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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

Some Nigerian-based Experts Warn of China’s Growing Influence in African Technology

Some Nigerian-based Experts Warn of China’s Growing Influence in African Technology

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei says it wants to train up to 3 million African youths to work with cutting-edge digital technology such...

Facebook Invests in New Partnerships With Argentine Press

Facebook Invests in New Partnerships With Argentine Press

Social media giant Facebook will invest $1.5 million in Argentine media to train journalists and promote online development, a first...

South Korea Bans Google, Apple Payment Monopolies

South Korea Bans Google, Apple Payment Monopolies

South Korea’s National Assembly approved legislation on Tuesday that bans app store operators such as Google and Apple from forcing...

Spacex Launches Ants, Avocados, Robot to Space Station

Spacex Launches Ants, Avocados, Robot to Space Station

A SpaceX shipment of ants, avocados and a human-sized robotic arm rocketed toward the International Space Station on Sunday.The delivery...

Apple CEO Brings Home $750 Million Bonus

Apple CEO Brings Home $750 Million Bonus

It pays to be the leader of Apple.The company’s CEO, Tim Cook, was recently given a bonus of $750 million...

Airport Security Goes High-tech as US Nears 20 Years Since 9/11

Airport Security Goes High-tech as US Nears 20 Years Since 9/11

As the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, VOA’s Julie Taboh looks at some of the technology that works to keep...

Tech Companies Pledge Billions in Cybersecurity Investments

Tech Companies Pledge Billions in Cybersecurity Investments

Some of the country’s leading technology companies have committed to investing billions of dollars to strengthen cybersecurity defenses and to...

Members of Afghan Robotics Team Reach Mexico

Members of Afghan Robotics Team Reach Mexico

Five members of an Afghan girls robotics team have arrived in Mexico after evacuating from their home country. The girls landed in Mexico...

NASA Postpones Planned ISS Spacewalk

NASA Postpones Planned ISS Spacewalk

Officials with the U.S. space agency NASA has postponed a spacewalk scheduled for Tuesday at the International Space Station (ISS).NASA...

YouTube Says It Has Removed 1 Million ‘Dangerous’ Videos on COVID 

YouTube Says It Has Removed 1 Million ‘Dangerous’ Videos on COVID 

YouTube said Wednesday that it had removed more than 1 million videos with “dangerous coronavirus misinformation” since the start of the...

Russians Hacked Federal Prosecutors, US Justice Department Says

Russians Hacked Federal Prosecutors, US Justice Department Says

The Russian hackers behind the massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign broke into the email accounts of some of the most prominent...

Era of VHS Might Be Over, but Many Are Not Ready to Let Go

Era of VHS Might Be Over, but Many Are Not Ready to Let Go

The last VHS player was produced five years ago by Funai Electric in Japan. But for many, the era of VHS...

What Are Deep Fakes and Why Are They Dangerous?

What Are Deep Fakes and Why Are They Dangerous?

Fake videos generated by artificial intelligence — also known as deep fakes — are becoming more common and harder to detect....

Israel’s NSO Under Fire for Spyware Targeting Journalists, Dissidents

Israel’s NSO Under Fire for Spyware Targeting Journalists, Dissidents

There is growing international criticism of Israel following allegations that software from the private security company NSO was used to...

Biden Administration Wants to Require Businesses to Disclose Ransomware Attacks

Biden Administration Wants to Require Businesses to Disclose Ransomware Attacks

The Biden administration is throwing its support behind congressional legislation that would require companies to report major data breaches by...

Big Tech Companies to Allow Only Vaccinated Employees into US Offices

Big Tech Companies to Allow Only Vaccinated Employees into US Offices

Big tech companies are making it mandatory for employees in the United States to get COVID-19 vaccinations before entering campuses,...

New Archaeological Finds in Jerusalem Shed Light on Second Temple Period

New Archaeological Finds in Jerusalem Shed Light on Second Temple Period

Israeli archaeologists say that new findings in Jerusalem’s Old City are among the most significant ever discovered. They believe a...

US Gymnast Simone Biles Withdraws from Individual All-Around Competition

US Gymnast Simone Biles Withdraws from Individual All-Around Competition

A day after withdrawing from the women’s gymnastics team finals, Simone Biles of the United States has taken herself out of...

Western Wildfires Calm Down in Cool Weather, But Losses Grow

Western Wildfires Calm Down in Cool Weather, But Losses Grow

Cooler weather on Tuesday helped calm two gigantic wildfires in the U.S. West, but property losses mounted in a tiny...

Female Somali Boxer at Olympics Motivates Upcoming Somali Boxers

Female Somali Boxer at Olympics Motivates Upcoming Somali Boxers

Somali boxer Ramla Ali was defeated at the Tokyo Games Monday, but she still made history as the country’s first...

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