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The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against a gig work company, saying it misled people about the money they could make on its platform

Nine historians have been awarded the prestigious Dan David Prize

World UFO Day is being celebrated amid a surge in sightings and government studies on unidentified flying objects

Brazil’s national data protection authority determined on Tuesday that Meta cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence

Post a comment on Reddit, answer coding questions on Stack Overflow or share a baby photo on your public Facebook or Instagram feed and you are also helping to train the next generation of artificial intelligence

Tesla’s global sales fell for the second straight quarter despite price cuts and low-interest financing offers, another sign of weakening demand for the company’s products and electric vehicles overall

Tesla delivered 443,956 vehicles during the second quarter, a 4.8% decline from last year, but better than expected

The parent of Facebook and Instagram says the old label did not provide enough context.

The U.N. weather agency says it has confirmed that Tropical Cyclone Freddy, a deadly Indian Ocean storm that lashed eastern Africa last year, was the longest-lasting cyclone ever recorded — at 36 days

The Biden administration says it's providing $504 million in implementation grants for a dozen technology hubs in Ohio, Montana, Nevada and Florida, among other locations

The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a Chinese-sponsored resolution urging wealthy and developed nations to close the widening gap with poorer developing countries and ensure they have equal opportunities to use and benefit from artificial intelligence

California lawmakers have advanced a bill that would regulate powerful artificial intelligence systems

A federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law that would require users of websites and other digital services to verify their age

The Supreme Court is keeping a hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users

The Supreme Court keeps on hold Florida and Texas laws seeking to limit how social media platforms regulate user content

Dolores is going through the motions of life when she finds a potentially marriage-ending surprise in her garage: a high-end, lifelike sex doll imbued with artificial intelligence named Zoey

Shares of Chewy have fallen in volatile trading after a regulatory filing revealed that Roaring Kitty, an investor at the center of the meme stock craze, has taken a 6.6% stake in the online pet retailer

A well-regarded Apple analyst reports the next generation of AirPods could have built-in infrared cameras to improve spatial experiences with Apple's Vision Pro headsets.

A new museum in northern Arizona features the fossilized feces of prehistoric animals

European Union regulators have accused social media company Meta Platforms of breaching the bloc’s new digital competition rulebook by forcing Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them

Japan has succesfully deployed an upgraded Earth observation satellite for disaster response and security after it was launched on a new flagship H3 rocket

As Florida’s ban on “lab-grown” meat is set to go into effect, one manufacturer hosted a last hurrah with a cultivated meat-tasting party in Miami

Animal rescuers were trying to keep dozens of dolphins away from shallow waters around Cape Cod after 125 of the creatures earlier stranded themselves

In the last 10 days of June, on a frenetic pace of its own making, the Supreme Court has touched a wide swath of American society in decisions on abortion, guns, the environment, health, the opioid crisis, securities fraud and homelessness

States are trying to help workers beef up their tech skills before they become outdated and get outfoxed by machines that are becoming increasingly smarter

Amazon is reviewing claims that the artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI is scraping content — including from prominent news sites — without approval

The city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to a man who was wrongly accused of shoplifting

NASA says two astronauts will stay in space longer to continue troubleshooting Boeing’s capsule

NASA says two astronauts will stay in space longer to continue troubleshooting Boeing's capsule

The European Union is escalating its scrutiny of the artificial intelligence industry, including taking a fresh look into Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI

An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth this weekend

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include an album from country music star Zach Bryan, Eddie Murphy reprising his role as Axel Foley and Discovery Channel’s annual “Shark Week” hoping to bite off a chunk of primetime viewership

Senior Advisor for the Muslim Public Affairs Council Faiyaz Hussain describes how the ban on the platform would strip away an essential tool minority groups use for advocacy.

Trump Media fell more than 10% Friday after the first U.S. presidential debate, demonstrating another of the wild swings that have made its stock one of the more volatile on Wall Street

Shares of Trump Media jump 5% at the opening bell after the first US presidential debate

The planned store is expected to allow low-cost products to be shipped to U.S. customers directly from China.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is delaying its planned launch of a satellite on its new flagship H3 rocket due to expected bad weather at the launch site in southwestern Japan

The penalty shootout is a tense battle of wills over 12 yards (11 meters) that has increasingly become a huge part of soccer and an unavoidable feature of the knockout stage in the biggest competitions

From smart-enabled match balls and AI to cryogenic recovery chambers, soccer is being transformed by the cutting-edge technology available to players, coaches and officials

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake has shaken the southern coast of Peru

Researchers in South Africa have injected radioactive material into to the horns of 20 rhinos as part of a research project aimed at reducing poaching

Plenty of happy couples can trace their meet-cute moment to an online dating app

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell says drivers for Uber and Lyft will earn a minimum pay standard of $32.50 per hour under a settlement

A female capybara has arrived at a Florida zoo as part of a breeding program to bolster the population of the large South American rodents

Another news organization is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement

Reveal and Mother Jones publisher sues OpenAI and Microsoft for ‘exploitative’ copyright infringement

A dozen social and racial justice groups said Thursday that the federal law requiring TikTok’s parent company to sell the platform, or face a ban, would disrupt a vehicle that many minority communities use to form connections online and advocate for ca...

One person has died in the United Kingdom from an E

The company will pay $1 million to settle an investigation over a 2022 outage that prevented emergency calls, the Federal Communications Commission said.

China’s space officials said Thursday they welcomed scientists from across the world to apply to study the lunar rock samples the Chang’e 6 probe brought back to Earth in a historic mission, but noted there were limits to that cooperation, specifically...