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

Facebook Places Label on User’s Post Under Singapore ‘Fake News’ Law

Facebook Places Label on User’s Post Under Singapore ‘Fake News’ Law

Facebook said Saturday it had issued a correction notice on a user’s post at the request of the Singapore government,...

Twitter CEO Pledges to Live in Africa for Several Months in 2020

Twitter CEO Pledges to Live in Africa for Several Months in 2020

Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey has wrapped up of a trip to Africa by pledging to reside on the continent...

TikTok Apologizes for Removing Video on Muslims in China

TikTok Apologizes for Removing Video on Muslims in China

Social media app TikTok apologized to a user Thursday for removing a video that criticized China’s treatment of Muslims, blaming...

Two Better Than One: Upcoming Mobile Devices Have Dual Screens

Two Better Than One: Upcoming Mobile Devices Have Dual Screens

Mobile device makers are constantly reinventing their products to keep consumers coming back, and paying, for more. The race to...

Amazon Sues Pentagon Over $10 Billion Contract Awarded to Microsoft

Amazon Sues Pentagon Over $10 Billion Contract Awarded to Microsoft

Amazon has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Defense Department.The complaint, filed Friday in a federal U.S. court, challenges the...

Amazon Contests Pentagon’s $10 Billion Microsoft Cloud Contract

Amazon Contests Pentagon’s $10 Billion Microsoft Cloud Contract

Amazon.com Inc. Friday filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims contesting the Pentagon’s award of an up...

Trump’s Visit to Apple Factory Brings Possibility of More Tariff Relief

Trump’s Visit to Apple Factory Brings Possibility of More Tariff Relief

President Donald Trump’s visit this week to a Texas manufacturing plant highlights the ongoing dance between the iPhone maker and...

Trump’s Visit to Apple Factory Brings Possibility of More Tariff Relief

Trump’s Visit to Apple Factory Brings Possibility of More Tariff Relief

President Trump’s Thursday visit to a manufacturing plant in Austin, Texas, where Apple makes a line of computers, highlighted the...

Tesla Enters Pickup Truck Market with Electric Model

Tesla Enters Pickup Truck Market with Electric Model

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is taking on the workhorse heavy pickup truck market with his latest electric vehicle.The “cybertruck,” an...

US Army Examines TikTok Security Concerns

US Army Examines TikTok Security Concerns

The U.S. Army is undertaking a security assessment of China-owned social media platform TikTok after a Democratic lawmaker raised national...

Trump Administration OKs Microsoft License to Send Software to Huawei

Trump Administration OKs Microsoft License to Send Software to Huawei

Microsoft Corp said Thursday it had been granted a license from the U.S. government to export software to Huawei Technologies...

Trump Says He Asked Apple’s Cook to Look Into Helping Build 5G in US

Trump Says He Asked Apple’s Cook to Look Into Helping Build 5G in US

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Thursday morning he had asked Apple CEO Tim Cook to look...

Trump Considering Whether Apple Should be Exempt From China Tariffs   

Trump Considering Whether Apple Should be Exempt From China Tariffs   

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday after touring a plant that assembles Apple Inc computers that he was considering whether...

Spain Has Permits to Build Giant Telescope Blocked in Hawaii

Spain Has Permits to Build Giant Telescope Blocked in Hawaii

The director of a Spanish research center says a giant telescope, costing $1.4 billion, is one step nearer to being...

US Military Aims to Telepathically Control Drones in Four Years

US Military Aims to Telepathically Control Drones in Four Years

DARPA, the main research and development arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, is funding researchers to develop wearable devices...

Google’s Do-Good Arm Tries to Make Up For Everything Else

Google’s Do-Good Arm Tries to Make Up For Everything Else

Google’s head of philanthropy says the company is having “a lot of conversations” internally amid worries about the tech giant’s...

Ghana’s Innovation and Startup Culture Thriving

Ghana’s Innovation and Startup Culture Thriving

Ghana is regarded as a West African hub of invention, with growing numbers of young people looking at local solutions...

US Extends License For Businesses to Work With Huawei by 90 Days

US Extends License For Businesses to Work With Huawei by 90 Days

The United States on Monday granted another 90 days for companies to cease doing business with China’s telecoms giant Huawei,...

Pakistani Women Advance in Tech

Pakistani Women Advance in Tech

A few Pakistani women friends, working for big tech companies in the U.S., decided they wanted to create the mentoring...

House, Senate Agree on Something: A Way to Fight Robocalls

House, Senate Agree on Something: A Way to Fight Robocalls

It’s looking like an anti-robocall bill will be sent to President Donald Trump this year, helping tackle an infuriating problem...

Twitter Details Political Ad Ban, Admits It’s Imperfect 

Twitter Details Political Ad Ban, Admits It’s Imperfect 

Twitter’s new ban on political ads will cover appeals for votes, solicitations for campaign contributions and any political content. But...

Esper Defends as Fair Pentagon Contract Disputed by Amazon

Esper Defends as Fair Pentagon Contract Disputed by Amazon

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday he was certain that the awarding of a $10 billion cloud-computing contract to...