California's public health agency recently surprised local officials by lifting a stay-at-home order in the 13-county Greater Sacramento region.

Google is threatening to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government proceeds with plans to make tech giants pay for news content.

Google is threatening to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government proceeds with plans to make tech giants pay for news content.

Amazon won’t be forced to immediately restore web service to Parler after a federal judge ruled Thursday against a plea to reinstate the fast-growing social media app fav...

The U.S. government has approved routes for a potential system of pipelines that would move carbon dioxide across Wyoming.

Facebook is passing the buck for its indefinite suspension of former president Donald Trump to a quasi-independent oversight board, setting up a major test of the recentl...

NASA is giving up trying to drill deep into Mars to take the red planet’s temperature.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company has launched a new capsule into space to test all the astronaut perks before people strap in.

Google has completed its $2.1 billion acquisition of fitness-gadget maker Fitbit.

Wildlife advocates are asking a federal court to overturn a U.S. government decision that stripped Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across most of the nation...

Connecticut authorities are investigating whether Amazon’s e-book deals with certain publishers are anticompetitive and violate antitrust laws.

Online supporters of President Donald Trump are scattering to smaller and more secretive social media platforms.

Researchers say in a new study that wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all small particle air pollution in parts of the western U.S. in recent years.

Scientists worry that the world is losing about 1% or 2% of its insects each year.

The World Health Organization’s chief scientist has warned that even as numerous countries start rolling out vaccination programs to stop COVID-19, herd immunity is highl...

Shares of social media and other tech companies have tumbled, hit by fallout from the siege on the U.S. Capitol supporters of President Donald Trump.

The boarded up windows and For Rent signs are all over the place in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood.

The digital currency Bitcoin rocketed to a record high last week above $40,000 a coin.

Every January, huge crowds descend on Las Vegas for the CES gadget show, an extravaganza of tech and glitz intended to set the tone for the coming year in consumer techno...

Many in the mob that attacked the Capitol did so while livestreaming, posting on Facebook and taking selfies, turning the Capitol into a theater of real-time far-right pr...

Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman says the German leader considers the U_S_ President Donald Trump’s eviction from Twitter by the company “problematic."

At least 50 countries have committed to protect 30% of the planet, including land and sea, over the decade in efforts to halt species extinction and address climate chang...

The conservative-friendly social network Parler has been booted off the internet over ties to the siege on the U.S. Capitol.

Chinese automaker Geely says it will form an electric car venture with tech giant Baidu, adding to a flurry of corporate tie-ups in the industry to share soaring technolo...