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- Behold the delights of "This Was San Francisco." [SFist]
- A jury in San Francisco has cleared Google of copyright infringement in a $9 billion case brought by Oracle over Google’s use of Java in Android. [Network World] [CNet] [Wired] [Associated Press]
- Apple's Amazon Echo competitor might have a built-in camera for face recognition/a more efficient robot apocalypse. [CNet]
- Loony mess over fake $100 in the Mission. [SF Examiner]
- Though these two Russian Hill dwellings were sold with the promise that they could be connected, it looks like that promise was a lie. [SocketSite]
- That elevated Chinese bus everyone's been sharing has its roots in a 2005-era comic. [N Judah]
- Two more flee Twitter: This time it's Jana Messerschmidt, who runs their business development, and Nathan Hubbard, who runs media and commerce. [CNet]
- Yahoo had to spend more than $500,000 on security for Marissa Mayer in 2015. [SF Business Times]
- A proposal to ban styrofoam in SF picks up steam. [SF Examiner]<
- Polk Street proposal would ban formula retail that uses over 5,000 square feet, “unless the ratio of residential uses on the same lot to the formula retail use is at least 3:1.” [SocketSite]
- SF's mockery of LA gives [Forbes] contrib the sads.
- Yet another article on how local tech workers seek to escape their devices. [SF Chronicle]