California DMV warns 20 months of records may have been exposed

Posted on 18/02/2021 by Engadget

A ransomware attack on a company called Automatic Funds Transfer Services (AFTS) has had a ripple effect on customers. One of those is the California Department of Motor Vehicles, which has warned drivers in the state about a potential data breach. T...

DOJ drops lawsuit challenging California’s net neutrality law

Posted on 09/02/2021 by Engadget

The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) dropped its lawsuit against California’s net neutrality law on Monday, reports Reuters, foreshadowing the Biden administration’s approach to internet regulation.Acting Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Je...

Baidu secures license for full driverless road tests in California

Posted on 28/01/2021 by Engadget

The California Department of Motor Vehicles has granted Baidu permission to test its autonomous vehicles without a driver behind the wheel. It’s had authority to test its vehicles in California since 2016, but up until now, it could only do so with a...

Gig economy drivers in California sue to overturn Prop 22

Posted on 12/01/2021 by Engadget

Despite passing with a wide 58 to 42 percent margin in November, California’s Proposition 22, which sought to keep gig-economy workers in the state classified as independent contractors, hasn’t become any less controversial. In a filing with the stat...

Massachusetts plans to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035

Posted on 04/01/2021 by Engadget

Back in September, Governor Gavin Newsom announced California would ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035. Massachusetts says it now plans to do the same. As part of the state’s 2050 Decarbonization Roadmap, which was first...

California clears Nuro’s driverless cars to start making commercial deliveries

Posted on 23/12/2020 by Engadget

It was only earlier this year that delivery service Nuro became the second company to get permission to test fully driverless vehicles in California, and now it can claim another milestone. California’s DMV has granted the state’s first Autonomous Ve...

Apple closes stores in California and the UK as COVID-19 cases soar

Posted on 21/12/2020 by Engadget

Apple has closed all 53 stores in California and up to 16 across the UK, Tennessee, Brazil and Mexico due to soaring COVID-19 cases in those regions, the company told the New York Times in a statement. It’s the second major closure of Apple’s retail...

California fines Uber $59 million for not sharing sexual assault case data

Posted on 15/12/2020 by Engadget

Uber has been fined $59 million by California regulators over its refusal to hand over more detailed data from a 2019 report on sexual assault, the Washington Post reports. State regulators have threatened to pull its license if it doesn’t comply wit...

California’s COVID-19 exposure notification app starts rolling out

Posted on 07/12/2020 by Engadget

Starting later this week, people in California will be able to take another step to slow the spread of COVID-19 when the most populous state in the US rolls its own COVID exposure notification app. You’ll be able to enroll in CA Notify starting on Th...

California allows companies to charge for autonomous car rides

Posted on 23/11/2020 by Engadget

One of the most common potential scenarios involving autonomous cars is using them as driverless taxis; both Uber and Lyft have made self-driving cars a big part of their future strategies. The possibility of hopping into a ride without a driver just...

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