US newspaper circulation slide accelerates
Daily circulation figures for US newspapers released on Monday provided more bad news for an industry battling the flight of readers to the Web and battered by a steep decline in advertising revenue.
View ArticleSan Francisco police help search for lost iPhone
(AP) -- San Francisco police officers helped Apple Inc. investigators look for a missing iPhone prototype that was left in a city restaurant in July, the police chief said, the second time in two years...
View ArticleSan Fran college's computer network compromised
(AP) -- The computer networks of a San Francisco community college have been infected with software viruses that illegally transmitted personal data from students and employees overseas, school...
View ArticleTwitter widens window to links in tweets
Twitter added Wednesday to the array of online content people could preview in messages without having to click on links included in tweets.
View ArticleFacebook chief Zuckerberg 'tackling politics'
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg is helping form a group to lobby for US political reform in areas such as education and immigration policy, according to US media reports spreading online.
View ArticleExotic lice causing balding in California deer
California wildlife officials in say an invasion of aggressive lice is causing deer across the state to go bald and is linked to numerous deer deaths.
View ArticleForeign airlines urged to use GPS at San Francisco (Update)
U.S. aviation officials have advised all foreign airlines to use a GPS system instead of visual reckoning and cockpit instruments when landing at San Francisco International Airport in the wake of the...
View ArticleGoogle-funded sea research vessel sets sail
A $60 million research ship funded by a Google executive is setting sail from San Francisco to study a so-called "dead zone" in the Pacific Ocean and other mysteries of the sea.
View Article'Eraser' law will let California kids scrub online past
Teenagers' nightmarish propensity to post underage party hijinks, flesh-flashing and nasty commentary online have found a dream come true in California, which will soon let them erase their tracks.
View ArticleFacebook launches ferry service for employees
Facebook has become the latest San Francisco Bay Area technology company to launch ferry service for its employees.
View ArticleJudge extends order blocking data destruction
A federal judge in San Francisco has extended his nationwide order blocking the National Security Agency from destroying telephone surveillance records.
View ArticleSan Francisco parking app refuses shut-down order
The company behind an app that allows San Francisco drivers to get paid for the public parking spaces they exit is rejecting an order from the city attorney to stop its operations.
View ArticleGoogle 'anti-aging' group has a website
Google's new company aimed at addressing problems of health and aging has taken a step forward—with its own website and mission statement.
View ArticleSan Francisco expands free public Wi-Fi access
San Francisco launched free Wi-Fi access at more than 30 public parks, plazas and recreation areas on Wednesday, thanks to a grant from Google.
View ArticleMysterious goo blamed in San Francisco Bay Area bird deaths
The death of 100 birds in the San Francisco Bay Area has baffled wildlife officials who say the creatures' feathers were coated with a mysterious substance that looks and feels like rubber cement.
View ArticleEmaciated sea lion rescued on San Francisco boulevard
Official say that an emaciated sea lion yearling that was probably looking for food was rescued along a major San Francisco boulevard, more than 1,000 feet from the ocean.
View ArticleResearcher finding ways to counter negative narrative about young black males
As school began last September, newspapers were once again filled with stories of the poor academic achievement among African-American and Latino students.
View ArticleCalifornia's solar energy set power supply record in March
A new estimate from the U.S. government shows that California met its goal to produce about half the state's electricity from renewable sources for three hours on March 11.
View Article$1 billion tower lifts San Francisco skyline to new heights
More than 60 stories above the ground, construction workers climb makeshift stairs and cross narrow steel planks to put the finishing touches on Salesforce Tower, now San Francisco's tallest building.
View ArticleGrowing dilemma: Automated jobs meet social consciousness
Security guard Eric Leon watches the Knightscope K5 security robot as it glides through the mall, charming shoppers with its blinking blue and white lights. The brawny automaton records video and...
View ArticleCalifornia court reinstates foie gras ban
A US court in California on Friday re-instated a ban on foie gras in a move celebrated by animal rights activists who have long opposed the controversial French delicacy made by force-feeding ducks and...
View ArticleFires destroy part of Hewlett-Packard archives
California's deadly wildfires destroyed much of an archive from tech pioneers William Hewlett and David Packard, such as a decades-old memo in which Hewlett proposes designing a calculator that can fit...
View ArticleMountain lion in San Francisco neighborhood is tranquilized
A mountain lion cornered by a game warden near a San Francisco playground and shot with a tranquilizer gun on Friday has been fitted with a GPS collar and is ready to go back into the wild.
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