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

ChatGPT Enters Education Sphere — Can It Help Students?

ChatGPT Enters Education Sphere — Can It Help Students?

In less than a year, ChatGPT — the AI-powered chatbot — has altered the way people use and abuse artificial intelligence. And while some educators are working to...

Threat of US Government Shutdown Fuels Concerns About Cyber Vulnerabilities

Threat of US Government Shutdown Fuels Concerns About Cyber Vulnerabilities

As the U.S. government seemed headed for a possible shutdown last week, cybersecurity firms began picking up on an alarming...

LogOn: Bionic Hand Gives Users Touch Feedback

LogOn: Bionic Hand Gives Users Touch Feedback

New technologies are giving bionic hands some of the more complex features of human hands. Genia Dulot reports on a...

Kenya Panel Urges Shutdown of Worldcoin’s Crypto Project Within Country

Kenya Panel Urges Shutdown of Worldcoin’s Crypto Project Within Country

A Kenyan parliamentary panel called on the country’s information technology regulator on Monday to shut down the operations of cryptocurrency...

Swiss-Led Team Drives Electric Vans From Geneva to Doha,
Qatar

Swiss-Led Team Drives Electric Vans From Geneva to Doha, Qatar

A Swiss-led team has driven electric vans across Europe and the Arabian Peninsula to Qatar to showcase zero-emission battery powered...

Apple to Fix Software Bug Making iPhone 15 Models Too Hot to Handle

Apple to Fix Software Bug Making iPhone 15 Models Too Hot to Handle

Apple is blaming a software bug and other issues tied to popular apps such as Instagram and Uber for causing...

US Supreme Court Will Decide if State Laws Limiting Social Media Platforms Violate Constitution

US Supreme Court Will Decide if State Laws Limiting Social Media Platforms Violate Constitution

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether state laws that seek to regulate Facebook, TikTok, X and other social...

Q&A: Taiwan’s Digital Minister Audrey Tang on AI and Censorship

Q&A: Taiwan’s Digital Minister Audrey Tang on AI and Censorship

On the sidelines of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, Taiwan’s Minister of Digital Affairs...

Iran Says It Successfully Launched Imaging Satellite Amid Tensions With West

Iran Says It Successfully Launched Imaging Satellite Amid Tensions With West

Iran claimed on Wednesday it successfully launched an imaging satellite into space, a move that could further ratchet up tensions...

DRC Company Turns Plastic Waste from Lake Kivu Into Building Materials

DRC Company Turns Plastic Waste from Lake Kivu Into Building Materials

In Goma, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, residents say plastic and other waste is increasingly polluting Lake...

New Artificial Intelligence Solutions Developed to Combat Wildfires

New Artificial Intelligence Solutions Developed to Combat Wildfires

Wildfires fueled by climate change have ravaged communities from Maui to the Mediterranean this summer, killing many people, exhausting firefighters...

NASA’s 1st Asteroid Samples Land on Earth After Spacecraft Release 

NASA’s 1st Asteroid Samples Land on Earth After Spacecraft Release 

NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In...

Arizona Governor: Taiwan Firm’s Semiconductor Plant Back on Schedule

Arizona Governor: Taiwan Firm’s Semiconductor Plant Back on Schedule

Earlier this year, Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC announced that it was delaying the opening of a computer chip plant in...

German Proposal for Huawei Curbs Triggers Telecom Operator Backlash

German Proposal for Huawei Curbs Triggers Telecom Operator Backlash

Germany’s interior ministry has proposed forcing telecommunications operators to curb their use of equipment made by China’s Huawei and ZTE,...

School Shooting Survivor Develops App That Seeks to Help People Heal

School Shooting Survivor Develops App That Seeks to Help People Heal

Kai Koerber was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a gunman killed 14 students and three staff...

Report: Increase in Chinese-Language Malware Could ‘Challenge’ Russian Dominance of Cybercrime

Report: Increase in Chinese-Language Malware Could ‘Challenge’ Russian Dominance of Cybercrime

For decades, Russian and eastern European hackers have dominated the cybercrime underworld. These days they may face a challenge from...

Google Plans to Incorporate Its Bard Chatbot Into Its Apps

Google Plans to Incorporate Its Bard Chatbot Into Its Apps

Google announced Tuesday that its Bard chatbot would be integrated into Gmail, YouTube and other applications in a push to...

Britain Invites China to Its Global AI Summit

Britain Invites China to Its Global AI Summit

Britain has invited China to its global artificial intelligence summit in November, with foreign minister James Cleverly saying the risks...

FBI Echoes Warning on Danger of Artificial Intelligence

FBI Echoes Warning on Danger of Artificial Intelligence

Just as many in the United States are starting to explore how to use artificial intelligence to make their lives...

Water-Starved Saudi Confronts Desalination’s Heavy Toll

Water-Starved Saudi Confronts Desalination’s Heavy Toll

Solar panels soak up blinding noontime rays that help power a water desalination facility in eastern Saudi Arabia, a step...

Somalia’s Digital ID Revolution: A Journey From Standstill to Progress

Somalia’s Digital ID Revolution: A Journey From Standstill to Progress

For more than three decades, Somalia’s digital identity system remained stagnant, untouched by the major technological changes sweeping the globe....

Hackers Say They Stole 6 Terabytes of Data From MGM, Caesars Casinos

Hackers Say They Stole 6 Terabytes of Data From MGM, Caesars Casinos

The Scattered Spider hacking group said on Thursday it took six terabytes of data from the systems of multibillion-dollar casino...