SF News A New Muni Mobile App Launched Today, and They’re Killing Off the Old App, So Use Up Your Old Tickets Muni’s new trip planner and digital ticketing app MuniMobile is now up, running, and available for download, and the old app’s being discontinued on January 15, so it’s time to use up any fares you bought on the old one.
SF News SFMTA Cracks Down (Sort Of) On Chariot, Other Private Buses It’s been a bumpy ride for the tech-loving private shuttle service Chariot, which arrived three years ago to make “transportation better only for some people” in the words of Muni Diaries. Chariot
Arts & Entertainment Star Wars App Lets You Watch Tie Fighters Fly Over The Golden Gate Bridge Starting today, if you have some spare time, and the Star Wars app on your phone, you can hold it up to take a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge and see a
SF News Ex-Googler Launches Nonprofit To Stop Google & Facebook From 'Hijacking Our Minds' It is not a particularly unique observation that the culture of constantly looking at our phones has spawned an app economy whose emotional manipulation, trampling of our privacy, and spread of misinformation has
SF News BART Is Accused Of Spying On Us In A New Lawsuit Many of us have come to terms with the fact that the government is watching us all the time, around the clock, wherever we are. And a new lawsuit is accusing a BART
SF News 60 Minutes Exposes 'Brain Hacking' By Silicon Valley Engineers To Make Cellphones More Addictive More and more these days, people are having conversations about what we've lost in our hyper-connected world, and the harm that is being done at the very least through wasted time when so
SF News Twitter To Release Vine Camera App In Apparent Effort To Please No One When Twitter announced in October that it was shutting down Vine, fans of the six-second video-looping service lamented the forthcoming loss and various potential buyers — including Pornhub — came out of the woodwork. While
SF News San Francisco Ride-Hail Driver Kidnaps Drunk Passenger Police are seeking a ride hail company driver, after his passenger says he briefly kidnapped her instead of taking her to her destination. Police say that the incident happened at 2:23 a.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New SF-Bar App Gets You 30 Cocktails For $10 When the world turns sour, the residents of booze-soaked San Francisco have been known to find solace in drink. However, just like everything else in this town, that particular comfort will cost you.
SF News You May Soon Be Served Ads On Your Phone During Uber Rides Kind of like those TV screens in the back of taxis only more insidious, Uber is set to begin serving ads to your cell phone during trips via a new partnership that makes
SF News Private Social Network For Businesses Being Used To Track Homeless Encampments With the issue of homelessness featuring so prominently in the news this year, and with multiple proposed measures for clearing homeless encampments circulating, it has become more crucial than ever to have some
Arts & Entertainment Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 9: Tech Bachelor Hacks Tinder, Goes On 150 First Dates In Four Months Sex, love, and other mysteries in the city your mother warned you about. Though he may have programmed dating apps to automatically match with as many women as possible and systematically send them
SF News 'Pooper,' An App To Send Someone To Pick Up After Your Dog, Is Bullsh** Pooper purports to be a light-hearted but ultimately serious subscription service startup that will send a "scooper" to pick up your dog's poop after you take a photo of it and tag its
Arts & Entertainment Pokémon Go Crawl Achieves Peak Pikachu It will either renew or destroy your faith in modern-day San Francisco to know that several thousand full-grown adults took to San Francisco’s streets Wednesday night for a massive Pokémon Go Crawl,
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Route For Tomorrow's Potentially Massive Pokémon Crawl Although much of San Francisco has been engaged in a de facto Pokémon Go crawl for weeks, a somewhat formal affair planned for tomorrow promises to be the real deal, if you consider
Arts & Entertainment Pokémon Go Crashes After Hacker Attack, Sending Millions Into PokéPanic Pokémon Go players had to go back to interacting with a Pokémon-free world for several hours Saturday after hackers took the mega-popular game out of commission. As ABC 7 reports, this all happened
Arts & Entertainment The Worst Habits Of Pokémon Go Players In Their SF Habitat (And A Few Upsides) San Francisco has some of the greatest scenery in the world, but this week much of the city has ignored that scenery and glued its collective noses to smartphones to play Pokémon Go.
SF News Sen. Al Franken Comes After SF-Based Creators Of Pokemon Go Over Privacy Issues You know that bug we mentioned the other day with Pokémon Go on the iPhone that causes it to get full access to all your Google data and Gmail without asking permission? That,
SF News PokeGone Browser Extension Promises To Make Your Life PokéFree lombard street SF #clefairy #pokemongo pic.twitter.com/FSlL3MNbnH— Laura Hyunjhee Kim (@lauraonsale) July 8, 2016 OK, we get it. Pokémon Go, the augmented reality mobile game that dropped last week, is well
Arts & Entertainment SF Startup Looks To Revive The Polaroid Brand With A New Kind Of Dynamic Photo App Polaroid is not dead. Many lovers of the iconic instant-photo brand have been wishing and hoping this were true for years now, as the cameras have become collectors' items and the film for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tip For Restaurant And Bar Owners: Buy A Pokémon Go Lure Module, Get Instant Customers In case you needed another reason to stop by for lunch, RTM is swarming with Pokemon! #loveRTM #EatMorePork #PokemonGo #PokemonGoPhilly A photo posted by Tommy DiNic's Pork & Beef (@tommydinics) on Jul 11,
Arts & Entertainment Pokemon Go App Can Access Your Email And Contacts On iPhones Posing Major Privacy Problem A little privacy, please?#PokemonGO pic.twitter.com/7eqPmstl90— ENTJ Probs (@entj_probs) July 10, 2016 Now that the world and your social media feed has been overtaken with Pokemon Go news, it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sprig Relaunches Guest Chef Series With David Nayfeld Of Upcoming Che Fico Che Fico, the big new Italian restaurant coming to the Little Star block of Divisadero (834-838 Divis) that we recently got an update on, is still probably six months off, at least. But
Arts & Entertainment Report: It's Not (Just) You, Your Favorite Dating App Is Full Of Dudes When it comes to online dating, your average 20- or 30-something has a lot of options. Think Tinder, OKCupid, or Grindr to only name a few. The prevalence and variety of dating apps,
SF News Muni Mobile App Will Add 'Rate My Ride' Feature In a move that borders on masochism, Muni's Mobile app, which launched for mobile ticketing last November, will soon prompt users to rate their Muni experience. You know, like Yelp for the SFMTA.
