OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Governor Jay Inslee and the Washington State Department of Health have announced the launch of WA Notify, an anonymous exposure notification tool to help stop…
The app builders had planned for pranksters, ensuring that only people with verified COVID-19 cases could trigger an alert. They’d planned for heavy criticism about privacy, in many cases making the features as bare-bones as possible. But, as more states…
Idaho will dedicate $4.7 million more in federal coronavirus aid funding to upgrade its computer networks and security.
Radios, telephones and dishwashers influenced our response to the nation's last great epidemic.
Fleetwood Mac singer Mick Fleetwood has joined TikTok in order to pay tribute to a viral post featuring one of his band's songs. Last month, TikTok user Nathan Apodaca, known on social media as 420doggface208, posted a video of himself…
Boeing has confirmed the rumors and officially announced plans to move all of its 787 Dreamliner production to South Carolina.
Amazon has introduced new palm recognition technology in a pair of Seattle stores and sees a broader potential audience in stadiums, offices and other gated or secured locations.
Instagram and Facebook have been hounding people for weeks to register to vote in the 2020 election with prominent information boxes. Snapchat tapped Barack Obama, Snoop Dogg and Arnold Schwarzenegger to promote voter registration on its app. Twitter sent all…
TikTok won't be kicked off of US app stores — at least not yet. A federal judge on Sunday partially granted TikTok's request for a temporary injunction against a push by the Trump administration to ban the app in the…
Airbus has unveiled its plans for bringing the world's first zero-emission commercial aircraft into service by 2035. Boeing's European rival on Monday revealed three concepts that will explore different options for using hydrogen as a primary source of power. "This…
Who controls TikTok? Is the social media platform safe? Has a US ban been averted for good?
Who controls TikTok? Is the social media platform safe? Has a US ban been averted for good? President Donald Trump's attempts to force a quick sale of popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok produced a tentative deal over the weekend that…
As with so many areas of life, the pandemic has changed how people are managing their money — they're using technology more than ever.
Unity Software, one of the leading platforms for video game developers, plans to raise as much as $1.3 billion in its Wall Street debut Friday.
Unity Software, one of the leading platforms for video game developers, plans to raise as much as $1.3 billion in its Wall Street debut Friday.
The U.S. solar industry has grown significantly in the last decade as solar power has become more affordable, efficient, and accessible. Not surprisingly, solar energy use and investment varies considerably across cities.
Apple is moving more aggressively into fitness with its smartwatch at the center.
Apple just unveiled new versions of the Apple Watch and iPad, but a new iPhone isn't expected until next month.
Facebook says it will buy REI's new and never-used surburban Seattle campus for nearly $368 million.
Nvidia is buying British chipmaker ARM from SoftBank for as much as $40 billion — a total that would make it the largest semiconductor deal ever.
TikTok and Oracle will become business partners in the United States — a deal meant to satisfy the Trump administration's national security concerns about the short-form video app, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The days of vinyl records being a nostalgic relic of the past are long gone. This year, vinyl sales have outpaced CD sales in the United States for the first time since the 1980s.
Facebook will give additional paid time off to employees who volunteer as poll workers during the election, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday.
Authorities in Oregon are pleading with the public to only trust and share information verified by official sources about the unprecedented wildfires sweeping the state. The pleas come as law enforcement agencies described 911 dispatchers being overrun with calls about a false online rumor that "Antifa" members had been arrested for setting the fires — a claim promoted by the anonymous account behind the QAnon conspiracy theories.
