Tech

Augmented reality, drones and chipped employees highlight the year in tech, where artificial intelligence fed everything from cars to websites.

It’s the end of an era forSchmidt,who served in the role of executive chairman of Google, then when Google reorganized asAlphabet, for 10 years.

Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will step down in January, ending a 17-year-run in which he played a central role in building a promising startup called Google into a global technology powerhouse.

Falcon Heavy is set tobecome the world’s most powerful rocket.

USA TODAY’s Jefferson Graham gives his list of what he thinks are the coolest tech innovations of 2017.

It’s a deliberate choice of battery over speed, Apple says.

Apple confirmed a theory many users have had for years: the iPhone gets slower with age. The confirmation comes after Reddit users noticed their devices were getting slower as the batteries in their iPhones got weaker.

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The lawsuitfiled by the CWA and its members is seeking class action status to represent all Facebook users 40 or older who may have been denied the chance to hear about job opportunities.

Saturn and the sun will align in front of the constellation Capricorn for the first time since 1664, not good tidings, astrologers say.

Some are trash, some are treasures.