Apple’s AirPods, Apple Watch and HomePod, which have helped the company offset waning sales of its bestselling iPhone this year, are not included in a temporary reprieve on tariffs by the Trump administration and will face a 10% levy on Sept 1.The administration said on Tuesday that some major items, …

Hours after the death of Jeffrey Epstein, a financier at the center of a sex trafficking case, theories about his death took off on Twitter and Facebook, making their way quickly into mainstream news, a process that social media critics say is becoming all too common. “We’ve always had conspiracy theories,” …

Hours after the death of Jeffrey Epstein, a financier at the center of a sex trafficking case, theories about his death took off on Twitter and Facebook, making their way quickly into mainstream news, a process that social media critics say is becoming all too common. “We’ve always had conspiracy theories,” …

Japan is facing a crisis.  Its population is aging and birthrates are dropping. With a declining workforce, businesses are looking to automate jobs in the service industry, and a robotics manufacturer has created a coffee-slinging machine. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi brews-up this story. …

Rong Shi in VOA’s Mandarin service contributed to this report.Amazon says it is investigating claims of worker abuse at a factory in China after a labor rights group found teenage employees at the factory were required to work night shifts and overtime hours for low pay.The report by the New …

Huawei on Friday unveiled a smartphone operating system that it said can replace Google’s Android, adding to the Chinese tech giant’s efforts to insulate itself against U.S. sanctions.The announcement of HarmonyOS highlights the growing ability of Huawei, the No. 2 global smartphone brand and biggest maker of network gear for …

LAS VEGAS – Apple Inc. is offering cybersecurity researchers up to $1 million to detect flaws in iPhones, the largest reward offered by a company to defend against hackers, at a time of rising concern about governments breaking into the mobile devices of dissidents, journalists and human rights advocates. Unlike other technology providers, Apple previously offered rewards only …

Microsoft said Wednesday its contractors listen to conversations to hone voice translation features offered by Skype and its digital assistant Cortana, but only when obtaining user permission.The US technology titan defended its voice data handling in response to a report at news website Vice indicating people overheard chats on personal …

In a laboratory in California, engineers are working on pushing the boundaries of how robots move, imitating the ways some animals jump, fly or crawl. Michelle Quinn met Salto, a one-legged jumping robot to see the future of robots. …

The National Basketball Association on Tuesday said that Amazon.com’s Twitch would be its exclusive digital partner for streaming USA Basketball games globally through 2020.Twitch — best known as a platform for video game players to interact and stream their own competitions — will also exclusively stream up to 76 boys …

China’s military says it is focused on harnessing new technologies to “fight and win wars” in the future and is competing with the United States in boosting the regional influence of its People Liberation Army.A new government “white paper” highlights how new technologies like artificial intelligence and cloud computing are …

Bitcoin’s recent gains as stocks plummeted on U.S.-China trade tensions reflect not so much its safe-haven credentials but its potential for quick gains, cryptocurrency and foreign exchange traders said on Tuesday.The biggest coin jumped over 7% on Monday as U.S. stocks slumped 3%. Safe haven assets from the Japanese yen …

First, it lost its internet security provider. Then, another company cut off its new internet host. In less than 24 hours, 8chan, the online forum that the suspect in the El Paso mass shooting allegedly used to post some of his extremist thoughts, was struggling to keep its lights on. 8chan’s situation highlights …

Emily Seymour contributed to this report. Many young people reacting to the most recent mass shootings in the U.S. are rejecting the idea that violent video games motivate shooters.And research backs them up.One Twitter user, Scott@Serptentine_Back described his interests as well as the fact he’d been bullied in school, but ended …

Japanese electronics maker NEC Corp. on Monday showed a “flying car,” a large drone-like machine with four propellers that hovered steadily for about a minute.The test flight reaching 3 meters (10 feet) high was held in a gigantic cage, as a safety precaution, at an NEC facility in a Tokyo …

Nigerian technologist Chinenye Udeh wants to ensure schoolgirls learn Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for summer. Udeh says she is trying to boost gender parity in technology in Africa’s most populous nation, where less than 20 percent of women are involved in the industry. Timothy Obiezu reports for VOA from …

The Pentagon has decided to put on hold its decision to award a $10 billion cloud computing contract after President Donald Trump said his administration was examining Amazon.com Inc’s bid following complaints from other tech companies.The contract, called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud, or JEDI, is part of a …

Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts linked to Saudi Arabia’s government as part of an effort to end what it described as “inauthentic behavior,” a Facebook security official said.A press release says individuals affiliated with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia used Facebook and related social media platforms to publicize government …

Huawei remained the No. 2 global smartphone vendor in the past quarter despite tough U.S. sanctions imposed on the Chinese technology giant, market trackers said Wednesday.The Chinese firm managed to boost its sales even as the overall market declined, remaining on the heels of sector leader Samsung and ahead of …

When Celestine Wenardy, a 16-year-old teenager from Indonesia, learned that diabetes was a “silent killer” in her country, she wondered how to make it easier for people to test their blood glucose levels. She entered her idea into the Google Science Fair, an annual competition that attracts teens from around the …

Teenagers from around the world were on Google’s campus this week to compete in a science competition. Their projects brought novel approaches to address health, disability and environmental issues. Michelle Quinn visited their booths to find out more. …

What looks like an unusual giant orange metal canister, rising high above the windy and humid Alabama landscape, has some familiar design features.“There’s a lot of heritage shuttle technology here,” said NASA engineer Mike Nichols.But this canister is not intended to return the iconic fixed-wing, reusable space shuttle back into …

The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing celebrated the crowning achievement in crewed space flight, but also reminded the public the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is not currently sending astronauts into space from the U.S.  As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, if everything goes according to …

Rachel Whalen remembers feeling gutted in high school when a former friend would mock her online postings, threaten to unfollow or unfriend her on social media and post inside jokes about her to others online.The cyberbullying was so distressing that Whalen said she contemplated suicide. Once she got help, she …

France plans to launch mini surveillance satellites to enhance the protection and defense of French satellites from 2023, its defence minister said on Thursday, signalling an intensification in the race to militarize space.Defense Minister Florence Parly said France was not being sucked into an arms race and that the creation …