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Experts say the number of monarch butterflies at wintering areas in Mexico dropped by 59% this year to the second lowest level since record keeping began

Uber posted its first full-year profit since going public in 2019 and its stock is hitting all-time highs as strong bookings in the final quarter of the year pushed profit and revenue beyond Wall Street expectations

It's been 12 years since a pair of conservative writers compared a prominent climate scientist to a convicted child molester for his depiction of global warming

Astronomers are reporting the best evidence yet of a vast, young ocean beneath the icy exterior of Saturn's Death Star-looking mini moon

Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holding on Wednesday approved an additional $25 billion authorization to its share buyback program, amid lower-than-expected sales revenue for the last quarter of 2023

Meta said it would increase labeling of AI generated images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads.

The Biden administration is naming a top White House aide as the director of the newly established safety institute for artificial intelligence

Japanese officials say a pod of killer whales that was trapped in drift ice off the northern main island of Hokkaido, prompting concern from environmental groups, has apparently safely escaped

When it comes to dealing with a Florida college student who uses public data and social media to track the private jets of billionaires, politicians and other celebrities, Taylor Swift apparently can’t just shake it off

General Motors’ troubled robotaxi service Cruise has endured a public lashing from a California judge

A couple of major earthquakes in Oklahoma in recent weeks have raised concerns after years of a declining number of temblors

When rainstorms like this week’s powerful atmospheric river hit California, the earth begins to move

The Twitter-like social network championed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has emerged from its cocoon and is now allowing anyone to create an account and join the service

Facebook and Instagram users will start seeing made-by-AI labels on deepfake images that appear on their social media feeds, part of a broader tech industry initiative to sort between what’s real and not

An Australian computer scientist who says he's the mystery creator behind bitcoin has testified in a London court about the cryptocurrency's origins

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The White House is pressing Congress to extend a federal program that helps families afford internet

ABC News' Emmanuelle Saliba reports on the danger of AI deepfake photos and how they impact celebrities like Taylor Swift and everyday people.

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal's campaign is acknowledging that a series of positive “news” stories posted to her campaign website were generated by ChatGPT

A handful of super powerful tropical cyclones in the last decade has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6

At least 123 people have been killed by wildfires in central Chile

Scientists at the world’s largest atom smasher have expressed confidence about moving forward with a multibillion-euro project to build a larger and more powerful particle collider that could help unlock more mysteries of the universe

The Biden administration is rolling out a new policy that will allow it to impose visa restrictions on foreign individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware

A handful of centuries-old sponges from the Caribbean are causing some scientists to theorize that human-caused climate change began sooner and has warmed the world nearly a degree Fahrenheit more than most scientists previously thought

A Chicago children’s hospital has been forced to take its networks offline.

An oversight board is criticizing Facebook owner Meta's policies on manipulated media as “incoherent” and insufficient to address online disinformation in a major election year

The U.S. economy is humming and there are hundreds of thousands of jobs being added every month

The owner of Snapchat is cutting approximately 10% of its worldwide workforce, or about 530 employees, the latest tech company to announce layoffs

Twenty-three million families will either have to pay more for internet or cancel their subscriptions altogether if a federal subsidy program to help with the monthly bill runs out of money

The Dutch parent of pioneering Russian tech company Yandex is selling its operations in the country at a steeply discounted price of just over $5 billion to its Russia-based managers, oil company Lukoil and other investors

The collective of European public broadcasters has launched a free-to-air streaming service to show major championships in many Olympic sports

Plus, leaked documents appear to indicate that Google may be making major changes to Bard, and Joe Rogan makes a major deal with Spotify, allowing his podcast on other platforms.

The Pennsylvania state courts agency says some of its online systems are disabled after its website was hit by a weekend cyberattack, but that the attack didn't appear to compromise any data

The Russian space agency says one of its cosmonauts has broken the world record for the most time spent in space

Social media CEOs got grilled by Senate lawmakers this week in an emotional and often heated hearing about the dangers their platforms pose to children

A 5.1 magnitude earthquake has shaken an area near Oklahoma City

Satya Nadella marks his tenth year as Microsoft CEO on Sunday, capping a decade of stunning growth as he pivoted the slow-moving software giant into a laser focus on cloud computing and artificial intelligence

Target says it will stop selling a product dedicated to Civil Rights icons after a now-viral TikTok video spotlighted some significant errors

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include “Abbott Elementary” debuting its third season on ABC, Charlie Kaufman's animated movie “Orion and the Dark” and Usher's “Coming Home.”

Extreme heat and wildfire smoke on their own are harmful to the human body, but the combination of both increases damage to people’s hearts and respiratory systems, according to a study released Friday

From an electrifying and colorful musical performance at the FIFA World Cup to a new Grammy Awards category, African music genres and talents are reaching audiences and dance floors across the globe in a breakthrough for an industry that has long endur...

Experts say a large majority of AI-generated videos are pornographic, nonconsensual and include more women than men.

A judge in London has acquitted climate activist Greta Thunberg of refusing to follow a police order to leave a protest that blocked the entrance to an oil and gas industry conference last year

Scrutiny over Taylor Swift’s travel in private jets has been bubbling up online, with people pointing out the planet-warming emissions that are let off with each flight

A group of residents of towns near Japanese nuclear plants has submitted a petition asking regulators to halt safety screening for the restart of idled reactors until damage to a plant that partially lost external power and spilled radioactive water du...

Consumers can now purchase Apple’s new product on Friday, a mixed reality VR headset bringing 3d objects to life.

Apple’s hotly anticipated Vision Pro headset is hitting store shelves

Georgia Power Co. says vibrations found in a cooling system of its second new nuclear reactor will delay when the unit begins generating power

A former CIA software engineer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for what the government called the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history and for possession of child sexual abuse images and videos