ABCNews.com |
Description: Technology Index
|
||||||
Biden: Science will be at `forefront' of his administration15:53 President-elect Joe Biden says “science will always be at the forefront of my administration,” and he's elevating the post of science adviser to Cabinet level, a White House first Biden picks geneticist as science adviser, puts in Cabinet16.January President-elect Joe Biden has chosen a pioneering geneticist to be his science adviser and is elevating the job to a Cabinet position Extremists exploit a loophole in social moderation: Podcasts15.January Major social platforms have been cracking down on the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol US blacklists Xiaomi, CNOOC, Skyrizon, raising heat on China15.January The U.S. government has blacklisted Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. and China’s third-largest national oil company for alleged military links, heaping pressure on Beijing in President Donald Trump's last week in office EXPLAINER: What WHO researchers in Wuhan are trying to learn15.January The international researchers went to the central Chinese city of Wuhan to find clues to the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic Quake sets off landslides, kills at least 3 in Indonesia15.January A strong, shallow earthquake has shaken Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, causing landslides and sending people fleeing from their homes in the nighttime darkness Blue Origin launches capsule to space with astronaut perks14.January Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company has launched a new capsule into space to test all the astronaut perks before people strap in Groups ask court to restore protections for US gray wolves14.January Wildlife advocates are asking a federal court to overturn a U.S. government decision that stripped Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across most of the nation MIT professor charged with hiding work for China14.January A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been charged with hiding work he did for the Chinese government while he was also receiving U.S. dollars for his nanotechnology research Poshmark's shares soar in debut to public markets14.January Shares of Poshmark soared in their debut trading in the public markets Thursday, a testament to the strength of the online marketplace for second-hand goods even during a pandemic Samsung promises new phones will deliver more for less money14.January Samsung’s next crop of smartphones will boast bigger screens, better cameras, and longer-lasting batteries at lower prices than than last year’s lineup that came out just before the pandemic toppled the economy WHO team arrives in Wuhan to search for pandemic origins14.January A global team of researchers has arrived in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to investigate its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries |