A panel of federal appeals judges has ruled that Tennessee can begin enforcing a law that requires pornographic websites to verify their visitors’ age.

As the threat of a TikTok ban looms, some U.S. TikTok users are flocking to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu – making it the top downloaded app in the U.S. The self-described “TikTok refugees” landed on Xiaohongshu as an alternative to TikTok.

President Joe Biden has signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that seeks to ensure the infrastructure needed for advanced AI operations like data centers can be built quickly and at scale in the United States.

Britain’s competition watchdog says it’s investigating Google’s search ad business, adding to global scrutiny that the U.S. tech giant is facing.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a bill restricting the use of smartphones at school, following a global trend for such limitations.

Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dropping more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire suppressant have been dumped ahead of the flames in a desperate effort to stop them before they destroy more neighborhoods.

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole.

Sustainability is a key theme this year at the annual CES tech trade show in Las Vegas.

In a collision between free speech and national security, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the fate of TikTok, a digital age cultural phenomenon that roughly half the U.S. population uses for entertainment and information.

Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni says her government is in talks with private companies, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, over the country’s telecoms security system, but denied having discussed the issue privately with Musk.

So much of the technology showcased at CES includes gadgets made to improve consumers’ lives — whether by leveraging AI to make devices that help people become more efficient, by creating companions to cure loneliness or by providing tools that help people with mental and physical health.

Here's what experts say is turning Southern California's speedy wildfires into a deadly urban conflagration that is defying the calendar.

Nvidia’s stock is on the upswing after its CEO, Jensen Huang, unveiled a suite of new products, services and partnerships at CES 2025.

Smart devices like baby monitors, fitness trackers and internet-connected appliances could soon carry labels certifying that they meet federal cybersecurity standards.

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta says it’s scrapping its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with “community notes” written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk’s social platform X.

Getty Images is buying Shutterstock to create a $3.7 billion visual content company.

Meta has appointed three new members to its board of directors.

Nvidia unveiled its GeForce RTX 50 Series desktop and laptop GPUs — powered by its new Blackwell artificial intelligence chip — kicking off a string of entertainment-related AI announcements and discussions at the trade show, including several terse conversations about regulation of the budding technology.

Apple TV+ is hoping people will make a dent in the Strategic Popcorn Reserve by bingeing its streaming TV and movies for free this weekend.

Meteorologists forecast a strong snow and ice storm followed by brutally cold conditions will soon smack the eastern two-thirds of the United States.

Amazon Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football” package averaged 13.22 million viewers, a 13% increase over last season.

California is beginning 2025 with a solid start to the winter snowpack, but more storms are needed to keep the state’s water supplies on track.

Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices.

Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.