Martha Mendoza

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In this Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison demonstrates expanded options for gender identification at her company's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. Harrison, who helped engineer the project, plans to switch her identifier to "Trans Woman." (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

New gender options for Facebook users

Martha Mendoza · February 14, 2014 6:47 am

Silicon Valley economy back at dot-com era highs

Martha Mendoza · February 4, 2014 9:11 pm

Executive Chairman and Director of Stroz Friedberg Eric Friedberg, a former prosecutor, conducted what the Justice Department described as the first court approved email wiretap in the history of the Internet in 1995 as he investigated an international conspiracy to peddle cell phones programmed with stolen numbers. (AP/Richard Drew)

Some pioneers of digital spying have misgivings

Associated Press, Martha Mendoza · January 23, 2014 3:14 pm

With high-tech guns, users could disable remotely

Martha Mendoza · May 21, 2013 6:40 pm

Silicon Valley-area hub becomes factory town

Martha Mendoza · May 18, 2013 6:10 pm

This frame grab taken from video provided by Roxana and Carlos Guzman shows a Limo on fire Saturday, May 4, 2013, on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge in San Francisco. Five dead female bodies were found pressed up against the partition behind the driver, where they apparently tried to escape the smoke and fire that kept them from the rear exits of the extended passenger compartment. (AP Photo/Roxana and Carlos Guzman)

California limo fire kills 5 nurses; friends grieve

Martha Mendoza, Terry Collins · May 7, 2013 4:00 am

This frame grab taken from video provided by Roxana and Carlos Guzman shows a Limo on fire Saturday, May 4, 2013, on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge in San Francisco. Five dead female bodies were found pressed up against the partition behind the driver, where they apparently tried to escape the smoke and fire that kept them from the rear exits of the extended passenger compartment. (AP Photo/Roxana and Carlos Guzman)

Limo driver: Fire took 3 minutes to claim 5 lives

Garance Burke, Martha Mendoza · May 6, 2013 4:00 am

The outside of Saratoga High School is seen in Saratoga, Calif., Friday, April 12, 2013. An attorney says a 15-year-old California girl committed suicide after she was sexually assaulted by three of her friends and a photo surfaced online. Robert Allard, an attorney for the family of Audrie Pott, said Friday the girl saw an intimate photo being passed around online and pieced together from emails and text messages that her friends had victimized her while she slept. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Lawyer: Assaulted teen had drawings, name on body

Martha Mendoza · April 15, 2013 4:00 am

In this April 4, 2013 photograph, the Smith women, from left, mother Niki Smith, GiGi, 3, Macy Jade, 7 and Guan Ya, 14, use Google Translate on the family laptop to "speak" with their new daughter, Guan Ya, in their Rienzi, Miss., home. The Smiths and their children are using the Google Translate program to communicate almost exclusively with Guan Ya, who is deaf. The family uses iPhones, iPods and a laptop, all loaded with the program to write in either English that translates to Chinese or vice-a-versa. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Online translation on the rise, changing lives

Martha Mendoza · April 6, 2013 4:00 am

Google software engineer Jiang Chen campus sits in a massage chair at a Google campus building in Mountain View, Calif., Friday, March 15, 2013. Companies say extraordinary campuses are a necessity, to recruit and retain top talent, and to spark innovation and creativity in the workplace. And there are business benefits and financial results for companies that keep their workers happy. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Tech firms bumping up perks to recruit, retain

Martha Mendoza · March 31, 2013 4:00 am

Calif. city gets free Wi-Fi via high tech meters

Martha Mendoza · March 27, 2013 1:05 pm

Student class project leads to minimum wage jump

Martha Mendoza · March 11, 2013 10:42 pm