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When you think of action stars, what names come to mind? Arnold Schwarzenegger? Jean-Claude Van Damme? Casper Van Dien? These are all great examples, but there’s one up-and-coming star that might outshine them all, and her name is Sheila Francisco. While that might not be a name many Americans will recognize, genre fanatics will certainly […]
Parking spot 141 at 88 Townsend St. in San Francisco is for sale for $ 90,000. Compass Real Estate San Francisco has a notoriously high cost of living. That can also extend to the cost of keeping a car in the city. Case in point: A parking space at a condo complex near Oracle Park […]
This is not Lake Merritt. VisionsbyAtlee/Getty Images A restaurant in Oakland, California is losing business because of the stench of dead fish caused by a huge algae bloom. The restaurant's staff recently scooped out 150 pounds of dead fish. Business is down 60%, according to the restaurant's operations manager. One hundred and fifty pounds of […]
Kimberly White / Stringer Proposition C, a measure which will tax San Francisco’s largest companies in order to combat homelessness, passed on Tuesday. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has been a vocal proponent of Prop C and hailed the victory in a tweet. Prop C would target Salesforce, which Benioff has estimated will pay between $ […]
Apple’s quest to improve Maps’ accuracy appears to include some on-foot action. Former Engadget writer Dante Cesa has posted photos of an Apple Maps worker carrying a backpack loaded with cameras, LiDAR sensors and other equipment as he walked through San Francisco. It’s not certain what the exact goal was, but MacRumors speculated that he […]
Billionaires Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter, and Salesforce head Marc Benioff squared off over whether San Francisco tech giants should be taxed to help solve the city’s catastrophic homelessness problem. At the midterms next month residents of the ultra-liberal city will be asked to vote on Proposition C – a new tax, amounting to approximately […]
Lime just lost a last-minute bid to delay the launch of San Francisco’s electric scooter pilot program. A judge has denied the company’s request for a temporary restraining order that would have blocked Skip and Scoot from launching their services in the city on October 15th. The company had wanted the San Francisco Municipal Transportation […]
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A startup called Standard Cognition hopes to steal some of Amazon’s thunder by opening a cashierless store in San Francisco — Amazon Go currently has three stores, all in the Seattle area. Standard Cognition’s store is open to the public now, and it’s the first real-world test for the company’s retail ambitions. Located in the […]
Dolls Kill has a location in San Francisco where they sell holographic clothes, platform shoes, and fun accessories. See Also: A mom invented a bib that holds kids’ snacks — and it even folds over so you can take it on the go A company in Oregon makes decorative tile and hand paints each one […]
