Thursday Boot Company Sets Up Shop in San Francisco
Thursday Boot Company is expanding its retail footprint to the West Coast. Following a soft opening in December, the footwear brand has officially opened its newest retail location at 449…
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Why Waymo went down in San Francisco
Last weekend, a gnarly power outage in San Francisco took out a number of traffic lights, which, in turn, sent a number of self-driving Waymo robotaxis into a sort of fugue state. Instead…
San Francisco power outage brings Waymo robotaxis to a standstill
When a major power outage left tens of thousands of San Francisco residents in the dark weekend, the city’s fleet of high tech self-driving vehicles went offline too. Videos circulating on…
Waymos froze, blocked traffic during San Francisco power outage
Waymo’s driverless ride services were a high-profile victim of a power outage that affected large swaths of San Francisco, with cars freezing mid-ride across the city and disrupting…
San Francisco Plunges into Darkness after Power Outage Impacts 130K Homes and Brings Self-Driving Cars to a Halt in Middle of Streets
San Francisco was thrown into complete darkness on Saturday night after a major power outage knocked out electricity across nearly 30 percent of the city, bringing essential services,…
Rob Reiner’s Early Career in Comedy Stretched From San Francisco Improv to ‘The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour’ to Norman Lear’s Universe of Shows
Rob Reiner has been showered with accolades for his work in film and TV in the days since he and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found brutally slain in their Brentwood home. Rob…
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie: ‘We Are a City on the Rise’
I first met Daniel Lurie, San Francisco’s newly minted mayor, about five minutes before we walked onstage at WIRED’s Big Interview event, held in his city last week. Lurie’s team let me…
Waymo hits a dog in San Francisco, reigniting safety debate
A self-driving Waymo taxi hit a dog in San Francisco, reigniting a heated debate over autonomous vehicle safety just weeks after one killed a popular neighborhood cat. On Sunday, around 8…
OpenAI Locks Down San Francisco Offices Following Alleged Threat From Activist
OpenAI employees in San Francisco were told to stay inside the office on Friday afternoon after the company purportedly received a threat from an individual who was previously associated…
Amazon's Zoox offers free robotaxi rides in San Francisco
Amazon-owned Zoox is offering free rides on its San Francisco fleet of boxy, driverless taxis. The company said Tuesday it is providing the rides to people who download the Zoox app and…
Dramatic Video Captures Moment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Is Served Legal Notice Onstage During San Francisco Speech
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's public discussion with Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr took a bizarre turn on Monday night when a man suddenly ran onto the stage at San Francisco's Sydney…
San Francisco Trans Sex Worker Who Killed Customer Asking for Refund After Finding Out She was Transgender
A San Francisco sex worker who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2023 killing of a customer who asked for his money back, will spend half a decade in prison. A Federal judge…
Uber to launch autonomous taxi rides in San Francisco next year
Uber said Wednesday that the San Francisco Bay Area will be the first market for its specially built autonomous taxi, which is expected to launch in late 2026. The San Francisco…
Trump says tech leaders and mayor changed his mind about using federal force in San Francisco
President Donald Trump was geared up for a show of federal force in San Francisco, a city he's blasted as everything wrong with liberal governance. Then conversations with some of the Bay…
Why Trump decided to spare San Francisco from the National Guard
President Donald Trump was geared up for a show of federal force in San Francisco, a city he’s blasted as everything wrong with liberal governance. Then conversations with some of the Bay…
Trump Credits His Tech Buddies for Decision to Back Off San Francisco
Donald Trump has been convinced not to deploy federal troops to the city of San Francisco, as he has in other cities across the country. In a Truth Social post Thursday afternoon, Trump…
San Francisco leaders push back against Trump's National Guard threat
President Donald Trump keeps threatening to send National Guard troops to San Francisco next, blasting the California city as crime-ridden and saying its residents are clamoring for…
Salesforce to invest $15 billion in San Francisco to advance AI
Software giant Salesforce is planning to invest $15 billion in San Francisco over the next five years to strengthen the city’s dominance in artificial intelligence. “This $15 billion…
Silicon Valley billionaire Marc Benioff wants National Guard deployed to San Francisco
Billionaire tech executive Marc Benioff said he wants President Trump to restore a sense of public safety in San Francisco by sending in the National Guard. Source link
DoorDash plans to test drone deliveries in San Francisco warehouse
Food delivery app DoorDash is setting its sights on a new destination to test out flying drone deliveries: San Francisco. The tech company leased a warehouse in the Mission District last…
A new gold rush? How AI is transforming San Francisco
On a sunny day in San Francisco, along the city’s waterfront, families dived into the wacky world of artificial intelligence inside the Exploratorium museum. Visitors made shadow puppets…
San Francisco weighs ban on homeless people living in RVs
San Francisco is set to ban homeless people from living in RVs by adopting strict new parking limits the mayor says are necessary to keep sidewalks clear and prevent trash buildup. The…
Waymo expands service area in Los Angeles and San Francisco
Waymo, the autonomous taxi company that’s offered rides in Los Angeles since November, is expanding its service area in the city. Starting Wednesday, the driverless taxis will roam more…
A Second-Generation San Francisco Theater Owner Is Ready to Retire. Can He Find a Buyer to Keep Independent Cinemas Alive in the City?
Frank Lee has spent nearly his entire life running movie theaters. At 70, after a long career as an independent theater operator in San Francisco, he and his wife and co-owner, Lida, are…