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

Hackers’ New Target During Pandemic: Video Conference Calls 

Hackers’ New Target During Pandemic: Video Conference Calls 

Ceri Weber had just begun to defend her dissertation when the chaos began: Echoes and voices interrupted her. Someone parroted...

Technology Helps Doctors, Health Industry Track Patients, Treatments

Technology Helps Doctors, Health Industry Track Patients, Treatments

As the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to overwhelm doctors and hospitals throughout the country, medical technology firms and health centers are...

Delivery Apps Trending as Americans Seek to Avoid Infection

Delivery Apps Trending as Americans Seek to Avoid Infection

With social distancing now the mantra to keep the coronavirus from spreading further, more American consumers are turning to online...

Twitter Deletes Egypt, Saudi Accounts Over ‘Pro-Govt Direction’

Twitter Deletes Egypt, Saudi Accounts Over ‘Pro-Govt Direction’

Twitter said Thursday it has removed thousands of accounts in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Honduras, Indonesia and Serbia that allegedly took...

Google Boosts Support for Checking Coronavirus Facts 

Google Boosts Support for Checking Coronavirus Facts 

Google on Thursday said it is pumping $6.5 million into fact-checkers and nonprofits as it ramps up its the battle...

California Energy Company Pivots to Refurbishing Ventilators 

California Energy Company Pivots to Refurbishing Ventilators 

A California hydrogen fuel cell company is now repairing and updating old ventilators, answering a challenge by the state to...

China’s Huawei Warns More US Pressure May Spur Retaliation

China’s Huawei Warns More US Pressure May Spur Retaliation

Huawei’s chairman warned Tuesday that more U.S. moves to increase pressure on the Chinese tech giant might trigger retaliation by...

Spain Tries Tracking Coronavirus, Sparking Privacy Concerns

Spain Tries Tracking Coronavirus, Sparking Privacy Concerns

In Madrid only a few weeks ago, thousands of demonstrators took part in a women’s march, defiant or unaware of...

Coronavirus-Stricken Cities go Digital to Boost Solidarity, Wellbeing 

Coronavirus-Stricken Cities go Digital to Boost Solidarity, Wellbeing 

On the streets of Barcelona, a few lone shoppers and dog walkers, their faces obscured by masks, are the only...

COVID-19 Started in China. To Change the Narrative, China Started to Tweet

COVID-19 Started in China. To Change the Narrative, China Started to Tweet

Jeff Kao is a ProPublica reporter who FILE – In this Feb. 16, 2020, photo, a policeman stands guard at...

Coronavirus Life Poses Tech Challenges for American Teleworkers

Coronavirus Life Poses Tech Challenges for American Teleworkers

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many office workers to do their jobs from home. And they are using technology like...

Robots Do COVID-19 Jobs Too Dangerous for Humans

Robots Do COVID-19 Jobs Too Dangerous for Humans

Before the coronavirus outbreak, a Beijing technology company was already working to integrate autonomous vehicles into daily life in China....

Amid COVID-19, Technology Helps American Teleworkers Stay Connected

Amid COVID-19, Technology Helps American Teleworkers Stay Connected

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many office workers to do their jobs from home. And they are using technology like...

Virginia Man Uses 3D Printer to Make Mask Shields for Health Workers

Virginia Man Uses 3D Printer to Make Mask Shields for Health Workers

A Virginia man has come up with a way to help medical workers caring for people with COVID-19. Jeremy Filko...

US Cybersecurity Experts See Recent Spike in Chinese Digital Espionage

US Cybersecurity Experts See Recent Spike in Chinese Digital Espionage

A U.S. cybersecurity firm said Wednesday it has detected a surge in new cyberspying by a suspected Chinese group dating...

Robots Rise to Battle Against Coronavirus

Robots Rise to Battle Against Coronavirus

They are known as “Little White Snails,” self-driving street sweepers that for several years cleaned up parks and other public...

EU Commission Warns of Increased Cybercrime During Coronavirus Crisis 

EU Commission Warns of Increased Cybercrime During Coronavirus Crisis 

The president of the European Commission is warning EU citizens to beware of on-line scams, particularly for counterfeit medical products...

Robots That Help People Walk Are Now A Reality

Robots That Help People Walk Are Now A Reality

Trexo Robotics is the invention of two passionate robotics engineers who decided they wanted to help those who cannot walk or...

Recruiting Tech Volunteers to Fight COVID-19 in Ethiopia   

Recruiting Tech Volunteers to Fight COVID-19 in Ethiopia   

A Washington-based software developer is recruiting other techies to combat the spread of the new coronavirus in his native Ethiopia,...

Southeast Asian Laws Target Rise in Cyberbreaches

Southeast Asian Laws Target Rise in Cyberbreaches

Not everyone who wanted to buy the bank cards stolen from Southeast Asian owners would pay the same price: The...

2020 Campaigns Go Digital Amid Fears of Coronavirus Spread

2020 Campaigns Go Digital Amid Fears of Coronavirus Spread

No more rallies. No more door-knocking. And no more in-person fundraisers, raking in dollars from dozens of millionaires at once....

A Father in Quarantine, a Wedding and a Robot  

A Father in Quarantine, a Wedding and a Robot  

A father in quarantine on a Marine base in California was able to attend his daughter’s wedding hundreds of kilometers...