SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alphabet Is Now Delivering Chipotle Burritos By Drone In news that is sure to cause college students around the country to choke on their bong water, Google parent company Alphabet today announced that its Project Wing drone division has teamed up
SF News We May Be Getting Google Drone Delivery As Soon As Next Year Google parent company Alphabet is one step closer to realizing its promise of having drones deliver all the dumb stuff you order online right to your doorstep. CNet reports that the company was
Arts & Entertainment Nerd Alert: Drone Racing And Combat Facility Coming to Palace Of Fine Arts For all the droning on about how the ubiquitous little flying robots can pose a deadly threat to aircraft, knock out power stations, and enable jerkish behavior, it’s easy to forget that
Arts & Entertainment Electromagnetic Wave Gun Zaps Drones, Provides Hope To SF An electromagnetic wave gun that disables drones by disrupting their controls, causing them to safely land in place or return to whence they came, could provide drone-riddled San Francisco with a solution to
SF News R2D2 Robot Things Want To Deliver You Stuff While human delivery people may someday face competition from flying Amazon and Google drones, those drones themselves may have a worthy competitor in robots, the likes of which the Chronicle now profiles. “It
SF News Which Are More Dangerous: Scofflaw Cyclists, Or Bad-Mannered Drone Flyers? Yesterday's post about the drone crashing into the Clement Street farmers' market which thankfully didn't hurt anyone but easily could have has got me thinking about one of our city's other hot-button arguments,
SF News Man Crashes Drone Into Farmers' Market, Then Gets Mad About Being Photographed Only in SF? Here's an alternate headline: Man Surreptitiously Photographing People At Farmers' Market Suddenly Has Privacy Concerns About Being Photographed. You've got tech, farmers' markets, inconsiderate drone behavior, and privacy paranoia all
SF News Twitter Patents Crowdsourced Tweet-Controlled Drone, FAA (Presumably) Cries Like its fluttery mascot, Twitter dreams of flight. The social media titan was granted a patent last week for a tweet-controlled drone, with user actions on the platform (think retweets) somehow determining the
SF News Officials Forced To Erect Anti-Drone Signs After Pilots Ignore Golden Gate Bridge Ban We told you back in April to stop flying your drones around the Golden Gate Bridge, but you just couldn't listen, could you? Well, maybe you could, but enough folks couldn't, and now
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
SF News Someone Almost Crashed A Drone Into A CHP Helicopter On Saturday A California Highway Patrol helicopter pilot had an unexpected encounter with a drone over the weekend, and was forced to take evasive maneuvers in order to avoid collision. It seems that a person
SF News Amazon Debuts New Delivery Drone Prototype, Still Has No Idea When They Will Be Deployed Remember when we all scoffed at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' 2013 claim that his company was developing a drone delivery system? Well, according to a company announcement, their plan to unleash hoards of
Arts & Entertainment Drone Video Distraction: Fly From Pier 45 To Alcatraz In 2015, the Bird Man of Alcatraz wouldn't mess around with flighty pigeons. He'd have drones. Helping us imagine what that might look like is the above video. Yep, it's over a mile,
SF News Chief Google Engineer Says Crazy Thing About 2017 Drone Deliveries The company formally known as Google (Alphabet) hopes to have drones delivering you baby wipes and other small items by 2017, according to one of the company's engineers. The announcement was made yesterday
Arts & Entertainment Blue Angels, City-Wide Drone Ban, And More: Fleet Week Returns To San Francisco It's that time of year again — San Francisco Fleet Week, after a budget-cut 2013 meant basically no celebration at all, roared back in October 2014, and has returned this weekend for all the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Burners Welcome Fallen Drone As New Dance Party God When a drone carrying a camera in the sky high above the playa crash-landed — like a space probe on a new, dusty planet — the locals welcomed their newcomer as a new totem or
SF News Southwest Pilots Spot Five-Foot Drone While Landing At Oakland Airport Some pilots aboard a Southwest flight landing at Oakland International Airport Saturday evening reported seeing a "fairly good-sized drone" in restricted airspace, just off to the plane's right side, flying at about 2,
SF News Video: Off To The Santa Cruz Drone Races As long as you aren't flying them around the Golden Gate Bridge (you're not supposed to do that, guys) or attacking or spying on someone with yours, drones are a nifty hobby. Tinkerers
SF News Stop Flying Your Drones Around The Golden Gate Bridge! Multiple times a month, remote controlled drones have been seen buzzing the iconic Golden Gate Bridge shooting videos like the one above, but there are a couple of major problems with this according
Arts & Entertainment Drone Porn: Fly Over The Golden Gate With This 4K Footage Remember that drone-shot porn video, the one that was basically just regular, fly-over drone footage, but featured two people in a field in flagrante delicto? Well this drone footage is way sexier. It's
SF News Space Race 2.0: Facebook Matches Google Balloons With Internet Drones Facebook will match your balloon and up you a drone. Just as Google put a brave face on its Project Loon, the mission to blanket the world in internet broadcast from high-altitude balloons,
SF News People Keep Losing Their Drones All Over Town Remember how that $1200 drone appeared, apparently disabled, in the middle of Fulton Street a couple months back and some people decided to take it inside and post it on Craigslist? Well, situations
SF News Alamo Square Residents Creeped Out By Fallen Drone Last Saturday on Fulton Street, a man stepped out to smoke and noticed a blinking machine in the middle of the street. He approached it, examined it, found that it was a rather
SF News Video: A Drone's-Eye View Of The Mission Bay Fire Speaking of drones, while we were glued to the aerial feeds from the news choppers during Monday's five-alarm Mission Bay fire aerial photographer Ross Barringer was flying his quadcopter overhead to capture the
SF News Drones To Start Making Drugstore Runs In The Mission Beating Amazon to the punch in their area of drone-delivered goods, local startup QuiQui says they will start offering drone-based deliveries of prescription medication and other sundry drugstore items to the Mission district
