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A 'Fornite' player's lawsuit against his own team is taking on the 'Wild West' of esports

"I don't know how likely it is to build an esports union but I do think it's absolutely a necessity," one industry expert said.

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With trade differences in the background, Trump and Abe do diplomacy over golf and sumo

With trade differences in the background, Trump and Abe do diplomacy over golf and sumo

USA

Space aliens are breeding with humans, university instructor says. Scientists say otherwise.

Outlandish claim has a secret breeding program creating alien-human hybrids who can survive climate change.

USA

Doctored Pelosi videos offer a warning: The internet isn't ready for 2020

The Pelosi videos and their narratives were not the product of advanced technology, nor did they take a different route to prominence than previous misinformation efforts.

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U.S. and China tech have played nice for decades. Now, a fork in the road.

The Trump administration's efforts to isolate China's technology development could derail next-generation technologies.

USA

Zuckerberg pushes back on calls to break up Facebook

"The amount of our budget that goes toward our safety systems is greater than Twitter's whole revenue this year," Zuckerberg said.

USA

NOAA predicts 'near-normal' hurricane season ahead

NOAA is predicting a 70 percent chance of nine to 15 named storms. Of those, four to eight could become hurricanes, including two to four "major" hurricanes that reach Category 3 or higher.

India

India's Modi stuns opposition with huge election win

India's Modi stuns opposition with huge election win

USA

Company says its AI can tell if a kid is browsing

It's easy to get around age-restricted websites if you're a child. "Of course you're going to say, 'I'm an adult.'"

USA

Rising sea levels could swamp major cities and displace almost 200 million people, scientists say

With a "business as usual" approach to carbon emissions, the world's oceans could plausibly rise two meters by the end of the century.

USA

U.S. politicians warn Silicon Valley about doing business with China

A bipartisan group of senators have held classified briefings with intelligence officials and American businesses to warn them about the dangers China presents.

USA

Scientists find 414 million pieces of plastic debris on remote islands

The extraordinary haul means we may have underestimated the scale of the world's plastic problem.

USA

Moms go undercover to fight fake autism cures in private Facebook groups

Online groups urge parents to poison autistic kids with chlorine dioxide, a form of bleach, to "cure" them. These moms are infiltrating the groups to fight back.

USA

'Junk news' gets higher engagement before E.U. elections, Oxford study finds

Misinformation trends in the E.U. elections could foreshadow what's in store for America's next presidential race.

USA

'Game of Thrones' is gone, and so are some HBO subscribers

In the wake of the "Thrones" finale, some HBO Now users have decided their watch is over.

USA

The definition of the kilogram just changed. Here's what that means.

Scientists say the newly redefined unit of mass will help advance scientific research, though it won't change things for consumers.

USA

GOP senator wants to give users power to say no to Google and Facebook

Sen. Josh Hawley's legislation would give "Do Not Track" legal weight and penalize companies that ignore it.

USA

Sprint and T-Mobile strike deal with FCC for merger

The deal is contingent on the two companies agreeing to stipulations on the development of next-generation 5G technology and the expansion of broadband internet access to rural areas.

USA

The universe may be a billion years younger than we thought. Scientists are scrambling to figure out why.

New research suggests that the Big Bang that birthed the cosmos occurred 12.5 billion years ago.

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Self-proclaimed email "inventor" lawsuit settles

Shiva Ayyadurai claims that he invented email as a teenager in 1978, despite the Smithsonian saying that "exchanging messages through computer systems...predates the work"