Technology News

UK scientists have announced what they term a “historic breakthrough,” after the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago was uncovered

What do a wedding necklace, Polish savory dumplings and a photo of Hungary’s first astronaut have in common

Toyota is developing and making electric vehicles and EV batteries in China under a new partnership with the Shanghai government

A sweeping new U.S. tariff on products made in China is expected to increase the prices American consumers pay for a wide array of products

Google’s digital ad sales continued to grow at a healthy clip during the holiday season, but that wasn’t enough to offset investors’ worries about whether its big bet on artificial intelligence will be as lucrative as once envisioned

Elon Musk’s lawyers faced off with OpenAI in court Tuesday as a federal judge weighed the billionaire’s request for a court order that would block the ChatGPT maker from converting itself to a for-profit company

A tall fountain of lava is spewing from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity without straying too far from home

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the far side

China has announced a flurry of retaliatory measures against the U.S., including tariffs on imports of products such as coal, liquefied natural gas products and crude oil, as well as an antitrust probe into Google

A French diplomatic official says U.S. Vice President JD Vance will attend a two-day high-level summit focusing on artificial intelligence in Paris next week

More Greek islands closed schools Tuesday as hundreds of earthquakes ratted the Aegean Sea, while a handful of hardy tourists enjoyed having Santorini’s stunning views to themselves

Google went to appeals court Monday in an attempt to convince a three-judge panel to overturn a jury’s verdict declaring its app store for Android smartphones as an illegal monopoly and block the penalties imposed by a federal judge to stop the misbeha...

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States dropped dramatically this year even as federal officials move to extend protections for the beloved pollinator

Researchers across the country are in “a mad scramble” to sort out what public data the Trump administration has deleted from government websites

Samoa’s top health official has denounced as “a complete lie” remarks that Robert F

Cryptocurrency prices took a hit from the prospect of a trade war between the U.S. and its major trading partners, with some well-known digital assets seeing values fall more than 10%

With his 70th birthday looming on this year’s horizon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates looked inward to open a window into the man behind Windows and other seminal software that turned the personal computer into a household staple

America’s national bird, the bald eagle, is having a moment

Japan has launched a navigation satellite on its flagship H3 rocket as the country seeks to have a precise positioning system of its own

President Donald Trump is meeting Friday with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose company designs and supplies the advanced computer chips that play an integral role in developing artificial intelligence

A new study finds that rat infestation in many of the world’s cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington

The unsolved death of a teenager in 1977 haunted students and staff at Honolulu's McKinley High School for nearly half a century

Apple on Thursday disclosed its iPhone sales dipped slightly during the holiday-season quarter, signaling a sluggish start to the trendsetting company’s effort to catch up to the rest of Big Tech in the race to bring artificial intelligence to the masses

Italy’s data protection authority has blocked use of Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s AI application to protect Italians’ data and announced an investigation into the companies behind the chatbot

U.S. government regulators sued to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion acquisition of rival Juniper Networks on Thursday, saying the combination would eliminate competition, raise prices and reduce innovation

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he wants to fast-track the construction of power plants in Pennsylvania and offer hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks for projects that produce electricity and use hydrogen

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece

NASA's two stuck astronauts are taking their first spacewalk together, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in

Trump sued Meta and its CEO in 2021 for "censoring" his social media account.

Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against the company after it suspended his accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol

Meta Platforms Inc. posted sharply higher profit and revenue for its fourth quarter on Wednesday, thanks to higher ad revenue on its social media properties

Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday that its profit for the October-December quarter grew 10% from the same time last year as it works to capitalize on the huge amounts of money it has spent to advance its artificial intelligence technology

The New York architect facing murder charges in a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings on Long Island is challenging the DNA evidence against him and is seeking separate trials in the sprawling case

An arctic blast that brought a rare snowfall to northern Florida last week left green sea turtles as far south as St. Augustine suffering from a condition known as cold stunning

Artists can copyright works they made with the help of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by the U.S. Copyright Office that could help clear the way for the use of AI tools in Hollywood, the music industry and other creative fields

Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to environmental changes

Access to the Sundance Film Festival doesn’t require a trip to Park City, Utah anymore; Just an internet connection

A new report says advanced artificial intelligence systems have the potential to create extreme new risks, such as fueling widespread job losses, enabling terrorism or running amok

A sleek white aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek stunned markets and AI experts with its claim that it built its immensely popular chatbot at a fraction of the cost of those made by American tech titans

Study says climate change made extreme fire conditions that fed California blazes more likely

X is teaming up with Visa to soon offer a system for real-time payments on the social media platform

The 40-year-old founder of China's DeepSeek, an AI startup that has startled markets with its capacity to compete with industry leaders like OpenAI, kept a low profile as he built up a hedge fund that now manages a reported $8 billion in assets

Google says it will take its cue from the U.S. government if it has to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on its Maps service

The Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has rattled markets with claims its latest AI model performs on a par with those of OpenAI, despite using less advanced, more energy efficient computer chips

Pakistan’s upper house of parliament has passed a controversial bill that critics say threatens freedom of speech

Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s new artificial intelligence chatbot has sparked discussions about the competition between China and the U.S. in AI development, with many users flocking to test the rival of OpenAI's ChatGPT

NATO is deploying eyes in the sky and on the Baltic Sea to protect cables and pipelines that stitch together the nine countries with shores on Baltic waters

President Donald Trump says Microsoft is among the U.S. companies looking to take control of TikTok to help the popular app avert an effective ban that could kick-in in April