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Astronauts Entertain, Educate Children from ISS

Astronauts Entertain, Educate Children from ISS

Astronauts on board the International Space Station are entertaining children on the ground by reading stories about space — from space. As ...
China's Huawei Sues to Allow Rural Carriers to Buy its Equipment

China's Huawei Sues to Allow Rural Carriers to Buy its Equipment

Chinese telecom giant Huawei has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court to throw out a Trump administration rule that bans phone carriers i...
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, but called for a measu...
Security Firm Says Chinese Hackers Intercepted Text Messages

Security Firm Says Chinese Hackers Intercepted Text Messages

Cybersecurity firm FireEye says Chinese hackers with history of state-sponsored espionage intercepted text messages of thousands of foreigne...
Facebook Launches News Section, Will Pay Publishers 

Facebook Launches News Section, Will Pay Publishers 

'News Tab' section in mobile app will display headlines — and nothing else — from several major news organizations from Science &a...
Zuckerberg Appears in Congress as Facebook Faces Scrutiny

Zuckerberg Appears in Congress as Facebook Faces Scrutiny

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is appearing before Congress to defend the tech giant's global ambitions as scrutiny tightens over its mass...
Zuckerberg Defends Facebook's Approach to Free Speech, Draws Line on China

Zuckerberg Defends Facebook's Approach to Free Speech, Draws Line on China

In a speech at Georgetown University, Mark Zuckerberg said social media had introduced transformative avenues for speech that should not be ...
Vietnam and Australia to Work Together on Scientific Projects

Vietnam and Australia to Work Together on Scientific Projects

The Australian government has given more than 1.6 million Australian dollars to the three winners of a competition it co hosted with the Min...
German 5G Rules Avoid Huawei Ban; US Warns on Intel Sharing

German 5G Rules Avoid Huawei Ban; US Warns on Intel Sharing

US reiterates it would reconsider intelligence sharing with allies that use the Chinese company's equipment from Science & Technol...
African Women in Tech Look to Artificial Intelligence

African Women in Tech Look to Artificial Intelligence

Female technology experts meet at Women in Tech Week in Ghana from Science & Technology - Voice of America | VOA via_IFTTT
Google Reports Highest Mobile Internet Use is in ASEAN Region

Google Reports Highest Mobile Internet Use is in ASEAN Region

Southeast Asia Leads the World in Mobile Internet Use from Science & Technology - Voice of America | VOA via_IFTTT
Three Win Nobel in Chemistry for Work on Lithium-Ion Batteries

Three Win Nobel in Chemistry for Work on Lithium-Ion Batteries

Their contributions to lithium-ion batteries have reshaped energy storage and transformed cars, mobile phones and many other devices in an i...
Microsoft: Hackers Linked to Iran Targeted US Presidential Campaign

Microsoft: Hackers Linked to Iran Targeted US Presidential Campaign

Microsoft said the hackers were not successful in accessing the campaign from Science & Technology - Voice of America | VOA via_IFTTT
US, UK Seizing on Facebook Inc's Plan to Apply End-to-End Encryption

US, UK Seizing on Facebook Inc's Plan to Apply End-to-End Encryption

The two countries plan to sign a special data agreement that would fast track requests for information about the communications of terrorist...
Big Tech's Eco-pledges Aren't Slowing its Pursuit of Big Oil

Big Tech's Eco-pledges Aren't Slowing its Pursuit of Big Oil

Amazon, Microsoft and Google have made ambitious pledges to cut back on their carbon emissions, but they're not quitting their growing b...
NASA Lander Captures Marsquakes, Other Martian Sounds

NASA Lander Captures Marsquakes, Other Martian Sounds

InSight's seismometer has detected more than 100 events, but only 21 are considered strong marsquake candidates from Science & Tec...
Tech Companies Back Independent Watchdog to Tackle Online Extremism

Tech Companies Back Independent Watchdog to Tackle Online Extremism

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism was created in 2017 under pressure from US and European governments after a spate of deadly a...
Southeast Asian nations weigh unified approach to regulating Big Tech

Southeast Asian nations weigh unified approach to regulating Big Tech

The initiatives reflect widespread concern that Internet services, to which most people in the region have gained access only in the past fe...
YouTube 'Milestone' Highlights Vietnam Growth and Growing Pains

YouTube 'Milestone' Highlights Vietnam Growth and Growing Pains

Google also appears to be complying with a new cyber security law in Vietnam, which requires foreign companies to set up representative offi...
Facebook Expands New Tool Aiming to Shrink 'News Deserts'

Facebook Expands New Tool Aiming to Shrink 'News Deserts'

The social media giant Facebook said Thursday it is expanding its ‘Today In’ service to 6,000 cities and towns across the U.S., up from 400 ...