California

25 Oct 23

EXCLUSIVE: Google Founder’s Airship Gets FAA Clearance

Aerospace & Aeronautical

Expect traffic on the 101 highway in Mountain View, California, to be even worse in the days or weeks ahead, as motorists slow down to watch Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s 124-meter long airship Pathfinder 1 launch into the air for the first time.IEEE Spectrum has learned that LTA Research, the…

30 Aug 23

Why Did Apple Endorse California’s Right-to-Repair Bill?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

California’s Senate Bill 244, known as the Right to Repair Act, made headlines last week when Apple publicly expressed its support for it in a letter to the chief sponsor of the proposed legislation, state senator Susan Talamantes Eggman. So what exactly does this bill stipulate, and why did Apple…

20 Sep 22

California’s Proposed Law Could Change the Internet

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Today, for better or worse, the Internet is a rather free range for children. Websites ask their users’ ages, sure. But virtually anyone who came of age around the rise of the Internet can probably relate a time or 20 when they gave a false birthdate.A California law now in…