Applied Materials to pay $252.5 million to settle US probe – The Mercury News
By Nick Turner, Bloomberg Applied Materials Inc. will pay $252.5 million to settle a US Commerce Department investigation…
He worked for and romanced SoCal councilwoman, while spying for China
A Southern California man acted as a covert agent for the People’s Republic of China and helped a…
Think there’s no good dim sum in L.A.? Start here
Collectively, we have spent several decades in the grand Cantonese palaces of the San Gabriel Valley in search…
Ex-Google engineer convicted of stealing AI trade secrets for China
A former software engineer at Google has been convicted of stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets for the benefit…
Canada’s EV deal with China cheered by California’s clean air cop – The Mercury News
By Dana Hull, Gabrielle Coppola and Mark Chediak, Bloomberg California’s top environmental regulator lauded a trade deal Canada…
Canada-China EV deal cheered by California’s clean-air cop
California’s top environmental regulator lauded a trade deal that Canada struck to import electric cars from China as…
UC Berkeley students add more than 300,000 Wikipedia edits documenting LGBTQ+ history | Campus
The use of Wikipedia is not allowed for research in some classrooms, but in a selection of courses…
China’s boba behemoth lands in Hollywood
China’s boba behemoth has landed in Hollywood. Mixue, the fast-growing megachain that boasts a bigger global retail footprint…
Keep scrolling, TikTok has finalized its U.S. joint venture
The long and winding road over the fate of TikTok — the enormously popular social video platform that…
California tops 2.5 million ZEV sales as Newsom proposes $200 million incentive plan
The state of California has hit a new milestone in efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions and reach…
11 stunning moves by Trump in his first year back in office
During his first term, President Trump was both praised and condemned for being wildly unpredictable, pushing boundaries and…
‘Zootopia 2’ is the highest-grossing U.S. animated movie of all time
Walt Disney Co.’s “Zootopia 2” is now the highest-grossing U.S. animated film of all time, the company said…