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  • Sri Lanka blocks social media after Easter Sunday bombings

    Sri Lankan authorities blocked most social media after Easter Sunday attacks killed more than 200 people, with officials saying the temporary move was...

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• Apr 21

  • Stolen pickup truck strikes, kills Uber passenger in Oregon

    Portland police say a man driving a speeding, stolen truck crashed into a sport-utility vehicle, killing an Uber passenger

    Apr 21

• Apr 21

  • Biologist study finds mercury in predator peregrine falcons

    Not even Earth's fastest bird can escape mercury contamination.

    Apr 21

• Apr 20

  • SpaceX capsule suffers 'anomaly,' smoke seen for miles

    Officials say SpaceX's new capsule for astronauts suffered an "anomaly" during a routine engine test firing in Florida, causing smoke to be seen for...

    Apr 20

• Apr 20

  • Doctor-services firm says private data of patients exposed

    Physician-services company EmCare says a breach exposed personal information about some patients

    Apr 20

• Apr 20

  • George Zimmerman banned from Tinder dating app

    Tinder cited users safety as a reason for removing George Zimmerman's profile.

    Apr 20

• Apr 20

  • British cyber expert pleads guilty to creating malware

    A British cybersecurity researcher credited with stopping a worldwide computer virus in 2017 has pleaded guilty to developing malware to steal banking...

    Apr 20

• Apr 20

  • Tesla wants to cut size of board from 11 directors to 7

    Tesla proposes to cut its board from 11 directors to 7 in a move the car maker says will make the group more nimble

    Apr 20

• Apr 19

  • Post-mortem upgrade: Hurricane Michael now Category 5 storm

    Hurricane Michael was actually stronger than initially measured when it devastated a swath of the Florida Panhandle last fall

    Apr 19

• Apr 19

  • Oklahoma City bombing 'Survivor Tree' DNA to live on

    Oklahoma City is using science and technology to sustain the DNA of a tree symbolizing hope 24 years after the deadliest act of domestic terrorism on...

    Apr 19

• Apr 19

  • Bobcat survives deadly California wildfire, has 4 kittens

    Wildlife officials say a young bobcat captured and collared a day before a massive, deadly wildfire has given birth to four kittens

    Apr 19

• Apr 19

  • Report: FTC considering oversight of Facebook's Zuckerberg

    Washington Post says discussions between Facebook and Federal Trade Commission officials about the company's data-handing lapses have touched on...

    Apr 19

• Apr 19

  • Ancestry pulls slavery-era ad after backlash

    Ancestry.com is apologizing after an ad for the DNA testing company that showed a white man and black woman discussing escaping to the North during...

    Apr 19

• Apr 19

  • The Latest: Florida mayor not surprised Michael was a Cat 5

    The mayor of the Florida city that was ground zero for Hurricane Michael says he isn't surprised by news that it's been reclassified as the strongest...

    Apr 19

• Apr 19

  • Climate change and pollution delay move of captive dolphins

    An aquarium in Maryland has been looking to build a refuge in the tropics for its captive dolphins

    Apr 19

• Apr 19

  • Drunk on smoke: Notre Dame's bees survive cathedral blaze

    Hunkered down in their hives and drunk on smoke, Notre Dame's smallest official residents _ some 180,000 bees _ somehow managed to survive the inferno...

    Apr 19

• Apr 19

  • Mark Zuckerberg faces criticism over Facebook's data lapses

    Plus, Uber introduces new safety features and Blackberry Messenger will expire at the end of May.

    Apr 19

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• Apr 19

  • Private cargo ship brings Easter feast to the space station

    NASA packed pork chops with gravy, potatoes au gratin and lemon meringue.

    Apr 19

• Apr 19

  • Facebook gathered data from 1.5 million unwitting users

    The company also admitted that "millions of Instagram" users' passwords were stored in plain text.

    Apr 19

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• Apr 19

  • Toyota, SoftBank fund, Denso invest $1 billion in Uber

    Japan's top automaker Toyota, auto parts maker Denso and internet company SoftBank's investment fund are investing $1 billion in car-sharing Uber's...

    Apr 19

• Apr 19

  • How does a Central American migrant caravan form?

    How does a Central American migrant caravan form?

    Apr 19

• Apr 18

  • Groundbreaking Indian Ocean science mission reaches an end

    Groundbreaking Indian Ocean science mission ends in quest to document little-known frontier

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • Chem professor on leave after Nazi gas chamber exam question

    Middlebury College says a chemistry professor who asked students in a written exam to calculate the lethal dose of a poisonous gas used in Nazi gas...

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • America's 1st female astronaut candidate, Jerrie Cobb, dies

    America's first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, has died at 88

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • IPO mania: Zoom zooms, Pinterest pins down Wall Street

    Zoom, Pinterest soar beyond IPO prices in market debut

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • Musk, SEC get another week to reach deal in contempt case

    Lawyers for Tesla CEO Elon Musk and U.S. securities regulators are getting another week to negotiate a deal to keep Musk from being found in contempt...

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • Arizona lawmakers OK ban on cellphone use while driving

    The small list of states that allow either texting while driving or hand-held cellphone use is shrinking after the Arizona House on Thursday...

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • New Mexico panel surprises Facebook with $39M utility bill

    A powerful regulatory authority in New Mexico is requiring the state's largest utility to bill Facebook $39 million for a new transmission line...

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • 2 Zooms soared after the IPO: Did you buy the wrong one?

    Investors on Thursday pounced on their first chance to buy a stake in Zoom Video Communications, but have mistakenly bought shares in the delisted...

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • Facebook says more Instagram passwords exposed than thought

    Millions more Instagram users were affected by a password security lapse than parent company Facebook had acknowledged nearly four weeks ago

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • Assange friend jailed by Ecuador says case will collapse

    A Swedish programmer friendly with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he's confident the allegations that have him jailed in Ecuador lack substance...

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • Israeli team investigating 'chain of events' in lunar crash

    The Israeli start-up behind last week's failed lunar landing says that it is still investigating a malfunction that that caused the spacecraft to...

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • Southern California tickled by tiny tremors every 3 minutes

    Scientists went looking for tiny earthquakes in Southern California and found 1.8 million of them over a decade

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • Droplets of water released by meteoroid strikes found around moon

    Their observations confirm water lurks in the moon's subsoil, not just at poles.

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • Facebook bans several UK far-right groups and individuals

    Facebook says it has banned several British far-right groups and their leaders for spreading hatred

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • Wild bee species critical to pollination on the decline

    The declines hitting honeybees are also hitting other species of bee.

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • Google: Android users get browser, search options in EU case

    Google says EU Android users getting choice of browsers, search apps as it complies with antitrust ruling

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • Samsung's foldable phone breaks as reporters test it

    Samsung to inspect phone units as reports indicate the phone broke or became dented just two days after use.

    Apr 18

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• Apr 18

  • Drones, supercomputers and sonar deployed against floods

    Drones, super-computers and sonar that scans deep underwater are helping to maintain flood control projects _ and predict where rivers will roar out...

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • Australia officials work with social media to safeguard poll

    Australian electoral authorities say they have for the first time set up a cybersecurity task force and are working with social media companies to...

    Apr 18

• Apr 18

  • Some of Samsung's new folding phones are already breaking

    Several journalists say their new Samsung folding phones are breaking after just a couple of days

    Apr 18

• Apr 17

  • Pinterest prices public offering at $19 per share

    Pinterest set the price for its stock at $19 per share Wednesday evening, putting it on track to raise more than $1.4 billion

    Apr 17

• Apr 17

  • California dispute threatens plan to protect Colorado River

    A dispute between two major California water agencies is threatening to derail a hard-won agreement designed to protect a river that serves 40 million...

    Apr 17

• Apr 17

  • Tick, tick, tick: Alaska braces for invading parasites

    Alaska health and wildlife officials are taking steps to track undesirable parasites showing up in the state

    Apr 17

• Apr 17

  • Scientists spur some activity in brains of slaughtered pigs

    Scientists restored some activity within the brains of pigs that had been slaughtered hours before

    Apr 17

• Apr 17

  • Space station shipment launched from Virginia seashore

    Fresh grocery shipment is on its way to the International Space Station after launching from Virginia

    Apr 17

• Apr 17

  • The sneaky ways wasps and spiders fight

    It's all about strategy.

    Apr 17

• Apr 17

  • Meteor seen blazing through skies over East Coast

    Residents along the East Coast have reported seeing a meteor blazing across the nighttime sky

    Apr 17

• Apr 17

  • Undercover spy targeted Kaspersky critics

    AP Exclusive: Mysterious operative haunted critics of Russian firm Kaspersky Lab

    Apr 17

• Apr 17

  • US astronaut to spend 11 months in space, set female record

    NASA astronaut will spend nearly a year aboard the International Space Station, setting a record for women.

    Apr 17