All posts tagged "california"
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516SocialCan It Be Stopped? California Gigafire May Be Just the Beginning
Things are getting dire in California. There, wildfires have passed a major threshold, turning them into something researchers are calling “a gigafire”....
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5.7KSecurityPrivate Firefighters, Sought After by Desperate Californians
The wildfires tearing apart California are far from being over. As two other fires burned, the Getty Fire broke out at the...
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1.1KMiscCalifornia Will Launch Earthquake Warning App
Earthquakes travel fast: back in 1989 when the Santa Cruz earthquake gathered its forces, it traveled to San Jose in about 20...
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4.0KFutureWildfires Could Be Stopped in Their Tracks With This Gel
Californians have had a wild, rough year. California was plagued by wildfires in 2019, with an estimated 160,000 burned acres. The latest...
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6.2KVehiclesWaymo Robotaxi Pilot Program Transported Thousands of Passengers During Its First Month
Waymo received its permit to participate in the Drivered Autonomous Vehicle Passenger Service Pilot program back in July and though the pilot...
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4.1KSecurityFacial Recognition System Misidentifies 26 Lawmakers as Criminals
The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union of California), who is not at all fond of facial recognition and aims to ban it...
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1.6KSecurityFacebook Office Possibly Targeted With Sarin Gas
Monday saw a flurry of emergency hazmat crews taking over a Facebook mailing facility in Menlo Park, California after a machine alerted...
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1.2KMiscCalifornia Town That Burned To The Ground Is Now Rebuilding, With High-Tech Solutions
Natural disasters are difficult to get back up from, that goes without saying and such was the case with the fire that...
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13.8KSecurityCalifornia Considers Banning Facial Recognition Software on Police Body Cams
Earlier this month, a new legislation that proposes banning law enforcement from using facial recognition technology on Police body cameras has passed...
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1.4KSmart LifeApple Watch Lost In The Ocean For 6 Months Still Works
The story begins with Robert Bainter, who lost his Apple Watch six months ago when he was surfing in Huntington Beach, California....
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2.1KVehiclesApple Electric Car: Company Hires Former Tesla Electric Powertrain Engineer
Back in March, Tesla’s VP of Engineering Michael Schwekutsch announced that he will be leaving the company after 3 and a half...
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2.2KMiscAnother Success For SpaceX: Smooth Falcon 9 Launch and Landing on the West Coast
SpaceX has officially crossed another milestone in the company’s history just hours ago when it landed the Falcon 9 booster in California...
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1.8KVehiclesApple Continues To Expand Its Autonomous Vehicle Fleet In California
According to the California Department of Motor Vehicles (CA DMV), Apple not only continues its notoriously mysterious autonomous vehicle program, but...
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2.1KVehiclesFlying Car BlackFly Is the Newest Leap in Flying Vehicle Technology
Remember the Kitty Hawk Flyer that was unveiled back in June? There seems to be a new contender on the market that...
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2.5KFutureCalifornia Just Made Solar Panels Compulsory
You’re now witnessing a historical moment for clean energy. California became the first state in the U.S. that demands that all new...
