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Now Is A Good Time To Remember Nazis In SF And Talk About 'The Man In The High Castle'

As a German refugee traveling the United States during the 1930s, the photographer John Gutmann described himself as "in paradise" in San Francisco according to the history blog Weimar Art. Shooting mostly the

Arts & Entertainment

Video: Amazon Echo Gets Porn-y Real Quick When Child Asks For A Song

Oh so funny. The AI takeover of the universe is still a ways off, and as proof, please observe what happens when Amazon's Echo mishears a child and Alexa turns arbitrarily filthy without

Amazon Patents Floating Blimp Warehouse For Drone Deliveries

Say you're tailgating at a 49ers game and, what do you know, you managed to forget the mustard. What to do? In today's stone-age reality, you're probably forced to borrow the condiment from

Amazon Completes Drone Delivery Of Package In England In 13 Minutes

First-ever #AmazonPrimeAir customer delivery is in the books. 13 min—click to delivery. Check out the video: https://t.co/Xl8HiQMA1S pic.twitter.com/5HGsmHvPlE— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) December 14, 2016 From a

Gun-Wielding Man Demands Packages From Amazon Delivery Driver

A pair of armed thieves snatched a couple of mystery boxes from an Amazon delivery driver Sunday, seemingly willing to risk arrest for packages that could very well contain pens or a box

Peter Thiel To Speak Publicly About His Trump Support As Silicon Valley Battle Lines Harden

Contrarian that he is, noted libertarian Trump lover Peter Thiel has decided that the controversy surrounding his support for the Republican presidential candidate demands his response. And so, as Bloomberg reports, the billionaire

Arts & Entertainment

Go Do This Thing: Castro Theatre Sneak Preview Of 'Transparent' Season 3, With Cast Q&A

“I would be happy if I were the last cisgender male to play a transgender female,” Jeffrey Tambor declared Sunday evening in accepting his second Emmy for his portrayal of Maura Pfefferman, the

Amazon Tests Out 30-Hour Workweek For Some Employees

Amazon's latest innovation isn't a new subscription program or e-book reader: It's a 30-hour work week for certain employees on technical teams, the Washington Post reveals. A few dozen workers at the Seattle,

We May Be Getting Google Drone Delivery As Soon As Next Year

Google parent company Alphabet is one step closer to realizing its promise of having drones deliver all the dumb stuff you order online right to your doorstep. CNet reports that the company was

Amazon Launches Standalone Streaming In Challenge To Netflix

In what can only be read as a direct challenge to fellow video streaming company Netflix, Amazon has announced a new monthly subscription service called Prime Video. The service, which unbundles the video

Google Express To Test Timeliness With Perishable Goods Deliveries

Not content to merely drive toilet paper to your front door as the company's service does currently, Google Express — the delivery arm of Alphabet, FKA Google — now seeks to become a go-to provider

Hoverboards Blamed For Two Bay Area House Fires In Past Week

Santa Rosa Fire says board was charging in her front bedroom. House went up very fast. $250,000 damage pic.twitter.com/QKlmOkG3QL— Wayne Freedman (@WayneFreedman) January 20, 2016 Less than a week

Twitter Patents Crowdsourced Tweet-Controlled Drone, FAA (Presumably) Cries

Like its fluttery mascot, Twitter dreams of flight. The social media titan was granted a patent last week for a tweet-controlled drone, with user actions on the platform (think retweets) somehow determining the

SpaceX Vertically Lands Its Falcon 9 Rocket, Geeks Everywhere Rejoice

SpaceX finally did it. The pioneering company in contract with NASA to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station managed yesterday to vertically land its Falcon 9 rocket on a landing pad in

Hoverboards Bursting Into Flames All Over, Amazon Yanks Them From Site

Like a knock-off Icarus, the hot hot hot hoverboard trend perhaps flew a little too close to the sun this holiday season and ended up getting burned. And worried moms everywhere take note:

Amazon Debuts New Delivery Drone Prototype, Still Has No Idea When They Will Be Deployed

Remember when we all scoffed at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' 2013 claim that his company was developing a drone delivery system? Well, according to a company announcement, their plan to unleash hoards of

Amazon Prime Now Couriers Are Latest To Seek Legal Recourse For Employee Benefits

Free two-hour delivery has some high hidden costs for its providers, and Amazon isn't paying those in full, or so alleges a new lawsuit seeking class-action status. Al Jazeera America and Reuters report

Google To Take On Amazon And Instacart With Expanded Grocery Delivery In SF Later This Year

In a fairly predictable move, Google Express will be trying to expand into the delivery-from-Whole Foods market by testing the service in SF later this year, according to a Google Express manager who

Google Express Shutting Down SF, Mountain View Hubs As Workers Campaign For Union

The Google Express is switching tracks, as it were, shutting down on-demand delivery hubs in San Francisco and Mountain View as reports Re/code. The move to restructure comes just as a battle

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Amazon To Launch First Drive-Thru Grocery Pick-Up Concept In Sunnyvale

It looks as though Amazon is going to be experimenting with a new drive-up grocery concept tied to their online grocery ordering system, Amazon Fresh. So, rather than relying on a fleet of

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Can You Trust The People Passing Your Apartment Not To Steal Your Amazon Groceries?

When Amazon announced earlier this month that they would be using the U.S. Postal Service to deliver groceries in San Francisco, it seems like folks reacted with a collective shrug. Having your

Don't Ask Why: Amazon Unveils New Fire Phone

Amazon has entered the smart-phone market, everyone. Please don't all yawn at once. The company unveiled their Fire Phone to journalists yesterday, most of whom went "Oh, cool," to a couple of the

Huge Amazon Locker Appears On The Waterfront To Distract Us With Marketing

Yesterday, a giant Amazon locker appeared on Justin Herman Plaza across from the Ferry Building, prompting tech blogs and even the Wall Street Journal to have an awkward "what's in the box?!" moment.

Could Uber Be Bigger Than Facebook Someday?

That's the idea being chattered about in venture capital circles, and the chatter is becoming much louder after the leak of some recent financials from Uber that show it could be on track

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Amazon Bringing Grocery Delivery To Bay Area

After obliterating neighborhood book stores, Amazon is coming for local grocery stores next. The online mega mall has plans to roll out their AmazonFresh grocery delivery service to the Bay Area by the