The growing number of chips and other electronics in cars, as well as increased wireless connectivity, lead to worries that hackers and terrorists may take control of vehicles for nefarious purposes.
A look at StartX, the incubator launched at Stanford last year. Its startups receive free office space, legal support and guidance from venture capitalists and veteran tech entrepreneurs.
Mike Cassidy writes about pedicabs in downtown San Jose, which provide a bit of old tech in Silicon Valley. Terra Taylor-Wood is among the fleet-footed drivers who navigate economic cycles to run enterprises peddling their people power to downtown visitors.
UC San Francisco biologists Yuriy Kirichok and Polina Lishko have made a name for themselves recording the electrical currents that course through, yes, sperm cells. Their work is not only offering new hope to infertile couples, but also may lead one day to an effective male birth control pill.