Technology

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — The tech industry's drive to dot the Virginia landscape with data centers may have hit a glitch this week in Prince William County. Residents of the state's second most populous jurisdiction delivered perhaps the biggest... Read More

PINEHURST, N.C. — A congressional panel considered options Friday for enhancing security of the nation’s power grid as the federal government continued to ward off another cyberattack traced to a Russian gang. The Energy Department was one of the agencies... Read More

WASHINGTON — As emerging technologies reshape the labor market, policymakers face the challenging task of addressing the issues of job disruption, inequality and fostering innovation. The advent of artificial intelligence, blockchain and other disruptive technologies has raised concerns and garnered... Read More

The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang's global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments, but the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said... Read More

WASHINGTON — A civil rights leader on technology policy told a Senate panel Tuesday that artificial intelligence is creating risks to privacy and democracy that the U.S. government has not yet brought under control. She and other witnesses on artificial... Read More

WASHINGTON — The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence technology has raised concerns about its impact on the labor force. A recent Bipartisan Policy Center discussion contends that the issue may not be just in job function, but also at the... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — People are hungry for accurate and reliable information online and may just need help to find it, according to a new media literacy project launched by Microsoft. The tech company worked with the Trust Project, a nonprofit... Read More

WASHINGTON — Less than two months after announcing it has received $20 million in new funding, Hydrosat, a D.C.-based thermal data and analytics company, has acquired IrriWatch, a Dutch competitor that delivers daily climate, crop and soil-condition updates to farmers... Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — Two apologetic lawyers responding to an angry judge in Manhattan federal court blamed ChatGPT Thursday for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing. Attorneys Steven A. Schwartz and Peter LoDuca are facing... Read More

GOLDEN, Colo. — Seven projects will share in $3.5 million in federal funding intended to advance research in solar heliostat technology. A heliostat is a large mirror that turns over time to keep reflecting sunlight at a predetermined target. They... Read More

WASHINGTON — Nearly 60 years after an edict by the Federal Communications Commission inadvertently began the long, slow decline of AM radio, Congress suddenly appears to be besotted with a broadcast band many radio listeners left largely for dead decades... Read More

WASHINGTON — Amazon.com Inc. agreed Wednesday to pay more than $30 million to settle complaints by federal regulators who say the tech giant trampled the privacy of children who used its Alexa voice assistant and of users of its home... Read More

WASHINGTON — Information technology officials told a Senate panel Wednesday the U.S. Department of Homeland Security needs to update its computer systems even while the government struggles to pay its bills. The alternative could be hackers using artificial intelligence to... Read More

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is scheduled to move to her new home — a federal prison where she has been sentenced to spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against the family of a 2015 ISIS attack victim, saying they could not hold Google “directly” or “secondarily” liable for posts the terror group made to the tech giant’s YouTube site before... Read More

WASHINGTON — Information technology officials urged the Senate Tuesday not to overlook the dangers of artificial intelligence as they try to use it to improve the efficiency of government and industry. During two Senate hearings, corporate, government and academic leaders... Read More

Elon Musk confirmed that the new CEO for Twitter will be NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino, an executive with deep ties to the advertising industry. “I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!” Musk wrote in a Friday tweet.... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Democrats and Republicans agree that the federal government should better regulate the biggest technology companies, particularly social media platforms. But there is very little consensus on how it should be done. Should TikTok be banned? Should... Read More

WASHINGTON — As one of the most isolated populated places on Earth, Hawaii has long faced a litany of unique communications challenges. But those days — and the island state’s heavy-duty reliance on submarine cables — are on the verge... Read More

LONDON (AP) — British regulators on Wednesday blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard, thwarting the biggest tech deal in history over worries that it would stifle competition in the fast-growing cloud gaming market. The Competition and Markets... Read More

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Corp. and Epic on Monday are expanding their long-standing strategic collaboration to develop and integrate generative AI into health care. According to a joint announcement from the companies, they will do so by combining the scale... Read More

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter has quietly removed a policy against the “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” raising concerns that the Elon Musk-owned platform is becoming less safe for marginalized groups. Twitter enacted the policy against deadnaming, or... Read More

NORMAN, Okla. — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff recently traveled to the University of Oklahoma to meet with tribal leaders and energy experts to discuss how the power of geothermal energy can be harnessed for... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday announced it is committing over $2.5 million in a new funding round through the Emergency Connectivity Fund Program, which provides digital services for students in communities across the country.  In a press... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed new vehicle pollution limits intended to ensure that at least two-thirds of new cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the United States by 2032 are all-electric. The... Read More

HOUSTON — Christina Hammock Koch will be the first woman and Victor Glover the first African American to venture around the moon, NASA announced on Monday, as it revealed the four-person flight crew for the upcoming lunar orbital flight of... Read More

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Despite all the descriptors you could put in front of his name — astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, graduate of Harvard, with a Ph.D. from Columbia, author and celebrated scientist, TV star... Read More

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — It almost seems here in Washington that the debate over energy, over the future of fossil fuels versus renewables, never changes. Most everyone these days will advocate for an “all of the above” solution to meet... Read More

RAVENSWOOD, W. Va. — Like a lot of communities in America’s heartland, Jackson County, West Virginia, was built on natural resources. Timber and energy wrought from the ground helped sustain and grow its population, and the arrival of manufacturing in... Read More

WASHINGTON — The chief executive of social media app and website TikTok endured five hours of withering accusations in Congress Thursday that his company acted as the alter ego of the Chinese government and failed to protect children from harmful... Read More