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

New App Helps Disaster Responders Deal with Religious Communities

New App Helps Disaster Responders Deal with Religious Communities

Religious organizations in the U.S. are a key part of a community’s response to a disaster.  As Mike O’Sullivan reports, a new smartphone app is helping coordinate that response between relief workers and faith groups while making it more effective. …

Expansion Plan by World’s Largest Contract Chipmaker Won’t Ease Global Shortage: Experts

Expansion Plan by World’s Largest Contract Chipmaker Won’t Ease Global Shortage: Experts

Plans by the world’s largest contract chipmaker for a record $100 billion capacity expansion will just mildly dent a growing...

High Court Sides with Google in Copyright Fight with Oracle

High Court Sides with Google in Copyright Fight with Oracle

The Supreme Court sided Monday with Google in an $8 billion copyright dispute with Oracle over the internet company’s creation...

Facing Pressure at Home, Chinese Tech Giants Expand in Singapore

Facing Pressure at Home, Chinese Tech Giants Expand in Singapore

Chinese tech giants are expanding in Singapore as they face a crackdown at home and growing pressure in other key...

LinkedIn Gives Staff Week Off for Well-being

LinkedIn Gives Staff Week Off for Well-being

Professional social network LinkedIn is giving nearly all of its 15,900 full-time workers next week off as it seeks to...

US Supreme Court Rules in Facebook’s Favor in Case About Unwanted Texting

US Supreme Court Rules in Facebook’s Favor in Case About Unwanted Texting

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a lawsuit accusing Facebook Inc. of violating a federal anti-robocall law.The justices,...

NFTs: A Cryptocurrency Craze Creates Market for Digital Art, Even Tweets

NFTs: A Cryptocurrency Craze Creates Market for Digital Art, Even Tweets

The record-breaking sale of a digital artwork in March is part of a rush to invest in previously unmarketable things...

Microsoft Wins $22 Billion Deal Making Headsets for US Army

Microsoft Wins $22 Billion Deal Making Headsets for US Army

Microsoft won a nearly $22 billion contract to supply U.S. Army combat troops with its augmented reality headsets.    ...

Tech Faces a Year of Scrutiny and Change

Tech Faces a Year of Scrutiny and Change

Facebook hired fact-checkers, Twitter labeled tweets and Google took down videos, but for tech companies, disinformation is the problem that...

Facebook Finds Chinese Hacking Operation Targeting Uyghurs

Facebook Finds Chinese Hacking Operation Targeting Uyghurs

Hackers in China used fake Facebook accounts and impostor websites to try to break into the computers and smartphones of...

Years-Long US Pressure Campaign Chokes Huawei’s Growth

Years-Long US Pressure Campaign Chokes Huawei’s Growth

When Joe Biden took office as president, the Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei Technologies saw at least a glimmer of hope...

Extremist Groups Thrive on Facebook Despite Bans

Extremist Groups Thrive on Facebook Despite Bans

A new outside report found that Facebook has allowed groups — many tied to QAnon, boogaloo and militia movements —...

Japan Car Makers Scramble to Assess Impact of Renesas Auto Chip-plant Fire

Japan Car Makers Scramble to Assess Impact of Renesas Auto Chip-plant Fire

Toyota, Nissan, Honda and other Japanese automakers scrambled on Monday to assess the production impact of a fire at a Renesas Electronics automotive...

Biden to Nominate Former Sen. Nelson as NASA Chief

Biden to Nominate Former Sen. Nelson as NASA Chief

U.S. President Joe Biden announced Friday he plans to nominate former U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson to lead the U.S. space...

Twitter Asks Users to Weigh in on Rules for World Leaders

Twitter Asks Users to Weigh in on Rules for World Leaders

Twitter on Friday began a survey of global users about platform rules for world leaders while consulting human rights and...

Twitter Turns 15, Confronts Growing Pains of Popularity

Twitter Turns 15, Confronts Growing Pains of Popularity

Twitter celebrates its 15th anniversary this month (March 21). With 330 million users around the world, the company that once...

Twitter Turns 15 Confronting Growing Pains of Popularity

Twitter Turns 15 Confronting Growing Pains of Popularity

Twitter celebrates its 15th anniversary this month (March 21). With 330 million users around the world, the company that once...

FBI: Surge in Internet Crime Cost Americans $4.2 Billion

FBI: Surge in Internet Crime Cost Americans $4.2 Billion

The FBI says it received a record number of complaints from the public last year about cybercrimes, including scams related...

How a Little Chip is Contributing to Ocean Clean-up

How a Little Chip is Contributing to Ocean Clean-up

A growing number of companies are making products with the environment in mind. VOA’s Julie Taboh learned about an item...

South by Southwest Goes Virtual with More International Visitors

South by Southwest Goes Virtual with More International Visitors

South by Southwest, the annual event in Austin, Texas, that brings together technology, music, politics and Hollywood, is happening digitally...

Facebook Signs Deal to Pay Australia’s News Corp for Content

Facebook Signs Deal to Pay Australia’s News Corp for Content

Facebook has reached an agreement with Australia’s News Corp under a new law that makes social media giants pay domestic...

Semiconductor Chip Shortage Causes GM to Cut Fuel Management Module from Trucks

Semiconductor Chip Shortage Causes GM to Cut Fuel Management Module from Trucks

U.S. automaker General Motors Corporation announced Monday it will build certain 2021 light-duty full-size pickup trucks without a fuel management...