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Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store two years ago over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Mideast

Amid fallout from the Facebook Papers showing its failure to address the harms its social network has created around the world, Facebook on Monday reported higher profit for the latest quarter, buoyed by strong advertising revenue

Conflicts over water are as old as history itself, but the massive Google data centers on the edge of a small Oregon town represent an emerging 21st century concern

Amid fallout from charges that Facebook emphasizes profits over user safety, the company reported a 17% profit increase

The U.N. weather agency says greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record high last year and increased at a faster rate than the annual average for the last decade

A group of scientists and ocean life advocates says a type of whale that is one of the rarest marine mammals in the world lost nearly 10% of its population last year

Microsoft says the same Russia-backed hackers responsible for the 2020 SolarWinds breach continue to attack the global supply chain and have been targeting cloud service resellers and others

Dutch climate experts are warning that the low-lying Netherlands could face higher sea level rises than previously forecast as well as dangerous weather events caused by climate change

Officials say a volcano erupting for the past five weeks on the Spanish island of La Palma is more active than ever

Customers who pre-ordered the latest MacBook Pro from Apple last week after the unveiling should be receiving their new computers starting tomorrow.

Australia plans to crack down on online advertisers targeting children by making social media platforms seek parental consent for users younger than 16 years old to join or face fines of $7.5 million under a draft law

Toyota says it's testing hydrogen combustion engines in race cars as it works toward using the technology in commercial products

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The term metaverse seems to be everywhere

His seemingly turbo-charged immune system deserves a bit more credit.

A team of young scientists in South Africa is assembling the equipment needed to reverse engineer Moderna's coronavirus vaccine

One of the world’s largest oil producers, Saudi Arabia, has announced it aims to reach “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2060, joining more than 100 countries in a global effort to try and curb man-made climate change

Britain's Prince Charles says there is a “dangerously narrow” window to tackle global warning

Drought fueled by climate change has dropped Lake Tahoe below its natural rim and halted flows into the Truckee River

A jury weighing the fate of fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes has had its first chance to listen to recordings of her boasting to investors about purported breakthroughs in blood-testing technology

A woman who was the victim of a serial killer and for the last 37 years was only known as Horseshoe Harriet has been identified through a DNA match

Google wants to build at least two more data centers in worrisome locations.

For the first time in eight months, the global shortage of computer chips won’t force General Motors to close any North American factories

Efforts to make school buses greener are gaining momentum thanks to billions of dollars in spending in the federal infrastructure plan

Twitter opens up its live audio room feature to anyone.

Snapchat’s corporate parent has disclosed that its ad sales are being hurt by a privacy crackdown that rolled out on Apple’s iPhones earlier this year, raising investor fears that the app’s financial growth is going into a tailspin

Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks

Organizers of a bid to unionize Amazon workers at a distribution center in New York City are preparing to deliver hundreds of signatures to the National Labor Relations Board

Mexican experts say they have detected the ruins of almost 2,500 pre-Hispanic structures and 80 burial sites on just one-sixth of the route of the president’s controversial “Maya Train” project on the Yucatan peninsula

Government forecasters say that they expect two-thirds of the U.S. to have a warmer winter than normal

Tens of billions of dollars for U.S. environmental justice initiatives originally proposed by Democratic leaders in a $3.5 trillion domestic spending package now hang in the balance as they decide how to trim the bill to $2 trillion

A driver was behind the wheel when a Tesla electric car crashed and burned last April near Houston, killing two men, neither of whom was found in the driver’s seat

South Korea’s first domestically produced space rocket reached its desired altitude but failed to deliver a dummy payload into orbit in its first test launch on Thursday

A company called “Wing” is aiming to have drones deliver packages in 10 minutes throughout major cities.

The White House says the U.S. has donated its 200 millionth COVID-19 shot to help vaccinate the rest of the world

Two new reports show that death, disease and other health problems linked to global warming are rapidly rising

A new Alzheimer’s drug from Biogen brought in only $300,000 in sales during its first full quarter on the market

Fischer Price’s Chatter Telephone returns, now with Bluetooth capability.

Walgreens will begin flying packages by drone to residents in a pair of Texas cities in partnership with Google’s drone-making affiliate, Wing

Venice saw a record five exceptional floods over six weeks in late 2019 that triggered fears about the impact of worsening climate change on the Italian lagoon city beloved by tourists

A volcano in southern Japan is erupting with a massive column of gray smoke billowing into the sky

A U.N.-backed study has found that the world needs to cut by more than half its production of coal, oil and gas in the coming decade to maintain a chance of keeping global warming from reaching dangerous levels

Microsoft has confirmed that executives in 2008 warned Bill Gates to stop sending flirtatious emails to a female employee but dropped the matter after he told them he would stop

Two women from Georgia and Alabama who contracted COVID-19 during their pregnancies are urging other pregnant women to get vaccinated

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The United Kingdom is hosting a meeting aimed at attracting billions of dollars in foreign investment for green projects in Britain

The Pixel 6 will reportedly cost around $600 with the Pro model, which has a better camera, costing $300 more.

A Chinese researcher says moon rocks brought back to Earth by a robotic spacecraft last year have provided new insights into ancient lunar volcanic activity

After nearly seven years in China, LinkedIn says it will stop operating its localized version of the platform, replacing it with a jobs listing site

Global automakers are stepping up the pace when it comes to building factories to prepare for what many believe will be a fast-moving transition from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles