The Latest: Lawmakers vow action on Google location tracking
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on Google’s location-tracking settings (all times local): 3 p.m. Lawmakers are vowing to step up their oversight of the...
Questions loom over Tesla deal after CEO reveals Saudi link
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s elaboration on his plan to engineer a buyout of the electric car maker could get the Silicon...
5 nations sign deal on Caspian Sea water, fishing rights
MOSCOW (AP) — Leaders of the five countries along the Caspian Sea have signed a convention aimed at ending decades-long uncertainty over exploitation of its...
Alaska’s North Slope hit by strongest quake noted in region
KAVIK RIVER CAMP, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s North Slope was hit Sunday by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the region, the state’s seismologist...
‘Touch the sun’: NASA spacecraft hurtles toward our star
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Embarking on a mission that scientists have been dreaming of since the Sputnik era, a NASA spacecraft hurtled Sunday toward...
Live salmon released for ailing orca but she doesn’t eat
SEATTLE (AP) — Researchers carrying out unprecedented efforts to save an ailing young killer whale in the U.S. Northwest released live salmon into waters in...
Governors: Trump directive could hurt effort to save bird
DENVER (AP) — Some governors in the U.S. West say a new Trump administration directive threatens to undermine a hard-won compromise aimed at saving a...
White House called toxins contamination ‘PR nightmare’
HORSHAM, Pa. (AP) — Lauren Woeher wonders if her 16-month-old daughter has been harmed by tap water contaminated with toxic industrial compounds used in products...
Disney says its new streaming service won’t rival Netflix
NEW YORK (AP) — Disney’s upcoming streaming service won’t try to compete directly with Netflix and Amazon, but will focus instead on quality — namely...
Advocates condemn psych techniques used to keep kids online
CHICAGO (AP) — Children’s advocates want the American Psychological Association to condemn the tech industry’s practice of using persuasive psychological techniques to keep kids glued...
GOP congressman from New York charged with insider trading
NEW YORK (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Christopher Collins of New York was arrested Wednesday on charges he fed inside information he gleaned from sitting...
Twitter CEO defends decision not to ban Alex Jones, Infowars
LONDON (AP) — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his company’s decision not to ban right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his “Infowars” show, as many...
Uber faces new roadblock in New York on its way to IPO
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber will have to navigate around a new regulatory pothole in New York on an already bumpy road to its initial...
Tesla CEO’s buyout bid raises eyebrows, legal concerns
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is seeking relief from the pressures of running a publicly held company with a $72 billion buyout...
Tech billionaire Henry Nicholas facing drug counts in Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tech billionaire and advocate of crime victims Henry T. Nicholas III is facing drug counts after being arrested along with a...
Tesla stock drops closer to pre-Musk tweet level
After two days of turmoil, Tesla shares have fallen back closer to the level they were trading at before CEO Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday that...
Samsung’s new phone shows how hardware innovation has slowed
NEW YORK (AP) — Samsung’s new smartphone illustrates the limits of innovation at a time when hardware advances have slowed. The new phone, the Galaxy...
US students turn grief into tech startup after France attack
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — California college student Anjali Banerjee was watching fireworks during a 2016 celebration on a seafront promenade in the French city of...
Tech giants still stumbling in the social world they created
NEW YORK (AP) — Who knew connecting the world could get so complicated? Perhaps some of technology’s brightest minds should have seen that coming. Social...
Grieving orca still swimming with her dead calf in Northwest
SEATTLE (AP) — An endangered orca is still clinging to her dead calf more than two weeks after her newborn died. Michael Milstein, a spokesman...
Police: Alaska man, son caught on video killing bear, cubs
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A father and son skied to a remote bear den on an Alaska island, shot a mother bear in front of...
Pence outlines US Space Force plan for ‘next battlefield’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pointing to growing threats and competition from Russia and China, the White House on Thursday announced ambitious plans to create the U.S....
Huge Los Angeles gas leak leads to $120 million settlement
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California utility reached a nearly $120 million settlement over a massive blowout at a natural gas storage field that...
NASA sending spacecraft straight into sun’s glittering crown
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is sending a spacecraft straight into the sun’s glittering crown, an atmospheric region so hot and harsh any normal...
Crews battle growing wildfire near homes in California
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters fought to spare homes Friday from a growing Southern California forest fire, a day after flames came perilously close...
Teams trying to save ailing orca practice feeding live fish
FALSE BAY, Wash. (AP) — Teams taking drastic measures to save a young, ailing killer whale loaded up two boats with fat live salmon as...
Jury backs man who claims Roundup weed killer caused cancer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco jury on Friday ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto to pay $289 million to a former school groundskeeper dying of...
Lombok lifted 10 inches by quake that killed nearly 400
TANJUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Scientists say the powerful Indonesian earthquake that killed nearly 400 people lifted the island it struck by as much as 25...
Albania hit by magnitudes 5.4 and 5.1 tremors; homes crack
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Northern Albania was struck Saturday by two earthquakes with preliminary magnitudes of 5.4 and 5.1, damaging scores of buildings, authorities said....
Last-minute technical problem delays NASA’s flight to sun
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A last-minute technical problem Saturday delayed NASA’s unprecedented flight to the sun. The early morning launch countdown was halted with...
Gala opens countdown to 50th anniversary of 1st moon landing
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin was noticeably absent from a gala kicking off a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary...
Britain has a summer job for you: Count the butterflies
LONDON (AP) — What to do during Britain’s hottest summer in years? Why, count butterflies, of course. Britain is holding a Big Butterfly Count to...
White House wants comment on replacement to Obama ocean plan
The U.S. government is seeking input about a draft of a new plan to identify ocean research needs following President Donald Trump’s decision to scrap...
Drought spurs extreme measures to protect West’s wild horses
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Harsh drought conditions in parts of the American West are pushing wild horses to the brink and spurring extreme measures...
Aging lookout towers still key during fire season in US West
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Fire-lookout towers perched atop remote, craggy peaks across the U.S. West may seem like quaint reminders of an era before satellites,...
SpaceX launches 10 more Iridium Communications satellites
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — Ten more satellites for Iridium Communications have been successfully launched into orbit. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted...
Mars making closest approach to Earth in 15 years
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Now’s the time to catch Mars in the night sky. Next week, the red planet is making its closest approach...
Bad dogs die young, many from euthanasia, British study says
Bad dogs tend to die young, according to a British study that says aggression, excessive barking and disobedience are among behaviors that can doom canine...
Water is buried beneath Martian landscape, study says
NEW YORK (AP) — A huge lake of salty water appears to be buried deep in Mars, raising the possibility of finding life on the...
Researchers use leaf blower to see how lizards endure storms
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tropical lizards have a stick-to-itiveness in high wind that puts TV weather reporters to shame. Now we know why, thanks in part...
‘Urban island’ heat tests Phoenix, other large cities
PHOENIX (AP) — When temperatures soar as they have this week in downtown Phoenix, homeless people ride the air-conditioned light rail to avoid a heat...
Comcast, Fox both raise bids as they reach for Sky
LONDON (AP) — The battle for European pay TV service Sky escalated Wednesday as U.S. rivals Comcast and 21st Century Fox took turns upping the...
Broadcom to acquire CA Technologies for $18.9 billion
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Chipmaker Broadcom says it is buying IT management software company CA Technologies for $18.9 billion in cash. Broadcom CEO Hock...
Twitter to remove suspicious accounts from follower counts
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter says it will begin removing suspicious accounts it has locked from its counts of users’ followers. Twitter users are likely...
Loon and Wing graduate from Alphabet’s ‘moonshot factory’
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Two of Alphabet’s high-flying startups are leaving the nest. Loon and Wing are graduating from X, Alphabet’s secretive incubator known...
US firm: Chinese hackers infiltrate Cambodia ahead of polls
BEIJING (AP) — Last month, the daughter of a jailed Cambodian opposition party leader received an email from a well-seeming activist at a reputed Cambodian...
Facebook faces UK fine over its data privacy scandal
LONDON (AP) — Facebook is facing its first financial penalty for allowing the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica to forage through the personal data of millions...
Google says Google Documents is secure despite Russian issue
MOSCOW (AP) — Google said Thursday that its document writing tool Google Documents was secure even as Russian internet users discovered scores of files that...
Putin urges closer international cybersecurity cooperation
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Friday called for closer international cooperation in fending off cyberattacks. Addressing a cybersecurity conference in Moscow, Putin said...
Uber poised to make investment in scooter-rental business
Uber is getting into the scooter-rental business. The ride-hailing company said Monday that it is investing in Lime, a startup based in San Mateo, California....