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The man who led a NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion has died

Artificial Intelligence is changing the way humans fall in love. ABC News’ Ines De La Cuetara speaks with people who say they are in relationships with AI about their virtual interactions.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin is cutting 10% of its workforce

Meteorologists warn that the coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy and prolonged exclamation point on America’s winter of repeated polar vortex invasions starting this weekend

The Chinese-owned app was removed from the stores on Jan. 18 after a ban in the United States went into effect.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her government is not ruling out filing a civil lawsuit against Google if it maintains its stance of calling the stretch of sea between northeastern Mexico and the southeastern United States the “Gulf of America.”

Google and Poland have signed a memorandum for developing the use of artificial intelligence in the country’s energy, cybersecurity and other sectors

Elon Musk says he will abandon his $97.4 billion offer to buy the nonprofit behind OpenAI if the ChatGPT maker drops its plan to convert into a for-profit company

Japanese electronics and entertainment company Sony is reporting a 3% gain in October-December profit, and raised its full-year forecast

Italy's government denies that it has spied on journalists and migrant activists using spyware, but says it will cooperate with any investigation into “vulnerabilities” after at least seven Italian cellphones were apparently hacked with military-grade ...

A recording released by the federal government appears to include audio of the implosion of the experimental submersible that went missing on its way to the wreck of the Titanic

Federal health agencies have restored several webpages and datasets, following a judge’s order to bring back public access to information that had been removed to comply with a presidential executive order

A neutrino detector submerged in the Mediterranean Sea has sniffed out the most energetic ghost particle yet

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms is urging users to stay vigilant about “romance scams” ahead of Valentine’s Day, warning of unsolicited messages through its apps and other social media platforms, as well as general text messages

Japanese technology company SoftBank Group Corp. reported a 369.2 billion yen, or $2.4 billion, loss for the fiscal third quarter, as it racked up red ink from its Vision Fund investments

Apple has changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its maps after an order by President Donald Trump was made official by the U.S. Geographic Names Information System

Google’s online calendar has removed default references for a handful of holidays and cultural events — with users noticing that mentions of Pride and Black History Month, as well as other observances, no longer appear in their desktop and mobile appli...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has dismissed a $97.4 billion takeover bid led by rival Elon Musk, but the unsolicited offer could complicate Altman’s push to transform the maker of ChatGPT into a for-profit company

JD Vance is delivering a keynote speech on the final day of the Paris AI Summit during his first foreign trip since taking office as vice president

Ukraine has offered to strike a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump for continued American military aid in exchange for developing Ukraine’s mineral industry

Elon Musk has long railed against the U.S. government, saying numerous investigations and safety programs have stymied Tesla, his electric car company, and its efforts to create fleets of robotaxis and other self-driving automobiles

President Donald Trump says he is banning federal use of paper straws, saying they “don’t work” and don’t last very long

Nearly 200 nations faced a Monday deadline to file what the United Nations’ climate chief calls “among the most important policy documents governments will produce this century."

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy

JD Vance is stepping onto the world stage for the first time as U.S. vice president this week, using a high-profile artificial intelligence summit in France and a gathering of national security leaders in Germany to showcase Donald Trump’s more asserti...

Two rare black wolves have been spotted on camera crossing a stream in a Polish forest

Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) is experiencing a major outage across the world, leaving tens of thousands of gamers unable to access online services, stores and multimedia apps

Renée Zellweger returning to one of her most indelible roles in “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” and Questlove offering the definitive documentary on funk crossover star Sly Stone are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases

A New Hampshire man has become the second person known to be living with a pig kidney

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has visited earthquake-struck Santorini, as the Aegean island imposed more precautionary measures amid intense seismic activity

Rocket bodies tend to be massive and heat resistant, posing an increased risk.

A systemwide outage of state government computers shut down everything from the work of the Legislature to driver’s licensing offices for several hours

Amazon has reported better-than-expected revenue and profits for the holiday shopping period

Brazilian students returned to class this week with a new task: staying away from their smartphones under a new law restricting the use of devices in schools

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe

Lawmakers in the House are proposing to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from U.S. government devices

Greece has declared a state of emergency on Santorini because of the hundreds of undersea earthquakes that have shaken the resort island for nearly a week

ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks to the CEO of Feroot Security, Ivan Tsarynny, on his team's discovery Deepseek code can send user data to the Chinese government.