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Both Amazon and Apple were targeted by competition chief Margrethe Vestager to stamp out tax deals used by EU states

Instagram users can opt to have pronoun choices shown publicly, or just to friends at the service

Bitcoin rebounded to about $50,000 in Asian trading after plunging as much as 17%

Scientists last week found the site, dating to around 78,000 years ago, where a child was buried in a cave

A generation of Chinese born in the 1960s are reaching their mandatory retirement age

Trump administration, designated the firm as having ties to China’s military and placed it on US ban list

The planet has already warmed 1.2C above the preindustrial benchmark, enough to unleash a crescendo of deadly storms

After 44 years of travel, Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object in space

Social media companies fined up to 10% of turnover or $25 million if they failed to stamp out online abuses

Viral app TikTok jump-started the trend of short-form video clips and was quickly copied by other apps

Elon Musk asked his followers in a poll on Twitter whether Tesla should accept payment in dogecoin

A group of 40 state attorneys general urged Mark Zuckerberg to abandon plans to launch Instagram for children

According to official figures, around 85,000 children in Russia suffer from cerebral palsy

The company will produce its first supercar, the T50, with a powerful V12 engine, in 2022

Foxconn facility in the southern state of Tamil Nadu produces iPhones specifically for India

NASA spacecraft has begun its two-year journey back to Earth

Live audio app Clubhouse will begin introducing a test version of its app to Google's Android users in the US

SpaceX won NASA’s $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the moon as early as 2024

Eight of them date to between 50,000 and 68,000 years ago, while the oldest could be 90,000 or 100,000 years old

Bitcoin has doubled, ether has soared more than fivefold this year and dogecoin more than a hundredfold

SpaceX will launch the 'DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon' in the first quarter of next year

Virgin Hyperloop is looking to first develop passenger routes in India, where the transport system is overloaded

Modi’s government this week omitted Chinese gearmaker Huawei from a list of participants in its 5G trials

Ethereum has outperformed major digital currency rivals this year

Amazon, Google, and several Indian firms have jumped in to help India battle coronavirus

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time captured the low-pitched whirring of Ingenuity helicopter's blades

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is using brain-friendly presentations to captivate the audience

The environmentally friendly fuel used by the Long March 5B would not pollute the ocean

The technology could be as much as 45% faster than the mainstream 7-nanometer chips , up to 75% more power-efficient

A limited number of users around the world who tweet in English can add a 'Tip Jar' feature to their profiles

Ether, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency after bitcoin, extended a breakaway rally to a new record high

PayPal beat profit estimates, with a coronavirus-driven shift to online shopping and digital transactions

Musk has said he intends to fly Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa around the moon with the Starship in 2023

A child perhaps 2-1/2 or 3 years old buried in a shallow grave under the sheltered overhang of a cave

Facebook's oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company’s suspension of former US President Donald Trump

Neuropsychiatric symptoms are common in Covid-19 survivors, a large new analysis confirms

China last month published draft rules to ensure the security of data generated by smart cars

Pakistani sellers can now create their IDs on the e-commerce platform to sell their products worldwide

Science has opened the possibility of designing hybrid humans with artificially enhanced cognitive abilities

Covid-19 has changed work for millions globally who have switched from being in the office to working from home

The study found that a single Venusian rotation takes 243.0226 Earth days

Indians are building online databases packed with information about medical resources available across the country

SpaceX plans to deploy 12,000 satellites in total, the Starlink constellation will cost it roughly $10 billion

Verizon had bought AOL for $4.4 billion in 2015 and Yahoo for $4.5 billion in 2017

Facebook’s independent oversight board will announce whether it is overturning the suspension of Trump’s account

SpaceX and Blue Origin compete for contracts with US military or space agencies

Loay Elbasyouni, born and raised in Gaza is part of the team that designed NASA’s mini Mars helicopter Ingenuity

Epic Games was booted from the App Store after it triggered an update in its Fortnite game

Their return marked the end of the first crew rotation mission to the station by the Crew Dragon spacecraft

Cryptocurrency ether broke past $3,000 to set a new record high in a dazzling rally that has outshone bigger bitcoin