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

In AI Tussle, Twitter Restricts Number of Posts Users Can Read

In AI Tussle, Twitter Restricts Number of Posts Users Can Read

Elon Musk announced Saturday that Twitter would temporarily restrict how many tweets users could read per day, in a move...

FBI Turning to Social Media to Track Traitors

FBI Turning to Social Media to Track Traitors

If you logged onto social media over the past few months, you may have seen it – a video of...

Chipmaker TSMC Says Supplier Was Targeted in Cyberattack

Chipmaker TSMC Says Supplier Was Targeted in Cyberattack

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Friday that a cybersecurity incident involving one of its IT hardware suppliers has led to...

Chinese, Russian Firms to Build Lithium Plants in Bolivia

Chinese, Russian Firms to Build Lithium Plants in Bolivia

LA PAZ, BOLIVIA – Chinese and Russian companies will invest more than $1.4 billion in the extraction of lithium in Bolivia,...

Meta Oversight Board Urges Cambodia Prime Minister’s Suspension from Facebook

Meta Oversight Board Urges Cambodia Prime Minister’s Suspension from Facebook

Meta Platforms’ Oversight Board on Thursday called for the suspension of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen for six months, saying...

‘Godfather of AI’ Urges Governments to Stop Machine Takeover

‘Godfather of AI’ Urges Governments to Stop Machine Takeover

Geoffrey Hinton, one of the so-called godfathers of artificial intelligence, on Wednesday urged governments to step in and make sure...

Cambodia’s Hun Sen Leaves Facebook for Telegram 

Cambodia’s Hun Sen Leaves Facebook for Telegram 

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a devoted and very active user of Facebook — on which...

White House Expanding Affordable High-Speed Internet Access

White House Expanding Affordable High-Speed Internet Access

U.S. President Joe Biden says he wants to make sure that every American has access to high-speed internet. VOA’s Julie...

Generative AI Might Make It Easier to Target Journalists, Researchers Say

Generative AI Might Make It Easier to Target Journalists, Researchers Say

Since the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT launched last fall, a torrent of think pieces and news reports about the ins...

US Election Commission Not Acting on Deepfakes in Campaign Ads

US Election Commission Not Acting on Deepfakes in Campaign Ads

The commission that enforces rules for U.S. elections is not regulating AI-generated deepfakes in political advertising ahead of the 2024...

LogOn: Robot Jellyfish Aims to Explore the Oceans

LogOn: Robot Jellyfish Aims to Explore the Oceans

Robot makers who want to explore the oceans are looking to one of Earth’s most successful sea creatures for design...

Canada Opens Investigation Into Submersible Implosion

Canada Opens Investigation Into Submersible Implosion

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has opened an investigation into the implosion of the Titan, the underwater sea vessel...

Indian PM Modi Wraps Up Washington Trip With Appeal to Tech CEOs 

Indian PM Modi Wraps Up Washington Trip With Appeal to Tech CEOs 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with U.S. and Indian technology executives in Washington on Friday, the final day of...

Big Names in Fashion, Tech, Entertainment Attend DC Dinner for India’s Modi

Big Names in Fashion, Tech, Entertainment Attend DC Dinner for India’s Modi

Titans of business, fashion, entertainment and more made the guest list for Thursday’s big White House dinner in honor India’s...

Kenya Video Gamers Unite to Bridge Africa’s Esports Server Gap

Kenya Video Gamers Unite to Bridge Africa’s Esports Server Gap

Kenyan video gamers are joining forces to advocate for bringing to Africa more world-class gaming servers that provide greater stability...

AI Helping South African Wildlife Rangers Fight Poaching

AI Helping South African Wildlife Rangers Fight Poaching

Artificial intelligence is changing how wildlife reserves prevent poaching, with smart cameras, drones, and other technology helping rangers protect endangered...

Submarine Exploring Titanic Wreck Missing, Search Underway

Submarine Exploring Titanic Wreck Missing, Search Underway

A submarine on a tourism expedition to explore the wreckage of the Titanic has gone missing off the coast of...

Microsoft Says Early June Disruptions to Outlook, Cloud Platform, Were Cyberattacks 

Microsoft Says Early June Disruptions to Outlook, Cloud Platform, Were Cyberattacks 

In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite — including the Outlook email and OneDrive...

Australia Activates First Renewable Power Station on Decommissioned Coal Plant Site

Australia Activates First Renewable Power Station on Decommissioned Coal Plant Site

The first large-scale battery to be built at an Australian coal site has been switched on in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley,...

US Energy Dept., Other Agencies Hacked

US Energy Dept., Other Agencies Hacked

U.S. security officials say the U.S. Energy Department and several other federal agencies have been hacked by a Russian cyber-extortion...

Experts Divided as YouTube Reverses Policy on Election Misinformation

Experts Divided as YouTube Reverses Policy on Election Misinformation

An announcement by YouTube that it will no longer remove content containing misinformation on the U.S. 2020 presidential election has...

Security Firm: Suspected Chinese Hackers Breached Hundreds of Networks Globally

Security Firm: Suspected Chinese Hackers Breached Hundreds of Networks Globally

Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers used a security hole in a popular email security appliance to break into the networks of...