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

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...

Chinese EV Makers Make Progress in Bid to Dominate British Market

Chinese EV Makers Make Progress in Bid to Dominate British Market

Chinese manufacturers of electric vehicles are stepping up their push to dominate the European market. As Amy Guttman reports from...

Bill Gates Visits China for Health, Development Talks

Bill Gates Visits China for Health, Development Talks

Microsoft Founder Bill Gates was in China on Thursday for what he said were meetings with global health and development...

Cambodian Facial Recognition Effort Raises Fears of Misuse

Cambodian Facial Recognition Effort Raises Fears of Misuse

Experts are raising concerns that a recent Cambodian government order allocating around $1 million to a local company for a...

As Deepfake Fraud Permeates China, Authorities Target Political Challenges Posed by AI

As Deepfake Fraud Permeates China, Authorities Target Political Challenges Posed by AI

Chinese authorities are cracking down on political and fraud cases driven by deepfakes, created with face- and voice-changing software that...

Bill Gates in China to Meet President Xi on Friday – Sources 

Bill Gates in China to Meet President Xi on Friday – Sources 

Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp’s co-founder, is set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday during his visit to China,...

Big Amazon Cloud Services Recovering After Outage Hits Thousands of Users

Big Amazon Cloud Services Recovering After Outage Hits Thousands of Users

Amazon.com said cloud services offered by its unit Amazon Web Services were recovering after a big disruption on Tuesday affected...

McCartney: ‘Final Beatles Record’ Out This Year Aided by AI

McCartney: ‘Final Beatles Record’ Out This Year Aided by AI

A “final Beatles record”, created with the help of artificial intelligence, will be released later this year, Paul McCartney told...

India Denies Dorsey’s Claims It Threatened to Shut Down Twitter

India Denies Dorsey’s Claims It Threatened to Shut Down Twitter

India threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts critical of the government’s handling of...

UN Chief Considering Watchdog Agency for AI   

UN Chief Considering Watchdog Agency for AI   

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday that he will appoint a scientific advisory body in the coming days that will...

Startup Firm Leads Kenya into World of High-Tech Manufacturing

Startup Firm Leads Kenya into World of High-Tech Manufacturing

A three-year-old startup company is leading Kenya into the world of high-tech manufacturing, building a sophisticated workforce capable of making...

AI Chatbots Offer Comfort to the Bereaved

AI Chatbots Offer Comfort to the Bereaved

Staying in touch with a loved one after their death is the promise of several start-ups using the powers of...

Apple, Defying the Times, Stays Quiet on AI

Apple, Defying the Times, Stays Quiet on AI

Resisting the hype, Apple defied most predictions this week and made no mention of artificial intelligence when it unveiled its...

Financial Institutions in US, East Asia Spoofed by Suspected North Korean Hackers

Financial Institutions in US, East Asia Spoofed by Suspected North Korean Hackers

There are renewed concerns North Korea’s army of hackers is targeting financial institutions to prop up the regime in Pyongyang...