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Recent moves by President Joe Biden to pressure TikTok and approve oil drilling in an untapped area of Alaska are testing the loyalty of a young voters

Gordon Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died

Moore and Robert Noyce founded Intel in 1968.

It was the stuff of novels: For years, a con artist plagued the publishing industry, impersonating editors and agents to pull off hundreds of literary heists

On paper, Utah’s sweeping social media legislation passed this week is an ambitious attempt to shield children and teens from the ill effects of social media

A popular gay social networking application has issued a warning to its users in Egypt, as police impersonate community members to target and arrest LGBTQ+ individuals through digital platforms

A private rocket company says an overheated engine nozzle is responsible for last year's failed launch

Russia's space agency says two cosmonauts and an astronaut who were supposed to leave the International Space Station this month will be brought back to Earth in late September

France says it's banning the “recreational″ use of TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and other apps on government employees' phones

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ended some state water restrictions

Ford says its new assembly plant under construction in western Tennessee will be able to build up to 500,000 electric pickup trucks a year at full production

British antitrust regulators scrutinizing Microsoft’s blockbuster purchase of videogame maker Activision Blizzard have dropped concerns that the deal would hurt the console gaming market

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew has endured a nearly six-hour grilling by U.S. lawmakers, some of whom are pushing to ban the popular short-video app nationwide

Under this proposed rule, businesses would be required to allow customers to cancel subscriptions online.

Scandal-embattled Japanese electronics and technology manufacturer Toshiba has accepted a $15 billion tender offer from a buyout fund made up of the nation’s major banks and companies

Utah has become the first state to sign into law legislation that attempts to limit teenagers’ access to social media apps

TikTok's CEO was relatively unknown to the U.S. public before Thursday, when he testified before a congressional committee concerned about data protections on the popular video-sharing app

ABC News’ Jay O’Brien is on Capitol Hill with the latest on the TikTok hearing as contributor and Google Policy Fellow Mike Muse discusses the political implications of a ban of the Chinese-owned app.

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon's orbit this weekend

New research suggests our capacity to care about others might have very ancient roots

Some experts warn that the tech cannot place real human connections.

Police in Montenegro say they have arrested Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon, who is wanted in South Korea following the $40 billion crash of the firm’s cryptocurrency

Coinbase’s stock is tumbling after the cryptocurrency trading platform received a warning from the Securities and Exchange Commission that it could possibly face securities charges

Unlike last season, Apple TV+ will no longer offer exclusive Friday night baseball games for free.

China’s government says it would oppose possible U.S. plans to force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the short-video service as a security risk and warned such a move would hurt investor confidence in the United States

Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman is a TikTok star at age 85, thanks to her 17-year-old grandson

A rocket made almost entirely of 3D-printed parts has finally taken flight, but didn't last long

Ford’s electric vehicle business has lost $3 billion before taxes during the past two years and will lose a similar amount this year as the company invests heavily in the new technology

A nearly six-hour grilling of TikTok’s CEO by lawmakers brought the platform’s 150 million U.S. users no closer to an answer as to whether the app will be wiped from their devices

The battle between the U.S. and China over TikTok came into full view when the social media platform’s CEO testified before Congressional lawmakers

Thai police busted an international gang that operated call centers to deceive older Americans into wiring them money and netted $87 million

Scientists have pulled DNA from Ludwig van Beethoven's hair to look for clues about his many health problems and hearing loss

The NIL age has opened a vast new world of earning potential for student-athletes the NCAA long insisted were amateurs

There's a pesky problem in a wide stretch of the Atlantic Ocean that's likely to wash up on some beaches later this year: Seaweed

The Chinese-owned company is expected to clarify its community guidelines and add new polices on AI and climate misinformation.

TikTok is ramping up a public relations campaign to fend off the possibility of a nationwide ban by the Biden administration

A German environmental group is suing Facebook’s parent company Meta over persistent death threats posted on the social network against its staff

One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts is up for sale — for a cool $30 million

The app faces growing scrutiny over fears about the security of Americans' data.

The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains of central Mexico dropped 22%, and the number of trees lost in their favored wintering ground more than tripled compared to last year

Residents of a Louisiana parish located in the heart of a cluster of polluting petrochemical factories filed a lawsuit in federal court raising allegations of civil rights, environmental justice and religious liberty violations

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake has rattled much of Pakistan and Afghanistan, sending panicked residents fleeing from their homes and offices

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to test for radioactive contamination at a suburban St. Louis park that sits along a notoriously toxic creek

The Netherlands is moving to stop central government employees having apps including popular video sharing service TikTok installed on their work phones, amid concerns over data security

TikTok has rolled out updated rules and standards for content and its CEO warned against a possible U.S. ban on the video sharing app as he prepares to face Congress

The company invites its Pixel superfans to try out Bard and offer feedback.

Google has suspended the Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo on its app store after malware was discovered in versions of the app from other sources

Google has announced it’s allowing more people to interact with “Bard."

A relentless winter at Lake Tahoe has now etched its way into the history books as the Sierra's second-snowiest on record

General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has asked California for permission to test the cars across the entire state