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Then there’s a growing trend for local governments to introduce bans: San Francisco was the first city to restrict use of facial recognition by city authorities, and then Somerville, Mass., did something similar. A quasi-national ban could bubble up if many more follow suit. Professor Donath argues that it may be easier to regulate through […]

BBC Click’s Nick Kwek looks at some of the week’s best technology news stories including: Virgin Galactic announces its plans to go public in a merger with a New York-listed investment firm British Airways is fined £183m ($230m) after half a million of its customers’ details were compromised in a security breach last year European

The Latest on Ford’s alliance with Volkswagen (all times local): 9:25 a.m. Auto industry watchers say Ford and Volkswagen have the right idea with their new partnership to develop autonomous and electronic vehicle technology. The companies on Friday announced Friday that Volkswagen will invest $2.6 billion into a Pittsburgh autonomous vehicle company that’s mostly owned

WASHINGTON — For most of the 21st century, wealthy nations have engaged in a race to the bottom on corporate taxes, cutting rates in an effort to poach business activity across borders. Very quickly, that script has flipped. Developed countries are now moving to impose new taxes on technology companies, like Facebook and Google, that

A sweeping red-rock cliff at Utah’s Zion National Park is now the home of a new California condor chick as the species makes a comeback in the wild three decades after they were on the brink of extinction, biologists have confirmed. The chick is believed to have hatched in early May on the cliffs just

[Read all Times reporting on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. | Sign up for the weekly Science Times email.] Everyone, it seems, wants to go the moon now. In January, Chang’e-4, a Chinese robotic spacecraft including a small rover, became the first ever to land on the far side of the

Forensic scientist Henry Lee, who became famous for his testimony in the O.J. Simpson trial and his work on other high-profile murder cases, defended his reputation Thursday after lawyers this week again questioned the accuracy of blood-evidence testimony he gave decades ago. Wendall Hasan has been in prison since 1986 for the murder of George

Amid a new global space race, India is preparing to launch a second mission to the moon. Here is a timeline of its space program: ——— Feb. 16, 1962 — The Indian National Committee for Space Research is formed under the leadership of Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, known as the father of India’s space program, and

India is looking to take a giant leap in its space program and solidify its place among the world’s spacefaring nations with its second unmanned mission to the moon, this one aimed at landing a rover near the unexplored south pole. The Indian Space Research Organization plans to launch a spacecraft using homegrown technology on

The Latest on Twitter outage (all times local): 1:10 p.m. Twitter says “an internal configuration change” is responsible for an outage that lasted for about an hour. Thursday’s outage began before noon PT; some users were able to access Twitter again by 12:45 p.m. Twitter says some users may be able to access the service