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

China’s Micron Chips Ban Is Litmus Test for South Korea

China’s Micron Chips Ban Is Litmus Test for South Korea

The semiconductor trade war between Washington and Beijing may ensnare Seoul as South Korea must decide between backing its closest...

Key US Official Calls for Tech Companies to ‘Do Something’ About AI

Key US Official Calls for Tech Companies to ‘Do Something’ About AI

The director of the leading U.S. cybersecurity agency has a message for scientists and top technology company officials who are...

Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Starts 11-year Sentence for Blood-Testing Hoax

Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Starts 11-year Sentence for Blood-Testing Hoax

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is in custody at a Texas prison where she could spend the next 11 years...

China’s Shenzhou-16 Mission Takes Off Bound for Space Station

China’s Shenzhou-16 Mission Takes Off Bound for Space Station

China sent three astronauts to its Tiangong space station on Tuesday, putting a civilian scientist into space for the first...

US Commerce Secretary: US ‘Won’t Tolerate’ China’s Ban on Micron Chips

US Commerce Secretary: US ‘Won’t Tolerate’ China’s Ban on Micron Chips

The United States “won’t tolerate” China’s effective ban on purchases of Micron Technology MU.O memory chips and is working closely...

China, South Korea Agree to Strengthen Talks on Chip Industry

China, South Korea Agree to Strengthen Talks on Chip Industry

China and South Korea have agreed to strengthen dialog and cooperation on semiconductor industry supply chains, amid broader global concerns...

Regulators Take Aim at AI to Protect Consumers, Workers

Regulators Take Aim at AI to Protect Consumers, Workers

As concerns grow over increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, the nation’s financial watchdog says it’s working to ensure...

Investment in Solar Will Eclipse Oil in 2023, IEA Finds

Investment in Solar Will Eclipse Oil in 2023, IEA Finds

Global investment in clean energy production in 2023 will be significantly larger than investment in fossil fuel-based energy generation, and...

U.S., Microsoft Warn Chinese Hackers Attacking ‘Critical’ Infrastructure

U.S., Microsoft Warn Chinese Hackers Attacking ‘Critical’ Infrastructure

State-sponsored Chinese hackers have infiltrated critical U.S. infrastructure networks, the United States, its Western allies and Microsoft said Wednesday while...

Analysis: China Steps Up Response to US Chip Moves but Economic Reality Limits How Far

Analysis: China Steps Up Response to US Chip Moves but Economic Reality Limits How Far

Beijing’s restrictions on American chipmaker Micron in retaliation to sweeping US chip curbs mark a major step up in its...

Microsoft Says China-Backed Hacker Targeted Critical Infrastructure in Guam, US

Microsoft Says China-Backed Hacker Targeted Critical Infrastructure in Guam, US

Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it had uncovered malicious activity by a state-sponsored actor based in China aimed at critical...

Apple Inks Multi-Billion-Dollar Deal With Broadcom for U.S.-Made Chips

Apple Inks Multi-Billion-Dollar Deal With Broadcom for U.S.-Made Chips

Apple Inc on Tuesday said it has entered a multi-billion-dollar deal with chipmaker Broadcom Inc. to use chips made in...

TikTok Sues to Stop Ban in US State of Montana

TikTok Sues to Stop Ban in US State of Montana

TikTok on Monday filed suit in U.S. federal court to stop the northern state of Montana from implementing an overall...

Song Created with Help of AI Rattles Music Industry

Song Created with Help of AI Rattles Music Industry

After an anonymous TikTok user created a song using artificial intelligence that fooled many into thinking it was made by...

SpaceX Sends Saudi Astronauts, Including Nation’s 1st Woman in Space, to International Space Station

SpaceX Sends Saudi Astronauts, Including Nation’s 1st Woman in Space, to International Space Station

Saudi Arabia’s first astronauts in decades rocketed toward the International Space Station on a chartered multimillion-dollar flight Sunday.  SpaceX launched...

Early Warning Systems Send Disaster Deaths Plunging, UN Says

Early Warning Systems Send Disaster Deaths Plunging, UN Says

Weather-related disasters have surged over the past 50 years, causing swelling economic damage even as early warning systems have meant...

SpaceX Launching Saudi Astronauts on Private Flight to Space Station

SpaceX Launching Saudi Astronauts on Private Flight to Space Station

SpaceX’s next private flight to the International Space Station awaited takeoff Sunday, weather and rocket permitting. The passengers include Saudi...

Iraq Rebuilding Efforts Get High-Tech Boost

Iraq Rebuilding Efforts Get High-Tech Boost

It’s been more than a decade since the end of the Iraq War. Much of the country still bears the...

China Tells Tech Manufacturers: Stop Using US-Made Micron Chips

China Tells Tech Manufacturers: Stop Using US-Made Micron Chips

Stepping up a feud with Washington over technology and security, China’s government Sunday told users of computer equipment deemed sensitive...

G7 Calls for ‘Responsible’ Use of Generative AI

G7 Calls for ‘Responsible’ Use of Generative AI

The world must urgently assess the impact of generative artificial intelligence, G7 leaders said Saturday, announcing they will launch discussions...

US Supreme Court Lets Twitter Off Hook in Terror Lawsuit Over Istanbul Massacre

US Supreme Court Lets Twitter Off Hook in Terror Lawsuit Over Istanbul Massacre

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to clear a path for victims of attacks by militant organizations to hold...

Montana Becomes First US State to Ban TikTok

Montana Becomes First US State to Ban TikTok

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte on Wednesday signed legislation to ban Chinese-owned TikTok from operating in the state, making it the...