Joby Aviation's electric air taxi flight simulator landed at San Jose Mineta International Airport, where San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan piloted a successful 10-minute simulated flight on Tuesday, the eve …
Mothers of children who died by suicide or drug overdoses after using Meta's apps condemned the company outside a federal courthouse in Oakland as a trial began over whether Meta built Facebook and In…
More than 20,000 West Oakland residents were exposed to potential air hazards when Radius Recycling caught fire in March, highlighting a toxics pollution loophole in California's budget trailer bill t…
Waymo has received approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service to cover much of California's major urban areas, including cities in Northern …
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Tuesday his administration will no longer fast-track data center construction permits or grant tax exemptions unless projects meet standards including paying full e…
Apple Inc.'s status as an anti-artificial intelligence play has become stock market baggage, with shares falling roughly 10% since a record close on July 28 amid a rotation back into AI winners. The s…
Smiles Day School at Montclair Presbyterian Church in Oakland has closed after more than 40 years of serving as a preschool, citing low enrollment. Parent Stacey Cram said many families offered to pay…
Meta Platforms Inc. goes on trial this week in Oakland, California, over allegations that it built Facebook and Instagram to addict children, concealed the resulting harm, and illegally collected youn…
California Assemblymember Christopher M. Ward (D-San Diego) is pushing AB 2564 to outlaw surveillance pricing, a practice where companies use personal data to set individualized prices, which he says …
President Donald Trump's executive order proposing to break up the combined MMR vaccine into separate shots and reduce the number of childhood vaccines lacks scientific evidence, according to public h…
The U.S. Justice Department is intensifying scrutiny of Stanford University over foreign donations and international student and admissions practices, according to Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Civil…
Waymo received approval from the California Public Utility Commission to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service across the Bay Area, adding Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Marin, Sonoma, and Solano c…
Ferrari's first all-electric vehicle, the Luce, sold for $40 million at a Sotheby's charity auction during Monterey Car Week, making it the most expensive new car ever sold at auction and surpassing t…
U.S. stock indexes hit new highs earlier this month despite Middle East war uncertainty, inflation, and rising bond yields, driven by consumer spending and massive corporate investment in AI, accordin…
Berkeley's City Council voted 7-2 on July 28 to approve a $20 million plan that eliminates 145 of 274 parking spaces on a 1.2-mile stretch of Hopkins Street to make way for bike lanes, a decision that…
Brentwood city officials are working to remove Flock surveillance cameras installed by the Shadow Lakes Homeowners Association on public streets after acknowledging they mistakenly approved the system…
Katie Husher, a former software engineer at Cruise who wrote code for autonomous vehicles, left her job in 2023 to become cellar master at Fogarty Winery in Woodside, California, where she now manages…
A proposed California Senate Bill 1167 and local measures aim to regulate e-bikes in the Bay Area, where a San Jose State University Mineta Transportation Institute study found that 88% of electric bi…
San Jose is considering quadrupling housing density in single-family neighborhoods from eight to 32 units per acre, a change affecting roughly 85% of the city's residential land, as part of a four-yea…
Generative AI is an imitation machine that cannot truly design or invent, argue design experts in an opinion piece. The authors, drawing on a decade of design experimentation with generative systems, …