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SF News /Eve Batey

Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Hoverboard Might Have Burned North Bay House Down

Published Jan 20, 2016 · 1:00 AM PST / Updated Dec 29, 2018 · 3:36 PM PST

  • Could the Raiders and the Niners become roommates? [SFist]
  • Santa Rosa home fire might have been started by hoverboard. [KRON4]
  • Here's the surf forecaster who makes the Mavericks call. [Wired]
  • SF State cop sues to open gun shop in Daly City. [Bay City News]
  • General Motors is "picking up the scraps of Sidecar in an attempt to bolster its relationship with ride-share company Lyft." [Cnet]
  • Plans to raze the All Stars Donuts shop at 5th and Harrison for a 89-condo development have been submitted to Planning. [SocketSite]
  • Man announces that he is happier without Twitter. [inessential]
  • Women talk about the problems of menstruating while homeless in SF. [Huffington Post]
  • Lennar's downtown sales officer better get ready for the protest planned there Thursday. [IndyBay]
  • Pop-up art gallery in Clement Street's Busvans space will focus on the ocean's plastic problem. [Richmond SF]
  • Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft aren't going anywhere, says the [New York Times].
  • One of the Port of Oakland's biggest tenants just terminated their 50-year lease. [Wall Street Journal]
  • YouTube just bought a huge new office park in San Bruno. [SF Business Times]
  • A vice president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club intends to nominate her own slate of candidates for the 2016 board election. [Bay Area Reporter]
  • Ed Lee wants downtown construction to slow down for the Super Bowl. [CBS5]
  • A nice portrait of homeless homicide victim Allison Sparrow. [Mission Local]
  • Some traffic returns to the stretch of Powell that was closed to traffic during an SFMTA pilot. [Streetsblog SF]
  • How Apple, Alphabet, and Yahoo are sponsoring the Super Bowl Host Committee to win local political points. [Wall Street Journal]
  • Apple, Samsung and Microsoft are among a host of tech companies and carmakers implicated in a new report that sheds light on apparent child labor practices in the sourcing of minerals used to create batteries. [TechCrunch]
  • The Warriors are hopeful a lawsuit filed earlier this month seeking to block the construction of an arena in Mission Bay will be transferred from Sacramento to San Francisco. [SF Examiner]

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