Business & Tech Facebook Algorithm Purposely Played Up Stories About Politics, Crime, and Tragedy While Mark Zuckerberg was talking out one side of his mouth in January 2018 about encouraging more "meaningful interactions" with friends and family, Facebook was simultaneously tweaking its News Feed algorithm to display more posts on the topics of "politics, crime, or tragedy."
Business & Tech Parents Of Slain Woman Launch #WhatsMyName Safety Campaign For Rideshare Users The parents of a South Carolina college student who was kidnapped and killed last month, allegedly by a man whose car she got into believing it was her Uber, are trying to raise awareness of the dangerous trend of people getting into strangers' cars thinking they're rideshares.
Business & Tech Lyft Reverts To Old-Timey Taxi Line In San Diego Airport Test Everything old is new again with rideshare company Lyft at San Diego Airport. The company is using San Diego for a pilot program in which Lyft users will be asked to go to a specially designated taxi line to meet up with a driver.
Business & Tech New Startup Hopes to Fill Your Living Room With Lonely Freelance Workers Yet another startup wants to cram more co-working into Mission District homes, Airbnb style, but city officials are already questioning whether this is even remotely legal.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg Is Now Welcoming Congress To Regulate Facebook Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's latest masterstroke is to shift blame for all the election meddling and harmful content on the internet onto the government, rather than on Facebook.
Business & Tech Facebook Has Decided That 'White Nationalist' And 'White Separatist' Are Just Two Ways to Say 'Racist' On Tuesday, Facebook announced that it's changing its content moderation policy surrounding the categories of "white nationalism" and "white separatism," acknowledging that these are no different than white supremacy.
Business & Tech Apple Announces New Original Shows With Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carrell, J.J. Abrams and More For Apple TV+ At its much anticipated spring unveiling event today in Cupertino, Apple announced the launch of its big Netflix competitor, Apple TV+. The reboot of the Apple TV platform comes with a big slate of new original programming set to start airing this fall.
SF News Facebook Says It Removed 1.5 Million Copies Of The New Zealand Shooting Video The horrifying 17-minute Facebook Live video made by the accused New Zealand shooter proliferated on social media in the first 24 hours, and Facebook says it removed 1.5 million copies in that first day alone — 1.2 million of which were caught on upload.
Business & Tech Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Experience Simultaneous Server Issues It ain't so great having three major social platforms served from the same place when the servers go down!
Business & Tech Jilted YouTuber Arrested for Making Criminal Threats Against Google Personnel Upset that his YouTube channel was shut down, a man drove 3,000 miles across the country to settle a score with Google.
Business & Tech Airbnb Acquires HotelTonight In Hopes Of Becoming ‘The Amazon Of Travel’ The company’s biggest acquisition yet adds a last-minute hotel booking app to its growing arsenal of hospitality offerings.
Business & Tech Teacher Documents How Many Phone Notifications Her Students Get During One Period And It's Stress-Inducing We are raising a generation of constantly distracted chatbots and an experiment by one beleaguered teacher illustrates this in a most upsetting fashion.
Sponsored This Mother-Son Real Estate Duo Has Handled Nearly $500,000,000 in S.F. Home Sales It is no secret that the San Francisco real estate market is among the world's most desirable. From extravagant mansions priced multiple times beyond your expected lifetime earnings to run down, single-room shacks
Business & Tech Facebook Is Reportedly Receiving Mounds of Sensitive Health Data Via Third-Party Apps Without Your Knowledge After a year of especially terrible press, growing government scrutiny, and eroding public affection, Facebook is staring down yet another potential scandal involving sensitive user data.
SF News Reese Witherspoon Surprised The Current Residents In Her Old Stanford Dorm Room Elle Woods is like, in my room. The Huffington Post reports that actress and clothing company proprietress Reese Witherspoon popped by her former dorm room while on a recent visit to her alma
SF News As Rumors Of Second Massive Round Of Layoffs Swirl, Twitter Reschedules Its Earnings Report Alas, poor Twitter. Once upon a time, it was fun and useful, helping foment political change and providing a home for succinct quips. But those days are long gone, it appears, and the
SF News Britex Fabrics May Move After 64 Years, But Will Remain In SF Asked to share her go-to recommendation for maker-folk from out of town, Project Runway star and local designer Emily Payne shouted out Britex Fabrics, describing it to SFist as "a family-run luxury fabric
SF News San Francisco Gets 'F' Grade For Small Business 'Friendliness' Running a small business in the gilded city of San Francisco is a drag, or so says contractor-for-hire site Thumbtack, which just released a study asserting that because of roadblocks like "regulations," San
SF News Poll: One Third Of Bay Area Residents Say They'll Leave Soon According to a new poll by pro-business policy group the Bay Area Council, 34 percent of Bay Area residents are "likely to move out of the Bay Area in the next few years,
SF News Apothecarium Dispensary To Uproot And Expand To Former Mecca Spot You'll still have no trouble locating an apothecary for all your weed needs on Market Street in the Castro — only now it will be half a block up Market, at 2029, not 2095
SF News Retail Report On Castro District Says No More Coffee, Maybe Enough With The 'Adult' Stores With over 30 vacant retail spaces along the Castro and Upper Market retail corridor, the area's vacancy rate — 8% — is nearly twice the city’s overall average. That's prompted a new 200 page
SF News Scathing NYT Profile Says Marissa Mayer Messed Up With Yahoo Those who aren't hanging on to Yahoo stock may not have been paying attention when their stock price tumbled this past July, and again in September. Both tumbles, which it's since recovered from,
SF News 'Tech Workers Are Not Robots,' Says Mayor Ed Lee In Intriguing NYT Interview In an interview with the New York Times, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee all but french kisses the city's tech industry, the people in it, and all that it embodies. (Understandably so.) Which
SF News Mayor Ed Lee To Walk MidMarket This Morning Talking Twitter IPO Twitter's initial public offering is set to happen as early as this Thursday. It's also set to make some people rich and some people unhappy. Naturally. In an effort to sooth concerns on
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Classic Stores In S.F. If you've been following the news lately, San Francisco is a city that doesn't care much for chain stores. We prefer local. And although the recent economic boom has pushed out many stores
