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

Google Pledges to Resolve Ad Privacy Probe with UK Watchdog

Google Pledges to Resolve Ad Privacy Probe with UK Watchdog

Google has promised to give U.K. regulators a role overseeing its plan to phase out existing ad-tracking technology from its...

White House Launches Broader Scrutiny of Foreign Tech

White House Launches Broader Scrutiny of Foreign Tech

An executive order signed by President Joe Biden this week dropped a Trump-era measure that barred Americans from downloading TikTok...

Hire a Hacker: Criminal Organizations Work with Hackers to Look for Targets, Collect Ransom Proceeds

Hire a Hacker: Criminal Organizations Work with Hackers to Look for Targets, Collect Ransom Proceeds

Ransomware cases are on the rise worldwide and criminal groups based in Russia are suspected of being behind some of the biggest recent attacks. Michelle Quinn...

Cyber Regulation Could Be Coming Following Spate of Hacks, Ransomware Attacks

Cyber Regulation Could Be Coming Following Spate of Hacks, Ransomware Attacks

The United States may soon look to regulate private companies, mandating higher standards for cybersecurity following a series of damaging...

US Again Condemns Nigeria’s Twitter Ban 

US Again Condemns Nigeria’s Twitter Ban 

The U.S. has condemned Nigeria’s continuing ban of Twitter in the country, saying the action “has no place in a...

Insect-Tracking Drones to Boost Rare Bug Conservation in New Zealand

Insect-Tracking Drones to Boost Rare Bug Conservation in New Zealand

A “swarm” of bug-tracking drones and tiny radars are being developed to help conservation of rare insects in New Zealand.  The new tag-and-track technology...

Biden Administration to Review Trump Ban on TikTok, WeChat, Other Apps 

Biden Administration to Review Trump Ban on TikTok, WeChat, Other Apps 

Former president Donald Trump’s executive order that attempted to ban Chinese video app TikTok has been replaced by the Biden...

Biden Replaces Trump Ban on TikTok, WeChat, Other Apps 

Biden Replaces Trump Ban on TikTok, WeChat, Other Apps 

Former president Donald Trump’s executive order that attempted to ban Chinese video app TikTok has been replaced by the Biden...

With Trump Suspension, Facebook Tells World Leaders: Your Speech Will Not Get a Pass   

With Trump Suspension, Facebook Tells World Leaders: Your Speech Will Not Get a Pass   

Facebook’s recent decision to ban former president Donald Trump for two years sends a message to world leaders that Facebook...

Senate Passes Bill to Boost US Tech Industry, Counter Rivals

Senate Passes Bill to Boost US Tech Industry, Counter Rivals

The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Tuesday that aims to boost U.S. semiconductor production and the development of artificial intelligence...

How a Fake FBI-Encrypted Device Ensnared Criminals Around the World

How a Fake FBI-Encrypted Device Ensnared Criminals Around the World

The global sting operation billed as “Trojan Shield” that led to the arrests of hundreds of criminals this week began...

Internet Outage Hits Major Websites

Internet Outage Hits Major Websites

A number of major websites could not be reached early Tuesday because of an outage at the cloud services company...

Apple’s ‘Private Relay’ Will Not Be Available in China, Elsewhere

Apple’s ‘Private Relay’ Will Not Be Available in China, Elsewhere

Apple on Monday said a new “private relay” feature designed to obscure a user’s web browsing behavior from internet service...

US Snatches Back Ransom from Colonial Pipeline Hackers

US Snatches Back Ransom from Colonial Pipeline Hackers

U.S. law enforcement officials say they have hit back at the Russian-based criminal network that caused gas pipelines to shut...

Possible First Use of AI-Armed Drones Triggers Alarm Bells

Possible First Use of AI-Armed Drones Triggers Alarm Bells

Western military experts are assessing whether an autonomous drone operated by artificial intelligence, or AI, killed people — in Libya...

China Blocks Several Cryptocurrency-related Social Media Accounts Amid Crackdown

China Blocks Several Cryptocurrency-related Social Media Accounts Amid Crackdown

A slew of crypto-related accounts in China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform were blocked over the weekend, as Beijing stepped up a crackdown on...

Microsoft Says ‘Tank Man’ Image Blocking Due to Human Error

Microsoft Says ‘Tank Man’ Image Blocking Due to Human Error

Microsoft Corp. blamed “accidental human error” for its Bing search engine briefly not showing image results for the search term...

Global War on Ransomware? Hurdles Hinder US Response

Global War on Ransomware? Hurdles Hinder US Response

Foreign keyboard criminals with scant fear of repercussions have paralyzed U.S. schools and hospitals, leaked highly sensitive police files, triggered...

Millions of Nigerian Twitter Users Blocked as Ban Takes Hold 

Millions of Nigerian Twitter Users Blocked as Ban Takes Hold 

Millions of Nigerians struggled Saturday to access Twitter, a day after authorities suspended the service in response to the company’s...

Nigeria Suspends Twitter Over President’s Deleted Tweet

Nigeria Suspends Twitter Over President’s Deleted Tweet

Nigeria’s government said Friday it was suspending Twitter indefinitely in Africa’s most populous nation, a day after the company deleted...

Facebook Suspends Trump for at Least Two Years

Facebook Suspends Trump for at Least Two Years

Facebook said Friday it would suspend Donald Trump’s accounts for at least two years, retaining a ban on the former...

Reports: Facebook to End Rule Exemptions for Politicians

Reports: Facebook to End Rule Exemptions for Politicians

Facebook plans to end a contentious policy championed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that exempted politicians from certain moderation rules on...