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- You can get home late/for cheap tonight. [SFist]
- A man was taken into custody after using a 2-foot-long sword to threaten patrons of a Richmond business. [Bay City News]
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Watch an iPhone melt in a vat of molten aluminum. [Laughing Squid]
- A man who BART officials say was arrested after walking into the Transbay Tube Thursday evening is now ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation. [KRON 4]
- Why self-driving cars might cause an organ shortage. [Slate]
- [Curbed SF] on the San Francisco shelter trends hoped for in 2017.
- Qilombo, a radical community social center in the heart of West Oakland’s Afrikatown, is one of the latest spaces to be impacted by the rise of code enforcement complaints. [Indy Bay]
- The 49ers announced that the winner of their prestigious Len Eshmont Award this year is quarterback Colin Kaepernick. [ABC 7]
- Facebook is working to develop a copyright identification system -- similar to YouTube's Content ID -- that would find and remove videos containing copyrighted music. [Billboard]
- As Oakland faces the biggest party night of the year, city leaders are keeping mum about what they might do to keep celebrators from packing into unregulated and possibly unsafe warehouses. [SF Chronicle]
