1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (576+ words) During a hearing on self-driving vehicles in Washington DC Wednesday, a Waymo executive said that remote workers as far away as the Philippines are operating the robotaxis when they encounter difficult situations, leading lawmakers to accuse the company of putting…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (335+ words) Anthropic, the growing AI concern founded by two siblings and former OpenAI execs, had inked a deal for an entire office building at Howard and Fremont streets, marking one of the largest office deals in the city since 2019. The deal…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (468+ words) That two-year-old male mountain lion who wandered up from the Peninsula and ended up scaring dozens of people around Pacific Heights on Monday has been released back to the wild, way down in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was major…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (395+ words) A young mountain lion made a surprise appearance in San Francisco Monday, in the Pacific Heights neighborhood, and as of Tuesday morning it had been found by Animal Care & Control. A mountain lion was spotted Monday traipsing across the street…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (366+ words) A bright light with an extended tail seen burning across the night sky in the Bay Area early Thursday was no ordinary meteor. If you happened to catch the long streak across the sky after midnight Wednesday and were still…...

1+ mon, 12+ hour ago   (433+ words) Turns out anyone with an internet connection, and not even a password, could access the feeds of a line of the Flock surveillance cameras that are currently all the rage with the SFPD and Oakland Police Department. The Oakland Police…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (343+ words) The historically significant, 57-foot-long Great Refractor telescope near San Jose is in serious danger, after 110 mile-per-hour winds ripped a steel crescent off the Lick Observatory's roof, and more storms are on the way. The Great Refractor is still an excellent…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (425+ words) For the rain year to date, which began on October 1, San Francisco and Oakland are both above normal in terms of rainfall, and the rain total is only set to rise further before 2025 is out. San Francisco recorded almost four…...