US, China Surprise Climate Summit With Joint Declaration
The United States and China surprised the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on Wednesday with a joint declaration to take...
Countries Agree to Create Green Shipping Lanes in Pursuit of Zero Carbon
A coalition of 19 countries including Britain and the United States on Wednesday agreed to create zero emissions shipping trade...
Pfizer Asks US Regulators to Expand Booster Shot of COVID-19 Vaccine to All Adult Americans
U.S.-based drugmaker Pfizer is seeking to make a booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine available to all adult Americans 18...
‘Build Back Better World’ to Launch 50 Projects, White House Says
White House officials are on a development-minded world tour and have been scouting several corners of the globe to identify...
Facebook Plans to Remove Thousands of Sensitive Ad-Targeting Options
Facebook Inc. said on Tuesday it plans to remove detailed ad-targeting options that refer to “sensitive” topics, such as ads...
SpaceX Returns 4 Astronauts to Earth, Ending 200-Day Flight
Four astronauts returned to Earth on Monday, riding home with SpaceX to end a 200-day space station mission that began...
Australia Plans Electric Car Boost With 50,000 New Home Charging Stations
Australia’s electric car industry has criticized the government’s new policy to build thousands of charging stations as “far too little, too late.” The Australian government Tuesday pledged...
Original Apple Built by Jobs and Wozniak to be Auctioned
An original Apple computer, hand-built by company founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak 45 years ago, goes under the hammer...
Costs, Literacy and Design: The Invisible Barriers to Tackling the Digital Divide
Connecting everyone in the world to the web will not single-handedly bridge the digital divide, tech experts at the Web...
Alleged Russian Hacks of Microsoft Service Providers Highlight Cybersecurity Deficiencies
Cybersecurity experts say Microsoft’s recent disclosure that alleged Russian hackers successfully attacked several IT service providers this year is a...
Exodus of Foreign Internet Giants Strengthens China’s Homegrown Ecosystem
China now depends almost entirely on its own online content providers, as the number of big foreign companies in the...
Manufacturing Moon Ships and NASA Warns of Climate Catastrophe
An Earth-flight giant contributes to NASA’s upcoming moon missions. Plus, words from the next crew to visit the International Space...
What Are the Facebook Papers?
Social media behemoth Facebook is facing public and regulatory scrutiny after the disclosure of thousands of pages of internal documents...
US Blacklists Four Foreign Companies for ‘Malicious Cyber Activities’
The U.S. government has added four foreign technology companies to its restricted companies list, saying they “developed and supplied spyware...
Facebook Shuts Down Facial Recognition Technology
Facebook says it is shutting down its facial recognition system. Citing “growing societal concerns” about the technology that can automatically...
Taiwan Chip Giant to Expand to Japan
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), one of the world’s largest chipmakers, has announced plans to build a new plant in...
Yahoo Halts Services in Mainland China
Yahoo said it stopped providing services in mainland China because of what it described as a difficult operating environment. The...
China Hits Reset on Belt and Road Initiative
Green energy is the new focus of China’s one-of-a-kind Belt and Road Initiative or BRI, that aims to build a series of infrastructure projects from...
US Lawmakers Vote to Tighten Restrictions on Huawei, ZTE
The U.S. Senate voted unanimously on Thursday to approve legislation to prevent companies that are deemed security threats, such as...
Facebook Inc. Rebrands as Meta to Stress ‘Metaverse’ Plan
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the...
US State Department Creates Bureau to Tackle Digital Threats
The State Department is creating a new Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy to focus on tackling cybersecurity challenges at...
Five Things Facebook Has to Worry About After Whistleblower Disclosures
The past several weeks have been difficult for the social media behemoth Facebook, with a series of whistleblower revelations demonstrating...
