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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The International Space Station welcomed three new residents Wednesday following a smooth Russian launch. The Soyuz capsule rocketed into orbit from Kazakhstan and, just three hours later, pulled up at the space station. American Frank Rubio…

BEIJING — At least 46 people were reported killed and 16 missing in a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that shook China’s southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday, triggering landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million…

TOKYO — A team of South Korean government experts began a two-day tour of Japan’s tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday to examine a contentious plan to release treated but still slightly radioactive wastewater into the sea. Officials from…

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea was set to launch its first commercial-grade satellite Wednesday as rival North Korea pushed plans forward to place its first military spy satellite into orbit. The South Korean satellite will be launched by a…

TOKYO — The head of a South Korean team of experts said Wednesday they saw all of the facilities they had requested to visit at Japan’s tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant and Japanese officials had carefully answered their questions about a…

On August 13, 2022 (this is the final date), Monero will launch a large-scale network update. In other words, a hard fork is waiting for us. The deadlines were postponed several times because the developers made corrections to the security…

As concerns about social media’s harmful effects on teens continue to rise, platforms from Snapchat to TikTok to Instagram are bolting on new features they say will make their services safer and more age appropriate. But the changes rarely address…

This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Tech companies are scrambling to adjust their data privacy practices in response to the Supreme Court’s decision…