California Alert

California firefighters are using artificial intelligence to help spot wildfires, feeding video from more than 1,000 cameras strategically placed across the state into a machine that alerts first responders when to mobilize. In an example of the potential of the ALERTCalifornia AI program launched last month, a camera spotted a fire that broke out ...

Rescuers in California successfully saved a dog after he ran away from his owner and entered a storm water drain before being swept away. The dog was wearing an AirTag and a conventional ID tag, according to first responders.

A timely mobile alert may have prevented hundreds of thousands of Californians from being plunged into darkness in the middle of a heat wave Tuesday night.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it had closed an investigation into a fatal August 2020 Tesla crash in Saratoga, California, without taking any action.

Google's Android phones on Tuesday started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor nearby, with an alerting feature first rolling out in California, US.

A California teen who had been drugged and kidnapped was rescued by police this week after using Snapchat to alert her friends to her abduction.

A California teen who had been drugged and kidnapped was rescued by police this week after using Snapchat to alert her friends to her abduction.

At the Masonic Cancer Clinic, as part of a pilot program, doctors have begun pairing the sensor - made by a California company called Proteus Digital Health - with a common chemotherapy drug used to treat stage 3 and 4 colorectal cancer patients.

A pair of "bra bandits" were caught stealing $11,000 worth of lingerie from a Victoria's Secret store in Folsom, California, USA. They even managed to run out of the store with their enormous haul after pepper-spraying an employee (don't worry, the employee wasn't hurt). Fortunately, an alert police officer spotted them just as they were making the...

A warning for a massive earthquake off the coast of California was sent 92 years after the actual event happened due to a computer error.

Arun S Kumar is doing pretty well for a 20-year-old. He just visited Facebook's headquarters in California and was paid 32,000 dollars for detecting bugs in a product it offers to small businesses for advertising.

Wildlife experts sounded the alarm Tuesday over a surge in famished sea lions, including many pups, stranded on Californian beaches.

California is battling a surge of measles cases clustered around the famous Disneyland theme park, despite the virus being all but eliminated in the United States, authorities said Thursday.

Mexico put the Baja California peninsula on high alert on Sunday as Hurricane Odile churned towards the popular Los Cabos tourist resorts with swirling 135-mile-per-hour winds.

Six Mexican states were on high alert on Saturday for a strengthening Hurricane Marie, warning that torrential rain could trigger mudslides and cause rivers to break their banks.

California firefighters are using artificial intelligence to help spot wildfires, feeding video from more than 1,000 cameras strategically placed across the state into a machine that alerts first responders when to mobilize. In an example of the potential of the ALERTCalifornia AI program launched last month, a camera spotted a fire that broke out ...

Rescuers in California successfully saved a dog after he ran away from his owner and entered a storm water drain before being swept away. The dog was wearing an AirTag and a conventional ID tag, according to first responders.

A timely mobile alert may have prevented hundreds of thousands of Californians from being plunged into darkness in the middle of a heat wave Tuesday night.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it had closed an investigation into a fatal August 2020 Tesla crash in Saratoga, California, without taking any action.

Google's Android phones on Tuesday started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor nearby, with an alerting feature first rolling out in California, US.

A California teen who had been drugged and kidnapped was rescued by police this week after using Snapchat to alert her friends to her abduction.

A California teen who had been drugged and kidnapped was rescued by police this week after using Snapchat to alert her friends to her abduction.

At the Masonic Cancer Clinic, as part of a pilot program, doctors have begun pairing the sensor - made by a California company called Proteus Digital Health - with a common chemotherapy drug used to treat stage 3 and 4 colorectal cancer patients.

A pair of "bra bandits" were caught stealing $11,000 worth of lingerie from a Victoria's Secret store in Folsom, California, USA. They even managed to run out of the store with their enormous haul after pepper-spraying an employee (don't worry, the employee wasn't hurt). Fortunately, an alert police officer spotted them just as they were making the...

A warning for a massive earthquake off the coast of California was sent 92 years after the actual event happened due to a computer error.

Arun S Kumar is doing pretty well for a 20-year-old. He just visited Facebook's headquarters in California and was paid 32,000 dollars for detecting bugs in a product it offers to small businesses for advertising.

Wildlife experts sounded the alarm Tuesday over a surge in famished sea lions, including many pups, stranded on Californian beaches.

California is battling a surge of measles cases clustered around the famous Disneyland theme park, despite the virus being all but eliminated in the United States, authorities said Thursday.

Mexico put the Baja California peninsula on high alert on Sunday as Hurricane Odile churned towards the popular Los Cabos tourist resorts with swirling 135-mile-per-hour winds.

Six Mexican states were on high alert on Saturday for a strengthening Hurricane Marie, warning that torrential rain could trigger mudslides and cause rivers to break their banks.