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City officials accused the company of repeatedly allowing scooters to operate in restricted areas above the speed limit. Lime officials said the company had already addressed the issues as the result of a warning letter from the city last month.

Heavy-duty vehicles produce more particulate matter than all of California's power plants combined and can cause or worsen asthma and other health problems.

The state's largest county will use technology to offer voters an array of choices when they head to the polls in next year's early presidential primary.

The San Jose company — which does millions of dollars in business annually with the state — said in a July 30 filing with the state's Employment Development Department that it would cut 397 jobs at its corporate headquarters, as well as 91 jobs in Milpitas.

About 1 in 5 legislators was erroneously matched to a person who had been arrested when the ACLU used the software to screen their pictures against a database of 25,000 publicly available booking photos. Last year, in a similar experiment done with photos of members of Congress, the software erroneously matched 28 federal legislators with mug shots.

New details about an FBI raid last month indicate that federal authorities were conducting a wider investigation than was previously believed.

The Placer County resident will be sentenced this fall, more than a year after two co-conspirators entered guity pleas in the case.

Olli will be driving under 5 mph, but has the capability to drive up to 25 mph. The shuttles can comfortably seat eight people, and each vehicle is accompanied by an attendant who oversees its autonomous operations with the ability to take over manual control or pull an emergency brake.

Marin County officials are planning how they will provide services, in the event power is disrupted to avoid wildfires.

The possible incident — a third-party vendor is still looking into whether cyberthieves gained access to any protected information — may have hit the health benefits program the county runs on behalf of its employees, according to a county government spokeswoman.

The agency's use of the technology has helped it in investigations but prompted a call from the American Civil Liberties Union for better oversight.

Following the breach, the city hired security experts and a legal team to conduct a series of forensic audits. Technicians were able to trace information included in the malware's code and concluded that public information was not compromised as a result of the ransomware attack.

City officials were concerned that the entire database was compromised and quickly began notifying job applicants, who had logged on to a website for updates during the lengthy process of becoming a police officer.

Gavin Newsom once said that any governor who couldn't fix the Department of Motor Vehicles should be recalled. Those words may come back to haunt him now that he's governor.

City officials touted the new rules as among the strongest in the nation, predicting they will protect neighborhoods from poorly designed cell antenna installations that damage community character and aesthetics. Industry leaders expressed unenthusiastic acceptance of the city's decision to take an aggressive approach.

The Stockton Police Department's newest tool weighs more than 3,600 pounds, can reach speeds up to 155 mph and comes with an equally cool-sounding name: Falcon One-Zero.

California's Office of Emergency Services said 341 cell sites were offline during the October 2017 wildfires and 489 cell sites were down during the Camp and Woolsey fires last year, preventing wireless users in those areas from being able to call 911, receive an emergency alert or use their cellphones to find the safest evacuation route.

Community leaders are praising the city for striving to limit visual impacts and keeping the new antennas as unobtrusive as possible, despite the industry needing significantly more antennas to support the new 5G network.

The Oakland City Council's approval Tuesday, of a policy prohibiting use by the city of facial recognition technology, places it in a small vanguard of like-minded municipalities.

"The 'Cradle to Career Data System' was enacted as part of a budget trailer bill, negotiated essentially in secret and presented to lawmakers as a done deal for an up-or-down vote. Whose idea was this?"

“We want you to see the alert and immediately drop, cover and hold on. If you see 30 of those a day, you're either going to get incredible muscle tone and a core workout, or you're going to stop reacting altogether.”

"We're not ignoring the health concerns, but we can't regulate it; the federal government does that. I think we kind of hit the sweet spot because we've got both sides saying postpone this thing."

Waymo's autonomous vehicle program has won an approval from the state that could accelerate its development.

After last week's 6.4 quake, many users were worried the application was not working. People on social media denounced the app as a failure — but in fact, ShakeAlert was functioning normally, as city officials and the United States Geological Survey soon pointed out.