Jeremy Grant, coordinator of the Better Identity Coalition, said some government officials, especially those in law enforcement, would love to use digital licenses for tracking.
A deal for VMware would rank among the biggest-ever acquisitions of a technology company. The industry has been one of the bright spots for bankers in recent months, even as the overall pace of dealmaking slows from 2021’s record pace.
The Novato City Council discussion came after the city received four applications this year from AT&T to build 5G sites. City staff deemed the applications incomplete, though AT&T can resubmit them.
Planes capable of predicting the behavior of wildfires and beaming information directly to crews on the ground in real time have proven invaluable in major disasters across California. Now, they will become a permanent part of firefighters’ arsenals, after attracting millions of dollars in state funding, officials announced Tuesday.
Nearly 23 percent had inoperable screens, payment failures or broken connector cables. On another 5 percent, the cables were too short to reach the vehicles’ charging inlets.
If the project gains approval from the state, Fountain Valley stands to earn more than $30 million over 30 years in guaranteed revenue, including a one-time payment of $750,000.
The Los Angeles Unified School District has negotiated bulk discounted rates with AT&T and Charter Communications. Between them, the two providers should essentially be able to cover the entire L.A. Unified geography.
The K5 Autonomous Security Robot, produced by Mountain View-headquartered Knightscope, is patrolling a company in Charlotte, N.C. Clients don’t pay for the robots — they pay for management of the terabytes of data collected.
Inmates now wear standard identification wristbands, and their movements are tracked by a paper system that sheriff officials describe as “time-intensive” and “prone to error.”
Police in Pittsburg will be required to have city council approval to buy or acquire “military equipment,” including armored vehicles and chemical devices, according to a new city law that follows state legislation.
After years of hashing out concerns with privacy advocates, the BART board has approved a contract for up to $2.4 million to install license plate readers at parking lots throughout the transit system.
Marysville and Yuba City don’t have to tap federal infrastructure funds in order to get the cities equipped with a fiber-optic network for Internet. When it’s completed, service providers will be able to offer residents faster service.
Despite a request last August from the chancellor’s office that all 116 California community colleges report on enrollment fraud involving fake student bots, nearly 40 percent of campuses failed to submit any information, deepening concerns among the Board of Governors.
That’s what Employment Development Department Director Nancy Farias told an Assembly subcommittee Tuesday, after questions were raised about the use of the technology last week by the Legislative Analyst’s Office.
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office is urging state lawmakers to carefully weigh the use of artificial intelligence that helped curb unemployment insurance fraud.
Rising costs in California could be the main factor in Elon Musk’s decision to move Tesla headquarters to Austin. It may also be the first sign that Silicon Valley will lose its monopoly on the big tech industry.
“This initiative supports our commitment to student success and represents a desire to bridge the digital divide experienced by our students,” said Chi-Chung Keung, director of News Media Services at Cal State Fullerton. Students return the devices when they graduate or leave the university.
Government Operations Secretary Yolanda Richardson is the third high-profile member of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s leadership team to announce within the past week plans to step down.
Marin County supervisors adopted the county’s strategic plan this week, which details the nature and depth of the county’s digital divide. Chief Information Officer Liza Massey noted that Internet affordability is the biggest hurdle for residents.
The suit stems from a public records request to the California Department of Motor Vehicles from an unidentified individual or entity seeking access to Waymo’s driverless-deployment application — the basic filled-out form, attachments of additional material and responses to follow-up questions from the DMV.
“I just think this is a tragically sad, but beautiful, case study of how tech with great promise doesn’t meet its potential to really do lots of good,” said Richard Carpiano, a sociology and public health professor at the University of California, Riverside.
The delay likely will continue to hamper the ability of the State Controller’s Office to complete annual financial reports on time, which could eventually harm California’s credit rating and increase borrowing costs, the audit says.
The overseer of the department that oversees state government has retired. Now the question arises: Whom will Gov. Gavin Newsom name to replace Elaine M. Howle?
California’s community college system has seen a rise in the enrollment of malicious bots — likely on a mission to facilitate financial aid fraud. The exact scope of the problem is unclear, however.
With no end in sight to the pandemic-induced downturn in public transportation ridership, many Bay Area transit agencies are warily eyeing their operating budgets, which have been kept afloat by billions in federal relief money during the public health crisis.
Tesla is developing driverless cars on public roadways, using its customers as test drivers and shrugging off requirements — and, so far, the Department of Motor Vehicles has been largely content to look the other way.
McGregor Scott, former U. S. attorney for the Eastern District of California, figures most of that $20 billion in fake payments won’t be recovered. “At the end of the day, it’s all going to be pennies on the dollar,” he said, “because most of it is long gone.”
While Merced County officials have said there are companies under contract to test at the site, they won’t say who those entities are because of the proprietary nature of the products being developed and tested there.
