YouTube on Thursday said it will start removing videos containing false or unsafe claims about abortion in a crackdown on misinformation about the medical procedure.

Known as GLASS-z13, the galaxy dates back to 300 million years after the Big Bang, about 100 million years earlier than anything previously identified, Rohan Naidu of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics told AFP.

From careers in banking to roles in globe-spanning agencies, social media in Africa is awash with lucrative job offers.

Elon Musk and Twitter will face off Tuesday in the first court hearing over the Tesla chief's move to abandon their $44 billion buyout deal.

Here is a look at two early projects that will take advantage of the orbiting observatory's powerful instruments.

Netflix will work with Microsoft to launch a cheaper subscription plan that includes advertisements, the firms said on Wednesday, as the streaming giant fights to attract customers.

The meteorite NWA 7034, nicknamed Black Beauty, has fascinated geologists since it was discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011.

Here are some of the things scientists now hope to learn.

"Every image is a new discovery," said NASA administrator Bill Nelson. "Each will give humanity a view of the universe that we've never seen before."

The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful observatory to be placed in orbit, has revealed the "deepest and sharpest infrared image of the early universe" ever taken, going back 13 billion years, NASA said on Monday.

The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful to be placed in orbit, has revealed the clearest image to date of the early universe, going back 13 billion years, NASA said Tuesday.

A jawbone fragment discovered in northern Spain last month could be the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor found to date in Europe, Spanish paleontologists said Friday.

Distant galaxies, bright nebulae and a faraway giant gas planet are among the observatory's first targets, US space agency NASA said Friday.

After three years of tinkering and hundreds of lines of code, Nigerian Victor Daniyan launches what he believes is the first African soccer game — Vikseen Virtual.

Apple Inc. said on Wednesday it planned to release a new feature called Lockdown Mode this fall that aimed to add a new layer of protection for human rights advocates, political dissidents and other targets of sophisticated hacking attacks.

Video-sharing sensation TikTok is being sued in California after children died while taking part in a "Blackout Challenge" that makes a sport of choking oneself until passing out.

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.