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

China Turns Up Heat on Country’s Tech Giants

China Turns Up Heat on Country’s Tech Giants

In recent weeks, Chinese regulators have cracked down on some of the country’s biggest and most powerful technology companies, illustrating...

Alibaba Facial Recognition Tech Specifically Picks Out Uighur Minority, Report Shows

Alibaba Facial Recognition Tech Specifically Picks Out Uighur Minority, Report Shows

Technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has facial recognition technology that can specifically pick out members of China’s Uighur minority,...

38 States Sue Google Over Antitrust Complaints

38 States Sue Google Over Antitrust Complaints

The lawsuits against Alphabet Inc.’s Google continue to pile up. On December 17, 38 states filed a joint antitrust complaint that...

Trump Administration, Biden Voice New Alarm About Latest Cyberattack

Trump Administration, Biden Voice New Alarm About Latest Cyberattack

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and President-elect Joe Biden both voiced new alarm Thursday about a wide intrusion into computer...

US Says Recent Hacking Campaign Hit Government Networks

US Says Recent Hacking Campaign Hit Government Networks

The U.S. government confirmed on Wednesday that a recent hacking campaign affected its networks and said the attack was “significant...

10 States Sue Google for ‘Anti-Competitive’ Online Ad Sales

10 States Sue Google for ‘Anti-Competitive’ Online Ad Sales

Ten states on Wednesday brought a lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant of “anti-competitive conduct” in the online advertising...

EU Unveils New Rules to Curb Technology Companies

EU Unveils New Rules to Curb Technology Companies

The Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act have just been presented in Brussels. These proposed policies aim to...

Facebook’s Antitrust Fight in US Could Mean More Consumer Choice Worldwide

Facebook’s Antitrust Fight in US Could Mean More Consumer Choice Worldwide

The U.S. government’s suit against Facebook for illegally stifling competition and limiting consumer choice will be watched worldwide, particularly by...

Hackers Used SolarWinds’ Dominance Against it in Sprawling Spy Campaign

Hackers Used SolarWinds’ Dominance Against it in Sprawling Spy Campaign

On an earnings call two months ago, SolarWinds Chief Executive Kevin Thompson touted how far the company had gone during...

Apple Adding Privacy Fact Labels to App Store Items

Apple Adding Privacy Fact Labels to App Store Items

Apple on Monday began adding labels that reveal what user data is gathered by games, chat or other software offered...

Google Suffers Widespread Outage of Gmail, YouTube and More

Google Suffers Widespread Outage of Gmail, YouTube and More

After nearly an hour of widespread global outages of Google services, most users were again able to access their Gmail,...

Can China Become Self-reliant in Semiconductors?

Can China Become Self-reliant in Semiconductors?

The U.S. added China’s biggest computer chipmaker SMIC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies last week, a move...

EU Vaccine Agency Victim of Cyberattack

EU Vaccine Agency Victim of Cyberattack

The head of the European Union’s medical agency confirmed Friday it had been the subject of a cyberattack for the...

EU Vaccine Agency Victim of Cyber-attack

EU Vaccine Agency Victim of Cyber-attack

The head of the European Union’s medical agency confirmed Friday it had been the subject of a cyberattack for the...

At-Home Kits Aim to Close COVID-19 Testing Gap

At-Home Kits Aim to Close COVID-19 Testing Gap

Getting a COVID test can mean long lines and delayed results. Matt Dibble looks into recent breakthroughs that may have...

At-Home Test Kits: New Tools to Close the COVID-19 Testing Gap

At-Home Test Kits: New Tools to Close the COVID-19 Testing Gap

Getting a COVID test can mean long lines and delayed results. Matt Dibble looks into recent breakthroughs that may have...

SpaceX Starship Makes Highest Test Flight, Crashes on Landing

SpaceX Starship Makes Highest Test Flight, Crashes on Landing

SpaceX launched its shiny, bullet-shaped, straight-out-of-science fiction Starship several miles into the air from a remote corner of Texas on...

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...