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The U.S. Energy Department wants to switch to less stringent testing for detecting cancer-causing chemicals at and around one of its premier nuclear weapons laboratories

The latest in a series of U.S. satellites that has recorded human and natural impacts on Earth’s surface for decades has been launched into orbit from California to ensure continued observations in the climate change era

The firm wants to address concerns about access and content.

Facebook puts development of Instagram for kids on hold after pushback

Google is heading to a top European Union court to appeal a record EU penalty.

The company says a Wall Street Journal report on how the app exacerbates body image issues for teenage girls misinterprets the data.

With more than 40 million doses of coronavirus vaccines available, U.S. health authorities said they’re confident there will be enough for every American who qualifies

Studying their DNA may help humans keep populations naturally balanced.

A forest fire has displaced thousands of residents in Northern California.

Israel is pressing ahead with its aggressive campaign of offering coronavirus boosters to almost anyone over 12 and says its approach was further vindicated by a U.S. decision to give the shots to older patients or those at higher risk

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley didn’t phone in her speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Friday

The U.S. Department of Defense is taking input on its plan to build an advanced mobile nuclear microreactor prototype at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho

A top executive of Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies has reached a deal with the Justice Department that enables her to resolve criminal fraud charges against her and to return to China

Lawyer says Huawei executive's US prosecution to be deferred, resolving case that roiled relations with China

The White House is stepping up its work to figure out what to do about a rapidly thawing Arctic

China’s central bank has declared all transactions involving Bitcoin and other virtual currencies illegal, stepping up a campaign to block use of unofficial digital money

The European Union wants to require smartphone makers to adopt the USB-C cable as a universal charging chord.

CDC endorses booster shots for millions of Americans, opening a major new phase in US vaccination drive against COVID-19

The advance of lava from a volcanic eruption on one of Spain’s Canary Islands has slowed significantly

The inequity of COVID-19 vaccine distribution came into sharp focus Thursday as many of the African countries whose populations have little to no access to the life-saving shots stepped to the podium to speak at the U.N.’s annual meeting of world leaders

Fossilized footprints discovered in New Mexico indicate that early humans were walking across North America around 23,000 years ago

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved nearly $1 billion in new spending to prevent wildfires that are getting bigger and more destructive from climate change

U.S. safety investigators are asking anyone who witnessed a fiery Tesla crash near Miami that killed two people to send them video or photos taken at the scene

The European Commission pushed legislation that would require all mobile electronic devices to be charged on the USB-C cables to cut down on electronic waste.

General Motors is investing $300 million in China’s self-driving car company Momenta

China’s central bank will soon have access to the private credit information of hundreds of millions of users of Ant Group’s online credit service, in a move signaling more regulatory oversight of the financial technology sector

A Rwandan woman who was orphaned during her country’s genocide and lost part of her leg to childhood cancer has been fitted with a new prosthetic leg

The Surface Laptop Studio features a screen that flips into tablet mode.

"I can never repay them for the situation I'm in right now," one student said.

The U.S. government has released projections that indicate an even more troubling outlook for a river that serves 40 million people in the American West

A foreign business group in China says the ruling Communist Party’s campaign to tighten control over China’s industries and reduce use of foreign technology is denting its economic growth

Tim Sweeney, CEO of Fortnite maker Epic, said Wednesday it's been told by Apple that the game will be “blacklisted from the Apple ecosystem" until the companies' legal case is resolved and all appeals are exhausted, which could take as long as five years

Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer is stepping down from the social media company, taking on a part time role while longtime executive Andrew Bosworth will replace him next year

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is renewing a push to expand a U.S. compensation program for people who were exposed to radiation following uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out during the Cold War

Growing armies of firefighters are battling wildfires in the heart of California’s sequoia country

Apple’s and Google’s cooperation with the Russian government’s efforts to suppress an app opposed to the ruling regime is escalating concerns about whether Big Tech’s pursuit of ever-higher profits has trampled their commitment to protecting civil rights

Ford Motor Co. is investing $50 million in an upstart electric vehicle battery recycling company as the automaker moves to bolster its U.S. battery supply chain

Tech watchers are anticipating the new Surface Pro X with chip refresh.

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has caused slight damage in suburban Melbourne in an unusually powerful temblor for Australia

Coronavirus cases are surging to the worst levels of the pandemic in a rebel stronghold in Syria

Both China and the United States are starting new financial attacks on climate change

The ancient massive trees of Sequoia National Park’s famed Giant Forest are unscathed even though a wildfire has been burning near them in California’s Sierra Nevada for nearly two weeks

A U_S_ government committee that reviews foreign investment in telecom is probing videoconferencing company Zoom’s $14_7 billion deal for cloud call center company Five9 for national security risks due to “foreign participation.”

President Joe Biden is betting on millions more rapid, at-home tests to help curb the latest deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

On the Spanish island of La Palma, a new volcanic vent has blown open and unstoppable rivers of molten rock are flowing

Activision Blizzard, one of the world’s most high-profile video game companies, has confirmed a regulatory probe and said it is working to address complaints of workplace discrimination

Google is planning to buy New York’s St.  John’s Terminal for $2.1 billion, making it the anchor of its Hudson Square campus

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Johnson & Johnson says a booster dose to its one-shot coronavirus vaccine provides a strong immune response months after people receive a first dose

The launch of iOS 15 will give some users the option to share health data directly with their doctors.