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A new study shows two species of early human ancestors used their hands for both climbing and tool-making

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected the first aurora at Mars that's visible to the human eye

A former food delivery driver has pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to steal more than $2.5 million from DoorDash by getting the company to pay for deliveries that never occurred

Responding to complaints from the tech industry and other countries, the U.S. Department of Commerce has rescinded a Biden-era rule due to take effect Thursday that placed limits on the number of artificial intelligence chips that could be exported to ...

Japanese technology and entertainment company Sony is reporting an 18% rise in profit for the fiscal year through March thanks to the robust performance of its music and video-game operations

A Brazilian scientist whose work shows farmers how to shift crop production toward more biologically based solutions instead of chemical fertilizers is being honored with this year’s World Food Prize

The Large Hadron Collider created 89,000 gold atoms per second.

U.S. chip maker Nvidia will partner with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund-owned AI startup Humain and will ship 18,000 chips to the Middle Eastern nation to help power a new data center project

Major social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and X have failed to protect LGBTQ+ users from hate and harassment, in part, because they intentionally rolled back previous safety practices, the advocacy group GLAAD said Tuesday in its annual So...

Japanese technology company SoftBank Group has posted its first profit in four years, as it raked in gains from its investment portfolios

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that Jupiter’s dazzling auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth

The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter

Players swiping their way through more than 18,700 levels of Candy Crush Saga might be surprised to learn they’re solving puzzles enhanced by unsuspected ally: artificial intelligence

Many autism experts say the Trump administration's plan to find autism's causes is unrealistic

Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected data on users without permission

It is unclear where the spacecraft will land, experts say.

Courts across the country have been grappling with how to deal with the increasing presence of artificial intelligence in the courtroom

A new study shows that chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks

A half-ton spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend

Panasonic says it will slash its global workforce by 10,000 people, half in Japan and half overseas, to become a more efficient, “lean” company," The Japanese manufacturer said Friday that the job cuts, amounting to about 4% of Panasonic's workers, wil...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives from Microsoft and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices testified on Capitol Hill about the biggest opportunities, risks and needs facing an industry which lawmakers and technologists agree could fundamentally transform...

New experiments show eggs are less likely to crack when they fall on their side

The World Video Game Hall of Fame has four new inductees

Family and friends of Christopher Pelkey submitted dozens of statements to the court before a man convicted of shooting him during a road rage incident was sentenced

More than a dozen states are suing the Trump administration for withholding funds from for the buildout of electric vehicle chargers across the U.S. The federal lawsuit says $5 billion allocated to states under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed ...

Alabama will soon join the states that have banned or restricted the presence of cellphones in schools

Google is partnering with Elementl Power on three project sites for advanced nuclear energy amid the rapidly growing demand for artificial intelligence, the companies said Wednesday

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is searching for the person who stabbed a baby seal multiple times on a beach in Oregon

A new study out in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment finds that wildfires fueled by climate change are linked to as many as thousands of annual deaths and billions of dollars in economic burden

Skype users are scrambling to find an alternative after Microsoft shut down the pioneering internet phone service which let people make cheap long distance calls and chat with other users

The U.S. Justice Department is doubling down on its attempt to break up Google by asking it to give up the underlying technology powering the company’s digital ad network

DoorDash is reporting record quarterly revenue even as more Americans feel increasingly uneasy about the U.S. economy

U.S. food delivery app DoorDash has agreed to acquire British rival Deliveroo for 2.9 billion pounds ($3.9 billion) in cash

Cyprus’ energy minister says the east Mediterranean island nation and neighbor Israel are seeking to swiftly establish an electricity linkup via an undersea cable

Greece has launched a government-run mobile app that helps parents keep an eye on their children’s online activity and verify their ages on digital platforms

Judges in several states may soon get a new tool to stop dangerous drivers from speeding again

Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers will step outside the International Space Station on Thursday to participate in U.S. Spacewalk 93. It will be the first all-female spacewalk since 2023.

A look at the numbers behind the skyrocketing prices of technology and devices.