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

Virtual Political Conventions Becoming a Realistic Alternative

Virtual Political Conventions Becoming a Realistic Alternative

Events and event planning are among the societal casualties of the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020, in the United States, the biggest among them could be national political nominating conventions....

Pandemic Gives Fresh Momentum to Digital Voice Technology

Pandemic Gives Fresh Momentum to Digital Voice Technology

In a world suddenly fearful of touch, voice technology is getting a fresh look.Voice-activated systems such as Google Assistant, Amazon...

‘Smart Helmets’ at Rome Airport Check On Passengers’ Temperatures

‘Smart Helmets’ at Rome Airport Check On Passengers’ Temperatures

Fiumicino International Airport in Rome is the first one in Europe to use “smart helmets” to check the temperature of travelers...

Australia Urges Citizens to Download COVID-19 Tracing App

Australia Urges Citizens to Download COVID-19 Tracing App

More than four million Australians have downloaded the government’s CovidSafe tracing App, but officials insist many more need to sign on to...

House Panel Wants Amazon’s Bezos to Testify in Antitrust Probe

House Panel Wants Amazon’s Bezos to Testify in Antitrust Probe

House lawmakers investigating the market dominance of Big Tech are asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to testify to address possible...

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...