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Atlanta officials are seeking answers from Google after a news report said that company contractors had sought out black homeless people in the city to scan their faces to improve Google’s facial-recognition technology. The New York Daily News reported on Wednesday that a staffing agency hired by Google had sent its contractors to numerous American […]

An iconic Alaska tree with roots that can freeze to death if not covered by snow was rejected Friday by a federal agency for the threatened species list. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said that yellow cedar does not warrant additional protections because trees will persist in areas where climate change does not affect

SAN FRANCISCO — PayPal said on Friday that it had pulled out of the coalition of companies involved in a Facebook-backed cryptocurrency initiative, in the latest headache for the social network’s effort. The proposed cryptocurrency, Libra, has been in the works at Facebook for more than a year and was announced to much fanfare in

The first all-female spacewalk is back on, six months after a flap over spacesuits led to an embarrassing cancellation. Interested in NASA? Add NASA as an interest to stay up to date on the latest NASA news, video, and analysis from ABC News. NASA announced Friday that the International Space Station’s two women will pair

LOS ANGELES — Dear Netflix: Keep your money. That is the message the Walt Disney Company sent by banning advertising from Netflix on its entertainment television networks — principally ABC and Freeform — as it prepares to introduce its own Netflix-style streaming service, Disney Plus. Disney will continue to accept Netflix ads on its ESPN

Authorities in Peru say they’ve detained a ship carrying 12.3 million dried seahorses with a $6 million export value in an unprecedented operation. Peruvian marines followed the Adonay ship for several days before intercepting it about 200 miles (322 kilometers) off the Pacific coast. On board, authorities found 55 boxes filled with seahorses in what

SAN FRANCISCO — Iranian hackers have been targeting the email accounts of at least one presidential campaign, as well as those of American journalists and current and former United States government officials, according to Microsoft. In a report released on Friday, Microsoft said the hackers, with apparent backing from Iran’s government, made more than 2,700

Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Hello, everyone! Mike Isaac reporting in from the slightly chilly San Francisco Bay Area. (For Californians, anything below 70 degrees is chilly.) Let’s take a look at this week’s tech news: Early in the week, the technology

Scientists have chosen an ice floe on which to begin setting up a research camp for a year-long international expedition to study the Arctic, Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute said Friday. After several days of searching, researchers found a suitable floe measuring about 2.5 kilometers by 3.5 kilometers (1.5 miles by 2.2 miles) in the Arctic

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that he’ll “try not to antagonize” Sen. Elizabeth Warren any further after transcripts of candid comments he made about her were leaked this week. At a livestreamed Q&A with Facebook employees, Zuckerberg talked about leaked remarks he made to employees in July, when he said he was ready to