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A jury weighing the fate of fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes has had its first chance to listen to recordings of her boasting to investors about purported breakthroughs in blood-testing technology

Drought fueled by climate change has dropped Lake Tahoe below its natural rim and halted flows into the Truckee River

A woman who was the victim of a serial killer and for the last 37 years was only known as Horseshoe Harriet has been identified through a DNA match

Google wants to build at least two more data centers in worrisome locations.

For the first time in eight months, the global shortage of computer chips won’t force General Motors to close any North American factories

Efforts to make school buses greener are gaining momentum thanks to billions of dollars in spending in the federal infrastructure plan

Twitter opens up its live audio room feature to anyone.

Snapchat’s corporate parent has disclosed that its ad sales are being hurt by a privacy crackdown that rolled out on Apple’s iPhones earlier this year, raising investor fears that the app’s financial growth is going into a tailspin

Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks

Organizers of a bid to unionize Amazon workers at a distribution center in New York City are preparing to deliver hundreds of signatures to the National Labor Relations Board

Mexican experts say they have detected the ruins of almost 2,500 pre-Hispanic structures and 80 burial sites on just one-sixth of the route of the president’s controversial “Maya Train” project on the Yucatan peninsula

Government forecasters say that they expect two-thirds of the U.S. to have a warmer winter than normal

Tens of billions of dollars for U.S. environmental justice initiatives originally proposed by Democratic leaders in a $3.5 trillion domestic spending package now hang in the balance as they decide how to trim the bill to $2 trillion

A driver was behind the wheel when a Tesla electric car crashed and burned last April near Houston, killing two men, neither of whom was found in the driver’s seat

South Korea’s first domestically produced space rocket reached its desired altitude but failed to deliver a dummy payload into orbit in its first test launch on Thursday

A company called “Wing” is aiming to have drones deliver packages in 10 minutes throughout major cities.

The White House says the U.S. has donated its 200 millionth COVID-19 shot to help vaccinate the rest of the world

Two new reports show that death, disease and other health problems linked to global warming are rapidly rising

A new Alzheimer’s drug from Biogen brought in only $300,000 in sales during its first full quarter on the market

Fischer Price’s Chatter Telephone returns, now with Bluetooth capability.

Walgreens will begin flying packages by drone to residents in a pair of Texas cities in partnership with Google’s drone-making affiliate, Wing

Venice saw a record five exceptional floods over six weeks in late 2019 that triggered fears about the impact of worsening climate change on the Italian lagoon city beloved by tourists

A volcano in southern Japan is erupting with a massive column of gray smoke billowing into the sky

A U.N.-backed study has found that the world needs to cut by more than half its production of coal, oil and gas in the coming decade to maintain a chance of keeping global warming from reaching dangerous levels

Microsoft has confirmed that executives in 2008 warned Bill Gates to stop sending flirtatious emails to a female employee but dropped the matter after he told them he would stop

Two women from Georgia and Alabama who contracted COVID-19 during their pregnancies are urging other pregnant women to get vaccinated

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The United Kingdom is hosting a meeting aimed at attracting billions of dollars in foreign investment for green projects in Britain

The Pixel 6 will reportedly cost around $600 with the Pro model, which has a better camera, costing $300 more.

A Chinese researcher says moon rocks brought back to Earth by a robotic spacecraft last year have provided new insights into ancient lunar volcanic activity

After nearly seven years in China, LinkedIn says it will stop operating its localized version of the platform, replacing it with a jobs listing site

Global automakers are stepping up the pace when it comes to building factories to prepare for what many believe will be a fast-moving transition from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles

Data shows a massive cargo ship that was supposed to be at anchor repeatedly crossed over an undersea oil pipeline during a January storm

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reclassified a rare Colorado River Basin fish called the humpback chub from endangered to threatened status after a decades-old effort to stabilize its populations

China says its launch of a new spacecraft was merely a test to see whether the vehicle could be re-used

The company is expected to unveil redesigned MacBook Pros along with next generation AirPods at its Oct. 18 event.

Facebook says it plans for workers in the EU to work on a new computing platform

Megan Rice broke into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons.

A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers has landed after a 3 1/2-hour trip from the International Space Station

He allegedly hid relationship with Chinese university while getting NASA grants.

A NASA spacecraft named Lucy has rocketed into the sky with diamonds on a 12-year quest to explore a record-setting eight asteroids

Chinese astronauts have begun their six-month mission on China’s first permanent space station, after successfully docking aboard their spacecraft

China has sent three astronauts to its space station for a record-setting six-month stay for the country

The company behind a digital token called Tether has agreed to pay $41 million to settle charges that it misled investors for years by falsely claiming its token was fully backed at all times by U.S. dollars and other fiat currencies

California has added the Pacific leatherback sea turtle to its endangered species list

Biden administration taking steps to address economic risks from climate change.

A forthcoming flight to space by a Japanese billionaire will let the public have a closer look at life on board the International Spacer Station

China launches 3-person crew for six-month mission aboard space station in longest-yet mission for Chinese astronauts

Shortly ahead of sending a new three-person crew to its space station, China has renewed its commitment to international cooperation in the peaceful use of space

The instant messaging service now allows users to encrypt their chat history in the cloud.