Business & Tech Apple Fined $27M In France For Purposely Slowing Down Older iPhones Apple has agreed to pay a 25 million euro fine (about $27 million) in a case brought by French regulators concerning the now widely known — and widely derided — practice of using software updates to slow down older iPhones and push people to buy newer models.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Is Growing Too Many Grapes, Causing Prices to Fall Two Years In a Row A combination of factors including new technologies, higher plant yields, and too much optimism about the demand for wine has led to a glut of grapes in California.
SF Politics SF Unlikely To Get Navigation Centers In Every District Despite Supervisor's Push Supervisor Matt Haney has been saying for over a year that there ought to be a homeless Navigation Center in each of San Francisco's 11 supervisorial districts. But legislation Haney has drafted that would make this a mandate appears to have been stalled in committee.
SF Politics Democrats Call on Twitter and Facebook To Remove Doctored Pelosi Video Posted By Trump Facebook and Twitter are being asked to stand up to President Trump and abide by their own rules against deepfakes after the president posted a misleadingly edited video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's ripping up of the State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
SF News Bay Area Family Self-Quarantines Out of Complete Coronavirus Paranoia A Bay Area family that likely had no exposure to the Wuhan coronavirus is now quarantined of their own volition, at home, after taking a flight to Singapore and canceling a trip on a cruise ship.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Acquitted Ghost Ship Defendant Speaks Out Another evacuation flight from Wuhan stopped off at Travis Air Force Base, Muni is considering building operator housing on land it owns, and Keanu Reeves was spotted filming the 'Matrix 4' outside Cafe Zoetrope.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Human Trafficking Ring Busted In South Bay Coronavirus fears won't dampen this weekend's Chinese New Year festivities, AB5 may get loosened for writers and photographers, and 16 "johns" and a pimp were arrested in a human trafficking sting in the South Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Gala to Feature Hard Seltzers For the First Time Some will call it a sacrilege. Others will call it a sign of our calorie-conscious times. But for the first time since its inception, SF Beer Week's opening gala will feature a handful of the beer industry's most controversial new competitor beverage, hard seltzer.
SF News All Flights Between SFO and China Will Stop For At Least Six Weeks Starting late next week, there will be no flights at all landing from China at SFO, and no way to fly directly there from San Francisco either, as the coronavirus crisis worsens.
SF News Notoriously Sketchy Haight Street McDonald's Fully Demolished The infamous McDonald's at Haight and Stanyan is now completely gone, as the building was razed and the site is now almost fully cleared to make way for an affordable housing development.
Business & Tech Bay Area-Based Gilead Sees Potential Legal Conflict With China Over Its Coronavirus Drug The Foster City-based pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, which specializes in antiviral drugs, recently donated some of its experimental drug remdesivir for use in studying potential treatments for the Wuhan coronavirus.
SF News 18-Year-Old In Concord Confesses To Killing His Mother An 18-year-old man was arrested in Concord Wednesday night after calling police to his home and allegedly telling them that he had just murdered his mother.
SF News PG&E Is Still Operating a 'Rickety' Power Line With Rusted Parts Near the One That Sparked the Camp Fire An expert hired by wildfire victims' attorneys recently did an independent inspection of PG&E power lines that are still operational in the vicinity of Paradise, California, and they have found one in terrible shape just 100 yards from the Caribou-Palermo line which sparked the 2018 Camp Fire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Workers Are Looking to Unionize Citing 'Strained' Workplace 140 employees of Tartine Bakery and Tartine Manufactory in the Bay Area are moving to unionize, and they delivered letters to management at Tartine's four primary Bay Area locations Thursday morning.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Drug Sobering Center Coming to Tenderloin Drivers were responsible for most of last year's pedestrian deaths in SF, the head of the local EPA office was just dismissed, and there were two shootings on I-880 in the East Bay on Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Matrix' Stars Spotted Shooting in Chinatown Search warrants were executed in several California locations in the 24-year-old cold case disappearance of Kristin Smart, Dianne Feinstein calls for helicopter regulations following Kobe Bryant crash, and the 'Matrix 4' shoots have begun!
SF Politics Report: Nuru Defaulted to Loyalty As Feds Closed In, Alerting City Hall Friends We're now learning that federally charged Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru may have been trying to watch the backs of "bigger fish" in City Hall when he placed a phone call following his initial arrest by the FBI.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris, and Nancy Pelosi Weigh In On Trump's Historic Senate Acquittal Welp, the inevitable has come to pass. Senate Republicans are immoral partisan loyalists (except for Mitt Romney). And President Trump shall remain in office until (hopefully only until) next January.
SF News Nia Wilson Murder Trial Begins With Gruesome Surveillance Video, Outburst From Accused Killer The murder trial of 29-year-old John Lee Cowell, the mentally unstable transient man accused of killing an 18-year-old woman in an Oakland BART station two years ago, got off to an inauspicious start Wednesday morning.
Business & Tech Uber Gets Back in the California DMV's Good Graces With New Self-Driving Car Permit A little over three years after it unleashed some self-driving cars in San Francisco without any legal permit to do so, Uber has just been granted a new permit to test the autonomous vehicles on California streets.
SF Politics Op-Ed: Whatever You Think Of Nancy Pelosi's Lack of Decorum, Ripping Up That Speech Was Everything SF's own Nancy Pelosi yet again made one for the meme history books on Tuesday night when she used her on-camera moment behind President Trump to rip her copy of his State of the Union address in half. And this is what makes her a badass bitch.
SF News Alamo Square Painted Lady In Need Of Heavy Renovation Sells for $3.5M, $750K Over Asking One of the iconic Painted Ladies along the Steiner Street side of Alamo Square Park just sold after about three weeks on the market. And despite its horrific moldy bathrooms and non-existent kitchen, it went for $750K over asking.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Two Flights Land From Wuhan PG&E cleared another bankruptcy hurdle, five San Jose healthcare workers possibly exposed to the coronavirus were sent home, and a total of 350 Americans are now quarantined at a military base in Solano County after arriving from Wuhan.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 250 Americans Evacuated From Wuhan Headed To Bay Area Quarantine A woman died after crashing into a parked big rig in Santa Rosa, a new statewide rent-control measure is headed to the ballot, and Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield is going to be taking 250 Americans into quarantine from China.
SF Politics Was Mohammed Nuru's Self-Propelled PR Machine To Blame For San Francisco's Filth? The latest City Hall scandal has a lot of people asking whether our allegedly corrupt director of Public Works wasn't at least partly to blame for either pretending the problem wasn't as bad as it was, or fundamentally mis-managing the department responsible for keeping things clean.
