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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

Good, Bad of Artificial Intelligence Discussed at TED Conference  

Good, Bad of Artificial Intelligence Discussed at TED Conference  

While artificial intelligence, or AI, is not new, the speed at which the technology is developing and its implications for...

Twitter Begins Removing Blue Checks From Users Who Don’t Pay

Twitter Begins Removing Blue Checks From Users Who Don’t Pay

This time it’s for real.  Many of Twitter’s high-profile users are losing the blue check marks that helped verify their...

SpaceX Giant Rocket Explodes Minutes After Launch from Texas

SpaceX Giant Rocket Explodes Minutes After Launch from Texas

SpaceX’s giant new rocket blasted off on its first test flight Thursday but exploded minutes after rising from the launch...

LogOn: Artificial Intelligence Creates Voices for Films, Ads

LogOn: Artificial Intelligence Creates Voices for Films, Ads

A growing number of startups are using artificial intelligence to replicate human voices. A company is creating synthetic voices for...

Apple Inc Bets Big on India as It Opens First Flagship Store

Apple Inc Bets Big on India as It Opens First Flagship Store

Apple Inc. opened its first flagship store in India in a much-anticipated launch Tuesday that highlights the company’s growing aspirations...

Elon Musk Says He Will Launch Rival to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT

Elon Musk Says He Will Launch Rival to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he will launch an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that he calls “TruthGPT” to challenge...

SpaceX Postpones Debut Flight of Starship Rocket System

SpaceX Postpones Debut Flight of Starship Rocket System

Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Monday called off a highly anticipated launch of its powerful new Starship rocket, delaying the first...

Japan’s Sega to Buy Finnish Angry Birds Maker Rovio

Japan’s Sega to Buy Finnish Angry Birds Maker Rovio

Japanese video games group Sega has offered to buy Angry Birds maker Rovio, valuing the Finnish company at over $770...

‘Big Sponge’: New CO2 Tech Taps Oceans to Tackle Global Warming

‘Big Sponge’: New CO2 Tech Taps Oceans to Tackle Global Warming

Floating in the port of Los Angeles, a strange-looking barge covered with pipes and tanks contains a concept that scientists...

Europe’s Most Powerful Nuclear Reactor Kicks Off in Finland 

Europe’s Most Powerful Nuclear Reactor Kicks Off in Finland 

Information in this article is confirmed with other sources and may be used without attribution to The Associated Press in...

First Test Flight of SpaceX’s Big Starship

First Test Flight of SpaceX’s Big Starship

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take its most daring leap yet with a round-the-world test flight of its mammoth...

New US Proposal on Vehicle Emissions Seeks to Boost EV Sales

New US Proposal on Vehicle Emissions Seeks to Boost EV Sales

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week released proposals for the most aggressive vehicle emission standards in the country’s history,...

First Image of Black Hole Gets Makeover With AI 

First Image of Black Hole Gets Makeover With AI 

The first image of a black hole captured four years ago revealed a fuzzy, fiery doughnut-shaped object. Now, researchers have...

In US, National Public Radio Abandons Twitter

In US, National Public Radio Abandons Twitter

Broadcaster National Public Radio said Wednesday it would no longer post its news content on 52 official Twitter accounts in...

Musk Says Owning Twitter ‘Painful’ But Needed To Be Done

Musk Says Owning Twitter ‘Painful’ But Needed To Be Done

Billionaire Elon Musk has told the BBC that running Twitter has been “quite painful” but that the social media company...

China Unveils Proposed New Law Overseeing Artificial Intelligence Products

China Unveils Proposed New Law Overseeing Artificial Intelligence Products

China’s internet regulator has unveiled a proposed law that will require makers of new artificial intelligence, or AI, products to...

Australia Aims to Make Industry More Resilient Against Cyberattacks

Australia Aims to Make Industry More Resilient Against Cyberattacks

The Australian government is asking major banks and other institutions to take part in ‘wargaming’ exercises to test how they...

News Presenter Generated with AI Appears in Kuwait

News Presenter Generated with AI Appears in Kuwait

A Kuwaiti media outlet has unveiled a virtual news presenter generated using artificial intelligence, with plans for it to read...

Reports: Tesla Plans Shanghai Factory for Power Storage

Reports: Tesla Plans Shanghai Factory for Power Storage

Electric car maker Tesla Inc. plans to build a factory in Shanghai to produce power-storage devices for sale worldwide, state...

Mayor in Australia Ready to Sue over Alleged AI Chatbot Defamation

Mayor in Australia Ready to Sue over Alleged AI Chatbot Defamation

A mayor in Australia’s Victoria state said Friday he may sue the artificial intelligence writing tool ChatGPT after it falsely...

Samsung Cutting Memory Chip Production as Profit Slides

Samsung Cutting Memory Chip Production as Profit Slides

Samsung Electronics said Friday it is cutting the production of its computer memory chips in an apparent effort to reduce...

FBI Targets Users in Crackdown on Darknet Marketplaces

FBI Targets Users in Crackdown on Darknet Marketplaces

Darknet users, beware: If you frequent criminal marketplaces in the internet’s underbelly, think again. Chances are you’re in the FBI’s...