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

Got Any Signal Up Here? Nokia to Build Mobile Network on Moon

Got Any Signal Up Here? Nokia to Build Mobile Network on Moon

Finland’s Nokia has been selected by NASA to build the first cellular network on the moon, the company said on...

Twitter Blocks Tweet About Masks From White House Coronavirus Team Adviser

Twitter Blocks Tweet About Masks From White House Coronavirus Team Adviser

Dr. Scott Atlas is a neuroradiologist, a fellow at a conservative-leaning think tank, a science adviser to President Donald Trump...

YouTube Follows Twitter And Facebook With QAnon Crackdown

YouTube Follows Twitter And Facebook With QAnon Crackdown

YouTube is following the lead of Twitter and Facebook, saying that it is taking more steps to limit QAnon and...

In Blocking Tweets, Is Twitter Protecting the Election or Interfering?

In Blocking Tweets, Is Twitter Protecting the Election or Interfering?

The decision by Twitter to block the dissemination of a story on its site about Hunter Biden, the son of...

Republicans to Subpoena Twitter CEO Over Blocking Article Attacking Biden 

Republicans to Subpoena Twitter CEO Over Blocking Article Attacking Biden 

Senate Republicans said Thursday they will subpoena Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey over the decision to block a news report...

COVID-19  Apps Roll Out Nationwide as States Try to Reopen

COVID-19  Apps Roll Out Nationwide as States Try to Reopen

Around the world, governments are turning to technology to trace people who have been exposed to the coronavirus. There are...

Report Tracks How Governments Fighting COVID Are Increasing Surveillance

Report Tracks How Governments Fighting COVID Are Increasing Surveillance

Governments around the world have used the COVID-19 pandemic as their reason for expanding digital surveillance and collecting more data...

Apple Unveils New iPhones for Faster 5G Wireless Networks

Apple Unveils New iPhones for Faster 5G Wireless Networks

Apple unveiled four new iPhones equipped with technology for use with faster new 5G wireless networks, hoping that demand for...

Anti-Migrant Sentiment Fanned on Facebook in Malaysia

Anti-Migrant Sentiment Fanned on Facebook in Malaysia

As coronavirus infections surged in Malaysia this year, a wave of hate speech and misinformation aimed at Rohingya Muslim refugees...

App Allowing Chinese Citizens Access to Global Internet Quickly Disappears

App Allowing Chinese Citizens Access to Global Internet Quickly Disappears

A mobile app launched last week in China that many there hoped would allow access to long banned Western social...

Microsoft Attempts Takedown of Global Criminal Botnet

Microsoft Attempts Takedown of Global Criminal Botnet

Microsoft announced legal action Monday seeking to disrupt a major cybercrime digital network that uses more than 1 million zombie computers to...

Facebook to Ban Content that Denies, Distorts Holocaust

Facebook to Ban Content that Denies, Distorts Holocaust

Facebook announced Monday that it is updating its hate speech policy and will ban all posts that deny or distort...

Chinese 5G Not Living Up to Its Hype

Chinese 5G Not Living Up to Its Hype

Mounted on rooftops, utility poles and streetlights throughout China since last year are hundreds of thousands of high-tech wireless towers...

Twitter Imposes Restrictions, More Warning Labels Ahead of US Election

Twitter Imposes Restrictions, More Warning Labels Ahead of US Election

Twitter Inc. said Friday that it would remove tweets calling for people to interfere with the U.S. election process or...

Pakistan Blocks TikTok, Citing ‘Immoral’ Content

Pakistan Blocks TikTok, Citing ‘Immoral’ Content

Pakistan has blocked online short-video sharing platform TikTok on the grounds of “immoral/indecent” content for viewing in the majority-Muslim nation.The...

Google, Oracle Meet in Copyright Clash at Supreme Court

Google, Oracle Meet in Copyright Clash at Supreme Court

Tech giants Google and Oracle are clashing at the Supreme Court in a copyright dispute that’s worth billions and important...

Facebook Says It Will Ban Groups for ‘Representing’ QAnon

Facebook Says It Will Ban Groups for ‘Representing’ QAnon

Facebook said it will ban groups that “represent” QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that paints President Donald Trump as a...

US Congressional Panel Finds Big Tech Abuses Power, Recommends Changes

US Congressional Panel Finds Big Tech Abuses Power, Recommends Changes

A U.S. House of Representatives panel looking into abuses of market power by four of the biggest technology companies found...

COVID-19 Stokes Demand for Temperature Check Technologies

COVID-19 Stokes Demand for Temperature Check Technologies

Even though businesses are reopening around the world, the pandemic is still a reality. Many commercial spaces and offices are...

COVID-19 Sends Demand Skyrocketing for Temperature Check Technologies

COVID-19 Sends Demand Skyrocketing for Temperature Check Technologies

Even though businesses are reopening around the world, the pandemic is still a reality. Many commercial spaces and offices are...

US States Roll Out Apps Alerting People to COVID-19 Exposure

US States Roll Out Apps Alerting People to COVID-19 Exposure

More than six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, a handful of U.S. states are starting to roll out apps that promise to tell...

COVID  Apps Roll Out Nationwide as States Try to Reopen

COVID  Apps Roll Out Nationwide as States Try to Reopen

More than six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, a handful of U.S. states are starting to roll out apps that promise to tell...