspension, having complied with all judicial demands

Amazon has revealed new technology that it says will help delivery drivers avoid organizing packages at stops or manually check to see if they have the right parcel for each delivery

A cyberattack continues to affect the nation's largest regulated water and wastewater utility company, renewing a focus on the importance of protecting critical infrastructure

A rare, bright comet will be visible in October, clear skies permitting

Wimbledon is replacing line judges with electronic line-calling to mark the latest step into the modern age by the oldest Grand Slam tennis tournament

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for work on proteins

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life

The U.S. Department of Justice is considering asking a federal judge to force Google to sell parts of its business in order to eliminate its online search monopoly

Scientists say human-caused climate change boosted the rainfall of deadly Hurricane Helene by about 10% and intensified its winds by about 11%

The Brazilian Supreme Court’s Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday authorized the restoration of social media platform X´s service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide shutdown, according to a statement posted on the court’s website

Musk’s X will be reinstated in Brazil after complying with Supreme Court justice’s demands, a court statement says

More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against TikTok

More than a dozen states sue TikTok, claiming its platform is addictive and harms the mental health of children

Nobel Prize in physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for discoveries that enable machine learning

Social media users across the European Union will soon have a new forum to challenge decisions by platforms to remove posts and videos for breaking their rules or leave up others that may violate them

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence have won the Nobel Prize in physics

Five Russian mountaineers who appeared to have fallen on the world’s seventh-highest peak have died

American Water serves 14 million people in 14 states, 18 military installations.

In the wake of hurricanes that have disrupted lives for millions in the U.S., some people may wonder if extreme weather events could be somehow controlled

Hyundai has begun producing electric SUVs in Georgia less than two years after breaking ground on its sprawling manufacturing plant west of Savannah

A federal judge has ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday suggested that migrants who are in the U_S_ and have committed murder did so because “it’s in their genes.”

A federal judge said the Federal Trade Commission can proceed with its landmark antitrust lawsuit against Amazon

A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash

European spacecraft launches to a harmless asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed into in previous save-the-Earth test

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun win Nobel Prize in medicine for discovery of microRNA

A team of international scientists is in Fukushima to ensure safety of the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged nuclear power plant

The Nobel Assembly said that the discovery is “fundamentally important.”

Elon Musk has praised Donald Trump as the only candidate “to preserve democracy in America."

Iran is under suspicion of trying to hack figures associated with the upcoming U.S. presidential election and plotting the assassination of former President Donald Trump

Shares of Ubisoft surged more than 30% Friday, following reports that Tencent and the Guillemot family are considering a buyout of the video game maker

Solar storms may cause faint auroras across fringes of the northern United States this weekend

Sean Wang’s semi-autobiographical feature debut “Dìdi” and Jelly Roll's 22-track album “Beautifully Broken” are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases

The chief of the Shawnee Tribe grew up playing video games, including hundreds of hours colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri

The European Union’s top court has said that social media company Meta can’t use public information about a user’s sexual orientation obtained outside its platforms for personalized advertising under the bloc’s strict data privacy rules

Google says it will stop linking to New Zealand news content and will reverse its support of local media outlets if the government passes a law forcing tech companies to pay for articles displayed on their platforms

Wars, a refugee crisis, famine, and artificial intelligence could all be recognized with Nobel Prizes

IronNet, a cybersecurity startup, had promised it would combat hackers using a unique blend of expertise and software

U.S. authorities and Microsoft say hackers linked to Russian intelligence targeted dozens of former military and intelligence officials, journalists and civil society groups with a sophisticated campaign designed to steal information

Pro Football Focus changed how many fans followed the NFL by providing grades and advanced statistics to help quantify how every player performed on a play-by-play basis from high-profile quarterbacks like Patrick Mahomes to more anonymous guards and l...

Tesla is recalling more than 27,000 Cybertrucks because the rearview camera image may not activate immediately after shifting into reverse, the fifth recall for the vehicle since it went on sale late last year