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The CEO of BT has warned it may take a decade to remove Huawei equipment from Britain’s telecom infrastructure if the UK government caves in to US pressure to dump the te...

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As the Trump administration pushes full steam ahead to force U.S. schools to resume in-person education, public health experts warn that a one-size-fits-all reopening cou...

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Facebook on Wednesday said it has removed dozens of accounts linked to the hate group Proud Boys, to President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Roger Stone and to employees o...

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The nation's capital has declared beekeepers to be essential workers during the coronavirus outbreak.

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A newly discovered comet is streaking past Earth, providing a stunning nighttime show after buzzing the sun and expanding its tail.

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The world’s mountain of discarded flat-screen TVs, cellphones and other electronic goods grew to a record high last year.

A controversial investigative technique is getting its first real legal test in a federal courtroom in Richmond, where a judge is being asked to toss out evidence gathere...

A Black Facebook employee, joined by two others who were denied jobs at the social network, has filed a complaint against the company, saying it discriminates against Bla...

A new study has scientists more worried about survival of the world's fish species with global warming.

Dutch and French police have cracked an encrypted communications network used by organized crime gangs, allowing them to look "over the shoulder” of criminals in real tim...

Israel’s parliament has approved a law granting the country’s internal security agency limited authority to use phone surveillance to track coronavirus cases.

Google says it will start paying some news publishers for their journalistic content, in a deal that could ease tensions between the internet search giant and the beleagu...

The accounting scandal at German payments company Wirecard is turning up the heat on the country's financial regulator.

A conservative social media user whose memes have been repeatedly reposted by President Donald Trump has been kicked off Twitter for repeated copyright violations.

Google is tweaking its privacy settings to keep less data on new users by default.

Britain’s competition watchdog has provisionally approved Amazon’s plan to buy a stake in food delivery company Deliveroo, saying it would not have a negative impact on c...

An appeals court has ruled dinosaur fossils worth millions of dollars unearthed on an eastern Montana ranch belong to the owners of the land's surface rights.

Twitter says it will give its U.S. employees Election Day off going forward and employees around the world a paid day off to vote in national elections.

An international team of mathematicians whose theories have improved the compression of large digital files of data, including images and sound, will be recognized with o...

The U.N. weather agency says it’s investigating media reports suggesting a new record high temperature of over 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Arctic...

China has launched the final satellite in its Beidou constellation that emulates the U.S. Global Positioning System.

Apple on Monday provided a glimpse at upcoming software changes designed to make the iPhone even easier to use as people become more dependent on technology during a pand...

The annual survey of US beekeepers found that honeybee colonies are doing better after a bad year.