Category: Santa Clara County, CA

Google escalates self-driving battle with Uber

In this May 13, 2015, file photo, Google’s self-driving Lexus drives along street during a demonstration at Google campus in Mountain View, California A self-driving car company founded by Google is presenting new evidence to support allegations that a former manager stole technology sold to Uber to help the ride-hailing service build its own robot-powered vehicles. Waymo, a project hatched by Google eight years ago, wove its tale of deceit in sworn statements filed on Friday in a San Francisco federal court.

Hedvig Closes $21.5M Funding Round, HPE Invests In The Software-Defined Storage Startup

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has taken an equity stake in yet another storage startup as one of the investors in a $21.5-million round of funding in Hedvig, a developer of software-defined storage technology. The Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform combines block, file, and object storage for bare metal, hypervisor and container environments, with performance that increases as the solution scales.

San Jose: Pedestrian hit by light-rail train off Bascom

The collision was reported about 10:45 a.m. after a pedestrian was reportedly seen crossing the tracks along Southwest Expressway, said Stacey Hendler Ross, spokeswoman for the Valley Transportation Authority. Hendler Ross said warning alarms and lights were activated and flashing, and traffic-crossing arms were down when the person was hit by a Winchester-Mountain View train.

San Jose flood: Rock Springs still ravaged two weeks later

Some areas are recovering faster than others, and the Rock Springs neighborhood that was first to flood will be last to return to normal Rob Souza’s backyard cottage, destroyed by a falling oak tree during the Coyote Creek floods, waits for demolition in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Marie Perry watches from her Rock Springs homeless camp as nearby residents, many now homeless themselves, salvage what they can from their flood-damaged homes in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, March 7, 2017.

Apple Just Can’t Beat its own iPhone

The Apple of today hasn’t yet shown much indication of emulating its co-founder Steve Jobs and his streak of world-changing products, but it’s still proving a tough act to beat. The main reason: Before Jobs died in 2011, he left behind the iPhone — a product with such a devout following that it will likely spin off billions in profit for the foreseeable future.

Making Citizens, Reassembling Devices: On Gender and the Development…

Roughly once a month, small groups of volunteers gather at local museums, libraries, and other public venues to help visitors fix their broken stuff. Designated Repair Cafes, Fixit Clinics, or Fixers Collectives, the organizations bring together contemporary environmentalist concerns with time-honored techniques: disassembling toasters that no longer heat, testing Bluetooth devices without signals, and removing dust from unplayable iPods.

Expedia and Amazon Double Down on Britain

As politicians and businesses wrestle with potential changes to U.K. border controls, one of the world’s largest online travel booking companies has decided to double its headcount in London, and it’s not alone in looking to expand. Expedia Inc. will expand its U.K. office by 138,000 square feet, or to roughly twice the size of its existing space, and has signed a new lease that runs until 2030, according to a company statement.

Can internet-beaming balloons outmaneuver shifting winds?

In doing so, the 4-year-old “Project Loon” says it will be able to bring remote parts of the world online more quickly with a smaller fleet of the balloons than it previously thought. Engineers involved in the eccentric project, a part of the X Lab owned by Google’s corporate parent Alphabet Inc., say they have come up with algorithms that enable the high-flying balloons to do a better job anticipating shifting wind conditions so they hover above masses of land for several months instead of orbiting the earth.

Demisto Raises $20M to Meet Growing Global Demand

Demisto Raises $20M to Meet Growing Global Demand for Automated Incident Response and Security Orchestration — Along with Series B Funding, ClearSky Managing Director Jay Leek Joins Demisto Board of Directors CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 9, 2017 — Demisto, Inc., an innovator in Security Operations technology, today announced that it has closed its $20 million Series B round of funding. As a part of this round, the company also announced the appointment of ClearSky Managing Director Jay Leek to its Board of Directors.

Demisto Raises $20M to Meet Growing Global Demand

Demisto Raises $20M to Meet Growing Global Demand for Automated Incident Response and Security Orchestration — Along with Series B Funding, ClearSky Managing Director Jay Leek Joins Demisto Board of Directors CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 9, 2017 — Demisto, Inc., an innovator in Security Operations technology, today announced that it has closed its $20 million Series B round of funding. As a part of this round, the company also announced the appointment of ClearSky Managing Director Jay Leek to its Board of Directors.

Mojo Networks nabs $30 mln Series E

Mountain View, California-based Mojo Networks , a provider of cloud-managed WiFi solutions, has raised $30 million in Series E funding. The investors included Presidio Partners, Trident Capital, Granite Ventures, North Haven Expansion Credit , a fund sponsored by Morgan Stanley Private Credit & Equity, Walden Riverwood Ventures and Alpha Technologies .

San Jose: Volunteers help homeless brave the winter

Keith Saldivar, 55, right, hugs Emily after she receives blankets and water from the organization Sleeping Bags for the Homeless of Silicon Valley in San Jose, Calif., on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. Saldivar, who was formerly homeless, is helping the organization by distributing food, water, blankets and sleeping bags.

Judge in guards’ murder trial to rule on text messages

Prosecutors in the upcoming trial of three jail guards charged with fatally beating mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree and assaulting another inmate want to introduce text messages that they claim show the guards were motivated by their general contempt of prisoners, and the pleasure they took in seeing them suffer. “This motive is illustrated in the texts found on their phones wherein they express humor and enjoyment at pain or discomfort experienced by the inmates, regardless of who inflicts it,” Braker wrote.

Apple Sales Beat Estimates on Demand for Latest iPhones

Apple Inc. reported quarterly revenue that topped analyst projections, fueled by demand for the company’s latest and priciest iPhones. Apple said sales rose 3.3 percent to $78.4 billion, with earnings of $3.36 a share in the three months through Dec. 31. Analysts forecast profit of $3.22 a share on revenue of $77.3 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

UPDATE 1-AMD posts smaller loss, gives strong forecast on graphic chips demand

Jan 31 Advanced Micro Devices Inc on Tuesday posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss and gave a strong revenue forecast for the current quarter, boosted by demand for its graphic chips used in gaming consoles and a stabilizing PC market. The company’s next hotly awaited release is the new Ryzen processors for PCs, aimed at gamers and others who need a high-performance processor as well as dislodging Intel Corp’s near monopoly.

Google’s New Pixel Smartphone Shines

The Pixel phone, Google’s answer to Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy, is off to a promising start — but might have done even better had Google managed consumer demand as smartly as the device’s sleek design. Although Google hasn’t released sales figures, industry researchers say the Pixel [pictured above] has been a hot item since its October debut was greeted with mostly glowing reviews and the biggest marketing blitz in Google’s 18-year history.

VeloCloud Wins Product of the Year

VeloCloud Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN Named a 2016 SDN Product of the Year Award Winner — VeloCloud Honored for Innovative Use of SDN Technology to Support Network Agility, Scalability and Simplified Branch Implementations while Delivering Superior Access to Services MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 26, 2017 — VeloClouda Networks, Inc., the Cloud-Delivered SD-WANa company, today announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named VeloCloud Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN as a 2016 SDN Product of the Year Award winner.

Sunrun hack nabs employee W-2 tax forms

SunRun installers Will LaRocque and Brandon Anderson install one of 28 Q-Cell panels on a home on Friday, July 15, 2016 in Sunnyvale, California. SunRun installers Will LaRocque and Brandon Anderson install one of 28 Q-Cell panels on a home on Friday, July 15, 2016 in Sunnyvale, California.

Google I/O 2017: When is it, where to watch, and what to expect

Google holds an annual conference for developers, engineers, executives, and the media — so that it can discuss all-things Google and Android-related. Developers and engineers use information from this show to get their apps and products up to date with Google’s latest innovation, while the rest of us drool and look forward to what’s coming in the months ahead.

Santa Clara University receives $100 million to build STEM facility

Santa Clara University plans to build an ambitious new science, technology, engineering and math hub, backed by a record $100 million gift from Susan and John A. Sobrato, an SCU alumnus and founder of one of Silicon Valley’s largest commercial development firms. The elegant new building, outfitted with state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment, could be a game-changer for the private, 165-year-old Jesuit university whose reputation was built on the liberal arts, creating a rare opportunity to link fast-moving technical fields with the school’s long-standing commitment to ethics.

Tintri to Present #DevOps June 6-8 at @CloudExpo | @Tintri #VM #SDN

“We are an all-flash array storage provider but our focus has been on VM-aware storage specifically for virtualized applications,” stated Dhiraj Sehgal of Tintri in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 19th Cloud Expo , held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Updating DevOps to the latest production data slows down your development cycle.

Rising Star Nvidia at CES 2017

For most of its 33 years, Nvidia was best known for building graphics processors that helped computers display high-powered computer games. Now, rising interest in the hardware that powers self-driving cars, artificial intelligence and virtual reality has taken the Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker, little known outside the high-tech industry, to new heights.

Rising Star Nvidia at CES 2017

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San Jose: Work begins on Midtown project with 800 housing units

This rendering shows what the mixed-use project that began construction last month at the corner of Auzerais Avenue and Sunol Street in San Jose will look like. After a decade-long planning process that weathered neighborhood resistance and the economic recession, local developers recently broke ground on the first phase of a large residential mixed-use project in Midtown San Jose.

Stanford scientists see big potential for tiny wires

Assembled with the help of diamondoids, the microscopic nanowires can be seen with the naked eye because the strong mutual attraction between their diamondoid shells makes them clump together, in this case by the millions. At top right, an image made with a scanning electron microscope shows nanowire clusters magnified 10,000 times.

Uncanny Valley Opens Next Month at Pear Theatre

Mixing humor with heartache, the show explores the painful divide between creator and creation, the inherent unpredictability of consciousness, and how we are redefining what it means to be human in the twenty-first century irected by Caroline Clark, previews on January 19. Press and Opening Night is Friday, January 20, followed by a champagne gala. The show runs Thursdays through Sundays, through February 12. All performances are held at the Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View.