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San Francisco - government, policy issues

San Francisco - government, policy issues

GSV - Global Silicon Valley

GSV - Global Silicon Valley

California Consumer Privacy Act

California Consumer Privacy Act

Pixar and Disney

a collection of articles about Pixar and Disney

Silicon Valley

a collection of articles about Silicon Valley

Triplebyte - interview platform for hiring engineers

a collection of articles and resources about Triplebyte - an interview platform for hiring engineers

Adobe

A collection of articles about Adobe

Silicon Valley - benefits

a collection of articles about Silicon Valley - benefits

Company Towns and Economic Development in California, Silicon Valley and San Francisco

a collection of articles about corporate campuses, Company Towns and Economic Development in Cali...

Silicon Valley - challenges

a collection of articles about Silicon Valley - challenges

The Laff Box - automated laughter on TV sitcoms

The curious history of The Laff Box, and automated laughter on TV sitcoms

Diversity and tech industry culture

Articles and videos looking at team building, diversity and tech industry culture

Net Neutrality - State and Local efforts

A look at what individual cities and states (USA) are doing in the fight for Net Neutrality

History of Silicon Valley - Innovative Startup Ecosystem

History of Silicon Valley - Innovative Startup Ecosystem

Criticism of tech industry culture

Articles and videos looking at “what’s wrong” with the culture of Silicon Valley and the technolo...

Resources for this Location

Article

Woman sues L.A. after being struck by a car on a street where tents block the sidewalk

The Valley Village resident said she had gone to the 101 overpass on Gower Street to distribute sandwiches and water to people living at the encamp... (2021)


Article

Carbon Offsets - The climate solution adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere

California’s climate policy created up to 39 million carbon credits that aren’t achieving real carbon savings, according to new research. But compa... (2021)


Article

California can finally enforce its landmark net neutrality law, judge rules - The Verge

California’s landmark net neutrality law — erected in 2018 and then immediately blocked by lawsuits from Trump’s Department of Justice and the tele... (2021)


Article

Opinion | California Is Making Liberals Squirm - The New York Times

If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? (2021)


Article

SoftBank Technology investing - The lessons from the Vision Fund

Son Masayoshi has shown that the future of technology lies as much in Asia as in Silicon Valley (2020)


Article

Bloomberg - San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.

San Francisco’s sky-high apartment rents are falling fast. The median monthly rate for a studio in the city tumbled 31% in September from a year... (2020)


Article

In defense of California

The state faces serious and growing climate change-fueled challenges – including wildfires, heatwaves and rolling blackouts. But it’s better equipp... (2020)


Article

Uber CEO on the fight in California: ‘We can’t go out and hire 50,000 people overnight’

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company is not capable of employing all of its drivers in California, as it was ordered to do by a state judge.... (2020)


Article

UCLA backtracks on plan for campus facial recognition tech

After expressing interest in processing campus security camera footage with facial recognition software, UCLA is backing down. In a letter to Evan ... (2020)


Article

UC Santa Cruz Graduate Student Strike Grows out of a Housing Crisis

In Santa Cruz, an unauthorized graduate student strike threatens to spill into its second week, with no clear resolution in sight. (2020)


Article

The California DMV Is Making $50M a Year Selling Drivers’ Personal Information - VICE

A document obtained by Motherboard shows how DMVs sell people’s names, addresses, and other personal information to generate revenue. (2019)


Article

Gimme Shelter - The cost of living in the Bay Area - Harper's Magazine

The cost of living in the Bay Area "... After living on the East Coast for eight years, I’d recently left New York City to take a job at an inve... (2019)


Article

Despite California’s immense wealth, the middle class is in decline – The Mercury News

California’s more than $2.75 trillion economy makes it the world’s sixth largest and is a source of pride for the state. But that impressive ranki... (2018)


Article

California Approves Statewide Rent Control to Ease Housing Crisis - The New York Times

The measure, affecting millions of tenants, is the biggest step in a nationwide surge of initiatives to address rising costs and homelessness. (2019)


Article

How California Became America’s Housing Market Nightmare - Bloomberg (2019)

California, the land of golden dreams, has become America’s worst housing nightmare. Recent wildfires have only heightened the stakes for a stat... (2019)


Article

Water-dropping helicopters grounded due to illegal drones - Los Angeles Times (2019)

A firefighting helicopter had to be grounded several times overnight to avoid a drone whose pilot was apparently trying to snap photos of the flames. (2019)


Article

America's Pistachio Industry Came From a Single Seed - Gastro Obscura

A "plant explorer" helped establish the crop in California. “When the American government slapped a retaliatory embargo on Iranian pistachios, ... (2019)


Article

Traptic uses 3D vision and robotic arms to harvest ripe strawberries – TechCrunch

At some unspecified time, somewhere down the road, Traptic would love to expand its robots to pick a wide variety of crops. For now, however, the S... (2019)


Article

California passes AB5 bill to regulate Uber, Lyft and the gig economy - Vox

Senate lawmakers passed a controversial bill, known as AB 5, after months of uproar from businesses and gig companies such as Uber and Lyft. The bi... (2019)


Article

California Passes Landmark Bill to Remake Gig Economy - The New York Times

With the bill’s passage, California’s ride-hailing drivers, food-delivery couriers, janitors and others are set to be reclassified as employees and... (2019)


Article

California is cracking down on the gig economy - Vox

The state Assembly just passed a bill that could give Uber and Lyft drivers basic labor protections for the first time. California AB5: State Asse... (2019)


Article

LA’s Plan to Reboot Its Bus System—Using Cell Phone Data | WIRED

Ridership on the city's bus system is plummeting, so the transit agency is redesigning it—with the help of location data from about 5 million cell ... (2019)


Article

UC terminates subscriptions with scientific publisher in push for open access to publicly funded research

As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding ... (2019)


Article

The Rams’ $5 billion stadium complex is bigger than Disneyland. It might be perfect for L.A.

The Los Angeles Stadium, future joint-home of the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers, is on schedule to finish construction by 2020. I... (2019)


Article

The Fight Over Football’s Future Is Now a Battle for California’s Soul - The Ringer

As research into the game’s dangers has spread, politicians, advocates, and parents have clashed over how to protect youth, high school, and colleg... (2019)


Article

Battle of the Ax Men: Who Really Built the First Electric Rock ‘n’ Roll Guitar? | Collectors Weekly

"...author Ian Port, whose new book, The Birth of Loud, has just been published by Scribner, the birthplace of rock ’n’ roll could also be the form... (2019)


Article

How they survived: Owners of few homes left standing took critical steps to ward off wildfires

In a place where the Camp Fire destroyed almost every residence, simple measures saved others. (2018)


Article

SF fines two landlords $2.25 million for illegal Airbnb rentals – TechCrunch

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is laying down the law — literally. Today, Herrera’s office announced a $2.25 million settlement with tw... (2018)


Article

Why one of America’s richest states is also its poorest - Poverty in California -- The Economist

THE LOS ANGELES regional food bank distributes 300,000 meals a month, but that, says its director, Michael Flood, is only a fraction of what the hu... (2018)


Article

San Francisco's Dream of 'Zero Waste' Lands in the Dumpster | WIRED

The city has reduced its trash more than any other American metropolis. But eliminating all garbage, it turns out, is an impractical goal. (2018)


Video

Water: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses the water shortage in the American west, how it’s already impacting the people who live there, and what God has to say about ... (2022)


Video

Making It | What It Costs To Live In San Francisco

VICE News Published on Sep 11, 2017 Perennially perched at or near the top of lists of America’s most expensive and affluent cities, San Franci... (2019)


Video

The Town That Facebook Built | The B1M

How the headquarters of the world's largest social network went from a Harvard dorm room to the vast site it occupies today. For more by The B1M su... (2019)


Video

Secret History of Silicon Valley

[Recorded: November 20, 2008] Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private... (2018)


Podcast

YC podcast #97 - David Hua and Vincent Ning, an episode from Y Combinator on Spotify

David Hua is CEO and cofounder of Meadow. Meadow makes retail and delivery software for dispensaries. They were part of the Winter 2015 batch. You ... (2018)


Podcast

The Laff Box - 99% Invisible

What happened to the laugh track? For nearly five decades, it was ubiquitous, simulating in-person audience experiences in home living rooms. But b... (2018)


Podcast

Gerrymandering - 99% Invisible

The way we draw our political districts has a huge effect on U.S. politics, but the process is also greatly misunderstood. Gerrymandering has b... (2018)


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