In today’s Bulldog wrapup of tech and life science news:

  • SAS joins Smart Cities Council
  • Valeant’s CEO returns to work
  • A Google car involved in an accident
  • Microsoft to sell HoloLens for $3,000

The details:

  • SAS joins Smart Cities Council

Cary-based SAS has joined the Smart Cities Council, aiming to help municipal governments make better use of data, social media and the Internet of Things.

“The Smart Cities Council (SCC) convenes government entities, technology providers, experts and others to help cities address pressing challenges in new ways,” SAS sayd. “With the explosion of big data, it is clear that data management and analytics are essential to addressing smart city priorities like easing congestion, improving urban services delivery and mitigating environmental threats.”

According to SAS, the Smart Cities Council is the world’s largest smart cities network and the leader in smart cities education.

  • Valeant shares slide despite CEO’s return after long illness

Shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals have plunged amid ongoing turmoil over the embattled drugmaker’s delayed financial results and its leader’s health.

Even news Sunday that CEO Michael Pearson is returning after nine weeks recovering from pneumonia couldn’t buoy Valeant shares.

They fell 6.1 percent to $75.74 in premarket trading Monday about an hour before the market open.

Valeant bought two Raleigh-based pharmaceutical firms in 2015, Sprout and Salix. Questions have been raised about financials at Salix.

Investors, relieved over the end of the mystery about Pearson’s status, are again focusing on Valeant’s delayed financial results and future expectations.

Valeant was to have publicly released preliminary fourth-quarter and 2015 results and discussed 2016 prospects om Monday. Now it says it will do so “in the near term.” It also has withdrawn all its financial forecasts.

Last week, Valeant said it wouldn’t file results with regulators until in resolves questions about how some revenue was recorded.

  • Google self-driving car strikes public bus in California

An accident report filed with California’s Department of Motor Vehicles says a self-driving car being tested by Google collided with a public bus on Valentine’s Day.

The report was written by Google, which has been testing two dozen Lexus SUVs outfitted with sensors and cameras near the tech firm’s Silicon Valley headquarters. It was posted Monday on the DMV website.

Google wrote that its car was trying to get around some sandbags on a city street when its left front struck the right side of the bus. The car was rolling at 2 mph, the bus at 15 mph.

No one was injured.

Google said its car’s safety driver thought the bus would yield.

The report does not address fault. A DMV spokeswoman said the agency hoped to speak with Google Monday about what went wrong.

A Google spokesman did not have immediate comment.

  • Microsoft to ship developer HoloLens for $3,000 in March

Microsoft says it will start shipping a developer version of its augmented reality device, HoloLens, for $3,000 on March 30.

That’s around the same time Facebook’s Oculus will begin shipping the consumer version of its Rift virtual-reality headset for $600. HoloLens differs from the Oculus Rift in that it makes the viewer see three-dimensional objects in the real world, rather than blocking out the real and replacing it with a 360-degree fictional universe.

The HoloLens operates on Windows 10 and unlike the Rift, requires no tethering to a separate computer.

It’ll use a custom-built chip designed on an Intel platform. It’ll let users record high-definition video that recreates a mix of holographs overlaid on the real world that can be shared with people without the device.