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Australia’s competition watchdog says a lack of competition for Google and a lack of transparency in the digital advertising supply chain need to be addressed because they are impacting publishers, advertisers and consumers

Across most of America, GameStop is just a place to buy a video game

Apple’s delayed launch of its latest iPhones unleashed a holiday buying frenzy that propelled sales of the trendsetting company’s most popular product to its fastest start in years

Facebook capped a tumultuous 2020 with soaring earnings in the year's final quarter

A new supercomputer in Wyoming will rank among the fastest in the world

Spacewalking astronauts encountered cable trouble while attempting to make home improvements 260 miles up

A new study in the journal Nature documents a steep decline in global shark and ray numbers in the past half century

Apple is urging iPhone and iPad users to update their devices to fix security flaws that might have been “actively exploited” by hackers

Walmart is enlisting the help of robots to keep up with a surge in online orders

Apple releases emergency operating system to combat phone hacking, Amazon Echo releases new dog bark security feature.

Indonesia’s most active volcano has erupted with a river of lava and searing gas clouds flowing down its slopes

Google believes hackers backed by the North Korean government posed as computer security bloggers on social media while attempting to steal information from researchers in the field

A draft investigation report into the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown says it has detected dangerously high levels of radioactive contamination at two of the three reactors, adding to concerns about decommissioning challenges

California’s top health official has revealed the math behind the state’s calculation that it is safe to lift remaining stay-at-home orders

Internet users across the northeast U.S. reported widespread outages Tuesday.

The European Union is urging U.S. President Joe Biden to help draw up a common rule book to rein in the power of big tech companies like Facebook and Twitter and combat the spread of fake news

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen a pioneering geneticist to be his science adviser and is elevating the job to a Cabinet position

Gay dating app Grindr faces a fine of more than $10 million from Norwegian regulators for failing to get consent from users before sharing their personal information with advertising companies, in breach of stringent European Union privacy rules

The first private space station crew has been introduced a year ahead of the planned launch

Major internet outage affecting users from Washington, D.C., to Boston; Verizon fiber cut reported

Electric vehicle stocks spiked Tuesday on the news.

The many different types of gambling are quickly coming together with each other and with media outlets — and Wall Street is taking notice

The head of Germany’s national earth sciences research center has been dismissed from his post amid allegations of corruption

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Instagram adds professional dashboard for business accounts, "Harry Potter" live action series reportedly in the works.

California’s health department released to the public previously secret projections for future hospital intensive care unit capacity throughout the state, the key metric for lifting the coronavirus stay-at-home order

Google says it’s making progress on its plan to revamp Chrome user tracking technology aimed at improving privacy even as it faces challenges from regulators and officials

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning global leaders that the world not only faces a COVID-19 emergency and the worst economic crisis in nearly a century

The social media platform is blaming a "configuration change" for the problem.

New research links cloud top appearance to lightning during a snowstorm.

A cubical satellite small enough to sit on the palm of your hand is zipping around the world and sending data about radiation to the Louisiana students who designed and built it

The computer chipmaker Intel Corp. is blaming an internal error on a data leak that prompted it to release a quarterly earnings report early

A judge has ordered a Colorado geophysicist accused of dragging a police officer down steps to be beaten outside the Capitol building detained after a prosecutor says he tried to flee the country and commit suicide

California's public health agency recently surprised local officials by lifting a stay-at-home order in the 13-county Greater Sacramento region

Google’s parent company is letting the air out of an internet-beaming balloon company that was providing online access from the stratosphere

Google is threatening to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government proceeds with plans to make tech giants pay for news content

Plus, new shuffle option for Netflix users, and the hidden message on the White House website.

The company suspended the former president's account after the Capitol riot.

The U.S. government has approved routes for a potential system of pipelines that would move carbon dioxide across Wyoming

Plus, Touch ID may return to the iPhone, and Katy Perry's "Firework" races up the charts.

Google has signed a deal with a group of French publishers paving the way for the internet giant to make digital copyright payments for online news content

The digital transfer of power is complete.

The European Union has issued fines to a U.S. video game platform and five game makers after they blocked players from buying cheaper copies of the games in other countries

China’s highest-profile entrepreneur, e-commerce billionaire Jack Ma, has appeared in a video posted online, ending a 2 1/2-month disappearance from public view that prompted speculation about his status and his business empire’s future

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Alabama says it will restore the world's only full-sized mockup of the space shuttle along with its external fuel tank and twin rocket boosters

Major social platforms have been cracking down on the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol

NASA is considering a second firing of its moon rocket engines after a critical test came up short over the weekend

Researchers say the number of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has plummeted to a record low, putting the orange-and-black insects closer to extinction

The cybersecurity firm that discovered a cyberespionage campaign that has badly shaken U.S. government agencies and the private sector says efforts to assess the impact and boot the intruders remain in their early stages

General Motors is teaming up with Microsoft to accelerate its rollout of electric, self-driving cars