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ABC News’ Devin Dwyer and Elizabeth Schulze, as well as ABC News contributor Channa Lloyd, discuss the ruling involving the social media platform.

Once the ban takes effect, the mandatory withdrawal of TikTok from major app stores would bar new users from downloading the app and prevent existing users from updating it.

The Nintendo Switch 2, the successor to the Nintendo Switch system, will be released in 2025

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life

U.S. defense contractor Anduril Industries is preparing to build a massive advanced manufacturing facility in central Ohio

One of NASA's two stuck astronauts is getting a change of scenery

Taiwan has taken another step in enhancing its key role in the production of advanced semiconductor chips used for artificial intelligence with the inauguration of a new plant by Siliconware Precision Industries Co. The ceremony Thursday marking the in...

Taiwan computer chip maker TSMC has reported its profit in the last quarter rose 57%, buoyed by the artificial intelligence boom

Blue Origin has launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight

Efforts to ban students' cellphones at school is gaining rare bipartisan consensus in Republican and Democrat-led states

Trump’s pick for national security adviser, Florida Rep. Mike Waltz, said during an interview on Wednesday that the president-elect is exploring options to “preserve” TikTok

Officials at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park are bracing for crowds eager to get a glimpse of lava fountaining from an eruption

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in southern Britain shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage

A nonprofit research lab is getting attention from some wealthy tech philanthropists

SpaceX has launched a pair of lunar landers for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business up there

SpaceX launches a pair of lunar landers for U.S. and Japanese companies

With a possible TikTok ban just days away, many U.S. users are looking for alternative social media platforms to help them keep up with pop culture or provide the type of entertaining videos that popularized the short-form video app

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a bill restricting the use of smartphones at school, following a global trend for such limitations

A strong earthquake has rattled southwestern Japan, but there were no reports of serious damage

The reusable New Glenn rocket marks the first major competitor to Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9, which has been launching payloads for more than a decade.

Blue Origin will try again to launch its massive new rocket as early as Thursday after calling off the debut launch because of ice buildup in critical plumbing

New York's attorney general says scammers stole millions of dollars in cryptocurrency from people seeking remote work opportunities as part of an elaborate scheme

The law that could ban TikTok is coming before the Supreme Court

In 2024, the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached the highest annual levels ever recorded on the planet, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Earth records its hottest year ever in 2024 and passes major climate threshold

The company announced this week it was ending third-party fact-checking and moving toward community notes.

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole

A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but meteorologists say the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as usual

In a collision between free speech and national security, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the fate of TikTok, a digital age cultural phenomenon that roughly half the U.S. population uses for entertainment and information

A revolutionary mode of transportation known as electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs, could be the future of taxis.

So much of the technology showcased at CES includes gadgets made to improve consumers’ lives — whether by leveraging AI to make devices that help people become more efficient, by creating companions to cure loneliness or by providing tools that help pe...

An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice that's at least 1.2 million years old

Meta says it will allow some Facebook users to view eBay listings on its Marketplace service

New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction

Interior lighting aimed at reducing motion sickness

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A renowned Israeli TV journalist who lost his ability to speak clearly because of ALS is returning to the air using artificial-intelligence software that recreates his widely recognized gravelly voice

Rescue workers in the freezing, high-altitude Tibet region are searching for more survivors and victims, one day after a strong earthquake leveled thousands of houses and killed at least 126 people near a holy city for Tibetan Buddhists

ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with the founding CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate Imran Ahmed about Facebook and Instagram owner Meta ending its fact-checking program.

ABC News' Mike Muse and Alexis Christoforous break down what the changes will mean for Meta's platforms.

When he was still a boy making the long, tedious trips between his school and his woodsy home in the mountains during the 1980s, JoeBen Bevirt began fantasizing about flying cars that could whisk him to his destination in a matter of minutes

ABC News’ Alexis Christoforous explains the decision, which Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says will also be in place for Instagram and Threads.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever put into space, has made a historic discovery.