California

Ahem! Uber, Lyft etc: California Supremes just shook your gig economy with contractor ruling

Now it's a little more tricky to claim a worker isn't a staffer

Legal01 May 2018 | 50

America's states try to restart net neutrality – with very mixed results

Alaska and California moving forward, Colorado not so much

Legal25 Apr 2018 | 11

Super Cali health inspectors: Tesla blood awoke us

Updated Probe to see if Musk was up to something quite atrocious

On-Prem18 Apr 2018 | 42

Net neutrality advocates freak out as lobbyists pull rug from California's draft net neutrality law

Legislation 'could have been written by AT&T and Comcast'

Networks16 Apr 2018 | 21

Super Cali's frickin' whiz kids no longer oppose us: Even though Facebook thought info law was quite atrocious

Zuck & Co end fight against California's privacy legislation

Legal12 Apr 2018 | 19

Super Cali goes ballistic, Starbucks is on notice: Expensive milky coffee is something quite cancerous

Even now your java kills you – man, these rules are bogus

Bootnotes30 Mar 2018 | 87

Super Cali neutral traffic bill makes web throttling bogus

State won't work with those whose conduct is atrocious

Networks14 Mar 2018 | 25

Got some broken tech? Super Cali's trinket fix-it law brought into focus

Right to Repair Act just in case your phone becomes atrocious

Legal08 Mar 2018 | 70

Super Cali's unrealistic net neutrality process – even though the sound of it is something quite... ferocious

Why draft law won't be enough to protect state's internet

Personal Tech01 Feb 2018 | 24

California Senate OKs net neutrality law, gives FCC cold hard long stare

F U FCC say lawmakers as bill passes to Assembly

Networks30 Jan 2018 | 28

Bulletproof Coffee lacks bulletproof security: Nerd brain juice biz hacked, cards gulped

Buttered beverage second-nastiest thing on upstart's site

Security27 Nov 2017 | 21

If you say it loud enough, Uber will sound atrocious: Super Cali juristic discrimination process

Biz sued for allegedly screwing over women, people of color

On-Prem26 Oct 2017 | 21

Super Cali goes ballistic, small-cell law is bogus. School IT outsourcing is also... quite atrocious

So much for only one Super Cali headline per month

Legal16 Oct 2017 | 23

Super Cali's futuristic robo-cars in focus – even though watchdogs say they're something quite atrocious

DMV paves way for human-free fully autonomous vehicles

AI + ML11 Oct 2017 | 37

Beach, please... Billionaire VC finally opens way to waves

Vinod Khosla responds to the only thing he knows: money

Bootnotes05 Oct 2017 | 34

Super Cali goes ballistic, Gatorade app is bogus: Even the sound of it is something quite atrocious

And who's going to stand up for the Arnold Palmer?

Applications22 Sep 2017 | 22

Totally uncool California bureaucrats shoot down drone weed delivery

Regulators harshing the buzz

Legal11 Sep 2017 | 18

Uber bros pull out wallet, $32.5m later the 'Safe Rides' row is over

Dial-a-ride biz settles Cali background checks lawsuit

Science05 Jun 2017 | 8

Super Cali goes ballistic, Uber drivers are stocious (allegedly!)

Updated This app maker's policies are something quite atrocious

Personal Tech14 Apr 2017 | 28

Overcharge customers, underpay the serfs. Who else but Uber (allegedly)

App has been short-changing drivers, new lawsuit claims

On-Prem07 Apr 2017 | 37

Climate change bust up: We'll launch our own damn satellites if Trump pulls plug – Gov Brown

Super Cali goes ballistic over claims global warming's bogus

Science14 Dec 2016 | 153

Super Cali: Be realistic, 'autopilot' is bogus – even though the sound of it is something quite precocious

It's just fancy cruise control

Personal Tech03 Oct 2016 | 44

Super Cali goes ballistic, IT school is hopeless: Tech boot camp ITT frozen by edu officials

Doubts linger over for-profit US-wide college's finances

On-Prem30 Aug 2016 | 16

Apple sued over shoddy iPhone touchscreens

Class action accuses Cupertino of ignoring handset defect

Personal Tech29 Aug 2016 | 23

Both HPs allegedly axed people just for being old, California court told

Class-action lawsuit accuses IT giants of age discrimination in layoffs

Channel25 Aug 2016 | 42

California to put all your power-hungry PCs on a low carb(on) diet

Hippy Golden State would be first to limit machines sold within its borders

Personal Tech04 Aug 2016 | 79

Engine warning light appears on Uber's $100m driver settlement

It's Friday and we've hit rock-bottom on the car puns, people

Legal04 Jun 2016 | 30

The Schmidt's hit by the fan: Alphabet investor sues Google bigwigs over EU antitrust ruckus

Well, he was a fan until a $3.3bn fine loomed

Legal26 May 2016 | 25

Six weeks later, Verizon customers still bemoaning Frontier flubs

Frustration grows over lingering connection issues

Networks16 May 2016 | 8

Engineer uses binary on voting bumpf to flag up Cali election flaws

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Legal02 May 2016 | 65

East Coast: Verizon on the hook for landline hikes. West Coast: AT&T denies hooking $100m for 10Mbps broadband

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am stuck...

Networks29 Mar 2016 | 15

California methane well leak filled a Rose Bowl a day

Phys.org adopts stadium gas volume standard

Bootnotes26 Feb 2016 | 32

Human cost of California gas well leak revealed

Refugees would fill 176 double-decker buses, BBC explains

Science12 Jan 2016 | 31

Judge adds new army to Uber driver suit

Opens door for more plaintiffs in class action case

On-Prem10 Dec 2015 | 10

Verizon, the final Frontier: Landlines, TV, ISP biz to explore strange new worlds

$10.5bn buyout in three US states clears final hurdle

Networks04 Dec 2015 | 4

Cops must get a warrant before raiding phones, email, etc (in California)

Super Cali: Be realistic, get a wa– ah, screw it

Legal09 Oct 2015 | 20

Happy birthday to you, the ruling was true, no charge for this headline, 'coz the copyright's screwed

Warner – boo hoo

Legal23 Sep 2015 | 50

DRIVERLESS cars: Apple ups the ante with meeting in California

Crash of the Titans unlikely – there's actually a DRIVER in there

Personal Tech21 Sep 2015 | 18

Anti-peeping-tom drone law nixed in California

Super Cali's Governor Brown something, something ... ah screw it

Legal11 Sep 2015 | 50

Super Cali grabs its big stick, beats Uber 'cos it's odious

Mislabeling your employees was something quite atrocious

Applications10 Sep 2015 | 10

Judge flips class-action switch on Uber drivers' lawsuit against cab biz

All 160,000 can stand in claim over tips, says beak

Legal02 Sep 2015 | 15

Disaster-gawping cam drones to be blasted out of the sky in California

Firefighters, cops etc should take down flying gizmos without fear of lawsuits, say politicos

Legal22 Jul 2015 | 71

Americans find fantastic new use for drones – interfering with firefighting

Please move, so we can dump this water. In your own time

Legal20 Jul 2015 | 37

Uber to drivers: You make a ton of dosh for us – but that doesn't make you employees

Super Cali court suspicious of Uber's hocus-pocus

On-Prem10 Jul 2015 | 44

Samsung offers $90,000 if you can fix California's epic drought with tech

IoT World 2015 But there's a catch: you have to use Samsung's Artik kit to win

SaaS13 May 2015 | 25

Jeez, AT&T. Billing a pensioner $24,000 for dialup is pretty low

83-yr-old AOL subscriber panics when stupid bill hits mat

On-Prem29 Apr 2015 | 19

A Brit in California moves to the Lone Star State – just swerve the TexMex grub

The eXpat Files And don't do politics with the locals

On-Prem08 Mar 2015 | 39

Elon Musk plans to plonk urban Hyperloop subsonic tube on California

Construction to begin in 2016, apparently

On-Prem28 Feb 2015 | 66

California mulls law to protect your e-privates from warrant-free cops

You wanna see my iPhone, officer? Go ask a judge

Legal10 Feb 2015 | 12

Bloke, 36, in the cooler for leaking ex's topless pics on Facebook

Scumbag jailed for a year in California revenge porn first

Legal02 Dec 2014 | 40

Super Cali goes ballistic, Uber Pool is bogus: Ride sharing biz is illegal in the state, says regulator

Want to car pool commerically? Get a license

Legal13 Sep 2014 | 23

California blue whale numbers soar to historical levels, say boffins

Still far too many of them being struck by US ships, mind

Science07 Sep 2014 | 27

Super Cali signs a kill-switch, campaigners say it's atrocious

Remote-death button bad news for crooks, protesters – and great news for hackers?

Legal26 Aug 2014 | 43

Pedals and wheel in that Google robo-car or it's off the road – Cali DMV

And insists on $5 million insurance per motor against accidents

Science22 Aug 2014 | 47

America's hot and cold spots for broadband revealed in new map

Pic Virginia is for lovers ... of faster internet

Networks08 Aug 2014 | 41

Super Cali optimistic cloud is now a focus – even though the sound of it is something quite

... Precocious?

Storage25 Jul 2014 | 11