A new graffiti crackdown in San Diego includes doubling the staff assigned to cover up the scrawls, centralizing eradication efforts and giving people more ways to report graffiti, including a popular phone app. The city is also streamlining eradication efforts by equipping graffiti crews with tablet computers and hiring bilingual dispatchers to boost the accuracy of graffiti reports from Spanish-speaking residents.
When you are the Boeing Co., making airplanes on which millions of people's lives depend, you sure don't want a bunch of college students to hack into your computer systems. So what do you do? You hire a bunch of college students to hack into your computer systems.
The opening of the Golden 1 Center downtown last fall was billed as a rare opportunity for Sacramento Regional Transit to attract new riders. The agency stepped up its game, scrubbing trains, bolstering security and improving customer service.
Google's plans to reshape a wide swath of downtown San Jose could get even bigger than previously indicated, potentially reaching 8 million square feet, according to a new staff memo prepared for a key City Council meeting next week.
You’ll soon be able to hop onto free Wi-Fi at a neighborhood park and enjoy super-fast cellular coverage from Verizon in many parts of the city of Sacramento.
This month, state Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye is expected to weigh in on a series of recommendations to enhance the public’s access to the court system and reducing costs. The modernization proposals, which include expanding the use of video technology and developing chatbots that can help answer routine questions for people called for jury duty, were developed over nine months by a team spearheaded by San Diego Superior Court Judge Robert Trentacosta.
Proponents argue that to have a blanketing “statewide framework” for approving small-cell projects would streamline the process of deploying the most cutting-edge technology for customers. But local governments, and others, are concerned.
In case you missed it, McClatchy announced it's joining with Google and YouTube to launch a video test lab in Sacramento’s newly renovated downtown train station. The incubator-style project is called Video Lab West.
Tech companies may have a fight coming, with high stakes for thousands of workers: reform of guest-worker visa programs that the likes of Microsoft, Amazon.com, Google and a host of Indian outsourcing firms rely on.
The costs of the requests by Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric will be passed on to ratepayers and still need to be approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), but the utilities say the projects will go a long way toward reducing air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
Internet giant Amazon plans to hire 100,000 people in the U.S. in the next year and a half. That includes opportunities at new distribution centers planned in Tracy and Sacramento, announced last year.
The rationale: The extra money is needed to make the historic Sacramento Valley Station attractive as office space to startups and high-tech companies.
After a tough slog through 2016, tech startups (at least the good ones) have reason to be optimistic about the year ahead, says Scott Kupor, managing partner of Andreessen Horowitz.
Backed by billions of dollars from deep-pocketed investors, investors plan to blanket the earth in the next few years with perhaps thousands of miniature satellites beaming cheap, ubiquitous broadband service. If this latest wave of satellite networks gets off the ground, it could pose a challenge to a $224.6 billion industry currently dominated by telecom and cable companies with their miles of fiber-optic and copper wires.
While today’s computers often use as many as four kinds of memory technology, a new memory technology may be poised to disrupt this landscape with a unique combination of features.
Reviver wants to reinvent the plates with an interactive digital display called rPlate that can automatically update DMV registration, display messages and images, and handle vehicle and fleet tracking.
A report issued Tuesday by the Greenpeace environmental group finds that many of the world’s largest Internet companies — including Apple, Facebook and Google — have made major progress powering their online operations with renewable energy.
When a malicious hacker locked out 1,800 staff and teachers from their computers at Los Angeles Valley College last week, college administrators elected to pay a $28,000 ransom in bitcoins.
They may not enjoy the splashy public profiles of their software and social media neighbors, but the companies that put the silicon in Silicon Valley quietly enjoyed a banner year in 2016.
Mayor Darrell Steinberg, leading his first council meeting, pushed to add provisions that would open more meetings to the public and curtail the use of private email servers by city staff and elected officials.
There’s no timetable for when wastewater might start flowing from household taps, but state water officials have begun work on standards that would assure the highly treated effluent is safe to drink.
Los Angeles Valley College was the victim of a New Year’s Day cyberattack that briefly shut down the campus website and may have involved a ransom demand over stolen data, officials said.
Consumers who use voice-activated, always-on digital assistants such as Amazon Echo and Google Home could soon learn whether outsiders — notably attorneys, police and the courts — can gain access to the audio that's recorded on the increasingly popular devices.
The San Diego wireless chip designer said late Thursday that it came to a patent licensing agreement with Meizu, which Qualcomm sued in July for infringing on its wireless patents.
