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Apple is leasing a research and office complex in Sunnyvale, California, as well as additional space, just miles away from its iconic campus in Cupertino.
MercuryNews reports that Apple is conducting a major expansion outside of its hometown, and that thousands of Apple employees could end up working in buildings le... |
13 January 2012
06:00 GMT |
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Apple is erecting a new retail outlet just a block away from its existing Palo Alto store using trademark glass-stone-and-steel in a 15,000 square foot location.Plans for the new “prototype” store were reportedly filed earlier this month. Palo Alto planning manager Steven Turner said: "It's a very un... |
23 December 2011
04:01 GMT |
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California spares no efforts to make sure that increased air quality would become a key element in a sustainable future. Its main priority is to decrease the amount of greenhouse gas emissions triggered by transportation.
New regulations seem to boost the market of electric vehicles. To do so, the California Air Re... |
16 December 2011
02:50 GMT |
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Most of the auto companies are aware that new projects have to focus on sustainability and green improvements to please a larger segment of clients.
Even though a 2018 deadline is still far away, Mazda is ready to reveal its ambitious goal. It seems that the enterprise will be ready to launch a new electric vehicle... |
15 December 2011
09:53 GMT |
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Despite the government's lack of commitments in developing new methods of implementing renewable power and all the mystery which surrounds the feed-in tariffs on the market of solar panel, California has managed to overcome all the bumps in the road and has announced that its overall solar installations have rea... |
12 November 2011
05:14 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and a number of universities has recently completed a new study of how global warming and climate change will affect the interconnected San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (the Bay-Delta system).
The research was meant to model w... |
3 November 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Months after having the pleasure of meeting Steve Jobs in person to discuss the feasibility of a spaceship-style ‘Apple Campus 2’, the City of Cupertino is paying a tribute to the late Apple co-founder. According to a post on cupertino.org, a City Council meeting was adjourned in memory of Steve Jobs on ... |
21 October 2011
08:44 GMT |
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Southern California Linux Expo will host this year, for the very first time, the SCALE Kids Conference, a free and open source event where the important people in this field will be able to spot talented kids and get a glimpse of their ideas. The goal of the conference is to be as "kid driven" as possible. SCALE Kids... |
19 October 2011
05:22 GMT |
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Apple’s late Steve Jobs was laid to rest in the Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, California, Friday afternoon, according to a new report. Cupertino disclosed as little information as necessary on October 5 when Jobs had passed away, saying only that the company had lost its visionary and that a celebratio... |
12 October 2011
02:44 GMT |
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Investigators at the Brown University announce that they've recently finished compiling a detailed map of how the lithosphere is set up underneath southern California. The lithosphere is made up of Earth's solid crust and parts of its upper mantle, and includes all tectonic plates.
What geologists at the... |
7 October 2011
16:01 GMT |
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has recently announced it has finalized several loan guarantees that are meant to support the development of solar power projects in the State of California.Taken separately, a $1.237 billion (€908 million) loan guarantee to support the California Valley Solar Ranch Project, s... |
3 October 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Experts at the University of California in Merced (UCM) and the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) announce the creation of a prototype wireless monitoring installation in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The grid keeps an eye on the amount of snow and ice available at these locations.Water is the most precious r... |
2 August 2011
05:07 GMT |
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The Entertainment Software Association has announced that it has filed a motion with the United States Supreme Court asking it to award the organization 1.1 million dollars, representing legal fees that it was forced to pay to attorneys in order to win the recent case about video game violence and the First Amendment... |
26 July 2011
08:13 GMT |
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In the wake of the Supreme Court decision that declared the California law that criminalized violent game sales to minors was unconstitutional it seems that other states to pass similar bills at the state level are being abandoned, with reports from Utah saying that a California-like bill was dropped by the represent... |
30 June 2011
13:41 GMT |
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California Senator Leland Yee, the main sponsor of the law that sought to ban the sale of violent video games to children, has reacted to the decision of the United States Supreme Court to declare the law unconstitutional, saying that he regrets the ruling and that he plans to reintroduce legislation that would have ... |
29 June 2011
05:13 GMT |
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The whole gaming industry, from developers to publishers or organizations like the ESA, EMA or ESRB, have saluted yesterday's Supreme Court decision against a proposed law project that would've made selling violent games a crime.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the proposition of the state of Califo... |
28 June 2011
16:51 GMT |
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The Supreme Court of the United States of America has just passed a ruling in the ongoing debate over violent games, and rejected the proposal of the State of California that wanted to make the act of selling violent video games to children a crime.
The debate over how violent games affect players has been raging ... |
27 June 2011
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Recent investigations conducted on a patch of desert in southern California revealed the existence of four types of sand dunes in the large erg called the Algodones Dunes. The fact that such a heterogeneous amalgamation of features exist in a relatively small space puzzles geologists.
The presence of the erg itsel... |
28 May 2011
06:05 GMT |
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California State Senator Alan Lowenthal introduced a bill sponsored by Consumer Watchdog which calls on the California attorney general to adopt regulations that would force Internet companies to respect Do-Not-Track browser options.The issue of browser tracking for the purpose of behavioral advertising has been much... |
6 April 2011
02:33 GMT |
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The results of a new scientific survey on smoking habits in California and the United States show that the number of heavy smokers has declined dramatically since 1965. For the purpose of this poll, heavy smoking was defined as lighting up more than 20 cigarettes per day.This investigation was primarily conducted in ... |
17 March 2011
04:36 GMT |
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Early in 2010, a massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 struck Chile. The tectonic event may have in the end triggered a large number of tremors as far away as California, thousands of miles north. The tremors it caused were however of a significantly lower magnitude. The Chile event was so powerful that it moved cities... |
2 February 2011
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Newly-discovered evidence show that, once every 100 to 300 years, a major megastorm hits the portion of the United States West Coast that now makes up California. The damages this natural event causes are widespread, and its effects if it were to hit today would be catastrophic.According to simulations of what would ... |
24 January 2011
04:48 GMT |
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Activision is continuing its tirade against California's anti violent video game law, which reached the table of the Supreme Court at the end of last year, and also criticized the fact that media and lawmakers point to games like Postal, as examples of violence.
Activision Blizzard vice president and chief po... |
4 January 2011
02:40 GMT |
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This April, a 7.2-magnitude El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake struck Mexico and the American Southwest, in what was one of the largest tremors to hit the area in more than a century. Studies of the event now indicate that the quake may have boosted seismic risks for Southern California.
At this point, the area is at ris... |
17 December 2010
02:39 GMT |
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An underwater robot that can follow marine organisms over record distances and can function in the ocean for months in a row, will allows scientists to study life in the open ocean.The new robot, called the Tethys, carried out its first experiments last month, spending nearly one week at a time in California's M... |
1 November 2010
09:41 GMT |
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A new species of sea slug was discovered in Carpinteria State Park, California, by Jeff Goddard, a project scientists at the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara.This new discovery also proves that people should be more careful and more observing of what lives around them, as you never know what you may find,... |
23 September 2010
09:47 GMT |
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The most successful video game company in the world, Activision Blizzard, has announced that it will join other companies and support games in front of California's new violent video game law that aims to restrict the sales of such titles.After yesterday's letter of support sent by reputed comics writer Sta... |
22 September 2010
14:21 GMT |
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Famous comics writer Stan Lee, the creator of such characters like Spider-Man or Wolverine, has written a special letter, designed to support video games in face of California's new law, designed to limit access to violent titles.As you all know, California is once again trying to crack down on violent video gam... |
21 September 2010
15:51 GMT |
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New studies of the infamous San Andreas fault line have revealed that the structure is a lot more active than thought, producing large earthquakes as often as every 45 to 144 years.The team behind the research bases its conclusions on a chart depicting the intensity and number of tremors that took place in the Fault ... |
21 August 2010
04:48 GMT |
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A new study carried out by the University of California, San Francisco, concluded that obesity rates have started declining and stabilizing for many teenagers but there are still some racial and ethnic minorities that have increasing weight problems.Kristine Madsen, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of pediatrics at UC... |
16 August 2010
05:57 GMT |
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Scientists with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that their latest investigations of the border areas between Mexico and the United States show that the planet's crust is still deforming in the area. They say that this is a direct consequence of the 7.2-magnitude earthq... |
6 August 2010
04:31 GMT |
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California State Senator Leland Yee has recently submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States a new set of arguments for the controversial law that would ban the sale of age restricted video games to minors. The Supreme Court is set to provide a ruling in the case of Schwarzenegger versus Entertainment Merchan... |
14 July 2010
04:57 GMT |
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The United States Supreme Court is currently considering a case related to a California law, which would ban the sale of violent videogames to customers who are under 18 while providing for significant punishment for those who break its provisions.Lower courts have already said that the law is unconstitutional becaus... |
6 May 2010
13:41 GMT |
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The United States Supreme Court has decided to take on a case linked to the violent videogames bill, which has been enacted in the state of California. The law was supported by state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and it would make it illegal for shops to sell videogames considered violent to those buyers who are und... |
28 April 2010
14:21 GMT |
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Marine researchers are perfectly aware of the fact that the world's oceans have only revealed a minute part of their secrets thus far. Immense swaths of ocean floor are still not mapped, and only superficially studied, as the sheer size of the water-covered areas makes thorough surveys difficult. Still, from tim... |
26 April 2010
02:34 GMT |
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According to a new scientific investigation, the amount of fog surrounding redwoods in California, on the West Coast of the United States, has been declining steadily for the past century. The new data, which were obtained from the US National Climate Data Center, paint a bleak future for these trees. They are very b... |
16 February 2010
05:03 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless announced recently that it made significant enhancements to its 3G network in California, and that it invested around $485 million in its airwaves in the area during 2009. According to the company, the enhancements it brought to the 3G network in the area are expected to result ... |
11 February 2010
14:11 GMT |
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The effects of global warming are beginning to make themselves felt more and more at locations around the world, and the continental United States are no exception. Recent satellite measurements have determined that the surface temperature of lakes in California and Nevada is spiraling out of control, mostly due to h... |
22 December 2009
05:46 GMT |
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According to experts at the American space agency, the main aquifers in California, and the Sierra Nevada mountains have lost enough freshwater since 2003 to fill Lake Mead, which is the largest water reservoir in the United States. The study also reveals that, unless steps to mitigate these phenomena are taken quick... |
16 December 2009
19:11 GMT |
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The state of California is about to make history in a few weeks, when it will become the first ever to introduce the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) all over its territory. Starting January 1, 2010, the state will have the necessary means to force all of the fuel suppliers on its territory to abide by the new laws, i... |
24 November 2009
20:01 GMT |
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For California, heat waves are nothing new. The state is constantly bathed by the sun, and benefits from an arid and hot climate. But, from time to time, massive heat waves come over it, such as the one in 2006, which killed 600 people, 5,000 cattle and 70,000 poultry in one swift blow. This all happened between mid ... |
26 August 2009
09:48 GMT |
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Naturalists have managed to finally rediscover a species of extremely rare and endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs, which were last spotted some half a century ago in California. Scientists from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the San Diego Natural History Museum discovered the elusive amphibians ... |
27 July 2009
03:35 GMT |
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At the moment, California, a rather cash-strapped state, is spending quite a lot of money to mount a Supreme Court challenge related to a videogame law aiming at restricting sales of violent titles. The law was overturned twice, judged to be unconstitutional, but the State of California seems to be determined to figh... |
1 July 2009
13:21 GMT |
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As further evidence of the fact that the US healthcare system needs a thorough reform, a new study recently published in the journal Medical Care shows that nearly one million Californian residents sought professional medical healthcare in Mexico in 2001, preferring the so-called “lower standards” to thei... |
27 May 2009
06:31 GMT |
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California has decided to go to the United States Supreme Court regarding a law aimed at limiting the sale of videogames to kids under the age of 18. The law was initially put together and signed in 2005 and has since been struck down repeatedly by courts that decided it was not in agreement with the Constitution of ... |
21 May 2009
05:03 GMT |
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As announced yesterday, the Obama administration has made public its new federal requirements for the automotive industry, as well as the new goals of the fight against pollution and global warming. Surrounded by representatives of the automotive industry, environmentalists, and top members of the Congress, the presi... |
20 May 2009
20:51 GMT |
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According to sources close to the US President, Barack Obama will announce today a new set of limits concerning vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, as well as new carbon limits for America, in a move that is without precedent in the history of the country. The new limitations will be applied nationwide, at a federal le... |
19 May 2009
08:40 GMT |
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California took a giant leap forward on Thursday, when it became the first state in the world to impose regulations on gasoline and other fuels, with the purpose of reducing the environmental impact that they had. The move will force the market to look for cleaner alternatives, and has the potential to encourage inno... |
24 April 2009
09:30 GMT |
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When the government of the United States of America becomes interested in taking over some aspects of the banks that have generated the recession, a lot of people scream “socialism.”What will they say when they see that a Californian representative aims to restrict the amount of time that someone can spen... |
15 April 2009
05:46 GMT |
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The University of California in Berkeley (UCB) is now finally linked to the state's only underwater seismic station, via a 32-mile underwater cable that has just recently been deposited on the ocean floor. Finally, the Californian seismic sensor network is centralized, with UCB receiving signals from West of the... |
23 March 2009
07:40 GMT |
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