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- Big Sur residents who have been stranded by landslides on state Highway 1 and the collapsing Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge received airlifted food, pet food, fuel and mail via a helicopter. [Bay City News]
- Tesla is losing key personnel as it races to bring the Model 3 -- its most critical electric sedan yet -- to market later this year. [Bloomberg]
- "If you believe there’s no such thing as bad press, invest in Uber." [Wired]
- Matt Phillips, a Bay Area artist and academic credited with reviving and promoting the monotype style for making singular impressions on paper, died Wednesday at age 89. [SF Chronicle]
- Craigslist turns 22. [Craig Newmark]
- Demolition of the old Bay Bridge span is ahead of schedule. [ABC 7]
- Maintaining [BART]'s right-of-way is a 24/7 job.
- Thieves target victims of San Jose floods. [NBC Bay Area]
- Square acquires dining pickup website and app. [Bloomberg]
- Startup "JetSmarter tries to extort journalists for positive coverage," reports [The Verge].
- Peter Thiel has secured a place for one of his top aides in Trump’s White House. [TechCrunch]
- A single copy of the famous newspaper published April 19, 1906, by the San Francisco Examiner, Chronicle and Call immediately following the 1906 earthquake is available for sale on eBay. [SF Examiner]