This summer in California, there have been a dozen incidents in which drones flying over wildfires have caused delays or interruptions in airborne firefighting activities, and CalFire Chief Ken Pimlott told lawmakers Tuesday he fears a collision is inevitable unless strong action is taken.
The British newspaper the Guardian said Apple may sign up with GoMentum Station in Concord, northeast of San Francisco. The former naval base is now a testing ground for driverless cars, boasting 20 miles of roads and a military guard.
Fire2Wire is starting with free Wi-Fi along Tenth Street between J and K streets and extending to the front of Modesto Centre Plaza, the city’s convention center.
Leaders discussed strategies for putting new technologies into place to deal with such problems as air pollution, drought and climate change while also calling for 50 percent of California’s power to come from renewable sources by 2030.
Firefighters in eight California counties are using fire-detection cameras atop high peaks that operate day and night and The cameras scan the countryside and are designed to alert emergency command centers when smoke is spotted.
The project will reduce flooding, improve water destined for the Los Angeles River and recharge the San Fernando Groundwater Basin with up to 13 million gallons of water per year.
(TNS) — San Joaquin Valley legislators, state and local agencies and community stakeholders will meet with renewable energy companies and environmentalists at Fresno State on Aug. 12 for a summit to address the Valley’s future in the clean energy economy.
The goal is to produce faster streaming and downloads for consumers, more high-quality spectrum for wireless companies, cash for broadcasters and billions of dollars in licensing fees for the federal government to help reduce the budget deficit. (TNS) — Federal officials this week are expected to finalize a groundbreaking plan to entice some TV stations to give up their valuable airwaves to help address the exploding demand for mobile Internet access.
Mitch Kapor, a Silicon Valley pioneer who invented Lotus, and his wife, Freada, have spent much of the past decade at the forefront of expanding opportunities in the tech world for women, African Americans, Latinos and other minorities.
Solar efficiency has gone up and production prices have gone down combined with the fact that credits for solar will soon be drastically reduced means the payback time for most residential solar investment is four or five years.
California officials said Monday that their existing climate change programs put the state on course to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new carbon-dioxide emissions target years ahead of schedule.
The award will go to the University of California’s Seismological Laboratory, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Oregon and the University of Washington to expand their sensor networks and increase the number of users who will receive alerts as the network grows, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Los Angeles Unified’s MiSiS computer system will work well enough to avoid another crisis when students head back to class next month, school district officials said.
The Charles E. Meyer Desalination Facility was built during a drought in the 1990s but closed in 1992 when desperation for water subsided. The plant was never utilized beyond a testing period, but the city maintained it in the event that a severe water shortage might once again threaten the city.
This cyberattack at UCLA comes on the heels of a major breach of federal employee records and a massive hack at health insurance giant Anthem Inc. affecting 80 million Americans this year.
A Sonoma County entrepreneur wants to build a $30 million desalination plant in the San Joaquin Valley that would use the warmth of the sun to distill former irrigation water and reuse it on thirsty farms.
In her decision, chief administrative law judge Karen V. Clopton of the California Public Utilities Commission contended that Uber has not complied with state laws.
The National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Christopher Hart noted that the presence of recorders in commercial aviation had been a vital tool for decades in investigations that helped the board make recommendations to prevent future accidents.
Encryption developed by Apple and Google for the latest versions of their mobile operating systems is rendering cellphones "essentially a brick" to law enforcement agents.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said that while investigating a separate hacking incident in June, it discovered a far bigger breach of personal data.
The best-known hubs are in Silicon Valley and New York City, but the blossoming tech scene in L.A., with its strengths in animation and entertainment, has even more potential to improve how students learn, they say.
Police Chief Jerry Dyer said the ShotSpotter system, which uses acoustic sensors placed in three areas where gunfire is a frequent occurrence, will notify officers within seconds when a gun is fired with "pinpoint accuracy."
Employers are looking at ways to ensure they're ready for a workforce that's more diverse, socially minded, tech savvy and creative, and who also want feedback.
The next generation of precision agriculture may germinate in Silicon Valley, but it will have to take root in rural California, where growers soak up about 80% of the water diverted for human use.
After years of neglect, state officials estimate it will cost $59 billion to fix the now-crumbling roads and freeways that Gov. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown championed more than five decades ago. And it’s up to his son, Gov. Jerry Brown, to find the money.
