SF News Microsoft Claims 'Coordinated Attack' Turned Its Lovable Twitter Bot Racist Microsoft today issued an official statement regarding its wildly racist, sexist, antisemitic, homophobic, transphobic, 9/11 truther Twitter bot with the lovable name of "Tay." The machine learning, artificially intelligent bot was taken
Arts & Entertainment Five Giant, Light-Up Rabbits Coming To Civic Center Civic Center will soon play host to a massive exterior public art project that, contrary to first impression, is about the cute and cuddly topic of the environmental destruction of our planet. A
SF News Campos's Shelter-Crisis Declaration Now Has Veto-Proof Majority There's a line wrapping around the Board of Supervisors chambers filled with speakers who are demanding that the City declare a state of emergency to deal with our homeless crisis. A photo posted
SF News Bill To Make All SF Single-Occupancy Restrooms All-Gender Moves Forward San Francisco is poised to take a step toward common sense, as legislation introduced by Supervisor David Campos to make all single-occupancy restrooms within the city all-gender was approved in committee yesterday. So
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sorry Catfishers, Facebook Testing Anti-Impersonation Tool Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Should you have to show an ID in order
SF News Huge Gender Wage Gap Persists For Computer Programmers Women are paid less than men. This discrimination manifests across numerous professions, even when factors like experience and education are taken into account. However, a new study by Glassdoor confirms what many in
SF News SF Dinner With Hillary Clinton And George & Amal Clooney Costs $353K Hillary Clinton asking for $353k/couple to sit at table with her & George Clooney at 4/15 funder. #EverydayAmericans pic.twitter.com/hAHXIjdo1s— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) March 24, 2016 While she
SF News Microsoft's Tween Twitter Bot Instantly Goes Full Racist, 9/11 Truther Microsoft is doing damage control today after an artificial intelligence Twitter bot it created went totally batshit insane — tweeting vile racist, sexist, 9/11 truther, and other garbage at the world. The AI,
SF News Oculus Rift To Be Released Monday, Nerds Rejoice Get set, nerds! In a determined step toward a digital future, Facebook is set to release its first round of Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets early next week. The Rifts differ from the
SF News Police Find Toddlers Missing In The Tenderloin, Mother Arrested San Francisco police announced this afternoon that the two toddlers believed to be missing in the Tenderloin have been found safe. Apparently a woman, known only to the mother as "Jacquita," brought the
SF News Mission's New Bitcoin ATM Open Until 2 AM, Ensuring Good Late-Night Cryptocurrency Decisions We've all been there: It's late, the bars are closing, and you really want to party through it but your techno-utopian drug dealer only accepts bitcoin. What's a guy/gal to do? Before,
SF News Seattle's #ManInTree Climbs Down, Ending Bizarre 24-Hour Standoff 2016's hottest Halloween costume? #ManInTree pic.twitter.com/J7WkoejwTG— Austin Santiago (@AuzSantiago) March 23, 2016 Have you been following the #ManInTree ordeal? At some point yesterday morning, the above pictured man climbed the
SF News Police: 'Operator Error,' Not Faulty Brakes, To Blame For Union Square Tour Bus Crash The San Francisco Police Department this morning announced their findings in the case of the tour bus that this past November careened wildly out of control and crashed into the Apple store. Despite
SF News Mission, Castro Bike-Share Station Locations Selected For Huge Expansion After launching in the summer of 2013, Bay Area Bike Share and its distinctive sea foam blue bikes have become part of the downtown landscape. However, due in part to the bike manufacturer
SF News Something Is (Allegedly) Rotten In The State Of SF Youth Soccer Despite that old chestnut claiming there are more dogs than children in San Francisco, kids do still live in our fair city — and more and more of those precious bundles of joy, it
SF News Details Emerge In Lawsuit Against Vallejo Police From Woman Falsely Accused Of Faking Own Kidnapping Remember the totally bizarre and hoax-sounding March 2015 kidnapping and ransom case involving Vallejo resident Denise Huskins? After she was released from two days of captivity, Huskins and her partner Aaron Quinn were
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Do This Week With spring officially upon us, and the rain mostly in the rearview mirror, you no longer have a healthy excuse to stay inside and lament the state of the world. So get out
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Everyone, Last Night's Rainbows Were Amazing You saw those rainbows last night, right? As predicted, yesterday brought with it some serious late-afternoon rain, which was quickly followed by sunshine and amazing displays of color. The double rainbows arcing over
Arts & Entertainment [Updated] Is This The Outside Lands 2016 Lineup? It appears that the people over at SF Station may have jumped the gun with an earlier post, caught by an eagle-eyed SFist reader, listing an 2016 Outside Lands lineup which has not
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter Turns 10 Today is Twitter's 10th "birthday" (don't you feel old?), and founder Jack Dorsey has some things to say about the company's future. [Cnet] [Bloomberg] The Obama administration gave Airbnb special permission to do
SF News Feds Can Likely Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Postpone Tomorrow's Hearing Well this certainly is interesting. According to Nate Cardozo, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the government moved to vacate tomorrow's scheduled hearing in the ongoing Apple versus the FBI encryption
Arts & Entertainment Video: Man Dancing For Cars On The 101 Overpass Is A Sweetheart With Bay Area traffic at peak awful, and BART totally shot for the foreseeable future, commuters are spending more and more time stuck in traffic. Enter Javonne Hatfield, the 23-year-old San Francisco resident
SF News Someone Finally Found A Use For Google Glass (Hint: Not Wearing Them) Google Glass, amirite folks? The much-ridiculed and short-lived face-computers officially got the axe early last year when Google announced it was halting their sale. However, we learned late last year that Alphabet intended
SF News Photos: Here's What Went Down At Silicon Valley Comic Con Yesterday brought with it the conclusion of Silicon Valley Comic Con — the science fiction and fantasy convention spearheaded in part by Steve Wozniak that this past weekend graced San Jose for the first
SF News [Update] Apple Unveils Smaller iPhone SE, Smaller iPad, Updated Watch Bands Scroll to the bottom for updates following this morning's launch. Apple CEO Tim Cook made headlines today, but in contrast to the last few weeks the talk won't be about encryption. Instead, expect
