Trump reopens a seemingly settled video-game debate
NEW YORK (AP) — In the wake of the Florida school shooting, President Donald Trump is reviving an old debate over whether violent video games...
California bullet train costs soar to $77B; opening delayed
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The projected cost of California’s bullet train between San Francisco and Los Angeles has jumped to $77 billion and the completion...
Judge to Trump: Muting, not blocking followers, may end suit
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge recommended Thursday that President Donald Trump mute rather than block some of his critics from following him on Twitter...
Cybersecurity expert named president at Carnegie Mellon
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carnegie Mellon University has named a cybersecurity expert as its new president. The Pittsburgh university of about 14,500 students announced Thursday that...
Vatican invites hackers to fix problems, not breach security
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Computer hackers with a heart are descending on the Vatican to help tackle pressing problems particularly dear to Pope Francis, including...
Facebook to stream 25 MLB games in exclusive deal
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is getting deeper into the professional sports streaming game, partnering with Major League Baseball to air 25 weekday afternoon games...
NHL takes esports on ice with gaming tournament
As Patrik Laine climbed the ranks of youth hockey in Finland, he learned about the NHL from video games. “I learned probably just about the...
Watchdog: Western tech used for hacking in Turkey, Syria
PARIS (AP) — A Canadian company’s hardware is being used to hack internet users along Turkey’s border with Syria, researchers said Friday, adding that there...
Report says radioactive monitors failed at nuclear plant
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — A new report says mistakes and mismanagement are to blame for the exposure of workers to radioactive particles at the Hanford...
Google’s autonomous vehicle unit to test semis in Atlanta
DETROIT (AP) — Just days after ride-hailing service Uber announced it was testing tractor-trailers that drive themselves, Google’s autonomous vehicle operation announced similar testing in...
How Uber’s Autonomous Cars Will Destroy 10 Million Jobs and Reshape the Economy by 2025
(Zak Kanter Blog)- I have spent quite a bit of time lately thinking about autonomous cars, and I wanted to summarize my current thoughts and...
Google adds more musical chops with Songza deal
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is fine tuning its digital music strategy with the acquisition of Songza, a service that creates soundtracks tailored for people’s...
Tinder exec suspended after sexual harassment suit
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — IAC/InterActiveCorp has suspended a co-founder of its popular dating app Tinder in the wake of a lawsuit accusing him of sexually...
AIDS scientist pleads not guilty to faking study
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa State University scientist pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges alleging that he falsified research for an AIDS...
Twitter names Goldman Sachs executive to CFO post
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter is hiring a Goldman Sachs executive as its new chief financial officer, continuing a shake-up that has led to the...
Unapproved device buys time for new pair of lungs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jon Sacker was near death, too sick for doctors to attempt the double lung transplant he so desperately needed. His only chance:...
AIDS researcher pleads not guilty to fakery counts
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa State University scientist has pleaded not guilty to charges alleging that falsified his research for an AIDS...
Rare Poitou donkey born in Massachusetts
STERLING, Mass. (AP) — A rare Poitou (PWAH’-too) donkey has been born in Massachusetts. The male donkey was born Saturday at Davis Farmland, a petting...
NASA scrubs launch of carbon-monitoring satellite
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A failure in ground equipment has postponed the launch of a NASA satellite designed to study atmospheric carbon...
NASA scrubs launch of global warming satellite
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — The planned launch of a rocket carrying a NASA satellite designed to track global warming has been postponed....
‘Community’ rebounds with new episodes on Yahoo
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Yahoo says it’s giving the sitcom “Community” a sixth season online. Yahoo and Sony Pictures Television announced Monday that the show’s...
Fracking study finds new gas wells leak more
WASHINGTON (AP) — In Pennsylvania’s gas drilling boom, newer and unconventional wells leak far more often than older and traditional ones, according to a study...
Officials clash over beach contamination warnings
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Federal and state officials are clashing over standards for warning the public about water contamination at the nation’s beaches. The...
Study: Plastic debris widespread on ocean surface
NEW YORK (AP) — Plastic junk is floating widely on the world’s oceans, but there’s less of it than expected, a study says. Such ocean...
EU slashes mobile data roaming fees by 55 percent
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says the surcharges for surfing the Internet on mobile devices while traveling across the 28-nation bloc will be more...
High court rejects Google appeal in snooping case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has declined to hear Google’s appeal of a ruling that it pried into people’s online lives through their Wi-Fi...
World Cup breaks Super Bowl record on Twitter
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Nervous Brazilian soccer fans took to Twitter to breathe a collective sigh of relief as the final, tension-filled moments of...
Brazil’s World Cup win bests Super Bowl on Twitter
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Nervous Brazilian soccer fans took to Twitter to breathe a collective sigh of relief Saturday, with the final, tense-filled minute...
NASA to launch global warming satellite after loss
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Five years after a NASA satellite to track carbon dioxide plunged into the ocean after liftoff, the space agency is launching...
Winners named in global underwater robot event
ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — Student teams controlling underwater robots from the United States, Canada and Russia were the winners Saturday in a global competition at...
Mars ‘flying saucer’ splashes down after NASA test
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A saucer-shaped NASA vehicle launched by balloon high into Earth’s atmosphere splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, completing a...
Underwater robot event ends at marine sanctuary
ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — About 60 teams from 18 states and 13 countries have put underwater robots through their paces at the only federal freshwater...
NASA launches Mars ‘flying saucer’ on Earth
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A high-altitude balloon carrying a saucer-shaped vehicle for NASA has taken off from a Hawaii island to test technology that could...
Aereo suspends service after Supreme Court ruling
NEW YORK (AP) — Online-streaming service Aereo Inc. is temporarily closing down its operation, three days after it was dealt an unfavorable ruling by the...
Pelicans’ northerly nesting grounds shrinking
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Rising lake levels are swallowing American white pelicans’ nesting grounds at a guano-rich island in central North Dakota known as North...
NASA to test Mars ‘flying saucer’ vehicle on Earth
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After several weather delays, NASA will try to launch a “flying saucer” into Earth’s atmosphere Saturday to test technology that could...
Opening of world’s tallest water slide delayed
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — With nearly half of its season already in the books, a water park in Kansas has been forced to delay...
Sirens, phones sound erroneous alert in California
LOS ANGELES (AP) — People in San Luis Obispo County received a series of unsettling, erroneous emergency alerts Friday as repairs were being made to...
Hawaii board advances $1B telescope pending review
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Board of Land and Natural Resources has approved a sublease for a $1.3 billion telescope that would be one of the...
Facebook: NYC prosecutors got data on 381 users
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors building a sweeping disabilities-benefit fraud case got a trove of data from the Facebook accounts of more than 380 people,...
World Cup hits online streaming record, buzz soars
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Moments after Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez sunk his teeth into an opposing Italian player during Tuesday’s World Cup match-up, brands were...
CEO Q&A: Cumulus says Rdio stake a bet on future
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cumulus Media Inc. CEO Lew Dickey Jr. straddles two worlds: traditional broadcast radio, where his company is the second-largest station owner...
Cosmic caffeine: Astronauts getting espresso maker
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronauts in space will soon be sipping some good coffee. The International Space Station is getting a real Italian...
San Francisco parking app refuses shut down order
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The company behind an app that allows drivers to get paid for public parking spaces in San Francisco is rejecting an...
US to ask China to restart cyber working group
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States wants to restart a cybersecurity working group that China shut down after the U.S. indicted five Chinese military officers...
Filipinos to receive disaster alerts on cellphones
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines has passed a law that requires mobile phone companies to send early warnings to millions of people in the...
US seeks resumption of cyber talks with China
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States next month will urge China to resume discussions on cybersecurity that were suspended abruptly after the U.S. charged five...
Oklahoma looks for answers on earthquakes
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Earthquakes that have shaken Oklahoma communities in recent months have damaged homes, alarmed residents and prompted lawmakers and regulators to investigate...
Fire shuts down Stanford linear accelerator
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — The linear accelerator at Stanford University’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California is shut down and two research labs idled...
US declares wood storks no longer endangered
TOWNSEND, Ga. (AP) — The American wood stork, a bird scientists once feared would be extinct by the year 2000, has made such an impressive...