While California has among the most stringent regulations for self-driving cars, 20 companies have permits to test their vehicles in the state, including Tesla Motors, Google and Volkswagen.
The Silicon Valley university's name stems from the sci-fi concept of a point at which technological changes are so rapid that they transform human life.
In a patent filing dated Thursday, the e-commerce giant says it wants to build a “collective” unmanned aerial vehicle by having smaller drones stick together in various configurations.
Gov. Jerry Brown announced the appointment of two new commissioners to the California Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday, opting not to renew the terms of Mike Florio and Catherine J.K. Sandoval, whose six-year terms come to an end Sunday.
While it may seen obvious that businesses can provide a steadier revenue stream than consumers — who tend to be both fickle and thrifty — it’s an about-face from the on-demand industry’s origins.
Uber’s experiment self-driving cars on the streets of San Francisco ended last Wednesday after just one week, when the California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the registrations of the ride-hailing company’s 16 Volvo XC90s.
Bitwise Holdings LLC provided plans to the city “for the restoration and adaptive reuse of the warehouse as a second site for Bitwise Industries to house technology startups,” Karana Hattersley-Drayton, Fresno’s historic preservation project manager, said in a report.
When Yahoo experienced the nation's largest hacking attack, with information stolen from more than 1 billion user accounts in August 2013, it lacked a permanent information security chief.
Uber pulled its self-driving Volvos off the roads in San Francisco on Wednesday, Dec. 21, a week after they began picking up passengers, as the Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the cars’ registrations.
Rancho Cordova is closer to getting a Hacker Lab co-working space. The city’s Economic Development Department recently authorized spending $75,000 to gauge interest and potential demand among residents and workers.
A company that for much of the 2000s tried in vain to fashion itself in the model of Apple or Google found a better target in its backyard in Amazon.com.
News that Yahoo has suffered two major hacks, one in 2014 affecting at least 500 million accounts and the other in 2013 affecting over 1 billion accounts, appears to be causing Verizon to rethink its purchase.
As rebuilding the country’s infrastructure looks to be an area President-elect Donald Trump and Democrats can agree on, lawmakers from both parties are trying to make sure the conversation includes digital infrastructure. California Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu said digital infrastructure is as vital to the country as roads and bridges.
Onvia, a business-to-government market intelligence firm, asserts that IT spending should continue to grow at a healthy clip — essentially, the status quo. According to the firm’s analysis, the adjusted IT spend from state, local and education entities has grown 17 percent from $29 billion to $34 billion between 2010 and 2016.
A Nigerian national has been charged in connection with a hack into Los Angeles County emails that might have exposed personal data of hundreds of thousands of people who had business with county departments, officials said Friday, Dec. 16.
State regulators on Thursday sharply scaled back PG&E’s plan to deploy a network of charging stations for electric vehicles, but the plan will lead to higher monthly bills for the utility’s customers.
One Inc., a provider of cloud software products for property and casualty insurers, has closed a $20 million round in investment funding, which the company will use to help develop products and expand business internationally.
This January, San Diego will follow the startup money trail to greener pastures in Silicon Valley, where the city will operate a first-of-its-kind satellite office designed to siphon off millions of Bay Area dollars and direct those funds to local tech businesses.
Yahoo said Wednesday that information from more than 1 billion customer accounts was stolen by an unauthorized third party in August 2013, a separate hacking incident twice as large as the 2014 one disclosed earlier this year.
The rules, passed unanimously by the California Energy Commission after years in the making, will cover desktops and laptops as well as monitors, workstations and small servers.
The tech firm’s CEO and co-founder Brendan Iribe announced he’s stepping down from the position to head a new division within the company focused on virtual reality for personal computers.
Six months after winning a decisive victory in the June primary, Darrell Steinberg became the 56th mayor of Sacramento on Tuesday night in front of a crowd of nearly 2,000 people.
CEO John Krafcik said the project will now graduate out of the division that handles moonshots and become its own division called Waymo within Google’s parent company, Alphabet.
The guessing game about who’ll attend is now in overdrive, with everyone from Politico to Bloomberg to the Wall Street Journal suggesting who’s in, who’s out, and who’s on the fence.
The app will flag any sudden spike in water consumption, which could indicate a broken or burst pipe, or a slow but steady increase, which might mean a pinhole leak or a loose connection.
Google's parent company Alphabet, which employs more than 20,000 people in a city of 80,000, has proposed building 330 units of housing within close proximity of its headquarters.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the tech firm plans to integrate LinkedIn into some of its products. Consumers will be able to write up a resume in Microsoft Word, for example, and then discover and apply for jobs on LinkedIn. Online video tutorials on LinkedIn will be available on Office 365 and Microsoft Windows.
The “Driveri” device, invented by Netradyne, relies on a Nvidia mobile processor for computing tasks and a Qualcomm chip — the same one used in Apple’s iPhone 5 — for cellular needs, say transmitting footage over 4G.
Assemblyman Tom Lackey, R-Palmdale, this week introduced a bill that would allow officers to take a spit swab from drivers who’ve failed field sobriety tests. Portable instruments promise to detect the presence of pot and other drugs within minutes, telling officers whether they should potentially let the driver go free or take them to the station for a blood test and possible arrest.
President-elect Donald Trump has said his administration would block the proposed $85.4-billion AT&T-Time Warner combination because it would mean “too much concentration of power in the hands of too few.” Now, Trump’s Department of Justice will decide whether the government will approve the combination — or try to block it.
