Chandan Khanna - AFP / Getty ImagesCommentary NASA Testing Our Planet's Final Defense on Rogue Asteroid Barreling Through Space It's nice to know that any asteroid hurtling toward Earth can expect to meet an American rocket face to face. By Jared Harris October 9, 2021
ABC News / TwitterCommentary Nearly 200,000 COVID Tests Recalled After Kits Produced Huge Number of False Positives The company's CEO apologized to those who had false-positive tests 'for any stress or difficulties they may have experienced.' By Cameron Arcand October 7, 2021
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Facebook Offers Reason for Global Outage, Denying It was Caused By 'Malicious Activity' The problem occurred as engineers were carrying out day-to-day work on Facebook's global backbone network, and the system failed to stop it. By The Associated Press October 6, 2021
Smith Collection - Gado / Getty Images Big Tech Company Is Developing Artificial Intelligence to Control Traffic Lights The effort is part of a series of initiatives Google is launching to give consumers 'more sustainable choices,' it says. By Ailan Evans October 6, 2021
Wataru Yanagida / Getty ImagesCommentary Top US Drug Company: Game-Changing COVID Pill Synthesized, Trials Show a Profound Effect Pharmaceutical giant Merck says it has successfully tested an at-home antiviral medication that is effective against COVID. By Johnathan Jones October 1, 2021
Joe Raedle / Getty Images Employees Complain Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Is 'Mostly Male and Overwhelmingly White' A letter written by current and former employees of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin said the company is 'stuck in a toxic past.' By Ailan Evans October 1, 2021
Olivier Douliery - AFP / Getty Images Federal Trade Commission Memo Details Plans to Combat 'Root Causes' of Big Tech Dominance The memo, sent to FTC commissioners and staff, titled 'Vision and Priorities for the FTC,' outlined several key antitrust enforcement areas. By Ailan Evans September 24, 2021
Nicholas Kamm - AFP / Getty Images Big Tech Company Reportedly Developing Technology That Can Detect People's Emotional State The technology is being developed in partnership with researchers at UCLA and the pharmaceutical company Biogen. By Ailan Evans September 21, 2021
(Saul Martinez / Getty Images Elon Musk Drags Joe Biden After the President Failed to Acknowledge Historic SpaceX Mission The purpose of the mission was both to study the human body in space and raise $200 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. By Thomas Catenacci September 20, 2021
SmartPhotoLab / ShutterstockCommentary Alert: NIH Funded Iranian Prof Who Allegedly Smuggled US Science Equipment to the Rev. Guard The National Institutes of Health provided grants to a man charged with illegally supplying high-tech medical equipment to Iran. By C. Douglas Golden September 19, 2021