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- Feeling itchy? [SFist]
- How the Trump campaign is doubling down on Twitter and Facebook in the final 12 days days before the election. [Bloomberg]
- Man wins a million bucks on scratcher bought in SF. [KRON 4]
- A former Pixar executive who won the first ever Oscar for software is taking over a U.S. government agency responsible for improving federal digital technology. [Associated Press]
- If you kept trying to access Twitter, Reddit, Spotify or Netflix during last week's massive internet outage, you were part of the problem. [CNet]
- Tesla has just bestowed its Q3 2016 numbers upon us and, unlike last quarter, the numbers are good. [Roadshow] [SF Chronicle]
- Consider the ghosts of Pacific Heights. [Curbed SF]
- "Away from its sparkling coastal cities and picturesque natural wonders, California hides its massive, steaming pools of literal liquefied shit," begins this [Bay Area Bites] report from Susie Cagle.
- Critics of BART's $3.5 billion bond measure say the agency can't be trusted with the dough. [SF Business Times]
- Remember when it seemed like every other startup was a "group buying" thing? These days, Living Social's being purchased by Groupon, a company that appears to be losing money hand over fist. [Wall Street Journal]
- San Francisco’s mayor, spurred by city supervisors, has sided with parents in a math war waged against the school district. [SF Chronicle]
- A 528-foot dry dock on its way to Mexico from Seattle sank about 40 miles west of San Francisco. [Bay City News]
- A 29-year-old man has completed a cross-country run from San Francisco to New York City in 42 days, 6 hours and 30 minutes. Meanwhile, I got tired while walking around in IKEA. [CBS 5]
- Now Uber's applying its surge pricing model to its food delivery service. [Consumerist]
- SF already seeing record number of early voters. [KTVU]
