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At UN climate talks, cameras are everywhere

Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

Some patients of a Seattle-based cancer center are receiving threatening emails following a data breach last month

Just as technological shifts created the cashless society, further advances are now helping charitable groups and advocates for the unhoused reach those most in danger of being left behind

The future of fossil fuels that are warming the planet are at the core of negotiations at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai

After purple urchins helped nearly wipe out 96% of California's iconic underwater bull kelp forests over a six-year span, biologists say they are seeing promising signs that efforts to save them may be helping

Attorneys for Amazon have asked a federal judge to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against the e-commerce giant

European Union negotiators have clinched a deal on the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules

European leaders reach deal on the world’s first comprehensive AI rules, offering a blueprint for scrutinizing the tech

Recent attacks on American water authorities by Iranian-aligned hackers — as well as a separate spate of ransomware attacks hitting the U.S. health care system — are calling federal officials to action

Spotify’s chief financial officer, Paul Vogel, is leaving next year, the music streaming service said — just days after the company announced its third round of layoffs for 2023

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The company is making it easier for users to find conversations that interest them.

The European Union’s powerful antitrust chief has withdrawn as a candidate for the presidency of the European Investment Bank

Nintendo has canceled an upcoming video game event and postponed several others because of persistent threats to the company, its workers and players

The CEO of chipmaker Nvidia views Malaysia as a potential hub for artificial intelligence “manufacturing.”

A Greek official says construction of the 1.9 billion euro ($2.05 billion) section of an electricity cable that will connect the power grids of Greece and Cyprus is slated to begin in the new year

An international team of climate scientists says the ongoing catastrophic rains in East Africa have been made worse by human-induced climate change

Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for calls and messages across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, the company announced Thursday

Toyota Motor North America is teaming with battery recycling materials and management company Cirba Solutions to expanding its battery recycling network

European Union talks on comprehensive artificial intelligence regulations were paused after 22 straight hours

A powerful earthquake has shaken the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, but countries in the region say there is no threat of a tsunami

The company claims its Gemini Pro outperformed OpenAI's latest GPT 3.5.

The U.K. government says that Russia’s intelligence services have targeted high-profile British politicians, civil servants and journalists with cyberespionage and “malicious cyberactivity” as part of sustained attempts to interfere in U.K. political p...

Twitch, a popular video service, will shut down its struggling business in South Korea, a decision its chief executive blamed on allegedly “prohibitively expensive” costs for operating in the country

Indonesian authorities have ended the search for any more victims among climbers who were caught by a weekend eruption of the Mount Marapi volcano that killed 23 people and injured several others

An internal Amazon memo has provided a stark look at the company’s carefully laid out plans to grow its influence and advance its interest in Southern California

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New Mexico's attorney general is suing the parent company of Facebook and Instagram claiming it failed to protect underage users from exposure to child sexual abuse material and let adults solicit pornographic imagery from them

Google took its next leap in artificial intelligence Wednesday with the launch of project Gemini, an AI model trained to behave in human-like ways that’s likely to intensify the debate about the technology’s potential promise and perils

Meta, the parent company of the social media platforms Instagram and Facebook, is ending its cross-chat feature between the two apps to comply with a new European Union law.

Serbia's president says Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak will be getting a Serbian passport

The Bank of England says it will make an assessment next year about the risks posed by artificial intelligence and machine learning

The generative AI boom has sent governments worldwide scrambling to regulate the emerging technology

Iran says it sent a capsule into orbit capable of carrying animals as it prepares for human missions in coming years

Brushing the dust from his hat and lying on the floor inside his home, Ali Shadilov recalls how he and other fishermen used to laugh at town elders who warned that the enormous sea they relied on was disappearing. “Everyone laughed and said that it would take several million years,” said Shadilov, 73, one of the last surviving former fishermen of the Aral Sea. “Back then, no one could imagine that the sea would dry up.” The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water, with some 68,000 square kilometers (26,300 square miles). Colossal steel ships sailed on deep blue water filled with sturgeon, catfish and other species that were caught, canned and shipped across the Soviet Union. ___ EDITORS’ NOTE: This is the first piece in an AP series on the once-massive Aral Sea, the lives of those who’ve lived and worked on its shores, and the effects of climate change and restoration efforts in the region. The AP visited both sides of the Aral, in Uzbekistan and...

The Biden administration said it will give more than $6 billion to a pair of high-speed electric rail routes in the West

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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of the social network X, has shared a video in which Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei says equality should never come before freedom

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The highly anticipated trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI has arrived a little early after a copy was leaked online

23andMe says hackers stole ancestry data for nearly 7 million users.

Tech leaders have been vocal proponents of the need to regulate artificial intelligence, but they’re also lobbying hard to make sure the new rules work in their favor

Rescuers searching the hazardous slopes of Indonesia’s Mount Marapi volcano found the last body of climbers who were caught by a surprise weekend eruption, raising the number of confirmed dead to 23

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Georgia Power Co. is urging the state’s utility regulators to approve a deal to pay for the company’s new nuclear reactors

California regulators are alleging a San Francisco robotaxi service owned by General Motors covered up the severity of an accident involving one of its driverless cars, raising the specter they may add a fine to the recent suspension of its California ...

A prominent disinformation scholar is accusing Harvard University in a whistleblower disclosure of muzzling her speech and stifling — then dismantling — her research team as it launched a deep dive into a damning trove of Facebook files

Bitcoin is once again having a moment

Uber's stock is set to join the S&P 500 index later this month