Technology

Data centers are in Ashburn in Loudon County, Virginia, on Sunday, July 16, 2023. The centers house the computer servers and hardware required to support modern internet use, including artificial intelligence. The county is home to the world's largest concentration of data centers. Tech companies like to place the centers here, partly because the region's proximity to the nation's traditional internet backbone allows the servers in those data centers to save nanoseconds crucial to support financial transactions, gaming technology and other time-sensitive applications.

Massive Virginia data center development drives debate about price of technological advancement

By Emily Hallas July 26, 2025 7:00 am

Trump’s AI art affinity

Dain Fitzgerald and Jason Agnew Jul 25, 2025

UK moving on new penalties for Apple and Google amid trade discussions with Trump

Christian Datoc and Naomi Lim Jul 18, 2025

Businessman Pressing Button Touches Virtual Screen with Artificial intelligence AI, Justice Scales, and Judge's Gavel.

State-level AI regulation ban left out of Trump agenda law

Jessica Melugin Jul 18, 2025

Zuckerberg and Meta reach settlement seeking $8 billion over violations of Facebook users’ privacy

Annabella Rosciglione Jul 17, 2025

FILE - This April 3, 2013 file photo shows bitcoin tokens in Sandy, Utah U.S. prosecutors say Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, that two men are charged with conspiring to commit money laundering by selling more than $1 million in Bitcoins to users of the black market website Silk Road, which lets users buy illegal drugs anonymously. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

2 Bitcoin operators charged illicit drug site bust

By Larry Neumeister January 27, 2014 10:45 pm

In this photo taken Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, a team led by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) fits a GPS-tracking collar to a tranquilized male lion, in Nairobi National Park in Kenya. Kenyan wildlife authorities are fitting livestock-raiding lions with a GPS collar that alerts rangers by text message when the predators venture out of Nairobi National Park, enabling the rangers to quickly move to the areas where the lions have encroached and return the animals to the park. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya: Hi-tech help to stop human-lion conflict

By Washington Examiner January 27, 2014 8:41 pm

Elko City Council to vote on airport drone testing

Elko City Council to vote on airport drone testing

By Washington Examiner January 27, 2014 6:35 pm

Microsoft to rename cloud service ‘OneDrive’

Microsoft to rename cloud service ‘OneDrive’

By Washington Examiner January 27, 2014 6:32 pm

British actor Jude Law arrives at The Old Bailey law court in to give evidence at the phone hacking trial in London, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Former News of the World national newspaper editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are along with several others on trial for charges relating to the hacking of phones and bribing officials while they were employed at the now closed tabloid paper.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Journalist admits phone hacking for Sunday Mirror

By Jill Lawless January 27, 2014 5:55 pm

Samsung, Google sign patent agreement

Samsung, Google sign patent agreement

By Youkyung Lee January 27, 2014 11:32 am

Bitcoin exchange CEO arrested in New York City

By Joseph Lawler January 27, 2014 5:00 am

Employers would be prohibited from demanding access to a worker's social media accounts under legislation pending in Rhode Island General Assembly. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Social media privacy bill introduced in Rhode Island

By Associated Press January 27, 2014 5:00 am

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel takes questions as he briefs reporters at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Questions and answers on Chuck Hagel’s nuke force probe

By Robert Burns January 27, 2014 5:00 am

There have been five incidents in the last six months where patients' health records have made their way out of some of Texas' 10 public psychiatric facilities, according to a review of state records by a newspaper.

Texas psych hospitals deal with privacy breaches

By Washington Examiner January 27, 2014 5:00 am

Washington torn between detecting nations developing nuclear weapons and monitoring stomach flu sufferers

By Mark Tapscott January 27, 2014 5:00 am

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden claimed in a new interview that the U.S. agency is involved in industrial espionage. (AP Photo)

German TV: Edward Snowden says NSA also spies on industry

By Kirsten Grieshaber January 27, 2014 5:00 am