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Six planets will line up in the early morning sky on June 3, but most won't be visible to the naked eye

A volcano in southwestern Iceland is erupting, spewing red streams of lava and triggering the evacuation of the popular Blue Lagoon geothermal spa

Google is introducing Gemini and AI tools to new models.

In a strip of greenery between Berlin’s Natural History Museum and a busy street, bumble bees move swiftly between flowers while a ladybug makes its way along a leaf full of aphids and bugs crawl about. Gardens, balconies, verges, fields, woods and patches of wilderness across Germany will be the scene of this year’s “insect summer,” now in its seventh year, organized by the country’s Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union, or NABU. The environmental group has invited people to spend an hour counting the insects they see in a 10-meter (33-foot) radius. “We have seen that a few insects that normally occur only in the south might be spreading further north,” including the violet carpenter bee, says Laura Breitkreuz, an expert on biodiversity and entomology at NABU, describing that as a sign of advancing climate change and warmer temperatures. Over time, people appear to recognize more insects — a key goal of the citizen science project, which doesn’t aim to deliver precise...

The top European Union cybersecurity official says that disruptive digital attacks have doubled in the 27-member bloc in recent months and election-related services are also being targeted

North Korea has flown hundreds of balloons carrying trash and manure toward South Korea

A European-Japanese climate research satellite designed to study Earth’s temperature balance has been launched into orbit from California

Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers

A federal judge has sentenced former FTX executive Ryan Salame to more than seven years in prison

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is joining a high-profile list of more than 240 wealthy philanthropists committed to donating over half their fortunes

A northern Virginia tech company is paying nearly $40,000 to settle claims it discriminated by posting a job listing seeking white, U.S.-born candidates for an opening as a business analyst

The operator of Japan’s destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has demonstrated how a remote-controlled robot would retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from one of three damaged reactors later this year

In Brazil’s Northeast, a South African couple is reintroducing the Spix’s macaw to nature through breeding and reintroduction efforts

T-Mobile is buying U.S. Cellular’s wireless operations and certain spectrum assets in a deal valued at $4.4 billion, and further consolidating the industry

T-Mobile to acquire almost all of U.S. Cellular in a $4.4 billion deal including debt

OpenAI says it’s setting up a new safety and security committee and has begun training a new artificial intelligence model to supplant the GPT-4 system that underpins its ChatGPT chatbot

Apple’s iOS 18 will bring customizable app icons and AI-powered features like custom emojis.

Japanese automaker Toyota introduced plans to cast a futuristic spin on the traditional internal combustion engine

Russia and Uzbekistan have signed an accord for Moscow to build a small nuclear power plant in the Central Asian country

North Korea says its attempt to put another spy satellite into orbit has failed

North Korea has announced plans to launch a rocket apparently carrying its second military spy satellite in the coming days

Just 81,000 people live in rural Chatham County in North Carolina, where there are more than 1,000 farms

With rich reds, gentle greens and basic blacks, Nature's screaming, crawling artwork is the epitome of rare beauty — at least in the eyes of some beholders. To others, it may seem just creepy. It's a colorful, ever-changing canvas of bugs. Lots of them. A once-in-221-year convergence of two broods of periodical cicadas are emerging at the same time. The big effect of the cicadas is the sheer numbers. Trillions are expected to populate 16 states by mid to late June. They can be overwhelming, messy and loud. But individually, up close and personal, a cicada has splashes of color, subtle shapes and that special something that some scientists and artists say translate to beauty. Even if to the average person it's just a bug. To artists and scientists, cicadas are more awe-inspiring than awful. Periodical cicadas are “more otherworldly-looking” than other insects and then the fact they come out every 13 or 17 years adds to their allure, making “them feel like something out of a...

Bird flu has been detected in beef for the first time, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture says the meat from a single sickened dairy cow was not allowed to enter the nation's food supply and beef remains safe to eat

Google’s search engine used to spit out a ranked list of websites that might help you figure out an answer to your question

A look at how social media affects kids, and the calls for oversight.

Boeing is now aiming for its first astronaut launch at the beginning of June

The families of a group of victims of the Uvalde school shooting have announced new lawsuits against Instagram parent company Meta Platforms, the maker of the video game Call of Duty and the gun company that made the assault rifle used in the shooting

The dog that skyrocketed to internet fame and became the face of the cryptocurrency dogecoin has died

China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include a new album from Willie Nelson, Benedict Cumberbatch playing a curmudgeon puppeteer in “Eric” on Netflix and home improvement gurus Chip and Joanna Gaines fix up a mid-century modern lake house o...

U.N. member countries have concluded a new treaty to ensure that genetic resources used in inventions, like new medicines derived from exotic plants in the Andes mountains, are properly traced

According to online tech reports, X is preparing to hide likes in order to encourage "edgy" engagement meaning posts can still be liked, but only the author can see who has liked it.

Are states proposing laws to regulate the social media use of teens going too far? ABC News' Elizabeth Schulze speaks with grieving parents and young people advocating for their generation.

NBA great Dwyane Wade has launched Translatable, a nonprofit online community dedicated to supporting transgender youth

NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade brings the fight back to Florida, launching an online community for transgender youth

Returning to the world of “Mad Max” meant resurrecting the motorized army of “Fury Road,” getting it back into running condition and building an entire new fleet of gas-guzzling, mutant machines of apocalyptic doom

Researchers climbed the world’s largest tree to inspect for bark beetles and descended the giant sequoia with good news this week

Google is confronting the latest in a succession of legal attacks on its digital empire on Thursday as a federal judge began to address anticompetitive practices in the app market for smartphones powered by its Android software

OpenAI will start using news content from News Corp. as part of a multiyear deal between the two companies

A European space telescope is thrilling scientists with its latest peek at stars and galaxies

Nvidia’s stock price has more than doubled this year, increasing the company’s market value by more than $1.3 trillion

TikTok said Thursday its putting in place new rules to limit the reach of state-affiliated media accounts

Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record thanks to unprecedented ocean heat and a brewing La Nina

President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a growing market of abusive sexual images made with artificial intelligence technology

Biden administration pushes tech industry to disrupt growing market of abusive sexual images made with AI

U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, convinced they’ll otherwise be smothered in data as sensor-generated surveillance tech further blankets the planet

U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, believing they’ll otherwise be smothered by an avalanche of data as surveillance tech further blankets the planet

Chinese state media have reported that electric vehicle maker Tesla has begun construction of a factory in Shanghai to make its Megapack energy storage batteries

Starting June 5, the increases will be up to $5 per line, per month, the company says.