Twitter is challenging the Indian government's orders to block content on its social media site in court.

Japanese scientists have successfully produced cloned mice using freeze-dried cells in a technique they believe could one day help conserve species and overcome challenges with current biobanking methods.

This year, a research institute hopes social media can play a more practical role - asking residents to tweet details about floods in their neighborhoods and using the data to issue geographically specific flood alerts in real-time.

Google announced on Friday it would delete users' location history when they visit abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters and other places where privacy was sought.

Chinese-owned social-media site TikTok told United States senators it was working on a final agreement with the Biden administration that would "fully safeguard user data and US national security interests," according to a TikTok letter seen on Friday.

A study of bone loss in 17 astronauts who flew aboard the International Space Station is providing a fuller understanding of the effects of space travel on the human body and steps that can mitigate it, crucial knowledge ahead of potential ambitious future missions.

Fossils dating back about six million years found in southwest China's Yunnan province included a greatly enlarged wrist bone called a radial sesamoid.

Google announced Friday it would delete users' location history when they visit abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters and other places where privacy is sought.

TikTok sought to reassure US senators this week that it is taking all necessary steps to limit access to users' data from outside the United States, including by employees of its parent company, the Chinese group ByteDance.

The Sterkfontein caves at the Cradle of Humankind world heritage site southwest of Johannesburg have yielded more Australopithecus fossils than any other site in the world.

Astronomers have observed a star in a relatively nearby galaxy that not only survived what ordinarily should have been certain death, a stellar explosion called a supernova, but emerged from it brighter than before the blast. 

Miners in the Klondike gold fields of Canada's far north have made a rare discovery, digging up the mummified remains of a near complete baby woolly mammoth.

A Japanese city has been left with more than a headache after admitting a contractor lost a USB containing personal data on all 460,000 residents during a night out.

A global report from security company Fortinet shows that cyberattacks in Asia mostly take place because of the countries’ shortage of specialists.

Facebook owner Meta has agreed to change its ad targeting technology and pay $115,000 to settle US government allegations the social media giant allowed discrimination in who saw housing advertisements, authorities said Tuesday. 

Some dehydrated "cochayuyo" seaweed, some instant mashed potatoes and hot water: these are the ingredients for a nutritious menu of 3D printed food that nutritional experts in Chile hope will revolutionize the food market, particularly for children.

Meta and many of its competitors market immersive products with a lower age limit of 13 -- though it is widely accepted that younger children will use the tech.

A majority of employees at an Apple outlet in the United States has voted to form a union, a first for the tech giant that has so far tried to discourage unionization attempts.

South Korea, which has some of the world's fastest average internet speeds, remained bizarrely wedded to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which was retired by the company earlier this week after 27 years.

Internet Explorer, Microsoft's once dominant web browser that some users love to hate, was retired Wednesday after 27 years on the world's computer screens.

The EU is stepping up its fight against disinformation spread by accounts on Facebook, Google, Twitter and other social media with a bolstered code of practice presented Thursday.

Four scientists, including two Britons, considered pioneers in the field of artificial intelligence were awarded Wednesday Spain's prestigious Princess of Asturias prize for scientific research.

YouTube on Wednesday said that more than 1.5 billion people monthly tune into its Shorts video service, which competes with global sensation TikTok.

The Silicon Valley giant suspended one of its engineers last week who argued the firm's AI system LaMDA seemed "sentient," a claim Google officially disagrees with.

Meta's WhatsApp has until July to show that a privacy-policy update introduced in January complies with European Union consumer law, the European Commission said on Wednesday, in a case prompted by complaints from consumer bodies across Europe.

Succession at the mega company has been in the headlines in recent weeks with the announcement of the departure of Sheryl Sandberg after 14 years as the firm's number two.

The little space rock hit the $10 billion telescope sometime in late May and left a small but noticeable effect in the telescope's data, NASA said in a statement, adding that it was the fifth and largest hit to the telescope since its December launch.

Co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek, speaking at an investor day event in New York, said the ambitious goal could be achieved in part through an expansion of Spotify's portfolio of podcasts and audiobooks, while making the platform a one-stop shop for content creators.

Apple on Monday gave a preview of a new generation of its CarPlay software that will migrate from its current home on the entertainment screen to power everything in front of the driver.

China has approved the release of dozens of new video games, boosting the shares of some of its biggest tech firms.