Technology

After weeks of fear and bewilderment about the drones buzzing over parts of New York and New Jersey, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer is urging the federal government to deploy better drone-tracking technology to identify and ultimately stop the airborne pests.

If you are not using end-to-end encrypted messaging on your phone already, the U.S. government has a warning message for you about China and your texts.

“If you aren’t using iMessage, you can use RCS. RCS text messages can be sent to non-Apple devices as well as another iPhone or another Apple device with Text Message Forwarding turned on,” Apple explained.

Co-founder and CEO Sam Altman says he only takes a small salary, and no equity, from his company OpenAI because running it is his dream job.

If you’ve seen the letters RCS while texting recently, you’re not alone. But what do they mean and why are more people seeing them now?

Six former Apple employees are facing fraud charges in a scam that targeted the tech giant’s program for matching workers’ charitable donations, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

From hi-tech watches to smart bird feeders, California Live’s Amber Pfister gets all the tech tea for the holidays from “Gadget Guy” Steve Greenberg.

Some Microsoft users are reporting issues with Outlook and other Microsoft 365 programs on Monday morning, according to the website Downdetector.

Crypto showed up in force this election cycle, raising tens of millions to vote out the industry’s critics and vote in its friends.

Elon Musk’s X implemented new terms of service that are driving some users off the microblogging platform. 

Artificial intelligence is just about everywhere in Silicon Valley these days, and that now includes a museum.

Companies have touted new AI technology that allows users to apply to thousands of jobs per day, flooding job openings with resumes.

Championed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Bluesky was an invitation-only space until it opened to the public in February.

The first kiosk is being installed in downtown San Diego at the corner of 4th and B street. Mayor Todd Gloria said the presence of kiosks will make it more likely that businesses and venues will benefit from being in downtown. Supporters say that kiosks will also offer information on city programs. 

San Diegans will begin seeing interactive kiosks around areas of downtown, as city leaders plan to unveil the first of several wayfinding stands at a ribbon cutting Friday.

The Supreme Court seems likely to keep alive a class-action lawsuit accusing Nvidia of misleading investors about its dependence on selling computer chips for the mining of volatile cryptocurrency. The justices heard arguments Wednesday in the tech company’s appeal of a lower-court ruling allowing a 2018 suit led by a Swedish investment management firm to continue. It’s one of two...

Google has integrated its artificial intelligence platform Gemini into apps such as Maps and Waze to make it easier and more elaborate for users.

Google has integrated its artificial intelligence platform Gemini into apps such as Maps and Waze to make it easier and more elaborate for users. Scott McGrew reports.

A Russian court ordered Google to pay 20 decillion for removing Russian TV channels from YouTube after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

A Florida mother is suing Menlo Park’s Character.AI, accusing the company’s chatbot of initiating a romantic relationship with her teenage son and causing him to take his own life.