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| Oct 9, 2026 | Governor Newsom announces new disaster intelligence satellites, opens modernized State Operations Center as Trump erodes national disaster readiness | New disaster intelligence satellites
Through an agreement with ICEYE, a satellite-imaging company that helps governments assess disaster damage from space, Cal OES is expanding its ability to receive near-real-time information on floods, wi... |
| Oct 8, 2026 | Governor Newsom announces new swiftwater rescue fleet to strengthen California storm preparedness | Each upgraded Type 1 Swiftwater Rescue Team will receive equipment designed to support complex rescue operations, including:
New heavy-duty, four-wheel-drive tow vehicles capable of transporting rescue trailers and specialized equipment dur... |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Governor Newsom announces new disaster intelligence satellites, opens modernized State Operations Center as Trump erodes national disaster readiness | New disaster intelligence satellites
Through an agreement with ICEYE, a satellite-imaging company that helps governments assess disaster damage from space, Cal OES is expanding its ability to receive near-real-time information on floods, wi... |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Brightline West President Steps Down as LA-Vegas Rail Gap Hits $15.5 Billion | By Philip Nickell
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| Jun 26, 2026 | Governor Newsom signs executive order to accelerate new technologies and services for California’s local transit and passenger rail networks throughout the state | At the same time, Trump’s proposed federal budget cuts funding for public transit and clean transportation programs nationwide. Trump’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request would cut federal public transit funding by roughly 23% and passenger ra... |
| Jun 24, 2026 | California’s earthquake warning system notified over one million people ahead of Northern California quake | The earthquake, centered 7.5 miles east of Willits in the Mendocino Range, was felt across wide areas of Northern California just after 8 a.m., including the greater San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento region. Early alerts can provide peo... |
| Jan 18, 2026 | Broncos say their new stadium will be ‘privately financed,’ but ‘private’ often still means hundreds of millions in public resources (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Geoffrey Propheter
The Denver Broncos announced in early September 2025 their plan to build a privately financed football stadium. The proposal received a lot of attention and praise.
Across the... |
| Jul 28, 2025 | South Africa: Smart Cities Start With People, Not Technology - Lessons From Westbury, Johannesburg | African cities are growing at an incredible pace. With this growth comes a mix of opportunity and challenge. How do we build cities that are not only smart but also fair, inclusive and resilient?
A smart city uses digital tools such as sens... |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Когда сказать «стоп» инновациям: разбор провальных кейсов мировых гигантов | Всем привет! Это Александр Бондаренко, CPO в Garage Eight. Моя вторая часть статьи про развитие продукта при помощи улучшений и инноваций (часть 1 здесь). Она посвящена ТОП-13 худшим инновациям. На реальных примерах показываю, как качествен... |
| Jul 13, 2024 | Hayden AI Secures $90 Million Funding to Transform Public Transit Efficiency | In a groundbreaking move, Hayden AI Technologies Inc., an artificial intelligence startup, has successfully closed a substantial $90 million round of growth equity financing. This significant funding injection is set to propel the expansion... |
| Jul 10, 2024 | Vision AI startup Hayden AI raises $90M to boost public transit efficiency
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| Jun 17, 2024 | Seattleites are driving less | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Driving has fallen dramatically in Washington over the last few decades, and Seattle has the second-fewest miles driven among large U.S. cities, according to recent t... |
| Sep 27, 2023 | Can Bird’s Spin acquisition give it the lift it needs? | It’s been over a year since shared micromobility startup Bird warned shareholders that it might get delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. On Monday, that warning became a reality.
The news comes about a week after Bird closed a deal to... |
| Sep 3, 2023 | Google brings that cheap flight data and the feds investigate Elon’s glass house | Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Kirsten is away, so I’ll be your host this week.
It’s been another week of probes into Tesla that ap... |
| Jul 28, 2023 | Cities' heat solutions are mainly Band-Aids | Public awareness campaigns, mobile cooling stations, subsidized air conditioners: Cities are taking lots of steps to address this summer's record-breaking heat, but they're largely short-term Band-Aids.
Why it matters: Conventional heat rem... |
| Jul 16, 2023 | VanMoof skids off track, another mobility startup goes SPAC and e-bike batteries catch fire | Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Your usual host Kirsten Korosec is off having a glorious vacation, so I will be doing the roundup th... |
| May 8, 2023 | Waymo doubles its robotaxi footprint, Joby lands $180M and the latest sign generative AI has reached peak hype | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.
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| Mar 23, 2023 | Breaking the ‘urban doom loop’: The future of downtowns is shared prosperity | In 2019, the skylines of many American downtowns were sparkling with new construction. Hudson Yards in New York, the Frost Tower in San Antonio, San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower, the futuristic Amazon Spheres and surrounding towers in Seatt... |
| Feb 24, 2023 | Inside California's tiny-home takeover
Dire shortage
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A tiny-home gold rush | Redeem now
At least 63,456 tiny homes have been built in California backyards between 2018 and 2021.
A mini boom in accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, followed legislation promoting them.
For the state with the most dire housing shortage, t... |
| Dec 8, 2022 | How we can future-proof micromobility | Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. Watch now.
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The shared micromobility industry is en... |
| Dec 6, 2022 | The 'office apocalypse' is upon us | Deserted downtowns have been haunting US cities since the beginning of the pandemic.
Before the pandemic, 95% of offices were occupied. Today that number is closer to 47%. Employees' not returning to downtown offices has had a domino effect... |
| Nov 23, 2022 | LA’s Scooter War Winners Becoming Clear as Cities Ratchet Up Regulations and Funds Dry Up | Last month, Helbiz announced that it had officially acquired Wheels, the West Hollywood-based startup founded by Joshua and Jonathan Viner, co-founders of Wag. But in Los Angeles, there were already signs that things were in flux.
In early ... |
| Nov 11, 2022 | CoMotion LA ‘22: The Future of Transportation | dot.LA is proud to announce our partnership with CoMotion for their 6th edition of CoMotion LA, one of the most important events on the future of transportation. CoMotion LA ‘22 will be held November 15-17 at the Japanese American National ... |
| Oct 11, 2022 | How To Apply to Take Part in LA's 'Universal Basic Mobility' Pilot | L.A. Metro is launching the largest experiment in the U.S. to provide 2,000 residents with a seamless transportation payment platform spanning public and private systems.
The agency is opening up applications for its mobility wallet as part... |
| Oct 10, 2022 | Why Rivian’s Massive Recall Is Par for the Course | On Friday evening, Rivian Automotive announced a recall on nearly every single vehicle it has produced so far.
According to documentation filed with the Nation Transportation and Highway Safety Administration, “The fastener connecting the f... |
| Jul 11, 2022 | The Station: Layoffs are coming for the AV world, VW plans ‘big moves’ in China and inside Cruise’s robotaxi outages | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| Jun 27, 2022 | The Station: Cruise turns on the meter, Bird fails to take flight, layoffs come for micromobility | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| Apr 18, 2022 | The Station: Jeep’s road to EVs, Musk’s great big distraction and a last call for mobility founders | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| Apr 7, 2022 | Securing Smart Cities: Three Questions To Ask Your Local Leaders | Mary Writz is VP of Product Management at ForgeRock, a global leader in digital identity. |
| Jan 8, 2022 | С окраин в мегаполисы — почему дата-центры «переезжают» в города | Традиционно дата-центры размещали на окраинах или в промзонах вдали от глаз пользователей. Теперь они «мигрируют» в города — часто стойки с серверным оборудованием занимают несколько этажей в престижных бизнес-комплексах. Сегодня расскажем ... |
| Dec 21, 2021 | Big Stories that Shook the Tech World in 2021 | The pandemic raged on in 2021, forcing Californians to grapple with lockdowns and troubling variants while tech giants pushed their return to offices in perpetuity. Through it all, tech’s boom time largely carried on as startups notched new... |
| Dec 13, 2021 | The Station: Intel eyes an IPO for Mobileye and how Elon influenced Autopilot | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| Dec 6, 2021 | Will autonomous vehicles succeed in revolutionising travel? | Recently, Cruise, the autonomous vehicle subsidiary of General Motors, announced that they plan to have one million or more autonomous vehicles in their fleet by 2030. In late September 2020, the research arm of Toyota Motor Corporation, Wo... |
| Nov 15, 2021 | The Station: The biggest deal of 2021 and executive shuffling in transportation land | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| Aug 16, 2021 | The Station: Micromobility in North America, Joby Aviation makes its debut and a sidewalk bot invasion | Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B.
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| Mar 26, 2021 | Computer vision software has the potential to reinvent the way cities move | Harris Lummis Contributor
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In October 2019, The New York Times reported that 1.5 million packages were delivered in New York City every single day. Th... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | LA Tech Updates: Sweetgreen to Go Carbon Neutral by 2027; Santa Monica Opens Zero-Emission Zone | Sweetgreen has pledged to be carbon neutral in six years by cutting its carbon output in half. Santa Monica and the L.A. Cleantech Incubator launched the nation's first zero-emissions delivery zone, a project meant to encourage companies to... |
| Nov 28, 2020 | As Silicon Valley gets disrupted by the pandemic, this CEO says tech companies should look to Canada to expand | Yung Wu is the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, an innovation hub located in Toronto, Canada. Yung Wu
Yung Wu is an entrepreneur, VC, and the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, a startup innovation hub located in Toronto.
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| Nov 27, 2020 | As Silicon Valley gets disrupted by the pandemic, this CEO says tech companies should look to Canada to expand | Yung Wu is the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, an innovation hub located in Toronto, Canada. Yung Wu
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| Nov 27, 2020 | As Silicon Valley gets disrupted by the pandemic, this CEO says tech companies should look to Canada to expand | Yung Wu is an entrepreneur, VC, and the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, a startup innovation hub located in Toronto.
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| Aug 10, 2020 | OurStreets is shuttering its business operations following COVID-19 blows | After a little over a year and a half since its founding, Wharf-based startup OurStreets is ending its operations as a for-profit company on Aug. 15.
Originally named How’s My Driving?, the driver safety crowdsourcing company was cofounded ... |
| Jul 9, 2020 | Why Companies Need To Invest In Clean Delivery Amid Pandemic Online Shopping | By Aileen Nowlan, senior manager at EDF+Business |
| Dec 24, 2019 | The privacy worries with smart cities | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| Dec 11, 2019 | Corporate innovation weekly: seaweed, electric shocks and the “crazy rules” theory of success | Chemicals Weed-zapping farmbots
There’s an interesting challenge coming up for the $26bn global herbicide industry — two UK startups, Small Robot Company and RootWave, are developing an autonomous farmbot that can precision-zap weeds with e... |
| May 10, 2019 | Mobility Startups -- And Uber -- Are Driving Investors Into Emerging Markets | Careem, as seen in a taxi in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, last October, has proven the largest... [+] acquisition in ride-hailing to date. (Credit: Bloomberg Finance LP) © 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| Mar 14, 2019 | Community input is as important to Baltimore’s smart city planning as tech | Baltimore was famously the city where the first gas street lamp in America was lit for the first time. About 200 years later, inside a room overlooking Baltimore’s harbor at Brown Advisory’s Fells Point headquarters, the strategy director l... |
| Mar 6, 2019 | 5 startups we met at DC Tech Meetup, transportation tech edition | Maps, scooters, transit and more: transportation tech companies took over DC Tech Meetup last night.
On March 5 at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, Selina McPherson, a DC Tech Meetup organizer, kicked off the event with a fireside chat... |
| Nov 17, 2018 | How cities can fix tourism hell | A steep and rapid rise in tourism has left behind a wake of economic and environmental damage in cities around the globe. In response, governments have been responding with policies that attempt to limit the number of visitors who come in. ... |
| Nov 12, 2018 | How to Improve Cybersecurity in a Smart City | The smart city began as a science fiction dream, but it’s very quickly becoming a reality. Municipal infrastructure, integrated with smart technology, will transform the aesthetics, utility, and sustainability of urban landscapes from here ... |
| Jul 30, 2018 | The Blueprint for Building a Smart City | First, there were smartphones and then smart houses. Now, the next disruptive “smart” move is the smart city. As work, life, and society become increasingly connected through the wide adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, it’s a... |
| Feb 21, 2018 | How Zagster Plans to Win the Bike-Share Race With Less Capital | Less than a week after San Mateo-based LimeBike raised a $70 million round —bringing the one-year-old bike-share startup's total funding to $132 million — an 11-year-old competitor in Cambridge is offering a major contrast in approach to fu... |
| Feb 6, 2018 | 5G is coming: Here's how carriers can prepare | Technology’s rapid advance continues, requiring companies to adjust quickly to keep pace. And with the arrival of 5G, businesses can anticipate even more rapid change beginning this year. In fact, it’s predicted that by 2025, 5G will make u... |
| Feb 1, 2018 | Transportation agencies can monetize IoT when data becomes the new oil | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The transportation industry is on the verge of un... |
| Office Hours: Rep. Derek Kilmer on How Social Media Influences Politics | U.S. House Rep. Derek Kilmer spoke with Office Hours host Spencer Rascoff to discuss the select committee on the modernization of Congress and how social media has changed the political landscape.
A former businessman, Kilmer has held the s... |
| NASA’s JPL Receives Billions to Begin Understanding Our Solar System | NASA’s footprint in California is growing as the agency prepares for Congress to approve its proposed 2024 budget.
The overall NASA budget swelled 6% from the prior year, JPL deputy director Larry James told dot.LA. He added he sees that as... |
| The Creator-To-Podcaster Pipeline Is Ready to Explode | It’s no secret that men dominate the podcasting industry. Even as women continue to grow their foothold, men still make up many of the highest-earning podcasts, raking in massive paychecks from ad revenue and striking deals with streaming p... |
| 'How Much Will It Stifle Innovation?' and Other Questions About Biden's Proposed AI Bill | Last week, the Biden administration released a blueprint for a proposed Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights. The bill included guidance on how to protect consumers’ data, how to limit discrimination by algorithms and human alternatives t... |
| If Angelenos Don’t Seize the Curb, They Risk Losing Sidewalk Dining | Three years ago, Los Angeles went into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, cities like L.A. are struggling to hold on to pandemic-era transportation and infrastructure changes, like sidewalk dining and slow streets, while managing e... |
| Behind Her Empire: Margaret Wishingrad On Creating A Low Sugar Cereal Brand | On this episode of Behind Her Empire, Three Wishes founder and CEO Margaret Wishingrad talks about creating brand awareness and shares the key component to running a successful business.
Three Wishes is a New York City-based company that pr... |
| Disney Taps Former Apple Gaming Exec, Aspiration Hires New Sustainability Chief | “Moves,” our roundup of job changes in L.A. tech, is presented by Interchange.LA, dot.LA's recruiting and career platform connecting Southern California's most exciting companies with top tech talent. Create a free Interchange.LA profile he... |
| Finding the new in the familiar: The Taiwan you’ve always loved is beckoning with new adventures | With borders re-opening and more flights taking to the skies, plenty among us are planning to finally turn those pent-up travel daydreams into reality. And just four hours away by air, it’s not a stretch to say that Taiwan places high on ma... |
| This Week in ‘Raises’: FinditParts Lands $30M, Bonfire Raises $230M for New Funds | This week in “Raises”: A local ecommerce marketplace for the commercial vehicle aftermarket landed a $30 million Series A, while a new Santa Barbara-based venture capital firm raised its first fund to invest in Southern California software ... |
| Houston mayor touts city’s climate action plan following major flooding disasters | Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Thursday described progress the city is making toward curbing planet-warming emissions and building storm resilient infrastructure as part of its climate action plan, which the Texas city unveiled two years... |
| Behind Her Empire: Oui the People Founder Karen Young on Seizing Opportunity | Karen Young launched Oui the People in 2014 with only $1,500 in her pocket from her Brooklyn apartment. Today, the company is the fastest growing Black-owned beauty brand in the U.S.
On this episode of Behind Her Empire, Young talks about t... |
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| Subscribe to our newsletter to catch every headline. | "You really take stock of your life when you're on psilocybin."
The FDA recently granted psilocybin a "Breakthrough Therapy" designation. The California State Senate approved a bill this month to decriminalize psychedeli... |
| Vinfast and Autonomy Expand Partnership to the Tune of 2,100 More Vehicles | Despite unveiling its third and fourth U.S. production models at the LA Auto Show last week, auto manufacturer Vinfast has yet to deliver any electric vehicles here in the United States. But this doesn’t appear to be a concern for Santa Mon... |
| Subscribe to our newsletter to catch every headline. | "I wish I could have some good excuse, the only thing I have to say is that I was stupid and greedy."
A one-time partner in the New York brokerage firm made famous by "The Wolf of Wall Street" film has launched a social ... |
| ‘Commerce at The Curb’: LA’s Rideshare Debate Heats Up | Three years ago, Los Angeles went into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, cities like L.A. are struggling to hold on to pandemic-era transportation and infrastructure changes, like sidewalk dining and slow streets, while managing e... |
| #Boycotttwitch Trends On Twitter After A Streamer Broke Her Back At TwitchCon | Over the weekend, a Twitch streamer jumped off a pedestal into a pit of foam blocks. The result? A broken back and calls to boycott the live streaming platform.
Adriana Chechik broke her back in two places while at TwitchCon, an annual conv... |
| Fanhouse Wants To Change the Way We Think About Community Ownership | Last week after the mass exodus of Twitter employees, content creator Rosie Nguyen shared a link to her Instagram account. She wasn’t alone. In the hysteria that followed Elon Musk’s ultimatum to commit to a new “hardcore” Twitter or leave ... |
| How redlining kept Black Americans from home ownership decades ago — and is still contributing to the racial wealth gap today | Jan Arceneaux (cq) and other members of the South-Central Los Angeles Coalition Against Bank Fraud and Redlining protest in front of the LA County Courthouse in 1998. Ken Lubas / Contributor/Getty Images
As part of the New Deal, the federal... |
| Disney Raids Apple To Bolster Its Metaverse Strategy | Disney has poached a top gaming executive from Apple to oversee the media giant’s foray into the metaverse.
The Burbank-based company has hired Mark Bozon to be its vice president of Next Generation Storytelling creative experiences, Variet... |
| Here's How to Avoid Common Tech Scams on Black Friday and Cyber Monday | Black Friday and Cyber Monday are approaching again, and as always this holiday season is a scammer’s favorite time of year.
Spending on Black Friday was up nearly 30% in 2021 from the prior year, both in-store and online (though e-commerce... |
| You Can Watch TikTok’s New Live Comedy Series For $5 | TikTok is entering the world of streaming with a new subscription comedy series.
Creator Jericho Mencke, who has nearly 2 million followers on TikTok, will host the series exclusively on the Culver City-based video-sharing app’s live platfo... |
| These SoCal Startups Are Getting Ahead of the Game Via Comcast’s Sports Tech Accelerator | A few years ago, language translation startup LetzChat learned that there was a big need for its services in the sports world.
It can take hours, if not days, for a human to translate a given contest’s closed captioned subtitles, depending ... |
| Meta Is Hiring More AR/VR Employees in LA Despite Layoffs | Despite the company’s decision this week to lay off 11,000 workers worldwide, Meta still appears to be actively recruiting in Los Angeles.
Most of the roles appear to call for skills in augmented and virtual reality, either working directly... |
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Meet the Bird ‘Fleet Managers’ Who Hunt and Release E-Scooters in Downtown Los Angeles | It’s Friday night in Downtown Los Angeles and fleet manager Adan Aceves is cruising the streets in his Ford Ranger pickup truck looking for a bird — not an e-scooter, but an actual bird.
“First time I saw the bird I was wondering what the h... |
| Users With Disabilities Can Rent an E-Scooter in Long Beach for Free | Bird is launching its disability-accessible e-scooter and wheelchair program in Long Beach.
Starting this week, users with disabilities can pull up the app, choose one of four electric vehicles adapted to their needs and get it delivered to... |
| Demand for furnished apartments and adult dorm-style vibes is propelling coliving startup Common to add thousands of new rentals in Los Angeles | Brad Hargreaves, CEO of Common Common This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Coliving tenants rent furnished rooms in shared, amenity-filled apartments, often at lower prices.
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