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 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...

Facebook, Google ‘Zones Without Human Rights’ in Vietnam, Amnesty Says

Facebook, Google ‘Zones Without Human Rights’ in Vietnam, Amnesty Says

Facebook and Google are becoming “zones without human rights” in Vietnam, Amnesty International warned Tuesday, accusing the tech giants of...

Solomon Islands Plans to Ban Facebook to Preserve ‘National Unity’

Solomon Islands Plans to Ban Facebook to Preserve ‘National Unity’

The government of the Solomon Islands has defended its plans to ban Facebook, insisting the move would preserve “national unity.”...

Solomon Islands Moves to Ban Facebook Over ‘National Unity’ Fears

Solomon Islands Moves to Ban Facebook Over ‘National Unity’ Fears

The government of the Solomon Islands has defended its plans to ban Facebook, insisting the move would preserve “national unity.”...

China Launches Lunar Probe  

China Launches Lunar Probe  

China successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft to the moon Monday to land, gather soil and rock samples, and return them...

China Set to Launch Lunar Probe

China Set to Launch Lunar Probe

China is scheduled to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon Monday to land, gather soil and rock samples, and...

Vietnam Tells Facebook: Yield to Censors or We’ll Shut You Down, Source Says

Vietnam Tells Facebook: Yield to Censors or We’ll Shut You Down, Source Says

Vietnam has threatened to shut down Facebook in the country if it does not bow to government pressure to censor...

What’s Your Risk of Catching COVID? There’s an App for That

What’s Your Risk of Catching COVID? There’s an App for That

As the deadly coronavirus continues to rage across the U.S. and around the world, people are turning to COVID-19-related apps...

For the Holidays, Apps That Assess Your COVID-19 Risk

For the Holidays, Apps That Assess Your COVID-19 Risk

As the deadly coronavirus continues to rage across the U.S. and around the world, people are turning to COVID-19-related apps...

Millennial Life: Eat, Sleep, Work, Screens

Millennial Life: Eat, Sleep, Work, Screens

Would you give up nearly a decade of your life looking at your cellphone?Calculated by today’s usage, the average person...

Twitter Launches Disappearing Tweets That Vanish in a Day

Twitter Launches Disappearing Tweets That Vanish in a Day

Twitter is launching tweets that disappear in 24 hours called “Fleets” globally, echoing social media sites like Snapchat, Facebook and...