State Farm is introducing a new coverage endorsement in California to help fill insurance gaps for its policyholders who use their personal cars to provide rides for this type of Transportation Network Company
The aim is to make many of Microsoft’s next-generation Web tools available to nonprofits. The effort also will extend existing donations to academic projects and Internet connectivity initiatives.
LAPD officials are asking the City Council to purchase body cameras from Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Taser International and avoid a time-consuming and potentially politically messy bidding process. They've asked city lawmakers to let them "piggyback" on a competitive search carried out by officials in Kern County.
There's a fevered interest in A.I., which relies on algorithms powered by troves of data to bridge the gap between computers and natural human thinking.
Oculus is getting a lot of buzz as it gets ready to debut this spring its much-anticipated Oculus Rift virtual reality system, one that began as a Kickstarter project launched by company founder Palmer Luckey.
CalPERS, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, bought a data center in Chicago this week. The purchase came a week after CalPERS purchased a data center in Broomfield, Colo.
Decoy surveillance cameras are common as a way to deter minor crimes while being cost-efficient, but BART’s on-train security may get an upgrade before the agency begins transitioning to a new fleet of cars in 2017.
The Obama administration Thursday announced plans to pour nearly $4 billion into developing self-driving cars over the next decade, touting the technology’s potential to prevent accidents and save lives.
Commissioners decided against delaying the rates because the parties had not satisfied their burden to prove such a motion met several criteria, including that there was an irreparable harm to solar customers, good cause for a stay or that a stay was in the public’s interest.
After an attack by the terrorist organization, the family of one of the victims is pursuing legal action against the social media site it claims made the attack possible due to Twitter's "willful blindness."
Huntington Beach could opt to go into the business of providing broadband service for residents, in essence act as a utility, as a solution to slow Internet speeds.
California officials have rejected Volkswagen’s plans to recall and fix 75,688 diesel cars equipped with software to cheat on air pollution tests, saying Tuesday that the proposals lacked so many key details that the state couldn’t tell whether they would work.
The partnership will require a level of cooperation that historically has not existed between the White House and Silicon Valley, which have long been at odds over government surveillance.
With a gridlocked Congress unlikely to advance any sort of firearm control measures, President Obama is again touting technology as a bipartisan way to make guns less deadly.
Sweetwater Tech Resources LLC, a 4-year-old Wyoming company doing business in the state as Wasco Wastewater Technologies LLC, said it plans Feb. 15 to begin filtering “produced water,” the salty fluid that comes up from the ground along with oil.
Self-driving cars could reduce car ownership by up to 43 percent. That means losses for state revenue could look like this: The California New Car Dealers Association estimates people registered more than 2 million new cars last year.
From sensors that can help keep a car in a lane if it drifts or hit the brakes if a pedestrian steps out in front to cameras that give drivers a 360-degree view of their surroundings, participants of the auto show at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center will get a glimpse into the future of the auto industry.
Yielding to the request of residents and local officials, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday issued an emergency proclamation regarding the Southern California Gas Co. leak above Porter Ranch that is dumping massive amounts of methane into the atmosphere above the community.
The emissions scandal broke in September when the California Air Resources Board and the Environmental Protection Agency said they had found that VW had installed illegal software known as "defeat devices."
The Santa Clara graphics chipmaker introduced a computer processing unit, the Drive PX 2, which CEO Jen-Hsun Huang described as “the brain of future autonomous vehicles.”
Newsom wants to subject the request to keep the Diablo Canyon Power Plant open to a full environmental impact review, a process that can take more than a year, which could also rekindle arguments about the plant’s safety, since it sits within a web of earthquake fault lines.
The Alameda, Calif., City Council will consider approving a lease that will allow Google to expand and absorb the location that houses the Alameda Naval Air Station.
CES typically showcases new tech meant to improve lives, but in recent years has lost sight of its meaning. This year, the focus is back on innovation and industry-leading developments.
The Consumer Technology Assn., which produces the CES trade show, predicts virtual reality sales in the U.S. will grow to $540 million this year, up 440 percent compared with last year; drones to see revenue more than double to $953 million.
