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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Players swiping their way through more than 18,700 levels of Candy Crush Saga might be surprised to learn they’re solving puzzles designed with an assist from artificial intelligence.

CALGARY — Haul trucks, shovels, pumps and pipes are common sights at Imperial Oil's vast oilsands operations in northeastern Alberta, but so too are robots and drones, with generative artificial intelligence a newer addition to the technological mix.

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus . Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s promise for “pulling back the curtain” to find autism's causes in a few months is jarring — and unrealistic.

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself.

Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected users' data without permission, the state’s attorney general announced Friday.

EDMONTON — Alberta's access to information watchdog has found the provincial government to be non-compliant with its own freedom of information rules.

Stacey Wales gripped the lectern, choking back tears as she asked the judge to give the man who shot and killed her brother the maximum possible sentence for manslaughter.

Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows. Chimpanzees and humans last shared a common ancestor around 6 million years ago.

NEW YORK (AP) — A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. The complete spears made of spruce and pine are among the oldest known hunting weapons .