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A 40-year-old man allegedly walked into a San Diego McDonald’s, asked for the manager, and violently put him in a headlock—all while claiming to be an ICE agent. “Why do you think your 911…
For a touch of pop, California-based lighting studio Gantri, with its tech eco-system and digital expertise, offers the market something it has never seen before. The Louis lamp fashioned…
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…
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…
Fintech firm Mercury recently dropped some data that made me smile. It ranked the top five coffee shops powering founders in San Francisco based on actual transaction data: Sightglass,…
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…
Power was restored Sunday to the bulk of the 130,000 homes and businesses in San Francisco impacted by a massive outage a day earlier that caused major disruptions in the city. About…
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 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 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…
Alauda Ruiz de Azua’s “Sundays” (“Los Domingos”), the winner of the San Sebastián Film Festival’s Golden Shell for best film, has been sold to half the major movie markets in the world by…
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…
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…
Most people don’t give the display screens on their commuter trains a second thought, but for designer Emily Sneddon, they’ve proved to be a well of inspiration. Sneddon lived in San…
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-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…
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…
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…
At the San Diego Intl. Film Festival, which ran from Oct. 15-19, Mark Hamill received the Gregory Peck Award for Cinematic Excellence. The award honors the career achievements of a film…
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…
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…
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…
Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet” was the big winner at the San Diego International Film Festival, winning both the best Gala Film (jury award) and the Audience Choice Gala Award. Eddie…
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…
