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

Los Angeles Looking to Get Flying Taxis by 2028 Summer Olympics

Los Angeles Looking to Get Flying Taxis by 2028 Summer Olympics

Taking to the air could be one solution to help get around traffic jams on city highways. Genia Dulot reports...

Year in Tech: What Do Tech Layoffs Say About the Economy?

Year in Tech: What Do Tech Layoffs Say About the Economy?

The end of 2022 saw major layoffs at Twitter, Amazon, Salesforce and Snap. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and...

Doctors Using Virtual Reality to Relieve Patients’ Pain and More

Doctors Using Virtual Reality to Relieve Patients’ Pain and More

Virtual reality, an immersive technology embraced by gamers, has moved into medicine, where it is used for stress relief, physical...

Whistleblower Files Complaint to Congress Over Twitter Suspending Journalists

Whistleblower Files Complaint to Congress Over Twitter Suspending Journalists

Nearly a week after Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk said that the accounts of suspended journalists would be reinstated, at...

Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt Building Factories for Battery Powered Vehicles

Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt Building Factories for Battery Powered Vehicles

Between the close of this year’s climate conference in Sharm el Sheikh and the 2023 climate event slated for December...

What Kind of Leader Does Twitter Need?

What Kind of Leader Does Twitter Need?

If not Elon, then who? That’s a question many are contemplating since Elon Musk, Twitter’s CEO, said this week he...

Musk Says He’ll Be Twitter CEO Until a Replacement Is Found 

Musk Says He’ll Be Twitter CEO Until a Replacement Is Found 

Elon Musk said Tuesday that he plans on remaining as Twitter’s CEO until he can find someone willing to replace...

Will Elon Musk Save or Destroy Twitter?

Will Elon Musk Save or Destroy Twitter?

Elon Musk had an eventful year, capping 2022 with a $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, a takeover that almost didn’t...

Twitter Poll Closes, Users Vote in Favor of Musk Exit as CEO 

Twitter Poll Closes, Users Vote in Favor of Musk Exit as CEO 

More than half of 17.5 million users who responded to a poll that asked whether billionaire Elon Musk should step...

Twitter Bans Linking to Facebook, Instagram, Other Rivals

Twitter Bans Linking to Facebook, Instagram, Other Rivals

Twitter users will no longer be able to link to certain rival social media websites, including what the company described...

Taiwan to Fine Foxconn for Unauthorized China Investment

Taiwan to Fine Foxconn for Unauthorized China Investment

Taiwan’s government said on Saturday it would fine Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, for an unauthorized investment in...

Frustrated Virtual Reality Pioneer Leaves Facebook’s Parent

Frustrated Virtual Reality Pioneer Leaves Facebook’s Parent

A prominent video game creator who helped lead Facebook’s expansion into virtual reality has resigned from the social networking service’s...

China Trying to Fight Back US Ban on Its Chip Industry

China Trying to Fight Back US Ban on Its Chip Industry

China is spending $143 billion to combat U.S. moves to cut off its supply of semiconductor technology.  The funds will...

VOA Journalist Among Media Suspended on Twitter

VOA Journalist Among Media Suspended on Twitter

VOA Chief National Correspondent Steve Herman was among several journalists to be suspended from Twitter late Thursday. Followers of the...

Hacker Claims Breach of FBI’s Critical-Infrastructure Forum 

Hacker Claims Breach of FBI’s Critical-Infrastructure Forum 

A hacker who reportedly posed as the chief executive of a financial institution claims to have obtained access to the...

Ethiopians File Lawsuit Against Meta Over Hate Speech in War

Ethiopians File Lawsuit Against Meta Over Hate Speech in War

Two Ethiopians have filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, over hate speech they say was allowed and even...

Fraud Charges Unsealed in Arrest of Crypto Magnate Bankman-Fried

Fraud Charges Unsealed in Arrest of Crypto Magnate Bankman-Fried

Law enforcement officials and financial services regulators have filed a raft of criminal and civil charges against Sam Bankman-Fried, the...

NASA’s Orion Capsule Blazes Home From Test Flight to Moon 

NASA’s Orion Capsule Blazes Home From Test Flight to Moon 

NASA’s Orion capsule made a blisteringly fast return from the moon Sunday, parachuting into the Pacific off Mexico to conclude...

Apple Plans to Move Production Outside of China

Apple Plans to Move Production Outside of China

The Wall Street Journal reports U.S. smartphone giant Apple Inc. is accelerating plans to move some China-based production lines to...

Arizona Ramps Up Tech Workforce, Skills to Meet Chips Job Boom

Arizona Ramps Up Tech Workforce, Skills to Meet Chips Job Boom

Taiwanese chip giant TSMC is building a second U.S. facility in the southwest state of Arizona, highlighting the Biden Administration’s push to bring more of the semiconductor...

Boeing’s Final 747 Rolls Out of Washington State Factory

Boeing’s Final 747 Rolls Out of Washington State Factory

After more than half a century, the last Boeing 747 rolled out of a Washington state factory on Tuesday. The...

Biden Touts Advanced Chips Manufacturing in Visit to Arizona Semiconductor Plant

Biden Touts Advanced Chips Manufacturing in Visit to Arizona Semiconductor Plant

President Joe Biden’s visit Tuesday to a massive construction project in north Phoenix highlighted Arizona’s role in a major U.S....