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

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....

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...