Gauges powered by solar panels send electronic signals to data loggers via radio, landlines, cellphone signals or satellites. Software processes the many signals into a database, which monitors the information as it’s received.
The latest cyber attack on local government — nearly four months after hackers stole data from the Los Angeles Unified School District and demanded a ransom — is serving as a reminder of how critically important it is to invest in strong security measures.
Hundreds of job cuts are hitting the wobbly tech and biotech sectors in a fresh round of layoffs affecting Bay Area workers, according to new official filings that have just been received by the state’s employment agency.
More wind and solar power is coming online all the time. But yearslong permitting processes across multiple agencies, community opposition, and high costs mean it can take a decade to build the infrastructure needed to move it.
Police have met with Bakersfield College about introducing ShotSpotter onto its campus. Police also asked the Kern High School District and the Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office to consider placing the technology throughout their campuses.
“When the pandemic came along, we all thought it was going to be a crippling blow to our economy, but we were wrong. It was a bonanza,” said Russell Hancock, CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley.
State officials are investigating a cybersecurity incident at the department after a global ransomware group claimed it stole confidential data and financial documents from the agency.
“The idea was to work through many different communities and geographic regions in the county, all of which are very different and have very different needs,” said Javier Trujillo of the Marin County Department of Information Services and Technology.
An inquiry commissioned by the California Department of Justice found that lack of training, poor oversight and inadequate policies and procedures were factors in the disclosure.
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake last month revealed intriguing differences in perspective from the actual quake to how cellphones equipped with a warning app saw it.
The information of 5,372 Sacramento County Jail inmates was exposed on the Internet for about five months — from late January through early July — before the data was secured.
“We have to use technology to help in aiding the efforts with the work that police officers are doing, because we just don’t have the number of officers that we need,” said Mayor Lamar Thorpe.
The county’s Community Development Agency is working with Marin cities and towns in an effort to get them to develop similar policies. As of August, 60 California jurisdictions, including Fairfax and San Anselmo, had adopted ordinances requiring all-electric buildings for new construction.
“This technology will enable us to leverage data to increase efficiency, and to improve public trust and customer satisfaction,” Police Chief Rick Scott said.
The sectors with the biggest job losses in the metro area from August to September were “information” and “professional and business services,” according to the San Francisco Controller’s Office.
Tesla’s Autopilot features and its yearslong promise of eventual self-driving capability are a big part of the Texas-based electric automaker’s lofty valuation. Roughly 160,000 Tesla drivers in North America had access to what Tesla calls FSD Beta at the end of the third quarter.
The state’s earthquake early warning system notified nearly 100,000 people that a quake was going to strike Tuesday afternoon near San Jose — and people as far away as San Francisco had as many as 18 seconds to brace themselves before it actually hit.
One San Diego-area company has received money from the U.S. Department of Energy and two grants of $2 million each from the California Energy Commission.
The driverless car company, owned by Google parent company Alphabet, operates similar taxi fleets in two other major western U.S. cities and has been mapping Los Angeles with human drivers since 2019.
