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A prototype of a SpaceX ship — the Starship SN4 — meant to one day take humans to the moon and Mars has passed a key test.

In a normal year, the process of reviewing a new iPhone might start with a flashy press event followed some days later by a carefully-staged unboxing while a professional camera rolls on a perfectly composed reviewer.

Germany hopes to have a tracking app ready to download within a few weeks. But details are scarce, and if the app is to succeed, Germans will have to overcome a widespread reluctance to share data with authorities that is rooted deep in the country's history.

Nintendo revealed on Friday that 160,000 accounts were breached since the beginning of April, by hackers using others' Nintendo Network IDs without permission. The company announced users will no longer need to use these IDs to log into their accounts, and that passwords on accounts that may have been breached will be reset.

The head of NASA is urging space enthusiasts not to show up to Florida for the launch of SpaceX's first crewed mission next month.

Facebook has a long history of expanding its features to emulate major competitors. Now it's taking on platform-of-the-moment Zoom.

Amazon will keep its French distribution centers shut down through April 28 after losing its appeal against a court ruling that prompted it to suspend deliveries in France last week.

Instacart hired 300,000 workers in recent weeks to meet surging demand for grocery deliveries spurred by the pandemic. Now, the startup is seeking to hire another 250,000 workers over the next two months.

Zoom will begin rolling out a long-awaited security update this weekend to deal with widespread complaints of video-conferencing interruptions and other potential meeting vulnerabilities, the company said Wednesday.

Amazon has been revealed to be behind a mystery £250,000 ($310,000) donation to a charity that supports independent booksellers in the UK and Ireland.

It is the anniversary of a legend. A YouTube legend. Meet "Me at the zoo."

For nearly three years, Bashir Mohamed worked night shifts at an Amazon warehouse in Shakopee, Minnesota. As a "stower" at the facility, he was responsible for registering products into an inventory system before storing them on shelves for others to pick and pack. It was "fairly stressful" work, the 28 year old said, but he stuck with it in large part out of loyalty to his colleagues.

For Marcela Sapone, the decision to expand her company into food and essential deliveries during the coronavirus pandemic didn't come without careful consideration for its thousands of workers.

Facebook is investing $5.7 billion into Jio Platforms, the digital technology arm of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's sprawling conglomerate Reliance Industries.

Snapchat's resurgence continues, with global lockdowns due to the coronavirus outbreak leading to a spike in usage.

Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk can be a controversial figure. Not surprisingly, one of his projects has managed to frustrate stargazers.

As hospitals worldwide face severe shortages of health professionals, people are being called off the sidelines to help COVID-19 patients — even those with little to no experience in treating infectious diseases.

Growth at Chinese telecom group Huawei came to an abrupt halt in the first three months of the year as the coronavirus outbreak brought its home country to a near standstill.

Apple and Google may have set aside their smartphone rivalry to help track the spread of the coronavirus. And between their Android and iOS operating systems, the new contact tracing technology they are jointly developing — which tells smartphone users if they've been around someone who tested positive for the virus — could make its way to billions of devices.