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

YouTube Expands Fact-Check Feature to US Video Searches During COVID-19 Pandemic

YouTube Expands Fact-Check Feature to US Video Searches During COVID-19 Pandemic

YouTube, the video service of Alphabet Inc’s Google, said on Tuesday it would start showing text and links from third-party...

Smartphone App Warns If You’ve Been Exposed to COVID-19

Smartphone App Warns If You’ve Been Exposed to COVID-19

Communities in the United States and around the world are talking about when and how to ease lockdown measures as...

Smartphone App Warns If You’ve Been Exposed to Coronavirus

Smartphone App Warns If You’ve Been Exposed to Coronavirus

The smartphone in your pocket may soon let you know if you’ve been exposed to COVID-19.As communities around the world...

Smartphone App Sends Alert If You’ve Been Exposed to COVID-19

Smartphone App Sends Alert If You’ve Been Exposed to COVID-19

Communities in the United States and around the world are talking about when and how to ease lockdown measures as...

Australians Race to Download COVID-19 Tracing App Despite Privacy Concerns

Australians Race to Download COVID-19 Tracing App Despite Privacy Concerns

More than a million Australians have downloaded a coronavirus contact tracing app within hours of it being released by the...

Amazon Tests Screening New Merchants for Fraud via Video Calls in Pandemic

Amazon Tests Screening New Merchants for Fraud via Video Calls in Pandemic

Amazon.com Inc is piloting the use of video conference calls to verify the identity of merchants who wish to sell...

Senior Communities Adopt Virtual Reality to Fight Dementia, Social Isolation

Senior Communities Adopt Virtual Reality to Fight Dementia, Social Isolation

Seventy-five-year-old Eileen Higa loves to travel and has visited many countries, but she never got a chance to see the...

Athletes Run Marathons Despite Quarantine – Only Now They Do It Online

Athletes Run Marathons Despite Quarantine – Only Now They Do It Online

The cancellation of marathons and major races because of coronavirus lockdown measures doesn’t mean sports lovers can’t compete. Racing and...

Seniors Use Virtual Reality to Fight Dementia, Social Isolation

Seniors Use Virtual Reality to Fight Dementia, Social Isolation

Elderly people are believed to be especially susceptible to the coronavirus. As a result, many senior living facilities have been...

The Doctor Will See You Now, But by Phone or Video Chat

The Doctor Will See You Now, But by Phone or Video Chat

Outside of rural areas and some medical practices, telemedicine in the U.S. has been slow to catch on. But the...

The Doctor Will See You Now, But by Phone or Video Chat

The Doctor Will See You Now, But by Phone or Video Chat

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the United States in mid-March, visits to doctors’ offices dropped precipitously as people stayed home...

Report: Apple Plans to Sell Macs With Own Chips

Report: Apple Plans to Sell Macs With Own Chips

Apple Inc. plans to sell Mac computers with its own main processors by next year based on the chip designs...

Google to Verify All Advertisers, and Their Location 

Google to Verify All Advertisers, and Their Location 

Google said Thursday it would expand its program of verification of advertisers on its platform as part of an effort...

Zoom Boosts Encryption to Quell Safety Concerns as Users Top 300 Million

Zoom Boosts Encryption to Quell Safety Concerns as Users Top 300 Million

Zoom Video Communications Inc. said Wednesday it was upgrading the encryption features on its video conferencing app to quell safety...

Far-Right Hackers Publish 25,000 Email Addresses Allegedly Tied to COVID Fight

Far-Right Hackers Publish 25,000 Email Addresses Allegedly Tied to COVID Fight

Far-right computer hackers have published nearly 25,000 email addresses allegedly belonging to several major organizations fighting the coronavirus pandemic, including...

Conspiracy Theorists Burn 5G Towers Claiming Link to Virus

Conspiracy Theorists Burn 5G Towers Claiming Link to Virus

The CCTV footage from a Dutch business park shows a man in a black cap pouring the contents of a...

Australia to Force Google, Facebook to Pay for News Content

Australia to Force Google, Facebook to Pay for News Content

Australia says Facebook and Google will soon have to pay news outlets for their content.  Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced Monday that...

FBI Official Says Foreign Hackers Targeting COVID-19 Research

FBI Official Says Foreign Hackers Targeting COVID-19 Research

A senior cybersecurity official with the FBI said on Thursday that foreign government hackers have broken into companies conducting research...

Mobile App Puts COVID Info in Hands of Millions

Mobile App Puts COVID Info in Hands of Millions

A mobile alert created in South Africa is putting information about coronavirus into the hands of millions. Praekelt.org has gone...

NASA Scientists Operate Mars Rover from Home 

NASA Scientists Operate Mars Rover from Home 

Like so many other workers around the world affected by a COVID-19 lockdown, the team of scientists that operates the...

Robots to the Rescue in COVID-19

Robots to the Rescue in COVID-19

When COVID-19 hit Washington, D.C., and health officials said people had to stay 2 meters apart, Broad Branch Market owner...

COVID-19 Could Be Robots’ Time to Shine

COVID-19 Could Be Robots’ Time to Shine

At a time when human contact is considered a health hazard, robots may be more useful than ever. From helping...