Salinas hopes to turn its sons and daughters of farmworkers, into coders for the next generation of data-driven, automated farming in a valley known as the salad bowl of the world.
The terrorist attacks in San Bernardino and Paris have prompted tech upgrades, including software provided as an application that public safety officials can use to send video, text and photos from their mobile phones.
Congress and President Obama have already kicked in about half of the $16 million annual cost to operate the program, but federal elected officials have said California, Oregon and Washington ought to contribute substantial amounts of money for the network.
Dispatchers believe the new system will be particularly helpful to people with hearing or speech impairments, who previously had to go through a third party to report emergencies.
The report assessed the business preparedness of 568 organizations worldwide and shows that more than three quarters of business continuity managers fear the possibility of a cyberattack, with 80 percent worried about the possibility of a data breach.
Microsoft has gathered clusters of companies in Seattle since 2012, first in partnership with the Techstars accelerator organization, and later on its own.
It is also following in the footsteps of fellow tech giants, most notably Google and Apple. Google, in January 2014, paid $400 million to acquire another London-based AI startup, DeepMind.
Yahoo is forced to cut about 1,700 jobs, in the first quarter of 2016 and shut down its offices in Dubai, Mexico City, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Milan.
The news beat analyst expectations and sent the company's shares skyrocketing. In after-hours trading, Alphabet shares shot up as much as 8 percent, boosting the company's market value as high as $570 billion, rivaling Apple's current value of $533 billion.
Levi's Stadium is equipped with 40 gigabits per second of Internet bandwidth and more cameras than other professional football venues, offering fans at least six different replay angles per play and apps to get food delivered to their seats.
Over the next few months, the nation's three biggest banks will start rolling out ATMs that will let customers withdraw currency using their smartphones instead of debit cards.
Under the standards approved by the California Energy Commission, LED bulbs will emerge as a statewide staple and some forms of traditional track lighting will be phased out.
The California Public Utilities Commission is proposing increased fees on rooftop solar owners but stopping short of the onerous charges that the state's investor-owned utilities wanted.
The search giant focused on issues such as privacy and cybersecurity, but also put some efforts and dollars into advocating for self-driving vehicles, a technology Google has been developing.
The drought, rising populations, and environmental concerns are pushing agencies to move toward what, for most, was unthinkable decades before: pushing sewer water into the tap.
San Francisco’s public transit agency plans to purchase up to 150 cameras marketed for their ability to find and focus on human faces, although city officials insist the devices will monitor only traffic — not people.
Lotpath Inc., a tenant in the new Bitwise South Stadium technology center in downtown Fresno, announced that it has released versions of its Lotpath Inspector app for Apple iPhones and Android smartphones and tablets.
At the commission’s open meeting in November, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said privacy issues related to broadband are “something we are looking at right now.”
The $13.3 million fiber optic spine between Santa Cruz and broadband-deprived areas of the Salinas Valley is a huge step forward in bringing the unserved areas of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties into the 21st century.
With interactive mirrors, smart shelves and real-time inventory trackers, Santa Clara, Calif.'s Intel is throwing its weight behind chips and sensors it hopes will drive the future of retail powered by the Internet of Things.
After the recent incident when a BART passenger was killed on a train, many people were outraged to discover that the several cameras in the train cars were in fact decoys.
