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A billionaire has rocketed back into orbit, aiming to perform the first private spacewalk

SpaceX launches billionaire and three others on a trip to conduct the first private spacewalk

The Australian government has promised to legislate this year to enforce a minimum age for children to access social media but has yet to announce how ages will be verified

The European Union’s top court has rejected Apple’s final legal challenge against an order from the bloc’s executive commission to repay 13 billion euros in back taxes to Ireland, bringing an end to the long-running dispute

A new study says the amount and proportion of the powerful heat-trapping gas methane that humans spew into the atmosphere is rising, and it's helping to turbocharge climate change

The European Union's top court rejects Apple's final appeal against order to repay 13 billion euros to Ireland

A small robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday, beginning a two-week, high-stakes mission to retrieve for the first time a tiny amount of melted fuel debris from the bottom

An extendable robot has begun a two-week mission to retrieve the first sample of melted fuel debris from inside one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

Apple has squarely shifted its focus toward artificial intelligence with the unveiling of its hotly anticipated iPhone 16 along with a slew of features coming with the next update to the device's operating system

NASA has given the go-ahead to next month’s launch to Jupiter’s moon Europa

Former employees of the company that owned an experimental submersible that imploded on its way to the wreck of the Titanic are scheduled to testify before a Coast Guard investigatory board

A site in New York state has been chosen to build trains for a new high-speed rail line being constructed between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area

Hyperloop has achieved significant liftoff in the northern Netherlands

Poland's security officials say they have foiled cyberattacks and online blackmail attempts by groups acting for Russian and Belarusian services

One month after a judge declared Google’s search engine an illegal monopoly, the tech giant is defending against another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company

Education has become a primary goal of artificial intelligence interests in Washington

The shooting at a Georgia high school has highlighted concerns raised about a growing effort to ban or restrict cellphones in the classroom

Transportation officials are hoping a major investment in a technology allowing cars to talk to other cars about hazards on the road could be part of the solution to a recent surge in traffic deaths

He died at a hospital after a two-vehicle crash not far from the laboratory.

The automated capsule landed in Mexico overnight without the American astronauts that were on board when it launched in June. They will return home with SpaceX when it flies to the ISS in February.

A key piece of digital infrastructure is being built just outside Manhattan.

A New York City mural honoring ancient and modern figures in medicine could end up in pieces if it can’t find a new patron soon

A wave of odd-colored lobsters has showed up in fishers' traps, supermarket seafood tanks and scientists’ laboratories over the last year

Boeing's troubled space capsule ends mission with a landing in the New Mexico desert, leaving two astronauts in orbit

Apple has charged into the artificial intelligence craze with a new iPhone lineup that marks the company’s latest attempt to latch on a technology trend and transform it into a cultural phenomenon

A federal judge in Delaware has ruled in favor of a firm seeking assurance that it will be able to sell its minority stake in the parent company of former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform

Boeing's troubled capsule leaves astronauts behind as it departs the International Space Station and aims for a landing

U_S_ Navy investigators say an officer who wanted the internet so she and other enlisted officers could scroll social media and check sports scores while deployed had an unauthorized Starlink satellite dish installed on a warship and dubbed it “Stinky.”

A federal judge on Friday gave the U.S. Justice Department until the end of the year to outline how Google should be punished for illegally monopolizing the internet search market and then prepare to present its case for imposing the penalties next spring

Justice Department officials are turning to the 3D-printing industry to help stop the proliferation of tiny pieces of plastic transforming semi-automatic weapons into illegal homemade machine guns on streets across America

Amazon is challenging the structure of the National Labor Relations Board in a lawsuit that also accuses the agency of improperly influencing the outcome of a union election at a company warehouse more than two years ago

Sylvester Stallone’s second season of “Tulsa King” and Snow Patrol's first new album in seven years are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases

NASA’s two test pilots stayed behind at the space station.

Sweden says children under the age of 2 should not be exposed to any digital screens

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is promising to step up efforts to fight criminality on the messaging app

The European climate service Copernicus says Earth just sweltered to its hottest summer on record

European climate agency says this summer was Earth's hottest on record

Video game performers have reached a turning point in their strike against developers with 80 individual video games signing agreements with the performers' union and accepting artificial intelligence provisions they have been seeking

New Mexico’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the company behind Snapchat

New research suggests that volcanoes were still erupting on the moon when dinosaurs roamed Earth

Former President Donald Trump says he would create a government efficiency commission to audit the entire federal government

New research suggests volcanoes were still erupting on the moon when dinosaurs roamed Earth

Health officials warn that a rare but deadly mosquito-spread disease is posing a serious threat in parts of New England, prompting the cancellation of some events and changes to sports schedules to avoid bites by infected bugs

The U.S. Justice Department has widened its indictment of Russians in the so-called ‘WhisperGate’ malware attack aimed at destroying computer systems in Ukraine and 26 NATO allies including the United States

US widens indictment of Russians in 'WhisperGate' conspiracy to destroy Ukrainian and NATO systems

A court in Romania’s capital has rejected an appeal by prosecutors to jail divisive internet influencer Andrew Tate

As billionaire Elon Musk’s clash with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice came to a head last week, there were legal twists, insults, ultimatums, defiance and then, finally, capitulation

Meta’s efforts to scale back political content on its platforms could limit the reach of people’s expressions of dissent or awareness during crises, including Venezuela’s post-election crisis

Verizon is buying Frontier Communications in a $20 billion deal that helps to strengthen its fiber network

Verizon is buying Frontier Communications in a $20 billion deal to strengthen its fiber network