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- Have you tried the best new restaurants of 2016? Can you afford to? [SFist]
- Honda is talking to Google's autonomous driving unit in an effort to strike a deal that would put its self-driving technology into some of the Japanese automaker’s cars. [Bloomberg] [Reuters]
- People caught parking illegally at BART lots around the Bay Area will face stiffer fines in the New Year. [Bay City News]
- Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is "not a traditional media company." [CNet]
- SF debuts first protected intersection. [Curbed SF]
- San Francisco’s red hot rental market has received a splash of cold water in the past year, with median 1-bedroom rents falling by 4.9 percent. [SF Business Times]
- The San Francisco Police Commission has approved a new use of force policy. [KRON 4] [ABC 7] [CBS 5] [SF Examiner] [SF Chronicle]
- The newly elected mayor of Milpitas liberally borrowed his inauguration speech from Barack Obama. [SF Chronicle]
- Homeless Youth Alliance, a San Francisco nonprofit that helps homeless youth get access to health care, housing, and other services, is raising money to help people’s pets. [Bay Area Reporter]
- Government requests for Facebook user data were up 27 percent in the first half of 2016. [TechCrunch]
- Jury returns mixed verdict in trial of two Bayview-Hunters Point killings. [SF Examiner]
