SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Violent Crime Spikes In Bay Area [BuzzFeed] says that "As Facebook Reveals Dark Posts, Twitter Keeps Them Hidden." "Maximum penalties" proposed for cops who don't properly secure guns in cars. [KRON 4] Violent crime spiked in Bay Area cities
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Bay Area Economy Outpaces Rest Of US Russia threatens to block Facebook over data storage. [Associated Press] The Bay Area economy is growing at nearly triple the country's overall rate. [SF Chronicle] The wife of troubled fintech startup SoFi's former
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: Uber's CEO Apologizes To London Uber's CEO is apologizing to London. [CNet] [Associated Press] The number of homeless SFUSD students is on the rise. [SF Examiner] UC's increased tuition is going toward the school system's rising pension costs.
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: Caltrain Fares Shoot Up Your face can now be filtered during your Instagram Live video. [Ad Week] New BART station canopies will display departure times at street level. [Curbed SF] Cheapo Whole Foods opening in Concord. [SF
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Creepy Van Man Spotted In Berkeley Google is buying part of HTC’s smartphone team for $1.1 billion. [The Verge] Twitter will meet with the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding Russian election interference. [Wired] The new Apple Watch isn't
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Angry Owl Saved From Dashboard Disaster Mulling the "Pao Effect." [Wired] Despite hopes for a grocery store in long-empty Post Street space, a surgery center is proposed there instead. [SocketSite] How to ride a bike in SF. [Curbed SF]
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Robbers Leave Creepy Clown Mask Behind Following anti-Semitic scandal, Twitter's ad targeting gets a scrub. [Ad Week] Messaging startup Slack has just pulled $225 million more in funding. [CNet] [Snopes] takes on falsehood that "California's governor is allowing people
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: Oakland Library Faces Heinous Tagging What "real people" think of the iPhone X. [CNet] Still more ethical concerns raised for AI. [Wired] Marin home of the one-time world's fastest man goes on the market. [SF Gate] Officials debate
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: SoFi CEO Bows Out Early Facebook advertisers can't edit headlines or excerpts of news articles anymore. [Ad Week] Apple's data-mining privacy controls leave much to be desired. [Wired] Waymo's suit against Uber can move forward, judge rules. [Bloomberg]
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Gray Whale Cove Beach Trashed Ted Cruz's Twitter "like" exposes porn's happy relationship with the social media company. [Huffington Post] Google is launching their new phone, the Pixel 2, on October 4. [The Verge] Pinterest says they now
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: SF's Homicide Count Hits High Airbnb just got a new ad agency. [Ad Week] New Golden Gate Ferry dock planned for Sausalito. [ABC 7] Three local design teams are competing to make over Harvey Milk Plaza. [SF Chronicle]
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: Troll Farms Menace Facebook Senate leaders want Twitter to talk to them about Russian election interference. [Ad Week] Speaking of, new Russian "troll farms" are menacing Facebook. [Wired] Giant Mission Creek development will be home to wine
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Maverick's Sale Stalls Your life is now complete: Facebook will soon allow colored comments. [Ad Week] SF settles with firm that allegedly misrepresented immigration services. [SF Chronicle] Apple's fight to make Siri sound human. [Wired] Don't
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: The Exception To Silicon Valley Liberalism [Ad Week] takes a look at the science behind sharable video. [Wired] wonders if Twitter will ever be fun again. Hoyt Smith, the Bay Area's morning voice of classical radio, is retiring. [SF
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Safe Travels, Ted Rheingold It's true, @tedr passed away today. But as you can see by the mentions on Twitter, we definitely didn't lose him. pic.twitter.com/qxNaDA67S6— Chris Sacca (@sacca) September 5, 2017 After he
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: How SF Validates Cyclists Why Apple made its 11th-hour stand for net neutrality. [Wired] Instagram users will soon be able to post Stories via the mobile web.[Ad Week] Berkeley is the most expensive college town in
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Endangered Frogs Get Innoculations Essential phone admits embarrassing leak. [CNet] Uber investor writes overwrought letter regarding fraud suit against Travis Kalanick. [Wired] For the first time in ages, CCSF is packed. [SF Gate] SF State might suffer
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Tim Cook's $89.6 Million Windfall Instagram's updated its multiple photos feature to allow portrait or landscape type images. [Ad Week] Tim Cook's ten-year deal pays off with . [Associated Press] Top engineer departs Twitter. [Ad Week] "Women tech entrepreneurs
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Uber (Finally) Lets You Opt Out Of Post-Ride Tracking American's richest people are octogenarians, except in Silicon Valley. [Bloomberg] Chicken John making his Chez Poulet a legit event space and hotel. [SocketSite] Uber is finally letting you opt out of having your
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: Stop Fretting About That $1000 iPhone Stanford Study says a baby's race and ethnicity affect the quality of care they receive in California neonatal intensive care units. [SF Chronicle] Photographer releases book on Burning Man architecture. [Wired] [CNet] explains
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: Travis Kalanick Allegedly Continues Uber Meddling People who tweet using their Xbox have a whole new experience these days. [Ad Week] Uber investors complain to judge that ousted CEO Travis Kalanick won't leave the company's board alone. [Bloomberg] SOTA's
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Dog Disappears From Oakland Groomer Google might unveil new Pixel phones in October. [CNet] Bay Area-based fake meat company Memphis Meats raises $17 million. [SF Chronicle] Bob Murphy, the longtime voice of Stanford sports, has died. [ABC 7]
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Turmoil Depresses Uber Valuation Soon you'll be seeing publication logos (like ours!) next to Facebook content. [Ad Week] How Facebook, Apple, and Google are changing TV. [Wired] Salesforce releases pretty decent earnings report. [Bloomberg] Berkeley businesses post
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: SF Man Feared Lost In River Reddit users had better prepare for hella video ads. [Ad Week] Online hate speech isn't always black and white. [Wired] Iran might let Twitter in. [Associated Press] These restaurants get service raves from
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: Tattling On Errant Drones Facebook's AR system is basically that part in Minority Report where every billboard says the name of the (15-year-old spoiler) guy whose eyes Tom Cruise was wearing. [Ad Week] Why driverless cars don't
