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Most Apple stores to require masks again for shoppers, staff 28 Jul 2021 - 11:51 pm

Apple Inc. plans to restore a mask requirement at most of its U.S. retail stores on Thursday for both customers and staff, even...

Google delays workers' return to office, mandates vaccines 28 Jul 2021 - 08:10 pm

SAN RAMON, Calif - Google is postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-October and rolling out a policy that...

Sponge-like Canadian fossils may be earliest sign of animal life 28 Jul 2021 - 07:56 pm

WASHINGTON: Fossils found in rugged mountainous terrain in Canada's Northwest Territories may give a glimpse at the humble dawn of animal life on...

Senegalese plant circular gardens in Green Wall defence against desert 28 Jul 2021 - 06:35 pm

BOKI DIAWE, Senegal: Every night Moussa Kamara works at his bakery preparing hundreds of loaves but at sunrise, instead of going home to...

Twitter begins testing shopping feature on brand profile pages 28 Jul 2021 - 06:10 pm

Twitter Inc will begin allowing businesses to showcase products for sale at the top of their profile page, the social networking company said...

Could display drones snuff out the firework? 28 Jul 2021 - 05:30 pm

FROME, England: Concerns about pollution and the environment could see drone displays - such as the one featured in the Tokyo Olympics opening...

Turn off, turn on: Simple step can thwart top phone hackers 28 Jul 2021 - 03:55 pm

Richmond, Va.: As a member of the secretive Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Angus King has reason to worry about hackers. At a briefing...

Feline okay? The app that tells you if your cat's happy 27 Jul 2021 - 01:02 pm

Cat owners who love to take pictures of their furry friends now have a new excuse to pull out their smartphones and take...

Bezos offers NASA $2 billion in exchange for moon mission contract 26 Jul 2021 - 09:29 pm

SEATTLE - Fresh off his trip to space, billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos on Monday offered to cover up to $2 billion in NASA...

Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk 26 Jul 2021 - 07:32 pm

PARIS - "Robot, stand up" - Oscar Constanza, 16, gives the order and slowly but surely a large frame strapped to his body...

Greener PPE: Inventors tackle Covid-19 plastic waste mountain 26 Jul 2021 - 10:27 am

London: From surgical masks and gloves to disposable hospital gowns and aprons, the COVID-19 pandemic is creating a mountain of plastic medical waste...

Sharks: Demystifying a misunderstood actor in the marine ecosystem 26 Jul 2021 - 08:39 am

As the top predators in the marine habitat, sharks play an essential role in the ecosystem by maintaining the balance of the species...

Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo 25 Jul 2021 - 07:16 pm

OSLO - An "unusually large meteor" briefly lit up southern Norway on Sunday, creating a spectacular sound and light display as it rumbled...

Websites of airlines, banks, tech companies back online after brief global outage 22 Jul 2021 - 08:08 pm

Several airlines, banks and technology websites were coming back online on Thursday afternoon after a brief outage, the third such widespread incident noted...