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California’s Gig Worker Law Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules

California’s Gig Worker Law Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules

A California law that ensures many gig workers are considered independent contractors, while affording them some limited benefits, is unconstitutional and unenforceable, a California Superior Court judge ruled Friday evening. The decision is not likely to immediately affect the new law and is certain to face appeals from Uber and other so-called gig economy companies. […]

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California’s self-driving car reports are public. Here’s what they don’t mean.

California’s self-driving car reports are public. Here’s what they don’t mean.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles released its annual cache of autonomous vehicle testing and disengagements data that, depending how one chooses to interpret the data, shows stunning progress or stagnation. The data, which every company testing autonomous vehicles on public roads in California must submit, tells a winding and sometimes contradictory tale of growth,

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California’s New Quake-alert App Could Protect You From Injury or Worse

A couple of powerful earthquakes in Southern California in July came just a few months before this week’s 30th anniversary of the catastrophic San Francisco Bay tremor that killed more than 60 people. The two quakes were a sobering reminder of scientists’ predictions of another major tremor hitting the region within the next 30 years.

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Study: California’s big July quakes strain major fault

The earthquakes that hammered the Southern California desert near the town of Ridgecrest last summer involved ruptures on a web of interconnected faults and increased strain on a major nearby fault that has begun to slowly move, according to a new study. Ruptures in the Ridgecrest earthquake sequence ended a few miles from the Garlock

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California’s Power Outages Are About Wildfires—But Also Money

The red wind started to blow again this week—hot, dry gusts up to 75 miles per hour in some parts of Northern California. Usually, their arrival means wildfires are on the way, a recurring threat to life and property thanks to climate change and urban sprawl. This time was a little different, though. As The

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California’s PG&E power outage means Tesla owners struggle to recharge

“A utility company in your area announced they may turn off power in some areas of Northern California beginning October 9 as part of public safety power shut-offs, which may affect power to charging options,” the message read, according to social media posts. “We recommend charging your Tesla to 100% today to ensure your drive

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Five things you need to know about the CCPA, California’s GDPR-like law – Econsultancy

In less than five months on January 1, 2020, a landmark consumer privacy law will go into effect in California. The California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, has been likened to the GDPR and is similar to the sweeping EU law, at least in spirit. The CCPA is important because California is the world’s largest

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Your column here – Restaurants have reservations about California’s data privacy law

The English writer Virginia Woolf famously said, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”But while that’s the core belief of most chefs, restauranteurs, and food lovers, it is beginning to feel that the California Legislature disagrees.From the war on plastic to limiting kids’ drinks to minimum wage raises

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California’s latest gold rush – Google and Intel dig in to tap the AI business market seam

It’s become a business axiom that in a gold rush, the real money isn’t made by digging for ore, but by selling picks, shovels and supplies to the miners. How appropriate then that the truism has its origins in the original California Gold Rush, one that often left miners destitute and bitter even is at

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