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Get in, Loser—We’re Chasing a Waymo Into the Future
A third-generation San Franciscan, Gabe says he grew up playing with Nancy Pelosi’s kids and went to high…
San Francisco Will Pay $212 Million for Its Train System to Ditch Floppy Disks
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni…
An Underwater Data Center in San Francisco Bay? Regulators Say Not So Fast
NetworkOcean isn’t alone in its ambitions. Founded in 2021, US-based Subsea Cloud operates about 13,500 computer servers in…
Elon Musk’s X Is Leaving San Francisco
The social media company X is closing its San Francisco office “over the next few weeks,” according to…
The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist, Robin Sloan, Goes Meta
So, inevitably, we talk a lot more, and meta-ly, about language, words, meaning—though Sloan doesn’t think it was…
San Francisco’s Train System Still Uses Floppy Disks—and Will for Years
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which runs the city’s Muni Metro light rail, claims to be the…
5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance
San Francisco made history in 2019 when its Board of Supervisors voted to ban city agencies including the…