Not many people can boast of having candid conversations about planetary conquest with Elon Musk, but for Indian software engineer Pranay Pathole, a friendly chat with Musk is just a tweet away.

Twitter misled users and federal regulators about glaring weaknesses in its ability to protect personal data, the platform's former security chief claimed.

Dog owners know the pure joy of returning home to be greeted by their tail-wagging companion. But those ecstatic canines might be shedding more than just fur on your clothes -- they might also be tearing up, according to a new study published on Monday in the journal Current Biology.

Patches were released Thursday and Wednesday by the tech titan to fix what it described as a vulnerability hackers already knew about and may be taking advantage of.

Bionic hands convert electrical impulses from the muscles in the upper arm into movement powered by motors in the hand, enabling a user to hold a glass, open a door or pick up an egg.

At 34, Watkins has many years ahead of her at the United States space agency NASA, and could very well be one of the first women to step foot on the Moon in the coming years as a member of the Artemis team preparing for upcoming lunar missions.

Facebook sparked outrage by complying with US police probing an abortion case, boosting simmering fears the platform will be a tool for clamping down on the procedure.

TikTok has "emerged as a top social media platform for US teens" while Google-run YouTube "stands out as the most common platform used by teens," the report's authors wrote.

Shocking details aside, the death of a bullied student in Tasikmalaya last July goes to show how widespread cyberbullying remains here.

Twitter said the notion Elon Musk was "hoodwinked" into inking a $44 billion buyout deal defies reason and the facts.

A charred chunk of space junk found jutting from a paddock by an Australian sheep farmer was part of one of Elon Musk's SpaceX missions, authorities confirmed on Thursday.

Scientists announced Wednesday they have restored blood flow and cell function throughout the bodies of pigs that were dead for an hour, in a breakthrough experts say could mean we need to update the definition of death itself.

Located around 500 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Sculptor, the Cartwheel gained its shape during a spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies.

South Koreans may soon be able to carry a device inside their own bodies in the form of a bespoke tattoo that automatically alerts them to potential health problems, if a science team's project bears fruit.

Astronomers have observed the most-massive known example of an object called a neutron star, one classified as a "black widow" that got particularly hefty by gobbling up most of the mass of a stellar companion trapped in an unhappy cosmic marriage.

The Data and Computational Journalism Conference Indonesia (DCJ-CI), which runs from Wednesday to Saturday and features 16 seminars and six workshops, covers new media technology and data-driven journalism.

Is it tumbleweed? A piece of fishing line? Spaghetti? An object discovered by NASA's Mars rover has intrigued space watchers.

Facebook-parent Meta reported its first quarterly revenue drop as the social media powerhouse battles a turbulent economy and the rising phenomenon of TikTok.

French satellite-operator Eutelsat said on Monday it was in talks with British counterpart OneWeb for a tie-up to create a "global champion" in broadband internet, rivaling United States services like Elon Musk's Starlink.

Do artificial intelligence-assisted recruitments lead to gender-based bias?

But the most plausible explanation is more prosaic: it's likely remnants of a component used to lower the robotic explorer to the Martian surface in February 2021.

Nearly three in 10 teenagers used Instagram as their news source in 2022, with TikTok and YouTube both on 28 percent.

YouTube on Thursday said it will start removing videos containing false or unsafe claims about abortion in a crackdown on misinformation about the medical procedure.

Known as GLASS-z13, the galaxy dates back to 300 million years after the Big Bang, about 100 million years earlier than anything previously identified, Rohan Naidu of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics told AFP.

From careers in banking to roles in globe-spanning agencies, social media in Africa is awash with lucrative job offers.

Elon Musk and Twitter will face off Tuesday in the first court hearing over the Tesla chief's move to abandon their $44 billion buyout deal.

Here is a look at two early projects that will take advantage of the orbiting observatory's powerful instruments.

Netflix will work with Microsoft to launch a cheaper subscription plan that includes advertisements, the firms said on Wednesday, as the streaming giant fights to attract customers.

The meteorite NWA 7034, nicknamed Black Beauty, has fascinated geologists since it was discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011.

Here are some of the things scientists now hope to learn.