Fewer people in the Bay Area are working in factories and other production facilities, and instead many more are working in the "softer" side of high-technology: Internet, software, mobile communications, social media, and research and development.
Microsoft’s network of data centers will power Toyota’s new venture for connected cars, the software giant’s latest inroads in the realm of next-generation automotive technologies.
Despite political obstacles, problems with land acquisitions, logistical issues and Bakersfield City Council members recently calling California's $64 billion bullet train “a sham,” Cal State Bakersfield is positioning itself as a national training center bent on preparing a workforce for high-speed rail projects.
The software in question generated significant controversy in Fresno earlier this year over its capacity to sift through address-specific public data that can be passed along to first responders, as well as its ability to also comb through individuals’ public postings to social media.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory just bought a $1 million supercomputer that mimics the human brain to perform complex cognitive tasks while consuming less power than a light bulb.
Few companies are serious about buying Yahoo’s core business, according to a person familiar with the matter. The reason: Yahoo wants too high a price.
According to court documents assembled by the ACLU, Google and Apple have been targeted for years in dozens of federal investigations seeking orders to unlock mobile devices.
The desalination plant would be built on 30 acres of district-owned property near San Juan Creek, about 2,500 feet from the beach north of Pacific Coast Highway.
On Tuesday, the company announced it is adding Fiber Phone — phone service over Internet channels with some of the features that come with the firm’s free Google Voice service.
If the bill is signed into law, convicts with a single DUI offense would need to keep a device installed in their car for six months that requires a driver to take a breathalyzer test before the car will turn on.
In his letter to Yahoo’s board of directors at the time, then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer professed a strong belief that bigger is better. Only together could Microsoft and Yahoo create the “economies of scale” in search and advertising needed to overtake industry leader Google.
Nevada officials approved tax incentives worth an estimated $9.2 million for Hyperloop Technologies Inc., one of the teams competing to build a transportation platform that shoots pods through miles of enclosed pneumatic tubes.
As the way we digitally communicate with one another continues to undergo a sea change, new evidence seems to suggest a large-scale pivot by youth toward mobile tools like WhatsApp and Viber to do their chit-chatting.
More than 60 million Americans don’t have Internet at home with nearly half saying they can’t afford it. About 6 percent of California households have no Internet access whatsoever, according to the California Emerging Technology Fund.
California lawmakers have reached a tentative deal with labor groups to increase the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next six years, a move that could head off a costly fight at the ballot box in November.
Did BART's ingenuity decades ago doom it for shutdowns such as the ones that have crippled the system in recent weeks? Or is the agency's problem typical of a 44-year-old system with infrastructure nearing or exceeding its life expectancy?
The California rail authority is facing hundreds of millions of dollars in potential change orders and other prospective cost increases on the first 29 miles of the bullet train system, state and private contractor documents show.
Rebellious Yahoo investors seeking to oust CEO Marissa Mayer and hasten a sale of the troubled search pioneer moved on Thursday to replace the company’s entire board, setting up a showdown at the annual shareholders meeting this summer. Yahoo is gearing up for the inevitable proxy battle.
Three new companies have finished the SLO HotHouse Incubator, a Cal Poly program designed to take businesses from the startup stage to gaining a foothold in the marketplace.
California officials attending a White House summit this week included Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., and Felicia Marcus, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board.
Leaders in the technology community stopped short of declaring a victory in the battle for privacy as the Department of Justice said Monday it no longer needed Apple’s help to unlock the San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone.
Responsible disposal of electronic devices may require solutions that can match the innovation that went into the creation of those phones, TVs, games and drones.
When Uber announced it had bought an old Sears building and would house 2,000 to 3,000 employees there, a shock went through the city. Residents began talking about the pros and cons of playing a bigger part in the Bay Area tech ecosystem.
Outgunned and sometimes outfoxed by criminals, security companies are urgently trying to add skilled staff and are cooperating instead of competing to counter attackers who have staged massive thefts, pirated data of millions of people and held corporate networks hostage.
Advances in computer power, demand-tracking sensors, software with pricing algorithms and other technologies have made it easier for companies and government agencies to forecast how demand for their products and services will change and how quickly.
