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After Ordering A Lyft In California, This Woman Was Picked Up In A Rickshaw

Does your Lyft driver move so slow sometimes they seem to be traveling on foot? It might just be the case. This...

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Future

California 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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Smart Life

NASA’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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Social

Can 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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Security

Private 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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Misc

California 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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Future

Wildfires 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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Vehicles

Waymo 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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Facial 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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Security

Facebook 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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Misc

California 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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California 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...