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- Transportation accessibility advocate Sunday Parker warns that BART's "Fleet of the Future" leaves people on bikes or with disabilities in the past. [SFist]
- Pet pigs dumped at SF's ACC for pooping in the house find sanctuary in Vacaville. [KRON 4]
- Despite Airbnb's new plan to fight bigoted hosts, [Slate] says the lodging company still isn't doing enough.
- Google’s DeepMind unit, which is working to develop super-intelligent computers, has created a system for machine-generated speech that it says outperforms existing technology by 50 percent. [Bloomberg]
- San Francisco police have arrested 21-year-old woman accused of assaulting one of their officers from behind. [KRON 4]
- Plans more forward to replace Center Hardware warehouse building with housing development. [SocketSite]
- Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer stands to collect a $44 million severance package if she leaves after Verizon completes its purchase of the once-mighty internet company. [Associated Press]
- Beth went to GLAAD's annual gala. [SF Chronicle]
- Space once occupied by beloved Mission thrift shop Clothes Contact will be home to an an upscale yoga studio. [Capp Street Crap]
- In September 1909, the shooting of an Inner Sunset housewife brought tragedy to the quiet neighborhood—and a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. [Hoodline]
- "As much as Nevius tries to distinguish between everyday, disinterested 'techies' and their behemoth employers, he conflates the two and misses a huge point." [Public Press]
- Thomas C. Benét, a veteran San Francisco journalist who was a reporter, editor and chief editorial writer for the [SF Chronicle] died at his San Francisco home Wednesday.
- In a retrenchment of one of its most ambitious initiatives, Apple has shuttered parts of its self-driving car project and laid off dozens of employees. [New York Times]
- UCSF is making significant cuts to its IT staff, outsourcing those jobs to India. [Computerworld]
