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October 20, 2017

Spacewalking astronauts replacing blurry camera on robot arm

Astronauts went spacewalking Friday to provide some necessary focus to the International Space Station's robot arm. The main ...

October 20, 2017

Viral smartphone game lets ordinary Chinese 'clap' for Xi

Ordinary young Chinese may not have paid close attention to Xi Jinping's 3 ½-hour speech this week, but they're happy to ...

October 20, 2017

Backers of oil terminal pour money into Washington port race

Developers of a proposed oil-by-rail terminal that would be the largest in the nation have poured big money into a port ...

October 20, 2017

EPA orders more repairs at Texas toxic site following Harvey

The Environmental Protection Agency ordered two companies on Thursday to make more extensive repairs to stabilize the area ...

October 19, 2017

Applying for a credit card? Please take a selfie

The selfie is everywhere — Facebook, Instagram, Twitter — and soon your bank could be asking for one in order to approve your ...

October 19, 2017

Police video shows large bear peering into shop windows

A very large bear-about-town was spotted peering into shop windows in a California tourist community on Lake Tahoe.

October 19, 2017

Company seeks to build island off Alaska for Arctic drilling

America within a few years could be extracting oil from federal waters in the Arctic Ocean, but it won't be from a remote ...

October 19, 2017

Packers, Microsoft join in tech venture near Lambeau Field

The Green Bay Packers and Microsoft are launching a tech incubator near Lambeau Field in a $10 million partnership aimed at ...

October 19, 2017

Another warm winter forecast for swath of US

Much of the U.S. should expect another warm winter, but not quite as toasty as the last two years, forecasters said.

October 19, 2017

Missouri proposes innovation corridor for Amazon's 2nd home

Missouri officials were submitting a bid Thursday for Amazon's second headquarters that would involve an innovation corridor ...

October 19, 2017

Facebook bug puts Pittsburgh users in Philadelphia for a day

Facebook users in Pittsburgh and other western and central Pennsylvania locations have found themselves transplanted to ...

October 19, 2017

California education firm Chegg buys Berlin math app startup

Two Berlin math wizards have solved a problem that confounds many a startup company in the German capital: how to build a ...

October 19, 2017

Facebook knocks down Thai PM's claim of Zuckerberg meeting

Facebook says its top executives aren't coming to Thailand, two days after the country's military ruler announced CEO Mark ...

October 19, 2017

LG, Qualcomm join hands for autonomous driving

LG Electronics said Thursday that it will work with Qualcomm to jointly research and develop autonomous driving technologies.

October 19, 2017

Divers removing 30-year-old junk reef off California coast

Divers are removing hundreds of old tires, plastic jugs and other junk that was dumped off the Southern California coast ...

October 18, 2017

Trump EPA nominees on hold amid dispute over biofuel mandate

A Senate committee has delayed consideration of four of President Donald Trump's nominees for key posts at the Environmental ...

October 18, 2017

Correction: Self-Driving Cars Report story

In a story Oct. 17 about a Boston self-driving car study, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a computer ...

October 18, 2017

Trump says Comey knew he was going to exonerate Clinton

President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to revive his long-standing complaint about the FBI's handling of the ...

October 18, 2017

Shell opens its first electric vehicle charging points

Shell opened its first electric vehicle recharging points at three gas stations in Britain on Wednesday, part of the oil ...