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

CES 2023 Highlights Tech Addressing Global Challenges

CES 2023 Highlights Tech Addressing Global Challenges

The Consumer Electronics Show, the biggest technology trade show in the world, is once again open for business. After two...

Drone Advances in Ukraine Could Bring Dawn of Killer Robots

Drone Advances in Ukraine Could Bring Dawn of Killer Robots

Drone advances in Ukraine have accelerated a long-anticipated technology trend that could soon bring the world’s first fully autonomous fighting...

AI Infuses Everything on Show at CES Gadget Extravaganza

AI Infuses Everything on Show at CES Gadget Extravaganza

The latest leaps in artificial intelligence in everything from cars to robots to appliances will be on full display at...

Americans Weigh Pros and Cons as Musk Alters Twitter

Americans Weigh Pros and Cons as Musk Alters Twitter

Marie Rodriguez of Bountiful, Utah, began using social media when she enlisted in the U.S. Navy. At first, she saw...

US House Bans TikTok on Official Devices

US House Bans TikTok on Official Devices

The popular Chinese video app TikTok has been banned from all U.S. House of Representatives-managed devices, according to the House’s...

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...