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23 February 2016 / SF News / Eve Batey

Tuesday Morning Roundup: Uber Defends Their Background Checks

  • We were at the Church Of Coltrane's (possibly) last service in the Fillmore. Join us! [SFist]
  • There was a six-car pileup on northbound 101 just north of Vermont Street this morning. [KRON4]
  • The 2016 [Google] Science Fair opens for submissions today.
  • Napa Valley winemaker Peter Mondavi has died. He was 101. [KRON4] [SF Business Times] [CBS5] [SF Chronicle]
  • Today in Apple vs the Feds: Bill Gates agrees with the FBI [Cnet], Mark Zuckerberg is on Team Cook [Wired].
  • "No background check process would have flagged and anticipated this situation," Uber's safety guy says of the Kalamazoo shootings [Cnet], and that's why they won't be changing their background check system [Wired].
  • Heh, guess no one wanted to buy that convicted-girlfriend-beater's penthouse. [SocketSite]
  • Google is shutting down its Google Compare comparison-shopping site. [New York Times]
  • Twitter has hired former Apple comms exec Natalie Kerris as its new VP of global communications. [re/code] Maybe this means their PR people will start writing us back when we (real life example) ask them how tweets like this one aren't a violation of their abuse policies.
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Have You Seen This Missing SF Woman?

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Get Your Gold On At The Asian Art Museum

Pictured: Jon Leezy of Disco Energi (House of Energy) Get your gold on! In honor of their 50th birthday, the Asian Art Museum is channeling the camp-tastic 80s TV hit “Solid Gold” with

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