There has been a shift in what moves California.

Electric vehicle charging ports now outnumber gas nozzles across the Golden State, a sign of the increasing number of zero-emission vehicles on the road. But the milestone arrives as the federal government has moved to deprioritize the shift away from gasoline-powered cars.

California has ...Read more

A bill coming out of a political fight between the state’s trial lawyers and the ridesharing company Uber was fast-tracked through a Nevada Legislature committee this week.

Assembly Bill 523 would make ridesharing and delivery companies not liable for harm caused by their drivers or passengers — known as vicarious liability — as long as ...Read more

Rivian, known for its large electric trucks, is setting its sights on small and lightweight vehicles.

The Irvine, California-based automaker said Wednesday it's spinning out its micromobility business into a new startup called Also Inc.

Micromobility encompasses a variety of vehicles, including electric bikes, scooters and skateboards.

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A massive pension plan in California alleges UnitedHealth Group has engaged in a wrongful profit-making scheme through its Medicare Advantage business that wasn’t disclosed, allowing top executives to reap millions in stock trades based on nonpublic information, according to an amended lawsuit filed in Minnesota this month.

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PHILADELPHIA -- The owner of Philadelphia’s commercial shipyard is backing a Trump administration proposal that aims to counter China’s dominance in shipbuilding and subsidize domestic industry following decades of declining production.

The Trump administration in February proposed charging Chinese shipping companies and other ocean ...Read more

Gwinnett County, Georgia, officials and community development leaders are working to woo Ukrainian drone makers as they try to make the region a major tech hub.

These efforts were on full display Thursday at an event in Norcross aimed at highlighting drone technologies and ways U.S. and Ukrainian entrepreneurs can collaborate. Though current ...Read more

They call it range anxiety, the fear that an electric vehicle could run out of juice, say somewhere south of Yeehaw Junction on the way to Disney World with three cranky kids aboard.

Such scenarios are one of the big hesitations for many people pondering the purchase of an EV.

Research going on at Florida International University could go a ...Read more

Even for Silicon Valley, the land of multibillion-dollar “unicorn” startups, the launch of 23andMe in 2006 attracted special attention.

Formed to offer genetic testing services directly to consumers, who spit into a receptacle and mailed it to the company for DNA analysis, its founders included Anne Wojcicki, who was married to Google co-...Read more

Startup acquisitions have boomed so far this year, capped by last week’s massive $32 billion deal for cybersecurity startup Wiz — a signal that Silicon Valley is optimistic about the Trump administration’s antitrust policies, and that venture-backed companies may finally have a way to cash out.

There have been 11 startup sales of more ...Read more

Spirit Airlines said Wednesday it is adding 15 nonstop destinations from Detroit Metro Airport.

The new and resuming routes from Detroit are to: Austin, Birmingham, Charleston, Hartford, Louisville, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Norfolk, Phoenix, Punta Cana, Richmond, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Juan and St. Louis. Nine of the routes are new, ...Read more

In early 2020, thousands of drivers — led by Southern California advocacy group Rideshare Drivers United — filed claims with the state against Uber and Lyft. They alleged the companies had illegally treated them as independent contractors and owed them more than $1.3 billion in wages, expenses and damages.

Now, the state is set to begin ...Read more

Elon Musk’s X is on pace for its first year of advertising revenue growth since the billionaire acquired the company in 2022, according to research firm Emarketer — in part because advertisers are reacting to Musk’s power in the Donald Trump administration.

The social network, formerly Twitter, is projected to generate $1.31 billion in U....Read more

Tucked in a former textile-manufacturing section of the Philadelphia's East Falls section, an open warehouse space is home to a paintball-goggle maker, an online glass distributor, a seamstress, and other small-business founders.

It's the two-year-old, newly-expanded Philadelphia center of WareSpace, which is taking the U.S. warehouse boom into...Read more

The fear of long charging times — or finding a safe place to plug in — are major deterrents keeping drivers from buying electric cars.

In the rollback of former President Joe Biden’s climate policies, the Trump administration pumped the breaks on more than $4.7 worth of charging station projects in Miami-Dade and put an end to a plan for ...Read more

23andMe Inc. said Tuesday that it experienced website delays, after a wave of customers sought to delete their genetic data before it can be sold through a planned bankruptcy auction.

A company spokesperson said the site “experienced some issues and delays due to increased traffic” on Monday, in response to Bloomberg News questions about ...Read more

A federal judge has set a trial date in the ongoing criminal fraud case against Boeing stemming from two fatal 737 MAX crashes six years ago.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor on Tuesday set a trial date, potentially changing the course of the prosecution after several months of behind-the-scenes discussions between Boeing and the Justice ...Read more

Senior government officials mistakenly invited the editor in chief of the Atlantic to a group chat on the messaging app Signal, where the focus of conversation was U.S. airstrikes against rebel groups in Yemen. The app’s use by high-ranking national security officials has raised the question: Just how secure is Signal anyway?

On March 11, ...Read more

A federal judge has set a trial date in the criminal fraud case against Boeing, the latest step in the grinding legal process following two fatal 737 MAX crashes six years ago.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor on Tuesday set a trial date, potentially changing the course of the prosecution after several months of behind-the-scenes discussions...Read more

California launched a new statewide online pesticide notification system this week that will warn farmworkers beforehand of upcoming pesticide applications.

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) says its Spray Days California online pesticide notification system is the “first-of its-kind.”

According to the Department of ...Read more