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Baidu Inc. is China's highest-profile competitor in a multibillion-dollar race with Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo and General Motors Co.'s Cruise to create self-driving cars

The ban was put in place during the pandemic.

Swedish prosecutors have appealed a sentence given to an Italian surgeon who was prosecuted for causing bodily harm during experimental stem-cell windpipe transplants

Instagram is blocking posts that mention abortion from public view, in some cases requiring users to confirm their age before letting them view posts offering information about the procedure

The German industrial company Siemens will invest more than $100 million in a network of electric vehicle charging stations in North America operated by Volkswagen

NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon.

Members of the Group of Seven major economies pledged Tuesday to create a new “climate club" that for nations that wants to take more ambitious action to tackle global warming

This would mark the first time Amazon would hold two exclusive events within the same year.

Explorers say they found the wreckage of the USS Samuel B

ABC News' Alex Presha got some pointers from the pros behind Room Rater, whose rating system for video conference backgrounds took the internet by storm during the pandemic.

Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure

A proposal is advancing in the Pennsylvania Legislature to require the four state-related universities to promise they are not conducting research or experiments with fetal tissue from elective abortions

The company planning to buy Donald Trump’s new social media business disclosed Monday that it has received subpoenas from a federal grand jury in New York

People with hearing loss have long adopted technology to navigate the world, especially since hearing aids are expensive and inaccessible to many

Consumers this fall can reportedly expect to see four new iPhone 14 models, a trio of updated watches and refreshed AirPods Pro.

Explorers say they found the wreckage of the USS Samuel B

Oregon farmers are fighting against future grasshopper and cricket infestations.

NASA's plan to explore a strange metal asteroid is on hold

Toyota is recalling 2,700 of its bZ4X crossover vehicles globally for wheel bolts that could become loose, in a major setback for the Japanese automaker’s ambitions to roll out electric cars

NASA wants its moon dust and cockroaches back

A date for the first flight will be set after a leak is fixed, the agency said.

Instagram is testing new ways to verify the age of people using its service, including a face-scanning artificial intelligence tool, having mutual friends verify their age or uploading an ID

Scientists have discovered the world’s largest bacterium in a Caribbean mangrove swamp

Firefighting crews are battling a wind-driven wildfire that has blackened swaths of pine forest near a popular resort in southwestern Turkey and driven hundreds of people from their homes

Barack and Michelle Obama make podcasting deal with Audible.

More than five decades after Diane Cusick’s lifeless body was discovered in the parking lot of a mall on New York’s Long Island, authorities have linked her death to the so-called “Torso Killer."

American Airlines says passengers with PreCheck can now pass through security checkpoints at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport with a face scan and phone app

The head of the European Space Agency says Russia's invasion of Ukraine highlights the need for the continent to become less dependent on other nations

A prominent Mexican scientist who led a double life with two families on separate continents and was co-opted by Russian agents into surveilling a U.S. government informant residing in Miami has been sentenced to four years and one day in federal prison

Their company, Higher Ground, produces podcasts for both the former president and first lady, as well as for Bruce Springsteen.

Extended drought conditions in several Mediterranean countries, a heat wave last week that reached northern Germany and high fuel costs for aircraft needed to fight wildfires have heightened concerns across Europe this summer

Federal officials and tribal nations have formally reestablished a commission to jointly govern the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah

The Justice Department says Facebook will change its algorithms to prevent discriminatory housing advertising as its parent company subjects itself to court oversight in a response to a U.S. lawsuit

A Google executive is warning the U.N. Security Council Tuesday that cyberattacks, disinformation and other forms of information warfare being waged in Ukraine are a “crystal ball” for future problems elsewhere

A Google executive is warning the U.N. Security Council Tuesday that cyberattacks, disinformation and other forms of information warfare being waged in Ukraine are a “crystal ball” for future problems elsewhere

South Korea says it has conducted its first successful satellite launch using a domestically developed rocket

Twitter’s board is recommending that shareholders approve the proposed $44 billion sale of the company to billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk

A jury on Tuesday is scheduled to hear closing arguments in the trial of Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the former Theranos official charged with teaming up with his secret lover, CEO Elizabeth Holmes, to carry out a massive fraud

Two employees are claiming the company laid them off without giving required advance notice.

NASA has fueled its huge moon rocket for the first time and completed a countdown test despite a fuel line leak

Wildfires in northern Arizona are crossing land rich with signs of human existence through centuries

Cooler temperatures are helping firefighters stabilize a wildfire in northwestern Spain that reports say is the biggest on record in the country

It is the first of Apple's 270 US stores to do so and union leaders said workers at about 10% percent of Apple’s locations have expressed interest in unionizing.

It was felt across most of the island of 24 million people.

The historic vote by employees of a Maryland Apple store to unionize — a first for the technology giant — is a significant step in a lengthy process that labor experts say is heavily stacked against workers in favor of their employers

Firefighters in Spain and Germany area struggling to contain wildfires amid an unusual heat wave in Western Europe for this time of year