Technology

In a week’s time, one of Spokane’s own has a date with the International Space Station. U.S. Army Col. Anne McClain, the Lilac City’s local astronaut, will lead a team of four on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission expected to take off next Wednesday at 4:48 p.m. Pacific Time.

TikTok is on track to be banned in three weeks, and users of the social media app in Spokane are worried how the app’s loss might impact their businesses and community connection.

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near Richland is expected to detect 60% more cataclysmic cosmic events — like colliding neutron stars and black holes — thanks to a quantum limit breakthrough.

The bill garnered strong support from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Spokane, who leads the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Instagram's text-based social platform Threads last week rolled out its new search function, a crucial step toward the platform's expansion and one that would give it more parity with X, formerly known as Twitter.

Soon after ChatGPT was released in November, Darren Keast noticed students in his college English composition class turning in essays that read as if they'd been written by machine. Many contained fabricated quotes and cited sources that didn't exist - telltale signs they were created by the artificial intelligence chatbot. He's dreading a repeat of that confusion this fall, so he scrambled over summer break to adapt.

Twitter owner Elon Musk said overnight Sunday that his social media platform will retire its widely recognized blue bird logo, and eventually the Twitter name, as part of his relentless effort to overhaul the company.

Firefighters' turnout gear - the heavy clothing they don before fighting a fire - is essential protective equipment. But the textiles that make the clothing fireproof carry hazards of their own. 

WASHINGTON – The secretary of veterans affairs on Wednesday pledged to look into reports that Spokane’s VA medical center could be forced to cut staff due to a budget deficit caused largely by a flawed computer system, but he stopped short of pledging not to reduce the hospital’s workforce.

Last Monday, the Spokane City Council unanimously agreed to sign onto a letter requesting grant funds from the state Department of Transportation to launch a pilot program through the Zero Emission Vehicle Cooperative, or ZEV Co-op.

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to take up questions about the tech industry's liability protections in two high-profile cases, effectively putting the ball back in Congress's court to hash out whether or how to revamp the law known as Section 230.

NASA astronaut Victor Glover Jr. will travel farther into space than any Black person before him when he pilots the Artemis II lunar mission in 2024. But he's already embarked on a personal mission that hits closer to home on Earth.

"If anything, this is us harkening back to Cyan's roots," Cyan's Creative Direct Eric A. Anderson said, before showing off the first couple of hours of gameplay for the game that launches Thursday and is Cyan's first new intellectual property since 2016's "Obduction." "We don't look at it, really, as we're trying to be like 'Bioshock.' We're trying to be like Cyan."

America's love affair between the automobile and AM radio - a century-long romance that provided the soundtrack for lovers' lanes, kept the lonely company with ballgames and chat shows, sparked family singalongs and defined road trips - is on the verge of collapse, a victim of galloping technological change and swiftly shifting consumer tastes.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan movement advocating Americans’ right to repair their own phones, cars and tractors is gaining momentum in state legislatures across the country – and now in Congress, too.

Head researcher Jon Oatley called it a landmark for introducing biotechnologies into animal agriculture, which is essential for producing more resilient protein sources in the face of climate change and a growing human population.

Twitter this week notified congressional offices that while lawmakers' official accounts will be spared from the social media platform's recent verification purge, their campaign and personal accounts will not, according to an email obtained by The Technology 202.

TAKASAKI, Gunma - The Group of Seven digital ministers adopted a joint statement Sunday that includes the promotion of "responsible AI" in light of the technology's rapid development and its significant ongoing impact on society.