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Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman is a TikTok star at age 85, thanks to her 17-year-old grandson

A rocket made almost entirely of 3D-printed parts has finally taken flight, but didn't last long

The CEO of TikTok will make a high-profile appearance Thursday before a U.S. Congressional committee to make the case for why the hugely popular video-sharing app shouldn’t be banned

The battle between the U.S. and China over TikTok will come into full view when the social media platform’s CEO testifies before Congressional lawmakers

Thai police busted an international gang that operated call centers to deceive older Americans into wiring them money and netted $87 million

Scientists have pulled DNA from Ludwig van Beethoven's hair to look for clues about his many health problems and hearing loss

The NIL age has opened a vast new world of earning potential for student-athletes the NCAA long insisted were amateurs

There's a pesky problem in a wide stretch of the Atlantic Ocean that's likely to wash up on some beaches later this year: Seaweed

The Chinese-owned company is expected to clarify its community guidelines and add new polices on AI and climate misinformation.

TikTok is ramping up a public relations campaign to fend off the possibility of a nationwide ban by the Biden administration

A German environmental group is suing Facebook’s parent company Meta over persistent death threats posted on the social network against its staff

One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts is up for sale — for a cool $30 million

The app faces growing scrutiny over fears about the security of Americans' data.

The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains of central Mexico dropped 22%, and the number of trees lost in their favored wintering ground more than tripled compared to last year

Residents of a Louisiana parish located in the heart of a cluster of polluting petrochemical factories filed a lawsuit in federal court raising allegations of civil rights, environmental justice and religious liberty violations

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake has rattled much of Pakistan and Afghanistan, sending panicked residents fleeing from their homes and offices

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to test for radioactive contamination at a suburban St. Louis park that sits along a notoriously toxic creek

The Netherlands is moving to stop central government employees having apps including popular video sharing service TikTok installed on their work phones, amid concerns over data security

TikTok has rolled out updated rules and standards for content and its CEO warned against a possible U.S. ban on the video sharing app as he prepares to face Congress

The company invites its Pixel superfans to try out Bard and offer feedback.

Google has suspended the Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo on its app store after malware was discovered in versions of the app from other sources

Google has announced it’s allowing more people to interact with “Bard."

A relentless winter at Lake Tahoe has now etched its way into the history books as the Sierra's second-snowiest on record

General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has asked California for permission to test the cars across the entire state

Spring has sprung: Monday marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere

Officials in Thailand have traced to a recycling foundry a metal cylinder with radioactive contents that had gone missing from a power plant

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is telling employees in a memo that the company plans to eliminate 9,000 more jobs in the next few weeks

The subscription service starts at $12 per month and allows users who are at least 18 years old to add the blue checkmark to their accounts.

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest pearling town in the Persian Gulf on an island off one of the northern sheikhdoms of the United Arab Emirates

Much of the debate about combating online misinformation and extremism revolves around government regulations and changes made by social media platforms

Rich and developing countries haggled over wording of key phrases in the text.

Taylor Swift opened her U.S. concert series with a three-hour tour of her career

Millions of fish have washed up dead in southeastern Australia in a die-off that authorities and scientists say is caused by depleted oxygen levels in the river after recent floods and hot weather

Not long after the Ohio train derailment, pro-Russian voices on Twitter began spreading anti-U.S. propaganda about the incident

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells ABC News’ Rebecca Jarvis that AI will reshape society and acknowledges the risks: “I think people should be happy that we are a little bit scared of this.”

Former President Donald Trump has returned to Facebook after a more than two-year ban

Cornell University professor Sarah Kreps breaks down the promises and pitfalls of artificial intelligence and Open AI’s fast-growing platform, GPT.

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has made what might be her final court appearance before beginning a 11-year prison sentence

ABC News' Jay O'Brien talks with several members of Congress to hear what they are considering when it comes to the complex technology.

In an exclusive interview, Sam Altman told ABC News' Rebecca Jarvis that the tool is "very much in human control."

German officials say the country’s education and research minister is making an official trip to Taiwan next week

The mystery to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic now has some new clues

In a scene reminiscent of the last financial crisis, the federal government turned to Wall Street this week for help with a blossoming emergency in the banking sector

Britain and New Zealand joined the United States in restricting use of the app.

The company is increasing its subscription fee to $73 per month.

New Zealand lawmakers and other workers inside the nation’s Parliament will be banned from having the TikTok app on their government phones

ABC News' Linsey Davis spoke with Sarah Kreps, founder and director of the Tech Policy Institute at Cornell, about Congress' possible ban of TikTok in the U.S.

ABC News' Jay O'Brien reports on the promise and peril of ChatGPT and AI, as Congress weighs how to tackle the complex technology.

"This will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed," he said.

Microsoft is infusing artificial intelligence tools into its suite of office software, including Word, Excel and Outlook emails