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Newly disclosed text messages between Elon Musk and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal showed that the two men briefly bonded in April over their love of engineering — at least until Musk tweeted this message early on Aug. 9: ‘Is Twitter dying

Police say the hacker who stole the personal data of almost 10 million people in one of Australia’s worst privacy breaches concealed their identity, actions and whereabouts

The Biden administration is proposing a new permitting program for wind energy turbines, power lines and other projects that kill bald and golden eagles

A quick study by two scientists calculates climate change made Ian 10% rainier.

Two space telescopes have captured this week's asteroid strike, the first planetary defense test of its kind

NASA's Juno spacecraft has made the closest approach to Jupiter's tantalizing, icy moon Europa in more than 20 years

Three Russian cosmonauts have returned safely from a mission to the International Space Station

Doreen Bogdan-Martin of the United States has been elected to head the U.N.’s telecommunications agency

3 Russian cosmonauts return safely from mission to International Space Station

The majority of the removed videos were taken down for violating TikTok's minor safety policies, the company said.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says Australia could have tough new data protection laws in place this year in an urgent response to a cyberattack that stole from a telecommunications company the personal data of 9.8 million customers

A scientist who built a global COVID-19 website received this year's Lasker award for public service

Amazon says it’s raising its average starting pay for frontline workers from $18 to $19 a hour

For years, Facebook, now called Meta, has pushed the narrative that it was a neutral platform in Myanmar that was misused by malicious people and failed to moderate violent and hateful material adequately

Soon enough, an Amazon device might know whether you’re sleeping — or not

A new government report says oil spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. dropped dramatically from the last decade of the 1990s to the one from 2010 through 2019

NWS uses a system that only measures a hurricane's sustained wind speeds

More than 1,700 fake accounts have been removed, the company said.

Australia’s federal and state governments have called for Optus to pay for replacing passports and driver’s licenses after 9.8 million of the telecommunications company’s customers had personal data stolen by computer hackers

A Delaware judge heard more arguments over the exchange of information by lawyers in the Twitter lawsuit that seeks to force billionaire Elon Musk to carry through with his $44 billion acquisition of the social platform

NASA's moon rocket is safely back inside its hangar as Hurricane Ian approaches Florida, its launch now unlikely before mid-November

Here are some of your questions on hurricanes, answered by ABC News experts.

The top 10 apps on the Apple Store for week ending 9/25/2022

The "Prime early access sale" is a 2-day extravaganza promising Prime members hundreds of thousands of deals ahead of the holiday season.

A Delaware judge is hearing arguments over the exchange of information by lawyers in Twitter's lawsuit seeking to force billionaire Elon Musk to carry through with his $44 billion acquisition of the social media giant

Australia's second-largest wireless carrier says police are investigating the release by a purported hacker of stolen personal data from its customers and demanding a $1 million ransom in cryptocurrency

A NASA spacecraft has rammed an asteroid in an unprecedented test to see if a potentially menacing space rock could be knocked off course

Tesla CEO Elon Musk won a reprieve from questioning by Twitter lawyers Monday, according to several press reports citing anonymous sources

Mission tested devices that could stop a future asteroid impact with Earth.

Hurricane Ian is prompting NASA to move its moon rocket off the launch pad and into shelter

Amazon says it is holding a second Prime Day-like shopping event in October

Pfizer is asking the Food and Drug Administration to expand use of its updated COVID-19 booster shot to children ages 5 to 11

Hurricane Ian is prompting NASA to move its moon rocket off the launch pad and into shelter

Apple Inc. has announced it will make its iPhone 14 in India

The Australian government says it's considering tougher cybersecurity rules for telecommunications companies and blamed the nation’s second-largest wireless carrier, Optus, for an unprecedented breach of personal data from 9.8 million customers

According to a report from Bloomberg, the feature was supposed to debut on Sept. 12, but its rollout may be pushed back until spring.

A classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office has launched into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket

It comes after two previous launch attempts were delayed.

NASA is skipping next week's launch attempt of its new moon rocket because of a tropical storm that's expected to become a major hurricane

While the coronavirus pandemic was not the main focus of the U.N. General Assembly, the conversations were still happening on the sidelines

Tropical Depression Nine heads towards Florida and may make landfall as a major hurricane next week.

Young activists have staged a coordinated “global climate strike” to highlight their fears about the effects of global warming and demand more aid for poor countries hit by wild weather

NASA's new moon rocket could face more launch delays, this time by tropical weather

Windows on affected Tesla vehicles may cause bodily injury when automatically closing, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, cautioned.

Two more whales have died in Australia after a handful that had been refloated a day earlier stranded themselves again

Scientists are still trying to understand the effects of the Tongan volcano eruption earlier this year

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away

Days after Hurricane Fiona, power had not been restored for most people.

A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck Mexico, causing at least two deaths, damaging buildings and setting off landslides

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates combined characteristic optimism with sobering questions about persistent gender inequality and hunger at an event the Gateses’ foundation convened on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly