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

Twitter Deletes Tweet by Donald Trump Jr, Limits His Account

Twitter Deletes Tweet by Donald Trump Jr, Limits His Account

Twitter has limited Donald Trump Jr.’s account and deleted one of his tweets for violating Twitter’s COVID-19 misinformation policies.  The...

Small Business Uses Technology to Stay Afloat During Pandemic

Small Business Uses Technology to Stay Afloat During Pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has forced small businesses around the world to come up with new ways to cope with the...

Google Employees to Work from Home Until 2021

Google Employees to Work from Home Until 2021

Google employees will work from home until summer 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns, the company announced Monday.The decision affects almost...

Technology Works Behind the Scenes to Keep US Mail-in Voting Secure

Technology Works Behind the Scenes to Keep US Mail-in Voting Secure

It’s going to be a record year for voting by mail in the U.S. election and that has raised security...

Twitter, Facebook Become Targets in Trump and Biden Ads

Twitter, Facebook Become Targets in Trump and Biden Ads

Social media has become the target of a dueling attack ad campaign being waged online by the sitting president and...

Australian Regulator Sues Google Over Expanded Personal Data Use

Australian Regulator Sues Google Over Expanded Personal Data Use

Australia’s competition regulator has launched court proceedings against Alphabet’s Google for allegedly misleading consumers about the expanded use of personal...

US Intelligence Official Warns of Foreign Interference in US Elections

US Intelligence Official Warns of Foreign Interference in US Elections

The director of the U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Center has warned that Russia, China, Iran and other countries are...

Advisers Propose Pentagon Create Service Academy for High Tech

Advisers Propose Pentagon Create Service Academy for High Tech

Google’s former CEO is working with a former U.S. Defense Department official to create an online program that would train...

Russian Hackers Allegedly Trying to Steal COVID-19 Vaccine Research

Russian Hackers Allegedly Trying to Steal COVID-19 Vaccine Research

A report by the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre this month accused hackers with links to Russian intelligence of attacking...

Twitter Will Suspend Accounts Tweeting About Conspiracy Theory Group QAnon

Twitter Will Suspend Accounts Tweeting About Conspiracy Theory Group QAnon

Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it would permanently suspend accounts that violate its policies while tweeting about QAnon, a fringe group...

Twitter: Hack Hit 130 Accounts; Company ‘Embarrassed’

Twitter: Hack Hit 130 Accounts; Company ‘Embarrassed’

Twitter says the hack that compromised the accounts of some of its most high-profile users targeted 130 people. The hackers...

Q&A: What’s Behind the Twitter Bitcoin Hack?

Q&A: What’s Behind the Twitter Bitcoin Hack?

Hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls on Wednesday in one of the most...

Police Make Arrest in Killing of Tech CEO Found Dismembered

Police Make Arrest in Killing of Tech CEO Found Dismembered

A person is in custody in connection with the killing of a 33-year-old tech entrepreneur found dismembered inside his luxury...

Google Offers Scholarships for Certificate Programs

Google Offers Scholarships for Certificate Programs

Google, the behemoth technology company that has become a verb for online search, is offering financial aid to students who...

Baseless Wayfair Child-Trafficking Theory Spreads Online

Baseless Wayfair Child-Trafficking Theory Spreads Online

The baseless conspiracy theory took off after an anonymous user posed a bizarre question in an internet chatroom: What if...

US FBI Investigates Massive Twitter Hack 

US FBI Investigates Massive Twitter Hack 

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating Wednesday’s major Twitter hack, in which scammers tapped into high-profile accounts to scam...

Russia Accused of Stealing Western Coronavirus Research

Russia Accused of Stealing Western Coronavirus Research

U.S., British and Canadian officials accused the Kremlin Thursday of being behind a massive and ongoing cyber hack aimed at...

Experts Say Twitter Breach Troubling, Undermines Trust

Experts Say Twitter Breach Troubling, Undermines Trust

A breach in Twitter’s security that allowed hackers to break into the accounts of leaders and technology moguls is one...

High-profile Twitter Accounts Swept Up in Wave of Apparent Hacking 

High-profile Twitter Accounts Swept Up in Wave of Apparent Hacking 

A wave of tweets in apparent hacking swept through Twitter on Wednesday, with more than half a dozen high- profile accounts —...

As Britain Bans Huawei From 5G, China Warns of Trade Fallout

As Britain Bans Huawei From 5G, China Warns of Trade Fallout

Britain announced a ban Tuesday on equipment from the firm Huawei in the rollout of its 5G super-fast mobile networks...

Apple Wins EU Court Case Over $15 Billion in Claimed Taxes

Apple Wins EU Court Case Over $15 Billion in Claimed Taxes

A European Union court on Wednesday delivered a hammer blow to the bloc’s attempts to rein in sweetheart tax deals...

Britain Bans China’s Huawei from New 5G Network

Britain Bans China’s Huawei from New 5G Network

The British government has banned China’s Huawei telecommunications equipment company from playing a limited role in Britain’s new high-speed mobile...