Science & Tech

Elon Musk’s Starlink warned of “degraded service” on Saturday, as Earth experienced the biggest solar storm since 2003, which affected the internet, signals, and communications. Starlink owns around 60 percent of the roughly 7,500 satellites orbiting Earth and is a dominant player in satellite internet. Mr. Musk said earlier in a post on social media […]

A U.S. government agency said a weaker repeat of Saturday’s powerful solar storm was likely on Sunday. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that “coronal mass ejections”—clouds of ejected solar plasma that can cause power grid irregularities and issues with high-frequency communications and global positioning systems—will slam into the Earth’s magnetic field […]

A powerful solar storm put on an amazing skyward light show across the globe overnight but has caused what appeared to be only minor disruptions to the electric power grid, communications, and satellite positioning systems. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said extreme geomagnetic storm conditions continued Saturday, and there were preliminary reports […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth produced stunning displays of color in the skies across the Northern Hemisphere early Saturday, with no immediate reports of disruptions to power and communications. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning when a solar outburst reached Earth on […]

An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth could produce northern lights in the United States this weekend and potentially disrupt power and communications. In advance of the solar storm hitting, the Space Weather Prediction Center  (SWPC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its first severe geomagnetic storm watch warning since January 2005. […]

Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant encountered a chip malfunction during the first human trial, within weeks of the chip having been implanted. The first human trial of the Neuralink brain chip, officially known as the brain-computer interface (BCI), was done on a 29-year-old patient named Noland Arbaugh, who was paralyzed from the shoulders down as […]

A new survey finds almost 80 percent of American biotech companies contract with Chinese firms and decoupling from them could be a long game. Some say switching partners could take up to eight years.

An iPad commercial is stirring up controversy and getting publicity for a “crushing” new Apple ad. Locals in Silicon Valley give their reactions.

Ascension, one of Illinois’s largest health care organizations, recently fell victim to a suspected cyberattack that disrupted ongoing clinical operations. The suspected “cyber security event” reportedly affected several network systems used by the organization, although the entire extent of damages caused by the cyberattack is still being determined. The organization publicly mentioned the suspected cyberattack […]

The House Foreign Affairs Committee on May 7 probed alleged censorship demands made by Brazil’s supreme court to billionaire Elon Musk and his platform X.

TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance on Tuesday sued the U.S. government, seeking to block a new law that would force the social media app to cut its ties with its Chinese owner by next January or be banned on U.S. app stores. Jimmy Quinn, national security correspondent at National Review, tells NTD that TikTok has […]

TikTok sued on Tuesday to block a new law that requires the sale of the app from its Chinese parent company or its ban from app stores and web-hosting services. About two weeks ago, President Joe Biden signed the bill, which passed both legislative chambers with broad bipartisan support. In a filing with a federal […]

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station was scrubbed Monday night when an oxygen relief valve malfunctioned during a preflight observation on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Centaur second stage. NASA announced in a blog post that the mission would now be delayed until at least Friday while the valve […]

China’s efforts to acquire U.S. technology is getting harder to detect alongside a million-dollar award used as bait to lure U.S. innovation. A new case reveals that Chinese tech giant Huawei has been secretly funding researchers at top U.S. schools, including Harvard, according to a report from Bloomberg.

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department’s (DOJ) prosecution of Google in Washington is headed toward an end with closing arguments on May 2 and 3—roughly three years since the DOJ brought the indictment and various state governments joined. Attorneys sparred on May 3 in attempts to convince D.C. Judge Amit Mehta of whether Google held an illegal and […]

AI “nudification” apps are being used by teenagers to generate and share fake explicit photos of their classmates. These apps are designed to turn regular images of people into fake revealing ones, or the app can put people’s faces onto intimate AI-generated bodies.

Apple says it is working as fast as it can to fix an issue that causes some iPhone alarms to not play a sound, or play alarms too quietly for people to wake up, leading to an outpouring of complaints online. Many who use their iPhone as their default alarm clock were met with an […]