Technology

Cars that steer themselves through bumper-to-bumper traffic will hit the market by the end of this year, and self-parking vehicles aren't far behind. Fully autonomous models that don't need human drivers at all are less than a decade from dealerships.

Online social networking powerhouse Twitter reportedly is doing a major expansion at RagingWire Data Centers' 500,000-square-foot campus in Sacramento.

A shudder went through Wall Street on Friday after the revelation that Bloomberg News reporters had extracted subscribers' private information through the company's ubiquitous data terminals to break news.

The Sacramento region is seeing growth in medical technology companies and jobs, according to a report released today by the Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance.

The approval of a new corporate jet center at this city's struggling airport might have been just another losing skirmish in the battle between Silicon Valley billionaires and middle-class neighborhoods worried about noise pollution. Instead, it is becoming the latest symbol for the rapidly growing gap between the region's haves, with their private jets and untold wealth, and the have-nots, clinging to more modest lives in the dwindling number of communities they can afford.

M Corp, the Sacramento-based information technology and management consulting firm with a long list of government and commercial clients, has won a nearly $600,000 contract to provide services for the Financial Information System for California project.

Intel, the world's largest maker of semiconductors, has named a company veteran, Brian Krzanich, as its next chief executive.

When a teenage boy snatched the iPhone out of Rose Cha's hand at a bus stop in the Bronx in March, she reported the theft to her carrier and to the police – just as she had done two other times when she was the victim of cellphone theft. Again, the police said they could not help her.

Seven years after introducing parking kiosks downtown, Sacramento officials say it's time for an even more expansive upgrade of downtown parking – starting with solar-powered parking meters that drivers can pay via cellphone.

Sacramento's leaders are counting on clean technology – the business of solar and wind energy, "smart" buildings and more – to help lift the region out of the economic doldrums.

Sarah Bagby’s 35-year-old independent bookstore so far has weathered the advent of Internet shopping and e-books. Now Bagby, the owner of Watermark Books & Cafe in Wichita, Kan., is closely following debate in Congress over a bill that she says would help her stay competitive with online retailers who are able to undercut her prices by not charging state or local sales taxes.

A former Web producer for KTXL Fox 40 in Sacramento pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal charges of helping a hacker gain unauthorized access to a server, thus facilitating alteration of a Los Angeles Times online story.

The photo taken in 1942 shows singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson serenading a sea of black and white workers at Oakland's Moore Dry Dock Corp., one of the San Francisco Bay Area's first integrated shipping yards.

The recent appearance of the MakerBot Replicator II puts the Sacramento Public Library's main branch squarely among a host of libraries nationwide jumping aboard what is called the makerspace movement.

A former Hewlett-Packard executive and a co-founder of Sacramento's American River Ventures today are formally launching a social networking company focused "on the power of inspiration."