Technology

Silicon Valley, technology and science news. Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge for achieving practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word technology can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible tools such as utensils or machines, and intangible ones such as software. Technology plays a critical role in science, engineering, and everyday life

Amazon Set to Begin Drone Package Delivery

Amazon Set to Begin Drone Package Delivery

The giant e-commerce technology company, Amazon, has announced that it expects to start delivering orders to shoppers’ homes by drones...

US Recruits Next Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals

US Recruits Next Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals

Online data is at risk. Hackers are getting smarter and companies across the globe are facing a shortage of trained...

Research: Russian Disinformation on YouTube Draws Ads, Lacks Warnings

Research: Russian Disinformation on YouTube Draws Ads, Lacks Warnings

Fourteen Russia-backed YouTube channels spreading disinformation have been generating billions of views and millions of dollars in advertising revenue, according...

Facebook Stops Huawei From Pre-Installing Its Apps on Phones

Facebook Stops Huawei From Pre-Installing Its Apps on Phones

Facebook has stopped letting its apps come pre-installed on smartphones sold by Huawei in order to comply with U.S. restrictions,...

Google Cloud Gaming Service to Launch in 14 Countries This Year

Google Cloud Gaming Service to Launch in 14 Countries This Year

Google on Thursday released new details about its video game streaming service Stadia, which will be available in 14 countries...

Ai-Da, Humanoid Robot Artist, Gears Up for First Solo Exhibition

Ai-Da, Humanoid Robot Artist, Gears Up for First Solo Exhibition

Wearing a white blouse and her dark hair hanging loose, Ai-Da looks like any artist at work as she studies...

Canada Details Plans for 5G Internet Rollout

Canada Details Plans for 5G Internet Rollout

Canada on Wednesday said it was preparing for the arrival of ultra-fast 5G internet service as it outlined plans to...

Amazon Says Drones Will Be Making Deliveries In Months

Amazon Says Drones Will Be Making Deliveries In Months

Amazon said Wednesday that it plans to use self-driving drones to deliver packages to shoppers’ home in the coming months ...

YouTube Bans Holocaust Denial Videos in Policy Reversal

YouTube Bans Holocaust Denial Videos in Policy Reversal

YouTube said on Wednesday it would remove videos that deny the Holocaust, school shootings and other “well-documented violent events,” a...

China Launches 1st Rocket From Mobile Platform in Yellow Sea

China Launches 1st Rocket From Mobile Platform in Yellow Sea

China on Wednesday launched a rocket from a mobile platform at sea for the first time, sending a five commercial...

Virtual Reality Films Pave the Way for Next-Gen History Lessons

Virtual Reality Films Pave the Way for Next-Gen History Lessons

At the Tribeca Film Fest in New York, filmmakers are mining current and historical events for inspiration. For tech-savvy youth,...

American Lawmakers Try To Balance Security Benefits of Facial Recognition Against Privacy Rights

American Lawmakers Try To Balance Security Benefits of Facial Recognition Against Privacy Rights

Lawmakers in Washington DC met Tuesday to discuss facial recognition software. Law enforcement says the technology helps to identify and...

Apple to Preview New Software as It Makes Big Transition

Apple to Preview New Software as It Makes Big Transition

Apple will preview upcoming changes to its phone and computer software Monday as it undergoes a major transition intended to...

Google Server Trouble Snarls YouTube, Snapchat

Google Server Trouble Snarls YouTube, Snapchat

Congested Google servers in the eastern United States caused problems for users of Snapchat and YouTube on Sunday, with complaints...

Report: US Regulators Divide up Scrutiny of Google, Amazon

Report: US Regulators Divide up Scrutiny of Google, Amazon

U.S. antitrust regulators have divided oversight of Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, putting Amazon under the watch of the...

Scientists Use Specialized Florida Lab for Magnetic Field Research

Scientists Use Specialized Florida Lab for Magnetic Field Research

Powerful magnets at a laboratory in Florida are allowing researchers to see the unseeable, understand the nature of things, and...

Report: US to Launch Google Antitrust Inquiry

Report: US to Launch Google Antitrust Inquiry

The U.S. Justice Department is preparing an investigation of Alphabet Inc.’s Google to determine whether the tech giant broke antitrust...

Study: Kids Who Play Violent Video Games May Be More Likely to Handle Guns

Study: Kids Who Play Violent Video Games May Be More Likely to Handle Guns

Children who either played or watched a video game that included gun violence were more likely afterward to handle a...

Telecoms Giant EE Launches Britain’s First 5G Services

Telecoms Giant EE Launches Britain’s First 5G Services

British mobile phone operator EE on Thursday became the first in the country to launch a high-speed 5G service, but...

Should Facebook Delete Fake Pelosi Video?

Should Facebook Delete Fake Pelosi Video?

When a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — one altered to show the Democratic leader slurring her words...

How One Pollution-Weary Asian Island Adopted Electric Vehicles

How One Pollution-Weary Asian Island Adopted Electric Vehicles

Electric vehicles have struggled to gain mass appeal in much of the world despite the fanfare surrounding Tesla Motors, the...

MacKenzie Bezos Pledges to Give Away Half Her Fortune

MacKenzie Bezos Pledges to Give Away Half Her Fortune

MacKenzie Bezos, who just months ago divorced the world’s richest man, has pledged to give away half her fortune to...