All posts tagged "california"
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599FutureCalifornia Governor bans New Fracking Permits Starting in 2024
On Friday, Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California announced his plans of stopping the issue of new fracking permits by 2024, with...
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797Smart LifeNASA’s Airless Tires Are Coming to Bicycles in California
NASA’s rover technology might have been designed for Mars but it’s going to come down to Earth, too. More specifically, in cyclists’...
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1.9KSocialCan 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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6.0KSecurityPrivate 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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1.2KMiscCalifornia 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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4.2KFutureWildfires 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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6.4KVehiclesWaymo 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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4.4KSecurityFacial 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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1.7KSecurityFacebook 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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1.4KMiscCalifornia 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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14.5KSecurityCalifornia 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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1.7KSmart 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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2.5KVehiclesApple 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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2.5KMiscAnother 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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1.9KVehiclesApple 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...
