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

Facebook’s Antitrust Fight in US Could Mean More Consumer Choice Worldwide

Facebook’s Antitrust Fight in US Could Mean More Consumer Choice Worldwide

The U.S. government’s suit against Facebook for illegally stifling competition and limiting consumer choice will be watched worldwide, particularly by...

Hackers Used SolarWinds’ Dominance Against it in Sprawling Spy Campaign

Hackers Used SolarWinds’ Dominance Against it in Sprawling Spy Campaign

On an earnings call two months ago, SolarWinds Chief Executive Kevin Thompson touted how far the company had gone during...

Apple Adding Privacy Fact Labels to App Store Items

Apple Adding Privacy Fact Labels to App Store Items

Apple on Monday began adding labels that reveal what user data is gathered by games, chat or other software offered...

Google Suffers Widespread Outage of Gmail, YouTube and More

Google Suffers Widespread Outage of Gmail, YouTube and More

After nearly an hour of widespread global outages of Google services, most users were again able to access their Gmail,...

Can China Become Self-reliant in Semiconductors?

Can China Become Self-reliant in Semiconductors?

The U.S. added China’s biggest computer chipmaker SMIC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies last week, a move...

EU Vaccine Agency Victim of Cyberattack

EU Vaccine Agency Victim of Cyberattack

The head of the European Union’s medical agency confirmed Friday it had been the subject of a cyberattack for the...

EU Vaccine Agency Victim of Cyber-attack

EU Vaccine Agency Victim of Cyber-attack

The head of the European Union’s medical agency confirmed Friday it had been the subject of a cyberattack for the...

At-Home Kits Aim to Close COVID-19 Testing Gap

At-Home Kits Aim to Close COVID-19 Testing Gap

Getting a COVID test can mean long lines and delayed results. Matt Dibble looks into recent breakthroughs that may have...

At-Home Test Kits: New Tools to Close the COVID-19 Testing Gap

At-Home Test Kits: New Tools to Close the COVID-19 Testing Gap

Getting a COVID test can mean long lines and delayed results. Matt Dibble looks into recent breakthroughs that may have...

SpaceX Starship Makes Highest Test Flight, Crashes on Landing

SpaceX Starship Makes Highest Test Flight, Crashes on Landing

SpaceX launched its shiny, bullet-shaped, straight-out-of-science fiction Starship several miles into the air from a remote corner of Texas on...

Facebook Faces US Lawsuits That Could Force Sale of Instagram, WhatsApp

Facebook Faces US Lawsuits That Could Force Sale of Instagram, WhatsApp

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and nearly every U.S. state sued Facebook Inc. Wednesday, saying it broke antitrust law and...

YouTube Will Remove New Videos That Falsely Claim Fraud Changed US Election Outcome

YouTube Will Remove New Videos That Falsely Claim Fraud Changed US Election Outcome

YouTube said on Wednesday it would start removing content that falsely allege widespread fraud changed the outcome of the U.S....

Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Says Was Hacked by Nation State

Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Says Was Hacked by Nation State

Prominent U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye said Tuesday that foreign government hackers with “world-class capabilities” broke into its network and stole...

The Quest to Make Smartphone Glass Shatterproof

The Quest to Make Smartphone Glass Shatterproof

U.S. glassmaker Corning has become the dominant provider of glass covers for smartphones worldwide. Deana Mitchell has the story. …

Australia Introducing Bill to Make Facebook and Google Pay Media Groups for Content

Australia Introducing Bill to Make Facebook and Google Pay Media Groups for Content

Legislation to make Facebook and Google pay media organizations for news content will be introduced in the Australian parliament on...

Smartphone Glass Strength: The Quest To Make Glass Shatterproof

Smartphone Glass Strength: The Quest To Make Glass Shatterproof

U.S. glassmaker Corning has become the dominant provider of glass covers for smartphones worldwide. Deana Mitchell has the story. …

Despite Promise, Few in US Adopting COVID-19 Exposure Apps

Despite Promise, Few in US Adopting COVID-19 Exposure Apps

Six months ago, Apple and Google introduced a new smartphone tool designed to notify people who might have been exposed...

US Not Extending TikTok Divestiture Deadline; Talks to Continue

US Not Extending TikTok Divestiture Deadline; Talks to Continue

The Trump administration has chosen not to extend again an order requiring ByteDance, a Chinese company, to divest TikTok’s U.S....

Federal Lawsuit Alleges Facebook Discriminates Against US Workers 

Federal Lawsuit Alleges Facebook Discriminates Against US Workers 

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit Thursday saying social media giant Facebook was discriminating against U.S. workers...

Facebook to Start Removing Bogus Claims About COVID Vaccines

Facebook to Start Removing Bogus Claims About COVID Vaccines

Facebook will begin removing false claims about COVID-19 vaccines from its social media platform, the company said Thursday, as part...

Twitter Prohibits Dehumanizing Posts Targeting Race, Ethnicity

Twitter Prohibits Dehumanizing Posts Targeting Race, Ethnicity

Twitter has enacted stricter content rules, adding to its list of prohibited conduct any language that “dehumanizes people on the...

Facebook Oversight Board Announces First Six Cases

Facebook Oversight Board Announces First Six Cases

Facebook’s oversight board has announced the first cases it’s going to examine to determine if it will overturn the social...