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

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...

US States Turn to Apps in Fight Against Virus Spread

US States Turn to Apps in Fight Against Virus Spread

With tens of thousands of new coronavirus cases daily in the U.S., states are launching digital apps that alert people...

In Israel, Shin Bet Security Services Is Responsible for Covid-19 Contact Tracing

In Israel, Shin Bet Security Services Is Responsible for Covid-19 Contact Tracing

Israel is struggling against a virulent second wave of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, with thousands of new...

Amazon Launches Trial of Pay-by-Palm Device

Amazon Launches Trial of Pay-by-Palm Device

Need to pay for some groceries? No problem, just wave your palm. That could be the new mode of payment...

TikTok Launches US Election Guide

TikTok Launches US Election Guide

Chinese-owned video sharing platform TikTok says it is creating a guide “to protect against misinformation” during the 2020 U.S. elections. In...

US Judge Halts Government Ban on TikTok

US Judge Halts Government Ban on TikTok

A U.S. federal judge has temporarily halted a Trump administration order to ban the popular video app TikTok from U.S. app stores. The ban was due...

Why Facebook Suddenly Closed 155 Accounts Targeting the Philippines

Why Facebook Suddenly Closed 155 Accounts Targeting the Philippines

Facebook’s deletion of accounts targeting the Philippines from bases in China shows that the U.S. internet giant wants a better...

Local Developer Creates Air Monitoring App

Local Developer Creates Air Monitoring App

There are all kinds of apps that rate the air quality of your home inside and outside. But one young...