Technology

The U.S. Justice Department has announced an antitrust civil suit against tech giant Google.

There are no fans at Levi’s Stadium this season, but when the 49ers score a touchdown, you’ll hear 70,000 of them cheering on TV. The NFL’s fake crowd noise system features the sounds of each home team’s actual fans, recorded at games over the past 3-4 years.

Newly introduced iPhone models will be 5G capable, giving them incredible download speed and capacity.

On Tuesday, Apple is holding a launch event where it will reveal this year’s iPhone lineup.  In most years, Apple announces its iPhones in September, and they go on sale shortly after that. This year is different. Apple instead released new Apple Watches last month and pushed the iPhone announcement to October. The delay is an outgrowth of the Covid-19 pandemic, which disrupted electronics manufacturing...

The creators of the mobile app “My Vote Counts” say you’re more likely to vote if you’ve made a promise to friends and family — and if you believe your vote actually matters. Their free, open-source app aims to help with both.

Supreme Court justices spent time discussing restaurant menus, keyboards, songs and even the periodic table in trying to resolve a copyright dispute between tech giants Google and Oracle

OurCalling, a homeless services organization in Dallas, has developed an app that helps the homeless.

A group of prominent Facebook critics, including one of the social network’s early investors and a journalist facing jail time in the Philippines, are launching their version of an “oversight board” to rival the company’s own

Leave it to Silicon Valley’s air hub to go high-tech when it comes to sanitizing surfaces.

The Commerce Department announced Friday that the U.S. will begin blocking the distribution of the Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat on Sunday

Apple introduced a new Watch and iPad during a virtual event Tuesday morning, but those hoping to see a new iPhone would have to wait.

The pilot program will deliver grocery and household items and launch in Fayetteville, N.C.

Google on Tuesday announced the launch of a new feature for Android phones that not only identifies the business calling but also identifies the reason for the call.

If you haven’t been wearing a face mask while taking an Uber, you may be required to take a selfie to prove you are ready to don one the next time you summon a driver on the world’s largest ride-hailing service

Amazon continued to snatch up real estate in Silicon Valley with a recent purchase of farmland in Gilroy for which it paid about four times the assessed value, according to a report from the Mercury News.

Moksh Nirvaan isn’t your average 16-year-old. The Plano, Texas, teen is building an artificial intelligence-based tool to help hospitals quickly identify Covid-19 cases by scanning chest X-rays. And he’s also developing an app to help users find nearby emergency supplies like antibacterial wipes and toilet paper.

Lawmakers accuse tech giants Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple of creating monopolies and harming public discourse in fiery anti-trust hearing.

During a House Antitrust Subcommittee Hearing Wednesday, Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., played testimony from a third-party seller on Amazon who claims the company retaliated against her when her bookselling business grew too successful. “As we grew, we were shrinking Amazon’s marketshare in the textbook category,” the small business owner said. “In retaliation, Amazon started restricting us from selling. We haven’t...

House Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline, D, R.I., questioned Google CEO Sundar Pichai about his company’s treatment of Yelp. “The choice Google gave Yelp was, ’Let us steal your content or effectively disappear from the web,’” said Cicilline. “Mr. Pichai, isn’t that anti-competitive?”

School districts across California need hundreds of thousands of computers and Wi-Fi hotspots as the state’s students prepare to start the new school year via full-time distance learning, according to a survey conducted by the state Department of Education.