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

Space Tracking Helps Australia Monitor, Manage Feral Buffalo Herds

Space Tracking Helps Australia Monitor, Manage Feral Buffalo Herds

Indigenous rangers in northern Australia have started managing herds of feral animals from space. In the largest project of its...

Artists Push for US Copyright Reforms on AI, But Tech Industry Says Not So Fast

Artists Push for US Copyright Reforms on AI, But Tech Industry Says Not So Fast

Country singers, romance novelists, video game artists and voice actors are appealing to the U.S. government for relief — as...

Advertisers Flee Elon Musk’s X Amid Concerns of Antisemitism Backlash

Advertisers Flee Elon Musk’s X Amid Concerns of Antisemitism Backlash

Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate...

Second SpaceX Starship Launch Presumed Failed Minutes After Reaching Space

Second SpaceX Starship Launch Presumed Failed Minutes After Reaching Space

SpaceX’s uncrewed spacecraft Starship, developed to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, was presumed to have failed in space...

Hollywood Actors Offered Protections Against AI in Labor Deal

Hollywood Actors Offered Protections Against AI in Labor Deal

Leaders of the union representing Hollywood actors announced a tentative deal recently with film and television studios to end a...

US Approves SpaceX for 2nd Launch of Starship Super Heavy

US Approves SpaceX for 2nd Launch of Starship Super Heavy

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday granted Elon Musk’s SpaceX a license to launch the company’s second test flight...

Nickel Miners, Environmentalists Learn to Live Together in Michigan

Nickel Miners, Environmentalists Learn to Live Together in Michigan

It began as a familiar old story. In the early 2000s, multinational mining giant Rio Tinto came to the wilds...

Nepal Bans TikTok, Says It Disrupts Social Harmony

Nepal Bans TikTok, Says It Disrupts Social Harmony

Nepal’s government decided to ban the popular social media app TikTok, saying Monday it was disrupting “social harmony” in the...

Cargo Standstill as Cyberattacks Close Australian Ports 

Cargo Standstill as Cyberattacks Close Australian Ports 

Several major Australian ports are resuming operations after shutting down due to a cyberattack. The ports are run by DP...

Russia to Limit Only VPN Services That Pose a ‘Threat’ to Security, State Media Say

Russia to Limit Only VPN Services That Pose a ‘Threat’ to Security, State Media Say

Russia plans to block certain Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and protocols that are deemed by a commission of experts to...

Australia Says Ports Operator Cyber Incident ‘Serious’

Australia Says Ports Operator Cyber Incident ‘Serious’

The Australian government on Sunday described as “serious and ongoing” a cybersecurity incident that forced ports operator DP World Australia...

Internet Collapses in Yemen Over ‘Maintenance’ After Houthi Attacks Targeting Israel, US

Internet Collapses in Yemen Over ‘Maintenance’ After Houthi Attacks Targeting Israel, US

Internet access across the war-torn nation of Yemen collapsed Friday and stayed down for hours, with officials later blaming unannounced...

Worker at South Korea Vegetable Packing Plant Crushed to Death by Industrial Robot

Worker at South Korea Vegetable Packing Plant Crushed to Death by Industrial Robot

An industrial robot grabbed and crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea, police said...

Star-filled Euclid Images Spur Mission to Probe ‘Dark Universe’

Star-filled Euclid Images Spur Mission to Probe ‘Dark Universe’

European astronomers on Tuesday released the first images from the newly launched Euclid space telescope, designed to unlock the secrets...

Logon: US Farmers Cautious About Autonomous Farm Tech 

Logon: US Farmers Cautious About Autonomous Farm Tech 

For farmers in the Midwest United States, emerging autonomous technology could reduce costs and increase efficiency in the agricultural supply chain. Kane Farabaugh shows...

AI Experts Weigh in on Biden’s Executive Order   

AI Experts Weigh in on Biden’s Executive Order   

President Joe Biden recently signed a sweeping executive order to promote the safe, secure and trustworthy development and use of...

Musk Teases AI Chatbot ‘Grok,’ With Real-time Access To X

Musk Teases AI Chatbot ‘Grok,’ With Real-time Access To X

Elon Musk unveiled details Saturday of his new AI tool called “Grok,” which can access X in real time and...

NASA Spacecraft Discovers Tiny Moon Around Asteroid

NASA Spacecraft Discovers Tiny Moon Around Asteroid

The little asteroid visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists. It turns out that...

FTX Founder Convicted of Defrauding Cryptocurrency Customers

FTX Founder Convicted of Defrauding Cryptocurrency Customers

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s spectacular rise and fall in the cryptocurrency industry — a journey that included his testimony before...

World Leaders Agree on Artificial Intelligence Risks

World Leaders Agree on Artificial Intelligence Risks

World leaders have agreed on the importance of mitigating risks posed by rapid advancements in the emerging technology of artificial...

India Probing Phone Hacking Complaints by Opposition Politicians, Minister Says

India Probing Phone Hacking Complaints by Opposition Politicians, Minister Says

India’s cybersecurity agency is investigating complaints of mobile phone hacking by senior opposition politicians who reported receiving warning messages from...

US Pushes for Global Protections Against Threats Posed by AI

US Pushes for Global Protections Against Threats Posed by AI

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that leaders have “a moral, ethical and societal duty” to protect people from...