With the second-highest density of homeless people in the United States, San Francisco tech titans are funding Measure Q on the November ballot, which would allow police to give 24 notice before clearing homeless street camps.
A report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California reveals how nearly 500 police departments use mass surveillance tools to monitor the social media accounts of activists.
Covered California, the state’s Obamacare health exchange, has started mailing notices to 1.3 million subscribers, announcing rate hikes of up to 57 percent for next year.
Despite Silicon Valley executives’ expectation they could lead a national effort to abolish the death penalty by funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars into a California initiative, law enforcement and conservatives have raised cash to defend the death penalty, and appear headed
Twitter’s stock collapsed on October 14 — at one point falling over 8 percent — after potential suitor Salesforce withdrew its interest following the release of a “Teen Survey” that found virtually no interest in the Twitter brand by youth.
For the first time in 130 years, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a “design patent” case — Apple vs. Samsung. The case has already produced a $400 million award for Apple.
A new report from the National Asian American Survey reveals that Asian-Americans are continuing to drift away from the Republican Party after decades of staunch support as the party’s most reliable ethnic minority group.
With Samsung cancelling the Galaxy Note 7 after a continuing series of random spontaneous combustions, Apple iPhone 7 Plus and Google’s Pixel XL seem best positioned to battle it out for the 8 million sales opportunities.
With the global annual market for commercial drone applications growing from about $2 billion this year to an estimated $127 billion by 2020, the counter-drone wars are also heating up.
With Snapchat leaking that the company is planning a quick initial public offering (IPO) at a $25 billion valuation, the real motivation for speeding up the deal may be the ability of Instagram Stories to grow to from scratch to 60 percent of Snapchat’s user base in just 10 weeks.
After Oculus founder Palmer Luckey was outed for “shit-posting” about Hillary Clinton, he was a “no show” at the Oculus Connect 3 Conference where Facebook doubled down on their corporate commitment by offering another $250 million in developer support cash.
Insurance executives are calling Hurricane Matthew the “Godzilla” of all storms, with $15 billion of estimated losses — the same amount as all United States natural disaster insurance claims paid during 2015.
Mars is the destination for the next space race, and unlike the first round in the Cold War, this one will be between private companies, not countries.
A new survey by Ernst & Young and Economic Innovation Group found that “millennials” — those born in the 1980s or later — are a deeply pessimistic generation that is willing to work hard, but is “convinced the economy is failing them,” and is “very uncertain” about the future.
National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Harold Thomas Martin III was arrested Wednesday for downloading “Sensitive Compartmented Information” to his home computer.
The dismal forecast in the latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook reads like Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s talking points — namely, in its analysis that “sub-par growth at recent levels risks perpetuating itself—through the negative economic and political forces it is unleashing.”
When Hurricane Matthew strikes Florida, it is expected to boost the volume of Zika-infected mosquitos in the U.S., wipe out the effectiveness of anti-Zika pesticide spraying, and potentially spread the so-called Zika “danger zone” up the East Coast.
California Department of Motor Vehicles formally issued draft regulation demanding Tesla Motors Inc. to cease and desist from using the terms “self-driving,” “automated” or “auto-pilot” in advertising, unless vehicles are capable of driving themselves without any human back-up.
The Paris Fashion Week robbery of Kim Kardashian appears to have involved a 5-man team taking control of the l’Hotel de Pourtalès; gaining access to Kardashian’s room; putting a gun to her head, tying her up and escaping with $10 million in jewelry.
Private detective and former Riverside cop Christopher Joseph Lanzillo, hired by the union-led Costa Mesa Police Association to set up a DUI scam against a conservative City Councilman, pleaded guilty to felony charges of false imprisonment and conspiracy to file a false police report.
The meme for the hilarious movie “It’s All Good” is the true tale of worthless millennials that crowdfund $77,000, partied the cash away, then got attacked by their donors.
The Category 5 Hurricane Matthew continues moving across the Caribbean, and is scheduled to smash into the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by Tuesday evening.
The U.S. Geological Survey put Southern California cities on an unusually high alert for a potential “big earthquake,” as an “earthquake storm” broke out near the Salton Sea late in the week.
California claims to be able to permanently replace fossil-fuel generated electricity with “intermittent” wind and solar generation, but the state’s electrical grid is on the verge of crisis as it may soon run out of the ability to import enough fossil-fuel electricity.
With concert tours being where the real money is in music, Beyoncé just joined the growing number of celebrity venture capitalists by investing $150,000 in Sidestep, a concierge app for buying concert memorabilia online and having it shipped directly home.
Following the U.S. Justice Department’s demand for $14 billion to settle a mortgage-backed securities probe, several big hedge funds moved their derivative holdings from Deutsche Bank to other firms to avoid the risk of another Lehman Brothers-style liquidity squeeze.
According to a newly released report, it appears that a newly shipped Apple iPhone 7 exploded in a fashion that looks similar to the explosion that led to the recall of all Samsung Galaxy Note 7S.
Disney has significant advantages over other bidders to acquire Twitter. First, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey serves on Disney’s Board of Directors. But the biggest advantage is that Disney owns a 33 percent stake in BAMTech, the tech spinout from Major League Baseball that owns the app powering Twitter’s streaming of NFL games on the web.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled his plan for “bold moves by private enterprise” to colonize Mars, beginning in 2022, at his keynote speech this week for the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico.
A new study finds that Silicon Valley and Los Angeles basin apartment rent prices are in steep declines after four years of spiking costs.
Snapchat has released its new “Spectacles” sunglasses as a disruptive creator of much more personal video sharing experiences.
In Silicon Valley, it is a worse “crime” for the founder of Oculus VR, Palmer Luckey, to have donated in support of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump than for Facebook to have potentially engaged in fraudulently inflating its average video viewing times for the last two years.
The supposedly blockbuster $2.6 billion Wells Fargo class action lawsuit does not look legally compelling and it is doubtful that a one-lawyer law firm can successfully handle such a huge case.
Despite California’s Obamacare premium costs spiking 13.2 percent next year, the state’s insurance commissioner said he supports a public option at the state level that could bolster competition and potentially serve as a test for the controversial idea nationwide.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will officially launch “Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species” on Tuesday, September 27, when gives a keynote speech at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced this week that their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will fund a $3 billion effort to cure all diseases.
All 3.5 million Puerto Ricans residents were without power for a second day Thursday following a fire at the grossly inefficient and allegedly corrupt government-owned electrical utility.
As a British artillery barrage on the Western Front subsided on September 15, 2016, the German Army was shocked by the emergence from the smoke and fog of the first tank.
Showtime is set to release an exposé that accuses eccentric anti-virus pioneer John McAfee of rape and murder, titled Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee.
Any media pundit who doubted Donald Trump could win the presidency and “build a wall” should have been watching the Mexican peso’s relentless 30 percent exchange rate decline since Trump began his campaign on June 16, 2015.
