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

UNESCO Conference Tackles Disinformation, Hate Speech 

UNESCO Conference Tackles Disinformation, Hate Speech 

Participants at a global U.N. conference in France’s capital on Wednesday urged the international community to find better safeguards against...

Supreme Court Weighs Google’s Liability in IS Terror Case

Supreme Court Weighs Google’s Liability in IS Terror Case

The Supreme Court is taking up its first case about a federal law that is credited with helping create the...

ISS Crew to Remain on Orbital Outpost for an Extra Six Months  

ISS Crew to Remain on Orbital Outpost for an Extra Six Months  

Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut will remain aboard the International Space Station for an extra six months because...

Artificial Intelligence Creates Voices for Films, Ads

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...

Amid ChatGPT Outcry, Some Teachers Are Inviting AI to Class

Amid ChatGPT Outcry, Some Teachers Are Inviting AI to Class

Under the fluorescent lights of a fifth grade classroom in Lexington, Kentucky, Donnie Piercey instructed his 23 students to try...

Angry Bing Chatbot Just Mimicking Humans, Experts Say

Angry Bing Chatbot Just Mimicking Humans, Experts Say

When Microsoft’s nascent Bing chatbot turns testy or even threatening, it’s likely because it essentially mimics what it learned from...

Spy Balloon Lifts Veil on China’s ‘Near Space’ Military Program

Spy Balloon Lifts Veil on China’s ‘Near Space’ Military Program

The little-noticed program that led to a Chinese spy balloon drifting across the United States this month has been discussed...

Tesla Recalls ‘Full Self-Driving’ to Fix Unsafe Actions

Tesla Recalls ‘Full Self-Driving’ to Fix Unsafe Actions

U.S. safety regulators have pressured Tesla into recalling nearly 363,000 vehicles with its “Full Self-Driving” system because it misbehaves around...

US ‘Disruptive Technology’ Strike Force to Target National Security Threats

US ‘Disruptive Technology’ Strike Force to Target National Security Threats

A top U.S. law enforcement official on Thursday unveiled a new “disruptive technology strike force” tasked with safeguarding American technology...

Some Dogs and Cats Use Words to Express Their Needs and Wants

Some Dogs and Cats Use Words to Express Their Needs and Wants

Imagine if your dog or cat could use words to let you know when they’re angry, lonely or in pain....

Report Says US Justice Department Escalates Apple Probe

Report Says US Justice Department Escalates Apple Probe

The United States Justice Department has in recent months escalated its antitrust probe on Apple Inc., The Wall Street Journal...

Elon Musk Hopes to Have Twitter CEO Toward the End of Year 

Elon Musk Hopes to Have Twitter CEO Toward the End of Year 

Billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that he anticipates finding a CEO for Twitter “probably toward the end of this year.”...

11 States Consider ‘Right to Repair’ for Farming Equipment

11 States Consider ‘Right to Repair’ for Farming Equipment

On Colorado’s northeastern plains, where the pencil-straight horizon divides golden fields and blue sky, a farmer named Danny Wood scrambles...

China-Owned Parent Company of TikTok Among Top Spenders on Internet Lobbying

China-Owned Parent Company of TikTok Among Top Spenders on Internet Lobbying

ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of social media platform TikTok, has dramatically upped its U.S. lobbying effort since 2020 as...

Google to Expand Misinformation ‘Prebunking’ in Europe

Google to Expand Misinformation ‘Prebunking’ in Europe

After seeing promising results in Eastern Europe, Google will initiate a new campaign in Germany that aims to make people...

Russian Spacecraft Loses Pressure; Space Station Crew Safe

Russian Spacecraft Loses Pressure; Space Station Crew Safe

An uncrewed Russian supply ship docked at the International Space Station has lost cabin pressure, the Russian space corporation reported...

Schools Ban ChatGPT Amid Fears of Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Cheating 

Schools Ban ChatGPT Amid Fears of Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Cheating 

Since its release in late 2022, an artificial intelligence-powered writing tool called ChatGPT has won instant acclaim but has also...

Several US Universities to Experiment With Micro Nuclear Power 

Several US Universities to Experiment With Micro Nuclear Power 

If your image of nuclear power is giant, cylindrical concrete cooling towers pouring out steam on a site that takes...

Australian Defense Department to Remove Chinese-Made Cameras

Australian Defense Department to Remove Chinese-Made Cameras

Australia’s Defense Department will remove surveillance cameras made by Chinese Communist Party-linked companies from its buildings, the government said Thursday...

AI Tools Can Create New Images, But Who Is the Real Artist?

AI Tools Can Create New Images, But Who Is the Real Artist?

Countless artists have taken inspiration from “The Starry Night” since Vincent Van Gogh painted the swirling scene in 1889. Now...

Google Parent Company To Lay Off 12,000 Workers Globally

Google Parent Company To Lay Off 12,000 Workers Globally

Alphabet Inc., the parent company of tech giant Google, announced Friday it is laying off 12,000 workers across the entire...

FBI Chief Says He’s ‘Deeply Concerned’ by China’s AI Program

FBI Chief Says He’s ‘Deeply Concerned’ by China’s AI Program

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that he was “deeply concerned” about the Chinese government’s artificial intelligence program, asserting that...