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For millions of Lebanese, this week's mass explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies, with its bloody aftermath, is painfully similar to the horrific explosion four years ago of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrates that tore through Beirut's port, killing...

Another mission specialist who worked with the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage is scheduled to testify before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel Friday

A high-powered U.N. advisory body says global governance of artificial intelligence is “imperative” and is urging the United Nations to lay the foundations for the first inclusive global institutions to regulate the fast-growing technology

All of 23andMe’s independent directors have resigned from its board in a rare move that marks the latest challenge for the genetic-testing company

Apple is giving more people the chance to test a software update that will implant artificial intelligence into its virtual assistant Siri and automate a variety of tedious tasks on the latest iPhone coming out Friday

The judge who will decide whether Google holds a monopoly over technology that matches buyers and sellers of online advertising must choose whether to believe what Google executives wrote or what they’ve said on the witness stand

Titan submersible's scientific director testifies that the sub malfunctioned just prior to the fatal Titanic dive

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is using a new land use law to propose rural land for a semiconductor facility

Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people

Electronic pagers that were status symbols in the 1990s are used for communication precisely because they are old school

The remotely triggered explosions that hit pagers and walkie-talkies carried by Hezbollah members this week made for an eerie and shocking spectacle

The European Union says it will outline steps to compel Apple to open up its iPhone and iPad operating systems to competing technologies under the bloc’s tough new digital rulebook, which threatens hefty fines for breaches

Refugees navigating resettlement often face a shared hurdle: poor machine translations and a short supply of interpreters knowledgeable in their less-serviced languages

The leader of Hezbollah vowed to retaliate for this week’s deadly attacks on the group’s communications devices

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah is promising to retaliate for deadly attacks on its communication devices

Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of existing problems makes stemming the spread particularly hard

The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage testified that the sub had malfunctioned just prior to the fatal dive

Congo's South Kivu province is at the epicenter of the world’s latest mpox outbreak, in what the World Health Organization has called a global health emergency

California now has some of the strictest laws on election deepfakes

Hackers are demanding $6 million in bitcoin from the operator of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for documents they stole during a cyberattack last month

Scientists have moved about 300 endangered sea corals from South Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast for research and restoration

Some Brazilian users have regained access to X despite a nationwide ban put in place by the country’s Supreme Court

The hidden figures of the space race have been recognized with Congress’ highest honor at a medal ceremony

Opponents of offshore wind around the U.S. are pelting the projects with lawsuits, seeking to cancel them or tie them up for years in costly litigation

FBI Director Chris Wray says the FBI has disrupted a group of hackers working at the direction of the Chinese government who targeted universities, government agencies and other organizations

Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy

Deb Schmill, founder and president of the Becca Schmill Foundation, weighs in on Instagram’s new features and how it's “not enough” to protect children.

Qualcomm lost its bid to get a European Union antitrust penalty thrown out after a top court largely rebuffed the technology company’s arguments in the case involving cellphone chipsets

Government scientists and artificial intelligence experts from at least nine countries and the European Union will meet in San Francisco after the U.S. elections to coordinate on safely developing AI technology and averting its dangers

Lebanon’s health ministry says at least 20 people were killed and 450 others wounded by exploding electronic devices in multiple regions of the country

Israel's defense minister declares a “new phase” of war as Hezbollah officials and Lebanon's state media say explosions went off in Beirut and multiple parts of Lebanon in an apparent second wave of detonations of electronic devices

Taiwanese company Gold Apollo says the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria were made by a company in Budapest

Australian police say they have infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted global communications app developed for criminals, leading to dozens of arrests

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed three landmark bills Tuesday to crack down on political deepfakes ahead of the 2024 election

Thousands of pagers used members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded near simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people and wounding several thousand, officials said

Fired whistleblower says Titan submersible tragedy may have been prevented had safety agency investigated his complaint

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Just one day after pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded, more electronic devices detonated in Lebanon Wednesday in what appeared to be a second wave of sophisticated, deadly attacks that targeted an extraordinary ...

California's governor has signed legislation to protect Hollywood actors and performers against unauthorized use of artificial intelligence, such as creating their digital clones without their consent

Google says it will halt plans to develop a major $200 million data center in Chile to address environmental concerns

SpaceX faces $633,000 in fines for alleged safety violations during two Florida launches last year

Cyprus has approved a massive undersea electricity cable project to link its grid with Greece's

Meta’s global head of safety, Antigone Davis, on what parents need to know about the app’s new features.

Hundreds of handheld pagers exploded near simultaneously in parts of Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people — including members of the militant group Hezbollah and a young girl

Dozens injured across Lebanon after handheld pagers reportedly explode, Lebanese state media and security officials say

Former operations chief of Titan sub testifies company goal was money and there was "very little in the way of science"

Instagram is introducing separate teen accounts for those under 18 as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid growing backlash against how social media affects young people’s lives

Shares of Intel are surging before the opening bell after the chipmaker said its foundry business would make some custom artificial intelligence chips for Amazon Web Services as it attempts to reinvigorate its business

Donald Trump should have the opportunity starting Thursday to sell his shares in Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind the Truth Social platform

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday introduced legislation that would prohibit political campaigns and outside political groups from using artificial intelligence to misrepresent the views of their rivals by pretending to be them