SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: Essential Phone Reviews Roll In [Wired] gives a mostly positive review to the Essential Phone. Uber's former CEO characterizes a lawsuit brought against the company by investors as a "personal attack." [CNet] iOS 11 has a "cop button.
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Last Muni Metro Shutdown Weekend Approaches The artist who painted Mark Zuckerberg with feces has a show in SF. [Wired] SF's luxury towers race to be the fanciest. [SF Gate] [CNet] says tech diversity reports leave a lot to
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: ICE Raid Reported In Oakland [Google]'s putting pollen reports front and center. Uber's current management plan "is a recipe for a wreck," [Wired] argues. The Essential Phone might finally be headed to buyers. [CNet] Everything you ever
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: 'Nail Thrower' Targeting East Bay Tires Report claims there are still places in SF to get a house for less than a million bucks. [SF Gate] Another scientific takedown of James Damore's memo, but let's face it, anyone still
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: Baby Found Safe Following Oakland Carjacking Stanford's Cantor Arts Center has a new director. [SF Chronicle] San Francisco's infamous Sixth Street will undergo a makeover in 2019. [Moving SF] First responders to UPS shooting honored at City Hall. [ABC
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Do You Live On A Privately Owned Street? A useful and brief look at there were are with the Hunter's Point redevelopment project. [SocketSite] More on Instagram's disappearing photo problem. [Consumerist] Domestic violence charges against former San Francisco 49ers cornerback Tramaine
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Shuttering Chinatown Businesses Blame Central Subway Instagram will let you invite friends onto your livestream. [CNet] How Peter Thiel's company edged its way into police work. [Wired] Do San Franciscans pay close to half their incomes just to rent
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Valencia Street Dinged For Bike Unfriendliness Do you like your brands sassy or bland? [Ad Week] We're in the final days of Muni's 7R bus. [Moving SF] "A complicated set of technology transfers and corporate acquisitions" behind Uber's alleged
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: Chron Backs Market Street Plan That's one fancy barn. [SocketSite] Man runs into burning Berkeley apartment building to save neighbor. [ABC 7] Suspects sought in weekend kidnapping and robbery at Berkeley's People’s Park. [Daily Californian] An unidentified
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: Social Media Villains To Avoid A field guide to social media villains. [Ad Week] Apple has filed a patent for a screen with privacy-viewing options. [CNet] Uber Freight has expanded to CA. [SF Chronicle] Coding boot camps aren't
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Millbrae Thief Caught On Tape How Firefox plans on crushing Chrome. [CNet] Is Netflix's future in anime? [Wired] Which San Francisco mega-project needs to happen most? [Curbed SF] Complaints follow UC Berkeley's new draft policy for groups that
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Instagram Stories Turns Two Dealing with Silicon Valley's age problem. [Wired] Tesla owners described as "fanatical." [Roadshow] North Face planning "concept store" on Union Street. [SocketSite] Instagram Stories is already a year old. [Ad Week] UC Berkeley
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Mission Co-Working Spot Under Scrutiny Uber drivers need armed guards in South Africa. [CNet] Family of beavers moves to Los Gatos Creek for first time in 170 years. [ABC 7] [Slate] argues that Lyft needs to do more
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: Boater Almost Hits Sunken Bay Vessel Five arrested in daring Dutch iPhone heist from moving truck. [Associated Press] Should tech companies attempt to police the web? [Wired] Rash of car burglaries at BART. [CBS 5] A boater nearly crashed
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: CA Coders Rank Behind Those In Washington, Wyoming Coding skills survey says California's developers rank behind Washington and Wyoming. [CNet] [SF Gate] has a fun slideshow of tech CEOs before they were on top. [Curbed SF] quite rightly calls out glowing
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Development Near BART Stalls Twitter makes itself even less useful (if possible) by crapping up "notifications." [Ad Week] Do Wisconsin workers have the skills necessary to work in new American Apple plant? [Wired] Chinatown alleys are cool.
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: San Francisco's Jacket Demands San Jose school staffer arrested for alleged sexual assault of developmentally disabled woman. [CBS 5] San Francisco in jackets. [Racked] [CNet] predicts disappointing earnings for Twitter in light of company's continuing problems. Lyft
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: Food Prep Causes Oakland Homeless Encampment Fire [Wired] takes a look at Sunset surfboard maker Danny Hess. Mark Zuckerberg does lengthy livecast while backyard grilling. [CNet] Point Reyes ranching might soon come to an end. [KQED] Pharma bro Martin Shkreli
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: Look Out For Lake Merced Fish Airbnb is on track to host a million guests by the end of 2017. [SF Business Times] YouTube is trying a tech fix to direct viewers away from extremist videos. [CNet] Mountain lion
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Twitter Ignores Harassers Until Media Comes Calling Disability rights organization files class-action lawsuit against Uber over wheelchair access. [Associated Press] No one knows who will be securing the Transbay Transit Center. [SF Examiner] San Jose police dog attacks toddler. [NBC
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Facebook 'Glitch' Kills Catholic Pages Time Out makes its San Francisco print debut. [Ad Week] Ride hail companies are costing airports big parking bucks. [Roadshow] Geary BRT moves forward. [KTVU] Teen arrested in fatal Richmond park shooting. [SF
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Caltrain To Seize Property For Electrification Effort Publisher dumps book co-written by Silicon Valley VC John Doerr and tech CEO Kris Duggan following a sexual harassment and assault suit against the latter. [Bloomberg] [Beyond Chron] looks at the upcoming race
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: Why Twitter Won't Ban The President Here's how 10 San Francisco high schools performed on the AP exams. [SF Gate] SF's board of Supes is expected to OK a city-wide Office of Cannabis this week, with opening costs of
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: Raccoons Allegedly Imperil Bay Area Dogs If CA legislators don't take more aggressive steps to manage global warning, Jerry Brown says he'll instead to cut greenhouse gas emissions through “massive” new regulations. [SF Chronicle] SF will no longer approve
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Apple Panic As iPhone 8 Nears "Sense of panic" at Apple over rush to release iPhone 8. This weekend, Sunday Streets is in the Mission. [Moving SF] Cal Alumni Association faces discrimination, retaliation claims. [Daily Californian] Merchants impacted by