• All that online shopping — and attendant delivery packaging — means that San Francisco's Recology recycling center is overwhelmed with an "unsustainable" amount of cardboard boxes. [CBS 5]
  • A UC Berkeley-based group just invented a new vibrator that is "like a FitBit, but for sex." And yes, it Bluetooth syncs with your phone. [Chronicle]
  • Twitter now has a GIF feature for public posts. Expect it to annoy you as you scroll through your feed starting today. Oh, and you can now send videos as direct messages. [Wired] [Venture Beat] [The Verge]
  • A short documentary follows a group of costumed do-gooders as they roam the streets of San Francisco. [Laughing Squid]
  • A massive AT&T store is set to move into the former Forever 21 store at Powell and Market. Cue "nothing lasts forever" jokes. [Hoodline]
  • Last night's rain caused flooding and led to power outages around the Bay. [ABC 7]
  • Apple is apparently doing some pretty secretive stuff at a secretive Sunnyvale factory. The problem? It's really, really loud. [CBS 5]
  • The area around Berkeley's People's Park just saw its second case of sexual assault in one week. Police, who are investigating, are unsure if the cases are connected. [CBS 5]
  • Medical marijuana is legal in California, and dispensaries have to pay taxes. However, it's illegal at the federal level, so dispensaries don't have access to banks. This means that dispensary owners are driving hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to the IRS office in San Jose. [CBS 5]
  • That former Shell station at 19th and South Van Ness may be a 73-unit building as soon as 2019. [Mission Local]
  • U.S. officials in Yemen seriously mistreated a mentally ill U.S. citizen and resident of San Francisco, a federal magistrate ruled. They tricked him into signing a document, and then accused him of fraud for signing it. As a result, the man was stuck in Yemen for 13 months. [Chronicle]
  • A teacher, who was almost crunched when a piece of the Bay Bridge tunnel fell in front of her car, shared the details of her close call. [Chronicle]
  • A group that patrols San Francisco neighborhoods is suing the SFPD claiming that they are losing business as a result of the police force. [NBC Bay Area]
  • BART has a new plan to keep stations clean. Think it will work? [BART]