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

Biden Touts Advanced Chips Manufacturing in Visit to Arizona Semiconductor Plant

Biden Touts Advanced Chips Manufacturing in Visit to Arizona Semiconductor Plant

U.S. President Joe Biden was in Arizona Tuesday promoting investments in U.S. semiconductor manufacturing. He was joined by officials from...

Biden to Visit Arizona Computer Chip Facility

Biden to Visit Arizona Computer Chip Facility

U.S. President Joe Biden is traveling to Arizona on Tuesday to visit a computer chip facility, underscoring the Grand Canyon...

3 Chinese Astronauts Return to Earth After 6-Month Mission

3 Chinese Astronauts Return to Earth After 6-Month Mission

Three Chinese astronauts landed in a northern desert on Sunday after six months working to complete construction of the Tiangong...

Ukrainian Engineers Scramble to Keep Mobile Phones Working

Ukrainian Engineers Scramble to Keep Mobile Phones Working

With Ukraine scrambling to keep communication lines open during the war, an army of engineers from the country’s phone companies...

Musk’s Company Aims to Soon Test Brain Implant in People

Musk’s Company Aims to Soon Test Brain Implant in People

Tech billionaire Elon Musk said his Neuralink company is seeking permission to test its brain implant in people soon. In...

Arizona Aims to Become a Semiconductor Powerhouse

Arizona Aims to Become a Semiconductor Powerhouse

The United States is pushing to regain its position as a center for semiconductor manufacturing and research as part of...

Electric Vehicles, a Century Old, Gain Speed in Marketplace

Electric Vehicles, a Century Old, Gain Speed in Marketplace

The International Energy Agency says 13% of cars sold worldwide this year will be electric. Mike O’Sullivan reports from Los...

US Bans Huawei, ZTE Equipment Sales, Citing National Security Risk

US Bans Huawei, ZTE Equipment Sales, Citing National Security Risk

The Biden administration has banned approvals of new telecommunications equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies HWT.UL and ZTE 000063.SZ because they...

Musk Plans to Relaunch Twitter Premium Service, Again

Musk Plans to Relaunch Twitter Premium Service, Again

Elon Musk said Friday that Twitter plans to relaunch its premium service that will offer different colored check marks to...

Twitter, Others Slip on Removing Hate Speech, EU Review Says

Twitter, Others Slip on Removing Hate Speech, EU Review Says

Twitter took longer to review hateful content and removed less of it in 2022 compared with the previous year, according...

Musk Restores Trump’s Twitter Account After Online Poll

Musk Restores Trump’s Twitter Account After Online Poll

Elon Musk reinstated Donald Trump’s account on Twitter on Saturday, reversing a ban that has kept the former president off...

Botswana Records Surge in Lithium Batteries Theft as Global Demand Soars

Botswana Records Surge in Lithium Batteries Theft as Global Demand Soars

Authorities in Botswana are reporting increased thefts of lithium batteries from mobile phone towers amid a surge in global demand...

NASA’s Mighty Moon Rocket at Long Last Launches

NASA’s Mighty Moon Rocket at Long Last Launches

NASA once again makes moonshot history. Plus, the space agency’s astronauts take a stroll, and a piece of tragic space...

Taiwan’s APEC Envoy at the Center of Processor Chip Tension

Taiwan’s APEC Envoy at the Center of Processor Chip Tension

Taiwan’s envoy to a gathering of Asia-Pacific leaders is the 91-year-old billionaire founder of a computer chip manufacturing giant that...

With Twitter’s Human Rights Team Gone, Some Experts Say Users’ Safety Jeopardized

With Twitter’s Human Rights Team Gone, Some Experts Say Users’ Safety Jeopardized

With Twitter’s human rights team eliminated, legal experts voice alarm about what it could mean for users around the world....

EXPLAINER: Nasa’s New Mega Moon Rocket, Orion Crew Capsule

EXPLAINER: Nasa’s New Mega Moon Rocket, Orion Crew Capsule

NASA is kicking off its new moon program with a test flight of a brand-new rocket and capsule. Liftoff was...

FBI Says It has ‘National Security Concerns’ About TikTok

FBI Says It has ‘National Security Concerns’ About TikTok

FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday that the bureau has “national security concerns” about popular short-form video hosting app...

40 States Settle Google Location-tracking Charges for $392 Million

40 States Settle Google Location-tracking Charges for $392 Million

Search giant Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the...

Musk Touches on Twitter Criticism, Workload at G20 Forum

Musk Touches on Twitter Criticism, Workload at G20 Forum

It’s not easy being Elon Musk. That was the message the new Twitter owner and billionaire head of Tesla and...

Musk’s Latest Twitter Cuts: Outsourced Content Moderators

Musk’s Latest Twitter Cuts: Outsourced Content Moderators

Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle misinformation on the social media platform as outsourced...

Researchers Identify More Potential Hydro Energy Storage Sites 

Researchers Identify More Potential Hydro Energy Storage Sites 

Australian researchers have identified 1,500 additional locations across the country that could be used as pumped storage hydropower facilities. They...

Crypto Firm FTX Files for Bankruptcy, Bankman-Fried Exits

Crypto Firm FTX Files for Bankruptcy, Bankman-Fried Exits

Crypto exchange FTX filed for U.S. bankruptcy proceedings on Friday and founder Sam Bankman-Fried stepped down as CEO, in a...