Technology

The skies are growing crowded. At 4:42 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, OneWeb, a telecommunications company with its headquarters in London, will launch 34 satellites into space. The company’s constellation will ultimately include 650 operational satellites — enough to provide high-speed broadband internet to every corner of the globe by the end of 2021, it […]

Chinese tech giant Huawei has filed a lawsuit accusing U.S. phone carrier Verizon of violating its patents, broadening efforts to defend its business in the United States amid government sanctions February 6, 2020, 4:21 PM 2 min read BEIJING — Chinese tech giant Huawei accused U.S. phone company Verizon of violating its patents in a

The U.S. highway safety agency for the first time has approved a company’s request to deploy a self-driving vehicle that doesn’t meet federal safety standards for human-driven cars and trucks By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer February 6, 2020, 3:38 PM 2 min read DETROIT — For the first time, the U.S. government’s highway safety

LOCKPORT, N.Y. — Jim Shultz tried everything he could think of to stop facial recognition technology from entering the public schools in Lockport, a small city 20 miles east of Niagara Falls. He posted about the issue in a Facebook group called Lockportians. He wrote an Op-Ed in The New York Times. He filed a

Twitter says its fourth-quarter net income fell to $119 million from $255 million in the same period a year earlier February 6, 2020, 12:47 PM 2 min read Twitter reported Thursday that profit fell in the latest quarter even as growth in revenue and user numbers exceeded forecasts. The San Francisco-based tech company said that

An international space station crew including NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who has spent more time in space on a single mission than any other woman, has landed safely in Kazakhstan February 6, 2020, 9:39 AM 1 min read MOSCOW — An international space station crew including NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who has spent more time

Actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci were all made to look much, much younger in the Oscar nominated film The Irishman. The visual effects were developed by Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) who created their own digital de-aging process. BBC Click spoke to Pablo Helman, the film’s VFX Supervisor to find out

In a story February 1, 2020, about the cause of recent wildfires in Australia, The Associated Press erroneously reported arson researcher Janet Stanley’s title February 6, 2020, 5:18 AM 1 min read CANBERRA, Australia — In a story February 1, 2020, about the cause of recent wildfires in Australia, The Associated Press erroneously reported arson

This article is part of our continuing Fast Forward series, which examines technological, economic, social and cultural shifts that happen as businesses evolve. Five seconds after a Los Angeles rider unlocks a dockless electric scooter with a smartphone app and sets off to a destination, a city-operated databank is informed. Five seconds after the trip

Payment service Venmo has joined YouTube and Twitter in demanding that a facial recognition company stop harvesting user images to identify the people in them By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer February 5, 2020, 9:05 PM 2 min read NEW YORK — Payment service Venmo joined YouTube and Twitter on Wednesday in demanding that a