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

US Infrastructure Proposal May Move Forward Despite Senate Stall

US Infrastructure Proposal May Move Forward Despite Senate Stall

Issues in the News moderator Kim Lewis talks with VOA senior diplomatic correspondent, Cindy Saine, and senior reporter for Marketplace,...

UN Experts: Africa Became Hardest Hit by Terrorism This Year

UN Experts: Africa Became Hardest Hit by Terrorism This Year

Africa became the region hardest hit by terrorism in the first half of 2021 as the Islamic State and al-Qaida...

Reporter’s Notebook: When the Taliban First Came to Kabul 

Reporter’s Notebook: When the Taliban First Came to Kabul 

Editor’s note: The U.S. departure from Afghanistan marks another major turning point for the Taliban, the militant group with a...

China Rejects Second Probe Into Coronavirus Origin

China Rejects Second Probe Into Coronavirus Origin

China has rejected the World Health Organization’s proposal for a second phase of its investigation into the origin of the...

Is Polarized America Primed for a Breakout Third Party?

Is Polarized America Primed for a Breakout Third Party?

The ouster of Republican Liz Cheney from her leadership position in the House of Representatives could provide fertile ground for the emergence...

Tanzania’s Main Opposition Leader Freeman Mbowe Arrested

Tanzania’s Main Opposition Leader Freeman Mbowe Arrested

Tanzania’s main opposition party, the Party for Democracy and Progress, also known as Chadema, says police have detained their leader...

Hong Kong Police Arrest Another Apple Daily Editor Under Security Law

Hong Kong Police Arrest Another Apple Daily Editor Under Security Law

A former senior editor of Hong Kong’s shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily was arrested by national security police on Wednesday morning.  A...

Africa News Tonight

Africa News Tonight

Thai Government’s Bungled Vaccine Rollout Unites Historically Divided Public in Anger

Thai Government’s Bungled Vaccine Rollout Unites Historically Divided Public in Anger

Anger is building at the administration of Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-O-Cha for a slow COVID-19 vaccine rollout, which has...

African Beat

African Beat

VOA Asia

VOA Asia

California Fire Prompts Evacuations; Oregon Blaze Balloons 

California Fire Prompts Evacuations; Oregon Blaze Balloons 

A rapidly growing wildfire south of Lake Tahoe jumped a highway, prompting more evacuation orders and the cancellation of an...

Chaos in the Caribbean: Roots of Haitian and Cuban Crises

Chaos in the Caribbean: Roots of Haitian and Cuban Crises

Professor William LeoGrande, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs in the Department of Government at the American University, and Professor...

Director Lee Jumps Gun at Cannes, Says ‘Titane’ Wins Cannes Prize

Director Lee Jumps Gun at Cannes, Says ‘Titane’ Wins Cannes Prize

Titane, a wildly imaginative film about a serial killer by French director Julia Ducournau, won the top Palme d’Or prize at...

Death Toll Rises to 168 in Germany, Belgium Floods

Death Toll Rises to 168 in Germany, Belgium Floods

The death toll in devastating flooding in western Germany and Belgium rose to at least 168 on Saturday after burst...

Gunmen Kidnap Dozens of Villagers in Northwestern Nigeria

Gunmen Kidnap Dozens of Villagers in Northwestern Nigeria

Gunmen abducted at least 60 people in northwestern Nigeria after riding motorbikes into five villages and firing sporadically into the...

Jazz America

Jazz America

Jazz America

Jazz America

US Politicians Battle over Voting Rights Legislation

US Politicians Battle over Voting Rights Legislation

Issues in the News moderator Kim Lewis talks with VOA Congressional correspondent Katherine Gypson and correspondent for Marketplace Kimberly Adams...

Australia Called ‘Easy’ Target for Hackers

Australia Called ‘Easy’ Target for Hackers

Australian cybersecurity experts are calling for more aggressive government action to protect businesses from ransomware attacks. Experts have warned a...

Experts Say Genetic Data Collection by Chinese Company Presents Global Policy Challenge

Experts Say Genetic Data Collection by Chinese Company Presents Global Policy Challenge

A Chinese gene company is collecting genetic data through prenatal tests from women in more than 50 countries for research...

Iranian Hackers Target US Military, Defense Companies

Iranian Hackers Target US Military, Defense Companies

Iran appears to be intensifying its effort to exploit U.S. and Western targets in cyberspace, running a campaign aimed at...