Chunks within this location

San Francisco - government, policy issues
GSV - Global Silicon Valley
California Consumer Privacy Act
a collection of articles about Pixar and Disney
a collection of articles about Silicon Valley
a collection of articles and resources about Triplebyte - an interview platform for hiring engineers
A collection of articles about Adobe
a collection of articles about Silicon Valley - benefits
a collection of articles about corporate campuses, Company Towns and Economic Development in California, Silicon Valley and San Francisco
a collection of articles about Silicon Valley - challenges
A collection of articles and videos about Politics in Silicon Valley
The curious history of The Laff Box, and automated laughter on TV sitcoms
Articles and videos looking at team building, diversity and tech industry culture
A look at what individual cities and states (USA) are doing in the fight for Net Neutrality
History of Silicon Valley - Innovative Startup Ecosystem
Articles and videos looking at “what’s wrong” with the culture of Silicon Valley and the technology industry

Resources for this Location

Article

California cracks down on carbon. Business and the climate. Emissionary zeal

California’s crackdown on carbon will have international repercussions. It is not just attacking big oil. Big everything is in the line of fire | B... (2023)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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California Governor Signs Bill Allowing College Athletes To Profit From Endorsements : NPR

Gov. Gavin Newsom said the measure he signed is "the beginning of a national movement." It's also sure to irk the NCAA, which has banned athletes f... (2019)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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Why California’s Wildfires Are So Destructive, In 5 Charts | FiveThirtyEight

The Camp Fire in Northern California has already been the most lethal and most destructive in state history, and it continues to burn. The death to... (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)


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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)


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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)


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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

Fire and Rain -- Floods after Forest Fires || 99% Invisible

Nestled between the mountains and the ocean, right next to Santa Barbara, sits Montecito, California. The community is charming and geographically ... (2018)


Podcast

Built to Burn - Wildfires, and Design of Housing, Landscape || 99% Invisible

The Santa Ana winds of Southern California are sometimes called the “Devil Winds.” They pick up in the late summer and early fall, sweeping down fr... (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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Parent Location: USA

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53 Articles
4 Videos
5 Podcasts
16 Chunks