California is one of the few states to strictly restrict data disclosures on voter registration, and more than 17 million California voters’ information was exposed.
California motorists will face a raft of new laws this coming year, including one that adds earbuds to the list of devices and accessories banned to prevent distracted driving.
Three new California laws that went into effect Jan. 1 will impose strict penalties for drones flown over schools, jails and less than 350 feet above residential areas without permission from homeowners.
The XQ contest — like IQ, but with an X-factor — is funded by Powell Jobs through her nonprofit Emerson Collective, which advocates for social issues like education and immigration reform.
To ease data collection, states and marijuana establishments have turned to niche software providers who have made a business out of organizing data from harvest site to dispensary. Generally, the software works with a system of serial numbers, starting with each plant in a harvest getting one of its own.
2015 saw an explosion of new tech trends including connected cars, mass market versions of virtual reality, and a new messenger app that deletes itself after 10 seconds -- but how will they evolve in 2016?
A new set of data indicate that key segments in venture capital — the business of funding start-up companies — will be down sharply for 2015, a sign that the dramatic run-up in start-up valuations is peaking and the funding of new ones is tapering off.
More and more, the Golden Gate Bridge is being buzzed by camera-carrying flying drones, and security- and safety-conscious span officials are trying to put an end to it.
The new rules may indeed forestall the era of driverless cars, at least in this state, because they would reduce the technology's appeal and utility. But the DMV is right to be cautious now, when both the technology and the human interaction with it are still new and untested on a mass scale.
The cameras remain mounted in key areas including the parking lots, skate park, swimming pools, playgrounds and other facilities, but they have been turned off while a team of city employees studies how and whether they should be used.
Council members had been scheduled Wednesday to approve a plan to spend $57.6 million over five years on the LAPD camera initiative, which is backed by both Mayor Eric Garcetti and police Chief Charlie Beck. City Council President Herb Wesson delayed that vote until next month after hearing "outstanding questions" from city lawmakers.
Under the Public Utilities Commission plan, new solar customers would face a one-time fee for connection to the electric grid. The commission estimates that the fee would range from $75 to $150 per solar customer.
Water conservation, recycling, reservoir and ground water storage are all used extensively in the state. But seawater desalination, the most abundant potential source, has until now remained a minor part of the water supply puzzle. If this new plant in Carlsbad performs according to expectations, that could change.
The newly allocated funding includes $25.5 million from the State Highway Operation and Protection Program for five “fix it first” projects that will repair bumpy pavement, preserve roads in good condition from deteriorating, and upgrade bridges to make them safer and stronger.
California lawmakers' repeated failures to agree on legislation to resolve the state's seemingly endless battle over how to use its water resources raise new questions about whether they'll ever be able to find a compromise.
Faraday Future was considering four states, including California, for the production facility, however the final selection was influenced in part by a $335-million package of tax incentives and infrastructure investments offered by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval.
Social Interest Solutions, a Sacramento nonprofit organization that aims to improve consumer access to health and social services, said Wednesday that it is directing the activities of MedStart, the medical-technology incubator formerly under the defunct Sacramento Regional Technology Alliance.
More entrepreneurs are finding hospitable havens in Oakland to launch, expand and nurture high-tech companies, but work is needed to keep those companies in the East Bay's largest city, according to experts who gathered in downtown Oakland on Tuesday.
Alphabet Inc., said it would explore adding its super-fast Internet service to Los Angeles, the largest city yet in the tech giant’s nascent bid to build a network of hyper-connected urban centers called Google Fiber.
San Francisco's City Fiber, is housed in tubes and pipes belonging to public agencies and private companies, but there is no clear map marking where the wires are buried and how many miles of conduit house them.
San Diego is holding its own in the tech industry, and while it may never equal Silicon Valley’s size and power, it may outpace Los Angeles’ “Silicon Beach” where companies complain of endless traffic snarls.
Lawmakers and business leaders on Wednesday called on the University of California to change its admissions standards to allow "academically rigorous" high school computer science courses to count toward the university's math requirement.
