Last spring, Defense Secretary Ash Carter flew to Silicon Valley — the first Defense chief to visit in two decades — to open the oddly-named Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental, which serves as a Pentagon incubator in the valley.
San Francisco, Oakland, West Sacramento and San Leandro are now seeking technology entrepreneurs to tackle these and other challenges during a 16-week Startup in Residence (Stir) program that will launch in April.
With a recent court ruling ordering the release of 10 million California student records to attorneys suing the state, parents throughout California are anxious about their children’s private information falling into the wrong hands.
Nearly six years after Google began setting up cities with some of the fastest Internet in the country, the company will extend its lightning-fast gigabit fiber Internet service to its neighbor to the north, San Francisco.
Similar to the San Bernardino case, federal prosecutors in New York sought a court order via an 18th century statute called the All Writs Act to compel Apple to help access an iPhone seized during a methamphetamine trafficking investigation.
This deal is so big that some analysts have questioned whether Dell Inc. has the funds to pull it off, and EMC’s stock price has dropped since the deal was announced.
The fair will demonstrate how farmers and processors put technology to work in monitoring crop and animal health, managing irrigation, tracking fertilizer and pesticides, assuring food safety and more.
Gates' view sets him at odds with those of bosses at technology firms Google, WhatsApp and Facebook who have expressed support for Apple's refusal to create a new way into the iPhone's security system.
School districts across San Diego County are warning that students’ personal data will soon be accessed by two nonprofit organizations as part of a federal court case involving special education services, sparking an outcry from parents and lawmakers over privacy rights.
The pay gap between the sexes in San Francisco has been wide at times in the past. But in 2009, as the recession was winding down, fully employed men and women in the city had roughly the same median income: $66,000 and $64,000 per year, respectively.
Feinstein is working on legislation with Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., that would require companies to unlock data under court order.
The purchase will boost Watson Health’s cloud-based health data by about 215 million patients and add 8,500-plus customers that use Truven to dissect health industry-generated data.
The private data, likely to be released this year, will be handed over under seal, monitored by a special magistrate as well as a security expert, and available only to a handful of legal representatives.
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday called on the state to spend $176.6 million to speed up the testing and cleanup of potentially thousands of lead-contaminated homes surrounding a shuttered battery recycling plant in Vernon.
The hackers demanded 9,000 bitcoins, the equivalent of $3.65 million, to unlock the machines at Hollywood Presbyterian, which is at least the fourth hospital this year to be reportedly affected by ransomware.
The governors pledged to modernize energy infrastructure, encourage clean transportation options, plan for a transition away from fossil fuels, work together to make policy changes and secure a strong energy future.
Desire for fast growth hasn’t fallen. But as mounting concerns about slowing global spending hammer U.S. stocks, investors are demanding lower prices for shares in early stage companies.
California officials and utility executives are trying to get a sense of how big a problem natural gas leaks may be. Climate change is only one reason.
Thursday’s ribbon cutting and grand opening at the 318 Union St. site drew more than a hundred community leaders, NEST collaborators and supporters to celebrate what Martinez has called “another big step over the digital divide.”
In a letter posted on National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website, the agency responded to Google’s request for interpretation of several federal safety standards as they apply to the tech giant’s self-driving cars.
Laws dictate that records must be preserved for a certain amount of time, but it doesn't appear that City Council and the mayoral offices have followed those rules.
A mixed-use project envisioned as Playa Vista's downtown has been sold to a Dallas investment firm for a reported $475 million, cementing the master-planned community's rise as a residential neighborhood and technology hub.
Newer smartphones and tablets automatically encrypt the hard drives so that the data can only be accessed with the log-in code set by the user. Under this stronger data encryption, companies cannot unlock protected material that could be useful in police investigations.
