Rep. Steve Russell is teaming up with Democrats in the House and Senate to force federal agencies to stop wasting money on software licenses — a seemingly minor thing that actually adds up to hundreds of millions of dollars.
The technology giants, competitors in everything from search to smartphones, have agreed to withdraw complaints against each other filed with regulators worldwide.
San Francisco this week became the first major city in the nation to require that solar energy systems be installed on all new homes and commercial buildings up to 10 stories tall that are built in the city.
As part of the agreement, the company that connects passengers and drivers is now specifying how it decides to “deactivate” or terminate drivers and will give them more recourse to appeal being let go.
Today, fair or not, unicorns mean something entirely different: over-valued, over-hyped, bloated. The symbol of yet another bubble born from Silicon Valley excess.
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, is asking for a congressional investigation after an episode of “60 Minutes” in which his phone was hacked to show how easy it is.
Intel Corp. announced plans on Tuesday to lay off 11 percent of its workforce — roughly 12,000 people — from the chipmaking giant’s global operations and to consolidate some of its plants.
Until the last six months, the Democrat-controlled Legislature largely had kept its hands off the project, but a new proposed measure would set additional reporting requirements for the $64-billion bullet train project.
The awards are for promoting diversity in fast-growing, high-tech jobs where women leaders are few, minorities are underrepresented and frustrations of pay disparities simmer.
Los Angeles' much-touted plan to equip thousands of police officers with body cameras has stalled amid controversy at City Hall over the program's price tag and whether the Police Department got the best deal possible.
The cutbacks will reduce employment in some parts of the business by double-digit percentages, according to Intel insiders, amounting to thousands of job cuts across the company by the end of the year.
Crosswise has developed a cross-device identification system based on big data, data science and machine learning that identifies which PCs, phones, tablets, digital TVs and other connected devices are being used by individual consumers.
Microsoft sued the U.S. government on Thursday, arguing that a law that can be used to prohibit technology companies from telling customers when law enforcement comes looking for their data is unconstitutional.
'We all yammer about politicians and how bad things are, and I think it important that we stop bellyaching and act if we want change,' Kara Swisher wrote in an email in which she explained why she decided to run in 2023.
The local permitting challenges are the latest bump to emerge in the gas company’s massive effort to upgrade millions of old analog meters and phase out the process of sending workers through neighborhoods to read the units manually.
In California, there were nearly 100,000 pay phones in 2007. Now there are 27,000. In San Diego County, state data shows there were 6,983 pay phones countywide in 2007. Now there are 2,179, a decline that was slightly lower than the state average.
Yuri Milner, the Silicon Valley billionaire, announced Tuesday he is adding a second $100 million to expand the quest by sending swarms of tiny robot spacecraft into interstellar space.
“I think virtual reality has the ability to be the most social platform, because you feel like you’re right there with that person,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
Some apps are putting focused ads inside Uber cars letting passengers know about businesses in the area, another that tracks drivers' miles and another letting passengers compare prices with ride-sharing rival, Lyft.
Feinstein represents a faction in the government and law enforcement who are seeking to limit the use of encryption and force companies to build products with back doors that law enforcement agents can access.
Harold Schapelhouman, fire chief for the Menlo Park Fire Protection District, said Friday that his agency is on pace to be the first in the nation approved by the Federal Aviation Administration to deploy aerial drones.
The FBI paid for the tool it used to break into a dead terrorist’s iPhone and is considering whether to tell Apple Inc., how it was done, FBI Director James Comey said.
Growth in California is slowing, but the tech boom and the sturdy job market in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area should help the state ward off a recession until at least 2018, economic forecasters predicted on Wednesday.
The Chicago technology community lost a small but significant conference when networking equipment giant Cisco Systems moved its annual partner summit, scheduled for April 2017 in Chicago, to this fall in San Francisco.
On Tuesday, the tech giant released a tool that allows makers of smart home devices to connect their creations to Alexa without having to develop their own complicated voice-recognition models first.
Legislation would allow law enforcement officers to use oral swab tests to strengthen cases when there is probable cause that a driver is impaired and the driver has failed sobriety field tests.
