The automated drones are electrically powered, capable of vertical takeoff and landing, and would fly 10 feet above the water at 20 mph along a pre-determined flight path not subject to passenger controls. The drones' rotors are able to shift from vertical to horizontal alignment … | Continue reading
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has ordered White House officials to launch a sweeping effort to address homelessness in California, citing the state's growing crisis, according to four government officials aware of the effort. The planning has intensified in recent weeks. A … | Continue reading
The doorbell-camera company Ring has quietly forged video-sharing partnerships with more than 400 police forces across the United States, granting them potential access to homeowners' camera footage and a powerful role in what the company calls the nation's "new neighborhood watc … | Continue reading
Jessi Combs-vehicle builder, racer, fabricator, TV personality, and all-around automotive legend-was killed on Tuesday in a crash while attempting to break her own land-speed record in southeast Oregon. She was 36. | Continue reading
What does the cashless ban mean? Will my favorite food truck be affected? What happens if a store isn't cashless? Here are your questions, answered. | Continue reading
"As far as I know, they were the first cats live on the Internet," Jeff Schwartz says. He's talking about Petunia and Web, the cats that used to live in his Mission District apartment. Schwartz came up with the idea to point a webcam at his pets while he was away at school. He e … | Continue reading
An electric scooter briefly caught fire at Dropbox headquarters in San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon, causing an evacuation of the building, according to employees. | Continue reading
There's no doubting that deceptive resort fees are a hot-button issue among travelers. After the attorney general for Washington D.C. filed suit this month against Marriott for charging resort fees that he said violate consumer protection laws, the CEO of the lodging giant is def … | Continue reading
When David Hiller's two daughters checked into Camp Echo, a bucolic sleep-away camp in Upstate New York, they relinquished their cellphones for seven idyllic weeks away from their digital lives. But not Hiller: His phone rings 10 times a day with notifications from the summer ca … | Continue reading
The most powerful potential energy source presently thought to be available to humanity, antimatter is a term normally heard in science-fiction films and TV shows, whose heroes fly "antimatter-powered spaceships" and do battle with "antimatter guns." [...] while an ordinary elec … | Continue reading
California's largest operator of recycling redemption centers shut down Monday and laid off 750 employees. RePlanet closed all 284 of its centers, and company president David Lawrence said the decision was driven by increased business costs and falling prices of recycled aluminu … | Continue reading
San Francisco International Airport will ban the sale of water in plastic bottles on August 20 as part of an ongoing effort to eliminate single-use plastic used or sold on municipal property. The airport is owned by the City and County of San Francisco. The new ordinance states: … | Continue reading
Santino William Legan, who police identified as the Gilroy gunman, purchased an assault rifle in Nevada, where the Bay Area native was living with family. On Monday, Big Mikes Gun and Ammo in Fallon, Nev. posted on Facebook they were the sellers. | Continue reading
Cisco has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a claim that it sold video surveillance software it knew was vulnerable to hackers to hospitals, airports, schools, state governments and federal agencies. The tech giant continued to sell the software and didn't fix the massive sec … | Continue reading
The Black Rock City Census Project shows us demographics of Burning Man 2018 participants. | Continue reading
If you're considering playing bar dice for the first time, bartender John Mattiassi of Shanghai Kelly's has some advice: don't start. | Continue reading
Police have concluded the Tesla involved in a fatal San Francisco crash that killed one person on Sunday was not on "Autopilot" mode. | Continue reading
There is a beefy mystery on the streets of New York City. | Continue reading
Berkeley became the first city nationwide to ban the use of natural gas in new buildings in a unanimous vote Tuesday by the City Council. | Continue reading
"Manpower" will be referred to as "human effort," and "man-made" objects will be described with terms like "human-made," "artificial," "manufactured,""machine made" or "synthetic." | Continue reading
Have you ever cruised through a neighborhood on Google Street View and noticed a blurred house? | Continue reading
Adam Savage's love of costumes began with childhood. Long before he stepped foot onto the floor of a San Diego Comic-Con, dressed in one of his famously intricate cosplay builds, the "MythBusters" host was like any starry-eyed kid dreaming up fantastical outfits. | Continue reading
Allwood Outlet Amazon has several tiny houses on sale that come in build-it-yourself kits, starting at just over $5,000. Tiny houses have cropped up in popularity as housing prices are rising and minimalistic downsizing is becoming trendy. One tiny house, a two-floor … | Continue reading
SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. (AP) - Bill Corbin always knew a day would come when he would no longer be able to call himself a third-generation tobacco farmer. That day has arrived. The Springfield farmer says he had contracts to grow tobacco until this year, but will now devote all his e … | Continue reading
Surprise, surprise: tech bros are rich. But ever since the new law came into effect last year that requires publicly traded companies to report the median pay of their employees, we know exactly how rich. | Continue reading
Airlines are squeezing as many passengers as they can onto their jets, but one seat manufacturer believes its product can help carriers push capacity to the absolute limit. And it may help push down fares. Say goodbye to whatever personal space you had left. At this week's Paris … | Continue reading
U.S. businesses should get ready for a barrage of digital retaliation from Iran after the Trump administration launched a cyberattack against the Islamic Republic's rocket and missile launching systems, current and former U.S. government officials said this weekend. Iranian hack … | Continue reading
For months now, the robotics company Nuro has been using electric, self-driving vehicles to deliver groceries to Kroger customers in Phoenix and Houston. Now the Silicon Valley start-up's autonomous, unmanned vehicles - which resemble a giant pill bug on wheels and can reach 25 … | Continue reading
Uber and Lyft drivers have worked out how to game their companies' "surge" pricing system to run up fares for passengers. ABC7 reports that drivers have been sharing on YouTube how they collaborate to drive up surge prices. Surge prices kick in when there is a high demand for … | Continue reading
Veteran journalist Charles C. Mann specializes in deep, comprehensive looks at the past that better elucidate the present. His best-selling books "1491" and "1493" both rediscover the "discovery" of the Americas and make important contributions to our collective self-knowledge. I … | Continue reading
San Francisco's Multimedia Gulch - home of digital media companies - is growing so rapidly that quantifying it is something of a Sisyphean task, but here's a stab at it: Business in the district - bounded by Market Street to the north, the Embarcadero to the east, Townsend Stree … | Continue reading
Amazon could face heightened antitrust scrutiny under a new agreement between U.S. regulators that puts it under closer watch by the Federal Trade Commission, three people familiar with the matter said. The move is the result of the FTC and the Department of Justice, the U.S. go … | Continue reading
Millennials are doing far worse financially than generations before them, with student loans, rising rents and higher health care costs pushing the average net worth below $8,000, a new study shows. The net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996, acco … | Continue reading
On its website, Salesforce.com touts retailer Camping World as a leading customer of its business software, highlighting its use of products to help sales staff move product. A Camping World executive is even quoted calling Salesforce's software "magic." But behind the scenes in … | Continue reading
"When I interact with people, I try to look at people face to face and engage them," Guillory says, as he looks at me, face to face, fully engaged. "I'm looking at you, this is your time - 'good morning, ma'am; good morning, sir' - I look at them - 'have a blessed day' - I give t … | Continue reading
It's a tale as old as 2019. On a Friday night, your friends invite you to the trendy new bar in your neighborhood. It has high, exposed ceilings, mid-century modern furniture, potted snake plants, and minimalist wooden surfaces. Oh, and cocktails are $15. | Continue reading
Santa Cruz coffee shop Cat and Cloud Coffee says it received a cease and desist from Caterpillar Inc. - because they use the word "CAT" in their shop name. The large corporation has trademarked "CAT" and has taken legal action against the small business to stop them from using i … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge blocked on Friday President Donald Trump from building sections of his long-sought border wall with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam, Jr., on Friday immediately halted the admini … | Continue reading
To live in California at this time is to experience every day the cryptic phrase that George W. Bush once used to describe the invasion of Iraq: "Catastrophic success." The economy here is booming, but no one feels especially good about it. When the cost of living is taken into a … | Continue reading
For 17 years, astronomers at a well-known Australian radio telescope known as "The Dish" had not been able to figure out the source of a strange, vexing interference. For 17 years, astronomers at a well-known Australian radio telescope known as "The Dish" had not been able to fi … | Continue reading
Ride-hailing companies once promised that their services would reduce the number of cars clogging city streets. In fact, the opposite is true in dense parts of cities. | Continue reading
The self-styled Pothole Vigilantes are expanding their war on bumpy and cratered Oakland streets by recruiting more residents into their asphalt army. Thursday night, the pair hosted their first meet-up, where they handed out 4,700 pounds of asphalt, tampers, shirts and other sw … | Continue reading
The 16-year-old boy had the kind of illness that wouldn't be familiar to doctors for years: He was weak and emaciated, rife with stubborn infections and riddled with rare cancerous lesions known as Kaposi's sarcoma, a skin disease found in elderly men of Mediterranean descent. | Continue reading
If you've ever wondered where the famously secretive Elizabeth Holmes lived, now's your chance to peek inside-just prepare yourself to be underwhelmed. | Continue reading
Bryan Carmody, a freelance reporter in San Francisco, awoke Friday to the sounds of someone trying to break into his house. About 10 officers from the San Francisco Police Department were bashing the front gate of his Outer-Richmond home with a sledgehammer, he said. It was just … | Continue reading
Bryan Carmody, a freelance reporter in San Francisco, awoke Friday to the sounds of someone trying to break into his house. About 10 officers from the San Francisco Police Department were bashing the front gate of his Outer-Richmond home with a sledgehammer, he said. It was just … | Continue reading
Uber's initial public offering , which was priced Thursday evening, has suffered from poor timing. The company priced its stock at the low end of its range and well below the price Wall Street was bandying about as recently as last month. Multiple factors probably weighed o … | Continue reading