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

Facebook Drops 51 Fake Accounts Traced to Iran   

Facebook Drops 51 Fake Accounts Traced to Iran   

Facebook has dropped 51 accounts, 36 pages, and seven groups after the cybersecurity firm FireEye revealed they were fake accounts...

AI Phones, PCs Edging Into Global Consumer Technology

AI Phones, PCs Edging Into Global Consumer Technology

Artificial intelligence-driven phones that turn photos into 3D images and PCs with interactive speakers will come a step closer to...

New Tech Keeps Phone Lines Open During Disasters

New Tech Keeps Phone Lines Open During Disasters

When a natural disaster strikes, some of first pieces of infrastructure to go down are communication networks. And for first...

Facial Recognition Technology Raising Alarms Around the World

Facial Recognition Technology Raising Alarms Around the World

San Francisco, California recently became the first U.S. city to ban police and other city agencies from using facial recognition...

Virtual Reality Offers Glimpse of Rome’s Circus Maximus

Virtual Reality Offers Glimpse of Rome’s Circus Maximus

The Circus Maximus Experience, opened in Rome this week and offers visitors the chance to relive the ancient splendors of...

Drones Monitor Whale Health In Australia

Drones Monitor Whale Health In Australia

A water-proof drone is being used by Australian scientists to collect the highly-treasured nasal mucus of migrating whales. The snot...

At Pentagon’s Silicon Valley Outpost, Urgency Amid Tensions With China

At Pentagon’s Silicon Valley Outpost, Urgency Amid Tensions With China

In a building a few miles from Google and Facebook’s plush campuses is the Pentagon’s sparse outpost in Silicon Valley....

Silicon Valley Carefully Navigates US-China High Tech Cold War

Silicon Valley Carefully Navigates US-China High Tech Cold War

Silicon Valley has long been a power center of American innovation. Now that high-tech is also becoming a focus of...

UK, Japan Mobile Operators Suspend Huawei 5G Phone Launches

UK, Japan Mobile Operators Suspend Huawei 5G Phone Launches

British and Japanese mobile phone companies said Wednesday they’re putting on hold plans to sell new devices from Huawei, in...

A New Robot Promises to Meet Your Internet Needs, Handsfree, at Home

A New Robot Promises to Meet Your Internet Needs, Handsfree, at Home

A new personal home robot follows you around your home, navigating past obstacles, so you can multitask while staying connected. Deana Mitchell takes a...

Smart Technology Gives Old Infrastructure New Life

Smart Technology Gives Old Infrastructure New Life

Extreme weather and rising sea levels are putting pressure on the natural world and on the infrastructure we have put...

Electronic Trade Helps Cameroonian Farmers

Electronic Trade Helps Cameroonian Farmers

Information technologies are changing the lives of many Cameroonian farmers, who previously were dependent on brokers, who charged fees to...

Google to Restrict Huawei From Android Operating System

Google to Restrict Huawei From Android Operating System

The giant U.S. internet search engine Google said Monday it is restricting China’s Huawei from access to its Android operating...

Boeing Admits Flaw in 737 MAX Simulator Software

Boeing Admits Flaw in 737 MAX Simulator Software

Boeing acknowledged it had to correct flaws in its 737 MAX flight simulator software used to train pilots, after two...

Scientists Building Proteins See a World of Possibilities

Scientists Building Proteins See a World of Possibilities

The old saying goes “you can’t beat Mother Nature.” But in a lab at New York University, scientists are trying...

Radio Telescope Explores Cosmic Mysteries

Radio Telescope Explores Cosmic Mysteries

Every year astronomers are seeing farther and more clearly into the cosmos than ever before. One of the ways they...

Scientists Use DNA of Dust to Trace Where an Object’s Been

Scientists Use DNA of Dust to Trace Where an Object’s Been

Clothing, medicine and other items in one’s environment all have genetic markers, or fingerprints, that provide clues to where they...

Vietnam’s Tech Futurists Lay Out Economic Alternatives

Vietnam’s Tech Futurists Lay Out Economic Alternatives

Nations racing to develop 5G technology that is fast enough to power the next stage of innovation range from South...

Scientists Build Microbial Map to Trace Where an Object Has Been

Scientists Build Microbial Map to Trace Where an Object Has Been

Scientists say they have new ways of tracking where clothing, medicines and other items are made, making it harder for...

Deep Sea Explorer Finds Life and Garbage in the Mariana Trench

Deep Sea Explorer Finds Life and Garbage in the Mariana Trench

The Mariana Trench, at 11,000 meters, is the deepest part of Earth. But even at these depths, 11 kilometers below...

Spotting Fires from the Earth, Air and Space

Spotting Fires from the Earth, Air and Space

Wildfires are often discovered by aircraft pilots, drivers or spotters in observation towers. Increasingly, remote sensors — on the ground,...

Tracking Fires from the Earth, Air and Space

Tracking Fires from the Earth, Air and Space

Wildfires are often discovered by aircraft pilots, drivers or spotters in observation towers but also increasingly by remote sensors, which...