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The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide $6.1 billion in government support for Micron Technology to produce advanced memory computer chips in New York and Idaho

With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai

Phish has been performing to thousands of dedicated fans for decades and prides itself on never playing the same show twice

The ride-hailing company Uber says it's banned an account that sent a driver to the Ohio home where an 81-year-old man allegedly shot the woman to death

Amazon wants other businesses to know it’s not giving up on its Just Walk Out technology

Hugh Grant says he accepted “an enormous sum of money” to settle a lawsuit accusing the publisher of The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into his home to snoop on him

European Union regulators are seeking details from TikTok on a new app from the video sharing platform that pays users to watch videos

Tesla is asking shareholders to restore a $56 billion pay package for CEO Elon Musk that was rejected by a Delaware judge this year, and to shift the company’s corporate home to Texas

The new feature creates a playlist using artificial intelligence.

A voting technology company targeted by bogus fraud claims related to the 2020 presidential election has settled a defamation lawsuit against a conservative news outlet

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Microsoft is investing $1.5 billion in a technology firm based in the United Arab Emirates and overseen by the country’s powerful national security adviser

An Ohio man who authorities say fatally shot an Uber driver he thought was trying to rob him after scam phone calls deceived them both has been indicted on a murder charge

A report from the website 38 North says that North Korea is putting surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces in a technology-driven push to monitor its population even more closely

Samsung accounted for nearly 21% of the global market while Apple claimed just over 17%, according to a report in Reuters, citing the research firm IDC.

Nissan says it expects to mass produce electric vehicles powered by advanced next-generation batteries by early 2029

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NASA says it determined that an object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home last month was a chunk of space junk from equipment discarded at the International Space Station

NASA is seeking a faster, cheaper way to bring rock samples from Mars to Earth

The stock price for Donald Trump’s social media company is sliding again

Reef scientists say coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time due to prolonged warming of the oceans

The coffee that picked you up this morning is 600,000 years old

After reporting dismal first-quarter sales, Tesla is planning to lay off about a tenth of its workforce as it tries to cut costs, multiple media outlets reported Monday

Global smartphone shipments rose nearly 8% in the first quarter, according to preliminary data from International Data Corp. It’s the third straight quarter of shipment growth and marks the return of Samsung to the No. 1 spot

The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide up to $6.4 billion in direct funding for Samsung Electronics to develop a computer chip manufacturing and research cluster in Texas

The oldest living conjoined twins have died in Pennsylvania at age 62

Google is removing California news websites from some users' search results

AI fashion modeling is on the rise but its use has complicated implications for diversity

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Taylor Swift's eagerly anticipated album “The Tortured Poets Department,” a family of ducks is coaxed into flying south for the winter in the kid-friendly animated movie “Migration” and Conan O’B...

Federal prosecutors say a supervisor who managed security at a South Carolina prison accepted more than $219,000 in bribes over three years and got 173 contraband cellphones for inmates

A post-mortem examination of a whale that washed ashore on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island shows the animal sustained numerous blunt force injuries including a fractured skull and vertebrae

Consumers and repair shops will soon be able to use genuine used Apple parts to fix devices.

U.S. and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in which squadrons of air and sea drones equipped with artificial intelligence work together like a swarm of bees to overwhelm an enemy

The U.S. House has passed a bill to reauthorize and reform a key U.S. government surveillance tool without including broad restrictions on how the FBI uses this crucial program to search for Americans’ data

The ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft said they will delay their planned exit from Minneapolis to July 1 after city officials decided Wednesday to push back the start of an ordinance that increases driver pay

Federal investigators say the driver of a Ford electric SUV involved in a February fatal crash in Texas was using the company’s partially automated driving system before the wreck

Elon Musk is clashing with a bald, athletically built Supreme Court justice in Brazil over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation on X

The Premier League will use AI-based player tracking technology to make offside calls from next season in a move that should reduce the time it takes officials to reach their decisions

Amazon is adding artificial intelligence visionary Andrew Ng (EE-ng) to its board of directors

The cement industry is one of the largest emitters of carbon dioxide and is responsible for some 8% of global emissions each year

The Federal Communications Commission rule requires internet service providers to disclose fees, download speeds and additional details to customers.

Instagram says it’s deploying new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion

Russia has successfully test-launched a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex, a lift-off that comes after two aborted attempts earlier this week

A Virginia congressman has gone back to college to study artificial intelligence so he can help regulate it

Pennsylvania state representatives have approved a bill requiring that consumers be notified when artificial intelligence is used to generate content

The United Nations climate chief says humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat-trapping emissions

The Motion Picture Association is teaming up with Congress on new rules blocking websites with pirated content.

Russia has failed for a second straight day to test-launch a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex

Internet service providers will be required to be more transparent about the cost and performance of their internet service packages, thanks to new FCC rules that take effect this week

Two tribal nations are accusing social media companies of contributing to high rates of suicides that disproportionately affect Native American youth