SF News You Can Now Call An Uber Via Facebook Messenger Uber and Facebook have finally teamed up, but the merger. The two companies announced yesterday that you can now hail an Uber via Facebook's Messenger. "Powered by Uber’s API, Messenger now enables
SF News BREAKING: Netflix Releases <i>Fuller House</i> Teaser Trailer Do you hear it? Everywhere you look. In the back of your head? There's a heart. Getting louder and louder? A hand to hold on to. Over and over again? Everywhere you look.
SF News Top Five Local Spots To Get In That <i>Star Wars</i> Mood Without Having To Travel To A Galaxy Far, Far Away We know the story: You really, really love Star Wars but for some reason slept on getting those tickets and now all the showings are sold out for the foreseeable future (i.e.
SF News SFMTA May Extend Illegal Church Parking To All, Proving We All Worship The Gods Of Parking The survey results are in, and the views of neighbors and business owners have been neatly tallied. And now, in classic San Francisco style, it's time to dismiss all of that and come
SF News $150,000 Super Bowl 50 Hotel Offer Confirms That This Is Just The Worst. All Of It. Super Bowl 50 is soon upon us, and as San Francisco busies itself in preparation by telling the homeless they'll have to leave, San Jose has gotten to work extending the red carpet
SF News Two Narrow Hayes Valley Lots Could Soon Be Home To Two Five-Story Developments The narrow lots located on Octavia Boulevard between and Oak and Fell Streets could soon be a lot more crowded as plans to develop the 18-foot-wide parcels have been submitted to the Planning
SF News Stranger Helps Man On Floor Of BART Train While Everyone Else Stands Around One man's story of helping a stranger in need is receiving a lot of attention this week. It seems that a BART passenger, noticing a man passed out on the floor of the
SF News Self-Driving Cars Will Still Need A Human Driver, Say DMV Draft Rules Coming nearly a year after its January 1st, 2014 deadline, the California Department of Motor Vehicle today released those draft rules governing the use and operation of self-driving cars on California roadways. In
SF News Two Of Muni's Electric Buses Caught Fire Last Week Two electric Muni buses caught fire last week, leading to the immediate evacuation of passengers and the inspection of a substantial part of the Muni Trolley Electric Coach fleet. The fires occurred on
SF News Defense For Alleged Kate Steinle Shooter Wants Murder Charges Dismissed Attorneys for Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, the man charged with murder in the high profile death of Kate Steinle on San Francisco's Pier 14 this past July, have filed a motion requesting the charge
SF News Day Around The Bay: FAA Announces Drone Registration Rules FAA announced new rules requiring registration for some drones and RC planes. [ABC 7] A Sacramento Kings player used a gay slur against a gay referee. [KRON 4] [Yahoo] [ABC 7] Former Alameda
SF News Fresno Police Using Software Apparently To Track #BlackLivesMatter Protesters The Fresno Police Department has over the course of the last two years used social media surveillance systems to identify potential "threats" in the community it polices — including a product called MediaSonar which
SF News [UPDATE] Supervisors Set To Tank New Jail Project With Vote Today It looks like we might not be getting that bright and shiny new jail after all. With a crucial Board of Supervisors vote on the project set for today, six Supervisors have officially
SF News Hayes Valley To Get Three New Parklets Late Next Year The San Francisco Planning Department recently approved three new parklets for Hayes Valley, but due to a planned city construction project in the area, residents and shoppers will likely have to wait until
SF News Garbage Human Martin Shkreli Once Again Plans To Massively Raise Cost Of Lifesaving Drug "THEY SEE ME ROLLING..." pic.twitter.com/D1mDBEeZMq— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) September 16, 2015 Much reviled pharma guy Martin Shkreli has yet again revealed himself to be operating from a place of questionable
SF News 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:
SF News More And More People Flagrantly Being Carpool Lane Cheats The carpool lane — that spot where suburban dads become outlaws. As Bay Area commute times increase, it appears that single-driver carpool-lane cheats are on the rise, and the California Highway Patrol is having
SF News Prepare To Get Turnt: BART To Run Until 3 AM New Year's Day Hey party people, good news: As they have in previous years, BART has announced it will runs trains until 3 a.m. on New Year's Eve night/New Year's Day. The extra time
SF News Why Was City Hall Lit Up With Christmas Colors During Hanukkah? With the end of Hanukkah tonight, the Festival Of Lights officially comes to a close for 2015. And so, it is perhaps more than a little confusing that over the course of the
SF News Listing For $500-A-Month Crawl Space Is Real, And People Want To Rent It Look, we get it: There are a lot of people in the Bay Area who really, really need a place to live. There are equally a lot of people attempting to capitalize on
SF News Are Tech Employees' Salary Demands Creating A 'Talent Crisis'? It feels good to be wanted. It's a feeling that employees in the tech industry know well, and with a new survey suggesting that hiring for coding talent in the first six months
SF News Have A Cool $20 Million To Spare? Consider Buying This San Francisco Hill. In the Forest Knolls neighborhood of San Francisco sits a hill. The property, which covers 1.15 acres, is currently undeveloped. That may change rather quickly, however, as the lot is presently listed
SF News Assault Rifles, Silencers, And Grenade Launcher Seized Following Raid Of Illegal Distillery An East Bay man was apparently channeling Al Capone, as a tip to agents of the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) led not only to the discovery yesterday of an illegal
SF News Study Finds 'Widespread Discrimination' On Airbnb Three researchers at Harvard Business School published a study Wednesday documenting "widespread discrimination against African-American guests" on the short-term rental platform Airbnb. The researchers found that individuals with "distinctively African-American names" are less
SF News FAA Would Like You To Narc On Irresponsible Drone Fliers Near SFO When someone almost crashed their drone into a California Highway Patrol helicopter last weekend, we hoped this prominent case of boneheadedness might serve as ample warning to other drone pilots to keep their
