Qualcomm is taking the wraps off its two-year effort to build computer server chips, challenging Intel’s stronghold in the fast-growing data center market. The smartphone semiconductor giant said Wednesday that its new server chip, called Centriq 2400, is now being tested with key customers and is expected to be commercially available in the second half of 2017.
The decision overturns a victory that Apple had won in the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. The case will now go back to that court for any further proceedings, including determining what, if any, lower penalties Samsung may have to pay Apple.
State Sen. Jerry Hill said he introduced the legislation in response to investigations published this year revealing that many law enforcement agencies make little or no effort to inventory their weapons and that officers frequently lose their firearms — some of which end up on the street.
Muni may have saved $73,000 by refusing to give in to the demands of a cyberextortionist who hacked into the transit system’s computers. But the ransomware attack still cost the Municipal Transportation Agency an estimated $50,000 in lost fares, officials said Friday.
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Google X founder Sebastian Thrun talks about his new venture Udacity, which offers online courses to quickly prepare students for tech jobs.
Barbara Bry, one of three new members joining the council, has founded and led multiple startups and tech incubators in her career, including proflowers, Connect and atcom, which pioneered high-speed Internet access in hotel rooms.
Over the course of text conversations, sometimes 45 to 60 minutes long, counselors assess the person’s risk for suicide; provide a space for venting and validation; and help craft a plan on how the person can stay safe that day.
As co-working has grown in popularity in San Francisco and other cities, IBM and, most recently, Microsoft have planted some of their workers amid the startups.
A proposal that would allow tenants to choose Internet access from any state-licensed provider — not just the provider preferred by the property owner — won the support of a Board of Supervisors committee on Wednesday, despite opposition from some business groups.
A Menlo Park-based startup manufacturer of electric vehicles has chosen an Arizona site to build a $700 million plant expected to employ 2,000, beating out previously disclosed candidates that included Sacramento and Tracy.
State insurance regulators have hit fledgling tech company Zenefits with the fine for violations that include allowing unlicensed employees to sell insurance in the state.
Delphi Automotive is adding computer chip giant Intel to a partnership with Mobileye to accelerate a project meant to deliver a fully autonomous vehicle system by 2019.
The Sheriff’s Department plans to undergo a second pilot program starting in January or February to try different, more technologically advanced cameras, a senior department official said Tuesday.
Transit service was not disrupted over the busy Thanksgiving holiday weekend, but ticket machines were taken off-line Friday evening and all day Saturday.
Qualcomm has launched a bounty program where it will pay up to $15,000 to a select group of white hat hackers if they can find cyberflaws in the San Diego wireless firm’s mobile chips and software.
Fresno County supervisors have slapped a moratorium on cellphone towers that a company has proposed building in three areas of the county, and they are not alone in their concerns about the Southern California firm’s plans.
With the surge in high-profile data breaches recently, are user names and passwords the best way to ensure the people logging into corporate networks are who they say they are?
A group of fired UC San Francisco employees who are losing their jobs to foreign workers have filed discrimination claims against the university, seeking to save their positions and stem foreign outsourcing from spreading to other state schools.
The city’s app has been sending some drivers a “Parking is Free” message at certain meters after 6 p.m, even though payment is required until 8 p.m. or 10 p.m.
Mentor is Oregon's largest pure technology business, with annual revenue of nearly $1.2 billion and roughly 1,000 employees at its headquarters in Wilsonville, Ore.
Two Sacramento-area technology companies have been awarded a national contract that would enable them to offer fraud-detection services to government entities in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
For the last year and a half, the technocrats of Silicon Valley have made clear where their allegiances lie: With few exceptions, they organized for Hillary Clinton, supported progressive causes, pushed for looser immigration restrictions, donated tens of millions of dollars to Democrats and related campaigns.
A tax plan from President-elect Donald Trump could solve one of the biggest problems facing the Bay Area’s tech industry: billions in cash parked overseas, with foreign governments itching to get their hands on it.
