As automation and online work gain ground, organizers of the annual Davos forum are projecting employers will split work equally between machines and people by 2025, with the coronavirus pandemic accelerating changes in the labor market.
After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a handful of rubble.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts successfully reached the International Space Station after blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Wednesday, live footage broadcast by Russia's space agency Roscosmos showed.
A much-hyped network upgrade called "5G" means different things to different people.
Apple's four new iPhones announced Tuesday will be 5G capable of connecting to the fast new wireless networks which are being upgraded worldwide.
Apple Inc on Tuesday launched its next-generation iPhone 12, with faster 5G connectivity that the California company hopes will spur consumers to trade in...
Facebook is banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust and will start directing people to authoritative sources if they search for information about the...
Supreme Court justices discussed restaurant menus, computer keyboards, songs and even the periodic table Wednesday in trying to resolve a copyright dispute...
In rural Sierra Leone, teenagers tuned into solar-powered radios for their lessons, while Kenyan students texted a code to receive free learning guides on...
The streets of Paris and eight other French cities were deserted on Saturday night on the first day of the government-imposed 9 p.m. curfew that is scheduled...
Air pollution killed 476,000 newborns in 2019, with the biggest hotspots in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new global study which said that...
UK backs controversial COVID-19 vaccine trials that infect volunteers
The state of Lebanon’s wine industry has previously been assessed to be in dire straits thanks to the current depth of crises facing the country.
Finnish carrier Finnair will start selling business class airplane food in supermarkets in a move to keep its catering staff employed and to offer a taste of...
Peru's best-known tourist site Machu Picchu has opened after months of coronavirus closure, but for just a single visitor -- a Japanese man stranded in the...
German premium automaker Audi AG said Tuesday it had signed a memorandum of understanding with China's state-owned FAW Group to launch a venture to make...
German car giant Volkswagen Monday announced a fresh 15 billion euro ($17.5 billion) splurge on China's vast electric vehicle potential.
Three scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for advancing our understanding of black holes, the all-consuming monsters that lurk in the...
Cormeilles-en-Vexin, France, Sept 30, 2020 (AFP) - "Flying taxis" will start taking off from an aerodrome north of Paris as soon as next June, operators said,...
A Dutch start-up has created a biodegradable "living coffin" made of a fungus, instead of wood, which it says can convert a decomposing human body into key...
Facebook is launching a new initiative this week to encourage Americans to vote in the upcoming presidential election, the latest effort by the social network...
University of Washington ecologist Christopher Schell is studying how coronavirus shutdowns have affected wildlife in Seattle and other cities.
The world's first electric-powered hydrofoil speedboat, which reduces energy consumption and noise - as well as sea sickness - by "flying" above the waves,...
It might seem like a flight of fancy, but a Japanese firm says it is one step closer to making flying cars a reality after testing a drone-like prototype.
Facebook made a mistake in not removing a militia group's page earlier this week that called for armed civilians to enter Kenosha, Wisconsin, amid violent...
The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Wednesday that the frequency of sophisticated cyber attacks against hospitals,...
Teachers and parents got a brief glimpse of a new kind of pandemic-era nightmare Monday when Zoom - the video-conferencing service that powers everything from...
Germany's leading infectious disease institute said Wednesday a first vaccine against the coronavirus could be available as early as autumn but warned that it...
Twitter Inc Tuesday rolled out a moderation feature that would allow its users to limit how many people can reply to their tweets, giving account-holders more...
Alphabet Inc's Google's Android phones Tuesday started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could eventually give billions of users...
SpaceX launched a prototype of its Mars rocketship hundreds of feet into the air, then landed it upright in a successful test flight.
Hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls Wednesday in one of the most high-profile security breaches in recent...
Less acid rain is good for the environment, but potentially bad for bread, cereals and pasta.
Alphabet Inc's Google said Wednesday its corporate Gmail customers would now be able to edit documents and other files without leaving the email service, as...
Zoom Wednesday set out to capitalize on its pandemic-powered popularity with a touchscreen display tuned to its video-conferencing platform.
The dismembered body of a 33-year-old tech entrepreneur was found inside his luxury Manhattan condo, police said Wednesday.
White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said Sunday he expected President Donald Trump to act firmly against the TikTok and WeChat applications, amid rising...
The oil-rich United Arab Emirates has built a nuclear power program and sent a man to space, and now plans to join another elite club by sending a probe to...