Nest has started selling a $229 Internet-connected video doorbell that provides notification through an app when someone is at the door and sends an alert across Google-branded speakers in a user’s home.The integration, announced Wednesday, illustrates the collaboration between Nest and Google. Google purchased Nest in 2014 for $3.2 billion, but in 2015 each became a separate division within Alphabet.

More than a quarter of California’s members of Congress have sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security urging the agency to not go forward with its plans to revoke work eligibility for spouses of H-1B visa holders.The letter, signed by 15 of California’s 53 representatives, is aimed at stopping the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back an Obama-era rule that created work permits for these spouses, who come to the U.S. on an H-4 visa.

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized Mountain View’s 23andMe to sell a test for a breast cancer genetic mutation directly to consumers — the first time the agency has allowed the sale of a genetic test for cancer risk without a doctor’s prescription.The test analyzes a saliva sample to determine whether a woman has an increased risk for developing breast cancer by detecting genetic variants found on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.

Uber, Lyft drivers make about $10/hour, per update of disputed study A hotly contested study claiming that Uber and Lyft drivers make less than $4 per hour after expenses was significantly revised Monday, now saying drivers earn a median $8.55 or $10 an hour. “The profit from driving is higher than we initially reported,” wrote the study’s lead author, Stephen Zoepf, executive director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford, in a statement on Twitter.

Most of the aluminum Claudia Wentworth’s company uses to make rooftop solar panel racks in Walnut Creek comes from the United States.It is precisely the kind of American product that Pres. Trump’s new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum are designed to protect.But while the tariffs, imposed by orders that Trump signed Thursday, may benefit domestic metal producers, they will raise costs for Wentworth’s company, Quick Mount PV. Aluminum prices, she said, are already rising.

Immigration agency to delay premium processing for H-1B visas, lawyers say Officials with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services indicated that the agency will temporarily suspend the ability to fast-track certain H-1B applications this year, according to multiple lawyers. The move means some employers may not learn as quickly whether they can staff a position with a foreign worker.

The robot stolen from a Cupertino high school robotics team has been found in Utah.Residents of West Valley City, a suburb of Salt Lake City, notified the team on Tuesday that they found El Toro XXI, the mechanical pride and joy of Monta Vista High School’s robotics team, on their front yard and sent them a picture, said John Yelinek, the team’s mentor.“The picture looks like it’s in good shape,” Yelinek said.

Tech companies aren’t just secretive about their future products. They’re also unwilling to share information about their shuttle buses.After being stonewalled by business organizations in its effort to count corporate shuttles along Highway 85, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority set up cameras to determine how many buses are on the road.

Below are transcripts of three 911 calls from Apple’s new campus, obtained by The Chronicle via a public-records request. The calls, all made in January, relate to injuries suffered by people who walked into glass at the campus, which is called Apple Park. The transcript has been lightly edited. Click here for a story about how a Cupertino official had warned Apple last year about the problem. Call 1 (Jan.

BMW may be angling for a bigger slice of the nation’s largest electric vehicle market — California — and aiming at some of the same drivers courted by Tesla.The German automaker is offering a $10,000 discount on its i3 electric car for customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. through May 31. Buyers need only show their monthly PG&E bill to an authorized BMW dealer, and fill-out a one-page form, to qualify.