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Extreme temperatures like the ones blistering the American West this week aren’t just annoying, they’re deadly

Cities in the U.S. West are preparing for considerable growth in the coming decades despite a historic drought and shrinking water supplies

A Connecticut aquarium plans to auction off the chance to name three of its five recently arrived beluga whales to raise money for their care and to offset the cost of transporting them from Canada

Ads will now display on Instagram’s video feed and can be identified by a small “sponsored” tag.

Three Chinese astronauts have begun making China's new space station their home for the next three months

Much of the American West has been blasted with sweltering heat this week as a high pressure dome combines with the worst drought in modern history to launch temperatures into the triple digits

Customers and employees of several Carnival Corp. cruise lines might have had personal information stolen

A proposal to bring down four hydroelectric dams near the California-Oregon border has cleared a major regulatory hurdle

The head of Detroit’s big international auto show says it will return to the Motor City next year, but with smaller indoor displays, and more emphasis on experiencing vehicles and technology outside

A coastal community in southeast Georgia hopes to soon find out whether the federal government will allow it to build a launch site for commercial rockets

California's reservoirs are shrinking quickly as a drought grips the western United States

A software bug at a major network provider briefly knocked offline dozens of financial institutions, airlines and other companies across the globe during peak Asian business hours

Struggling electric truck maker Lordstown Motors says it doesn’t have any firm orders for its new pickups

Three Chinse astronauts have arrived at China's new space station at the start of a three-month mission, marking a milestone in the country's ambitious space program

Officials say no breakthroughs have been made on key issues during three weeks of international climate talks that ended Thursday

Spotify launched an audio app called Green Room, and Google opened its first retail store in Manhattan.

State media say Chinese spaceship with 3-person crew has docked with new space station at start of 3-month mission

Adding a crew to China's new orbiting space station is another major advance for the burgeoning space power

An unusually early and long-lasting heat wave has brought more triple-digit temperatures to a large swath of the U.S. West

China launches first three-man crew to new space station in ambitious program's first crewed mission in five years

Spacesuit problems have prevented astronauts from completing the installation of powerful, new solar panels outside the International Space Station

Scientists have found a dead Asian giant hornet north of Seattle, the first so-called murder hornet discovered in the country this year

Two men from Estonia have been convicted of federal cybercrime charges involving ransomware and other attacks on computer systems around the globe

Amazon is providing $300 million in low-interest loans to support housing located near mass transit in the Washington, D

The self-driving car pioneer that was spun off from Google isn’t allowing a recent wave of executive departures to detour its plans to expand its robotic taxi service

The Hubble Space Telescope has been hit with computer trouble

The three members of the first crew to be sent to China’s new space station say they’re eager to get to work

Shoppers pick which items they want and their Amazon account will be charged.

A strong, shallow undersea earthquake has shaken parts of eastern Indonesia, cracking some walls and sending panicked coastal residents in Maluku province to higher ground

The standoff between the Indian government and Twitter has escalated after the country’s technology minister accused the social media giant of deliberately not complying with local laws

Online services that interview job applicants remotely by webcam and use artificial intelligence to assess their skills mushroomed in popularity during the pandemic and into the subsequent economic recovery

Worker bees experienced withdrawal symptoms when alcohol was removed from food.

The Associated Press says it will no longer publish the names or photographs of people charged with minor crimes, in a recognition of how such stories can have a long, damaging afterlife on the Internet

Neiman Marcus is hoping to capitalize on rebounding luxury sales by investing more than $500 million over the next three years in refreshing stores, speeding up deliveries and acquiring new technology

U.K. competition regulators are looking into Apple and Google smartphone operating systems, app stores and browsers, over concern that the two tech giants’ control of “mobile ecosystems” is harming consumers

Jurors are weighing the fate a University of Tennessee professor charged with hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving research grants from the federal government

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IBM has unveiled one of Europe’s most powerful quantum computers in Germany, boosting the country’s efforts to stay in the race for what’s considered a key technology of the future

China's government says no abnormal radiation has been detected outside a nuclear power plant near Hong Kong following a news report of a leak, while Hong Kong's leader says her administration is closely watching the facility

General Motors says it has signed a deal to develop railroad locomotives powered by a hydrogen fuel cell and battery system

The platform no longer accepts ads related to alcohol, gambling, politics or prescription drugs.

The EU's top court has ruled Facebook can face privacy challenges from watchdogs in any of the bloc’s member states, not just its lead regulator in Ireland

A producer for a now-defunct California porn website has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for coercing or tricking women into appearing in sex videos

NATO is expanding the use of its all for one, one for all, collective defense clause to include attacks in space

The French joint operator of a Chinese nuclear plant near Hong Kong says it is dealing with a “performance issue” but is currently operating within safety limits, following a report of a potential radioactive leak

The top two executives at Lordstown Motors have resigned as problems at the Ohio electric truck startup continue to mount

The tech giant is also ditching mask requirements at some corporate offices in California.

AI is better than other automated methods "because it learns from experience."

The live auction lasted under 10 minutes after opening at $4.9 million, with over 20 bidders.

The price to rocket into space next month with Jeff Bezos and his brother is a cool $28 million