Science & Tech

An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth could produce northern lights in the United States this weekend and potentially disrupt power and communications. In advance of the solar storm hitting, the Space Weather Prediction Center  (SWPC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its first severe geomagnetic storm watch warning since January 2005. […]

Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant encountered a chip malfunction during the first human trial, within weeks of the chip having been implanted. The first human trial of the Neuralink brain chip, officially known as the brain-computer interface (BCI), was done on a 29-year-old patient named Noland Arbaugh, who was paralyzed from the shoulders down as […]

A new survey finds almost 80 percent of American biotech companies contract with Chinese firms and decoupling from them could be a long game. Some say switching partners could take up to eight years.

An iPad commercial is stirring up controversy and getting publicity for a “crushing” new Apple ad. Locals in Silicon Valley give their reactions.

Ascension, one of Illinois’s largest health care organizations, recently fell victim to a suspected cyberattack that disrupted ongoing clinical operations. The suspected “cyber security event” reportedly affected several network systems used by the organization, although the entire extent of damages caused by the cyberattack is still being determined. The organization publicly mentioned the suspected cyberattack […]

The House Foreign Affairs Committee on May 7 probed alleged censorship demands made by Brazil’s supreme court to billionaire Elon Musk and his platform X.

TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance on Tuesday sued the U.S. government, seeking to block a new law that would force the social media app to cut its ties with its Chinese owner by next January or be banned on U.S. app stores. Jimmy Quinn, national security correspondent at National Review, tells NTD that TikTok has […]

TikTok sued on Tuesday to block a new law that requires the sale of the app from its Chinese parent company or its ban from app stores and web-hosting services. About two weeks ago, President Joe Biden signed the bill, which passed both legislative chambers with broad bipartisan support. In a filing with a federal […]

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station was scrubbed Monday night when an oxygen relief valve malfunctioned during a preflight observation on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Centaur second stage. NASA announced in a blog post that the mission would now be delayed until at least Friday while the valve […]

China’s efforts to acquire U.S. technology is getting harder to detect alongside a million-dollar award used as bait to lure U.S. innovation. A new case reveals that Chinese tech giant Huawei has been secretly funding researchers at top U.S. schools, including Harvard, according to a report from Bloomberg.

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department’s (DOJ) prosecution of Google in Washington is headed toward an end with closing arguments on May 2 and 3—roughly three years since the DOJ brought the indictment and various state governments joined. Attorneys sparred on May 3 in attempts to convince D.C. Judge Amit Mehta of whether Google held an illegal and […]

AI “nudification” apps are being used by teenagers to generate and share fake explicit photos of their classmates. These apps are designed to turn regular images of people into fake revealing ones, or the app can put people’s faces onto intimate AI-generated bodies.

Apple says it is working as fast as it can to fix an issue that causes some iPhone alarms to not play a sound, or play alarms too quietly for people to wake up, leading to an outpouring of complaints online. Many who use their iPhone as their default alarm clock were met with an […]

A majority (58 percent) of Americans believe that China uses TikTok to shape U.S. public opinion. Around 13 percent disagreed, and the rest were unsure or didn’t answer the question.

The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Texas to continue enforcing a law requiring online age verification to access pornographic websites. The one-sentence order was handed down by the high court without comment or public dissent on April 30. Challengers of the law argue that it compromises free speech and opens users to privacy violations. The […]

Dozens of Google workers who were fired for protesting the tech giant’s cloud deal with the Israeli government filed a complaint on Monday with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over their termination. The complaint, obtained by The Washington Post, alleges that Google violated the workers’ rights by “terminating and/or placing them on administrative leave […]

Several of the nation’s largest cellphone carriers have been collectively fined $200 million by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for illegally sharing access to customer location data without consent and failing to protect that information from unauthorized disclosures. In an April 29 press release, the FCC said that T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon violated the […]