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San Francisco proposes 18-month moratorium on new Amazon delivery facilities (updated)
San Francisco has proposed legislation that would impose an 18-month moratorium on delivery facilities from Amazon and others.
GM's Cruise now offers public driverless taxi rides in San Francisco
GM's Cruise is now offering driverless taxi rides to the public in San Francisco, although you'll need to sign up for a chance at a free trip.
Bird expands its electric wheelchair and mobility scooter rentals to San Diego
The vehicles are also now available in San Francisco.
Apple details 3D maps rollout plan for iOS 15
The 3D view is now available in London, NYC, San Francisco and LA, with more cities coming soon.
Waymo's autonomous vehicles have clocked 20 million miles on public roads
The company provided an update on its self-driving program.
Uber expands its grocery delivery service to more than 400 US cities and towns
The service now covers major markets like San Francisco, New York City and Washington DC.
Android users can now tap to pay for transit rides in the Bay Area
Google Pay joins Apple Wallet in supporting Clipper cards.
Amazon's Rivian-made electric vans start deliveries in San Francisco
Amazon is now using Rivian's electric vans to deliver packages in San Francisco — the first time the EVs have been put to use beyond LA.
Apple Pay will soon work on BART and other Bay Area transportation
Apple has announced that the Wallet app support for the Clipper card, the Bay Area's all-in-one reloadable transit card, is "coming soon."
Waymo's set to test its self-driving taxis in San Francisco
Alphabet's self-driving subsidiary Waymo is for the first time expanding its testing range beyond the boundaries of the Phoenix, Arizona area and heading to the City by the Bay.
Google will turn some of its offices into COVID-19 vaccination sites
Google will convert some of its facilities into COVID-19 vaccination sites starting in New York City, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and Kirkland, Washington.
DoorDash teams up to open a restaurant in California
DoorDash is partnering to launch its first restaurant, Burma Bites, in a bid to boost its takeout and delivery business.
Revel's electric mopeds come to San Francisco amid growing safety concerns
Revel is expanding to San Francisco despite concerns the company isn't doing enough to protect its riders.
How it feels to survive Silicon Valley and a pandemic
It shouldn’t feel like it took a pandemic to get Twitter to boot 7,000 QAnon accounts (and crack down on 150,000 more related to the violent conspiracy group), but it does. At least Twitter is doing harm mitigation around its role in this interconnected disaster. Five months in, you’d think 145,000 American deaths would move platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to ban virus “truther” content, but nah.
Google is granting another $4 million towards affordable Bay Area housing
Last year, Google committed $1 billion towards addressing the lack of affordable housing in the Bay Area, acknowledging that as one of the largest employers in the region it has a responsibility to help. In its announcement today, Google also shared more on what it calls its “housing first” approach to the homelessness crisis. Google said its housing first approach prioritizes giving people safe and stable shelter before they can get other support like “mental health care, drug rehab, food assistance, or job training programs.”
DoorDash faces lawsuit from San Francisco DA over worker classification
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has filed a lawsuit against DoorDash for, in his own words, “illegally misclassifying employees as independent contractors.”
Waymo's self-driving vans will return to Bay Area streets on June 8th
Waymo is putting its self-driving cars back on the road in the San Francisco Bay Area on June 8th, but only for deliveries and not passengers.
Contact tracing apps are coming whether we like it or not
Can you imagine trying to get 80 percent of Americans, from the privacy and security aware to coronavirus “truthers,” to download a tracking app? It could also save a lot of money; our economy is bleeding out before our eyes.
ER docs don smart rings to better predict COVID-19 infections
Some 2,000 emergency medical workers in San Francisco are tracking their temperature and other vitals with Oura's smart rings in an attempt to limit the spread of COVID-19, SF Chronicle reports. Oura and researchers from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) hope to use that data to develop an algorithm that will predict the onset of COVID-19 and help contain the virus.
Uber resumes self-driving car tests on San Francisco streets
Two years after Uber suspended all self-driving car tests following the death of a pedestrian, it is creeping back onto San Francisco's streets. Today, Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) resumed testing its autonomous vehicles in the city, TechCrunch reports.