Tech

Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the U.S. surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser.

Artificial intelligence technology that detects weapons is now being offered for free to schools thanks to San Jose-based Iterate.ai, which developed the tech.

An $11 billion acquisition that backfired on Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard more than a decade ago will be resurrected Monday during a trial that will explore whether the deal was an illegal rip-off or a case of botched management.

Teens playing a trending TikTok game called “Senior Assassins” are drawing police attention and could be at risk if the modified water guns they use are mistaken for real weapons, San Mateo police say.

From Beijing, to the Bay Area, to Washington D.C. — lawmakers in the House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would either force TikTok’s owner to sell, or face a total ban in the U.S. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to Eric Goldman of Santa Clara University School of Law for some insight.

The Justice Department says a former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China.

A San Francisco-based robotics company is front and center in a push to decarbonize after getting a huge boost from online retail giant Amazon.

Apple on Monday announced new versions of its 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air laptops with its latest M3 chip.

Some Bay Area-based companies just got a funding boost for humanoid robots.

All parents need a little help with carpool pickup and dropoff from time to time, and starting Thursday in California, Uber will be an option for teens.

Globally, more than 40 tech companies are experimenting with 20 different methods in hopes of recreating the same type of energy process that has powered the sun and other stars for billions of years.

Automaker Hyundai said it had paused its advertising on Elon Musk’s social media app, X, after a sponsored post from the company appeared next to antisemitic and pro-Nazi posts. Hyundai confirmed the pause in a statement to NBC News late Wednesday.

House Speaker Johnson plans to package TikTok legislation with critical aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and send it to the Senate. President Joe Biden vowed to sign it into law.