Hi-Tech Exhibits Join Farm Animals, Carnival Games At San Mateo County Fair
Tradition is meeting innovation at the San Mateo County Fair this year as it evolves with the times and has added a tech and digital arts section.
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Tradition is meeting innovation at the San Mateo County Fair this year as it evolves with the times and has added a tech and digital arts section.
In what is believed to be a baseball first when it comes to ceremonial first pitches, 13-year-old Nick LeGrande made the toss before the Yankees-Athletics game on Wednesday night from his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, by using a telerobotic pitching machine.
Google said Wednesday that it has discovered and stopped a series of attempts to hack the accounts of tens of thousands of Iranian users in what the company believes is an attempt to influence the country's upcoming election.
Comcast Corp., which provides service to many Bay Area homes and is the nation's largest cable TV provider, is rolling out a new TV platform that does away with the hard drive and saves your TV shows online.
"It's basically a universal way of saying, 'this is a topic'," observed KCBS technology analyst Larry Magid. "I think it's a good way of expanding beyond friends talking with friends. It's now public conversation. I think Facebook realizes that they have to go through somewhat of a transformation."
Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co. are jumping after CEO Meg Whitman reiterated that revenue could grow next fiscal year.
Crisis planning in San Francisco took a new step on Tuesday with the announcement of a partnership between city government and the growing "sharing economy".
Google has purchased online mapping service Waze for in a deal that keeps a potentially valuable tool away from its rivals while gaining technology that could improve the accuracy and usefulness of its own popular navigation system.
Google is asking the Obama administration for permission to disclose more details about the U.S. government's demands for emails and other information that people transmit online.
Apple has been hearing the drumbeat of murmurs that it is yesterday's (albeit very profitable and popular) news for at least a year now. That said, Apple had some tasty innovations at its developer's conference Monday.
Sony broke out the heavy ammunition Monday against Microsoft, announcing its forthcoming PlayStation 4 will cost $399 - $100 less than the competing Xbox One...
The San Francisco Police Department is hailing a decision by Apple to add a new feature making it harder to reactivate a stolen iPhone.
Apple revealed a digital radio service and changes to the software behind iPhones and iPads during a keynote presentation Monday at the company's annual conference for software developers in San Francisco.
Apple unveiled an Internet radio service called iTunes Radio on Monday and said the service will personalize listeners' music based on what they've listened to and what they've purchased on iTunes.
Apple is throwing out most of the real-world graphical cues from its iPhone and iPad software, like the casino-green "felt" of its Game Center app, in what it calls the biggest update since the iPhone's launch in 2007.
