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Massachusetts’ Automated Toll System Raises Privacy Concerns
For drivers, the good news about Massachusetts’ new all-automated toll collection system is they won’t have to stop at a booth to fork over cash, or even slow down so their E-ZPass transponder can pay...
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AMC’s ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Highlights Sexism in Tech
It’s 1986. A crew of engineers are crammed into a San Francisco basement. They work for a Texas-born startup named Mutiny in the early days of chat rooms, the pre-Internet days on the heels of the...
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Ford’s Next Big Business Play Is Killing a Thing It Helped Create
Ford Motor Co., one of the biggest automakers in the United States, inevitably helped create traffic congestion in cities. Now, it’s launching businesses aimed at solving it. The 113-year-old automaker...
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Floating Shipping Containers May be Copenhagen’s Answer to Affordable Housing
The design startup Urban Rigger has just launched the first iteration of a novel solution for the housing crunch facing many of the world's cities. And we mean literally launched--its first housing...
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The ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Home Is Selling For $4.5 Million
The iconic home where Robin Williams made his debut as Mrs. Doubtfire is on the market for $4.5 million. According to its listing, the San Francisco home boasts four bedrooms and...
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Google’s Uber Competitor Is Finally Here
Google's Uber-like app is now available to users throughout the San Francisco area, The Wall Street Journal reports, marking the latest escalation in the simmering battle between the search giant and...
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World Economic Forum Launches San Francisco Tech Policy Center
The World Economic Forum, the Swiss-based group that sponsors that annual Davos gathering of world leaders, is opening a San Francisco office to explore policy and regulatory questions surrounding new...
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Welcome to the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The World Economic Forum has made an important discovery: San Francisco is a major center for discussing innovation, policy, and the future of civil society. On Monday, the venerable international...
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Here’s How Airbnb Says It’s Curbing Illegal Hotels in San Francisco
Home-sharing service Airbnb has a tense relationship with its hometown of San Francisco, but the company says it’s been trying to please the city. In particular, in an attempt to curb commercial...
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Taxi Company Sues Uber For Alleged Anti-Competitive Practices
A San Francisco-based taxi company has filed a lawsuit against Uber, alleging the ride-hailing company is engaging in anti-competitive and misleading practices. In its lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in...
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Michael Bloomberg Drops $18M for His Crusade Against Sugary Sodas
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has donated $18 million to two separate ballot initiatives in Bay Area cities that are seeking soda taxes to discourage consumption of the sugary drinks. A...
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Judge Rejects Airbnb Bid to Halt San Francisco Ordinance
A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected Airbnb’s request to block a San Francisco law that forbids the home-rental company from taking bookings from hosts who have not registered their home with the city. The...
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Airbnb Surrenders To San Francisco Officials In Fight Over Illegal Home Rentals
Airbnb has agreed to end a fight against its hometown and cooperate with the city’s effort to crack down on illegal hosts. The home-sharing company says it will work with San Francisco’s government to...
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Hackers Threaten to Release 30GB of Stolen Data From San Francisco’s...
Hackers infected a computer network operated by San Francisco’s public railway system with malicious software over Thanksgiving weekend. After two days of interrupted ticketing service and free rides...
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San Francisco Railway ‘Never Considered Paying the Ransom’ To Hackers
The agency that operates San Francisco’s municipal railway has all but recovered from a crippling ransomware attack that struck its computer network over Thanksgiving weekend, the agency said. Hackers...
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Uber Fires Back at California DMV in Self-Driving Car Spat
Uber on Friday again defied a demand by California regulators that the ride-services firm apply for a permit to test self-driving cars, setting up a possible legal battle. Uber said its self-driving...
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Facebook Partners With 17 Universities to Streamline Research
Facebook’s hardware development division on Wednesday announced a new partnership with Harvard, Princeton and 15 other universities intended to allow swifter collaboration on technology research...
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Uber Suspends Its Self-Driving Car Test in San Francisco
After a week-long battle with California regulators, Uber is suspending its self-driving car test in San Francisco, the company said on Wednesday. "We have stopped our self-driving pilot in California...
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Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Are Headed to This State
Just one day after Uber was forced to shut down its self-driving car program in San Francisco, the company is moving its cars to Phoenix, the company said on Thursday. "Our cars departed for Arizona...
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Uber Ejected Homeless from San Francisco Encampment
Cnet reports that, in November, a private security firm at an Uber facility dismantled a homeless settlement, ejecting about 30 residents. The encampment, known as Lower Perry, had existed for years...
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