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Your Saturday and Sunday links.
- A new rent control law has taken effect in Richmond. [KRON 4]
- Apple to slice iPhone production 10%. [Nikkei]
- Police are searching for a suspect who broke into a car earlier this week in Santa Cruz and took a duffel bag with ammunition and loaded handguns inside it. [KRON 4]
- David Meltzer, the prolific poet and musician who merged his two passions, creating work that goes back to the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s and ’60s, has died. [SF Chronicle]
- The Fire Department is reminding residents about new requirements for all of the city’s apartment buildings that go into effect at the end of January. [SF Examiner]
- San Francisco’s Central SoMa Plan, which could selectively increase building height limits in the neighborhood to allow towers up to 400 feet in height, is slated to be adopted by mid-2017. [SocketSite]
- Apple files patent for magnetic mechanism that wraps around the user’s ear because not everyone has this guy's holes. [Digital Trends]
- San Francisco’s fee on cigarette sales to pay for cleaning up litter has increased 50 percent for a total of 60 cents per pack. [SF Examiner]
- "2017 Is the Year That Twitter Learns to Thrive or Dies," declares [Wired].
- San Francisco author and political activist Marilyn Sachs, a pioneer in the young adult fiction genre, has died. {SF Chronicle]
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