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20 Nov

Get in, Loser—We’re Chasing a Waymo Into the Future

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A third-generation San Franciscan, Gabe says he grew up playing with Nancy Pelosi’s kids and went to high school with Gavin Newsom, and now he’s a driver the way they’re politicians—it’s in his blood. He’s been operating taxicabs, Ubers, or Lyfts since 1995, and even helped organize a taxi workers’ strike in the late ’90s. He has also written about driving, ride-hailing, or motorcycling for the past two decades. And if you think we’re being silly about car-chase movie tropes, Gabe was a machine-gunner for the US Marines during the first Gulf War—so he is at least ex-military. He’s driving…

10 Sep

An Underwater Data Center in San Francisco Bay? Regulators Say Not So Fast

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NetworkOcean isn’t alone in its ambitions. Founded in 2021, US-based Subsea Cloud operates about 13,500 computer servers in unspecified underwater locations in Southeast Asia to serve clients in AI and gaming, says the startup’s founder and CEO, Maxie Reynolds. “It’s a nascent market,” she says. “But it’s currently the only one that can handle the current and projected loads in a sustainable way.”Subsea secured a permit for each site and uses remotely operated robots for maintenance, according to Reynolds. It plans to fire up its first underwater GPUs next year and also is considering private sites, which Reynolds says would…

16 Aug

San Francisco aims to take down AI undressing websites in new lawsuit

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San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced he intended to shut down 16 of the most popular AI “undressing” sites at a press conference on Thursday. reported that the City Attorney is accusing these sites of violating federal laws regarding revenge pornography, deepfake pornography and child pornography. Chiu’s office also accused the sites of violating the state of California’s unfair competition law because “the harm they cause to consumers greatly outweighs any benefits associated with those practices,” according to filed in a California superior court.The complaint focuses on a total of 50 defendants Chiu intends to prosecute for operating undressing…

16 Aug

Ubisoft Entertainment Cuts 45 People From Its US Staff

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Ubisoft Entertainment SA, maker of video games like Assassin’s Creed, cut 45 jobs this week at its offices in San Francisco and Cary, North Carolina, as the industry continues a period of retrenchment.In a statement, a Ubisoft spokesperson said the “difficult yet necessary decision was made to align these studios’ organizations with their future business and development objectives.” Affected employees will receive severance and career assistance. Source link lol

14 Aug

Google Play ‘Can Do Better’ on Faster Antitrust Fix, Judge Says

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A California federal judge said he will order Alphabet Inc.’s Google to open up its app store in the coming weeks and chided the tech giant for not accepting a jury verdict that it monopolized Android app distribution and billing.Jurors in December sided with the maker of the popular video game Fortnite and concluded that Google unlawfully abused its power over Android apps, which brought in $14.66 billion in revenue in 2020 for the tech company. US District Judge James Donato in San Francisco is now deciding what policy changes Google must make to comply with federal antitrust law. Source…

14 Aug

Brain Tech Breakthrough Restores ALS Patient’s Ability to Speak

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Last August, Casey Harrell spoke the first clear words his five-year-old daughter could remember hearing him say, a repeat of his wedding vows to her mother, Levana Saxon. The adults in the room cried. The moment was possible thanks to a wave of innovation in one of the most challenging areas of medicine: reconnecting the brain to the body once something – an accident or an illness – has severed the ties. While Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp. gets most of the attention and investor money in the space, academic labs and rival startups are notching significant advances in repairing that…

12 Aug

Inside Worldcoin’s Orb Factory, Audacious and Absurd Defender of Humanity

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The startup, co-founded by Sam Altman, is determined to verify every human on Earth, one iris at a time. Source link lol

10 Aug

Ex-Twitter Chairman Sues Elon Musk’s X for $20 Million in Shares

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Former Twitter Chairman Omid Kordestani sued the social media company, claiming that billionaire owner Elon Musk is refusing to cash out more than $20 million worth of shares he is owed.Kordestani served as the company’s executive chairman from 2015 to 2020 and stayed on the board for two more years, until Musk bought the platform for $44 billion. He said in the complaint that the bulk of his compensation was stock, which he says Musk is refusing to pay out. Source link lol

07 Aug

Instacart Posts Sales Beat, Issues Strong Earnings Outlook

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Instacart posted better-than-expected sales in the second quarter, signaling that the grocery-delivery business has a strong enough user base to support its longer-term bet on advertising.Revenue gained to $823 million, far surpassing analysts’ expectations of $806 million. The value of orders placed during the quarter totaled $8.19 billion, also beating estimates. That’s even while the San Francisco firm reported that overall orders grew at a slower pace than expected. Source link lol

05 Aug

Elon Musk’s X Is Leaving San Francisco

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The social media company X is closing its San Francisco office “over the next few weeks,” according to an internal email sent out by CEO Linda Yaccarino earlier today. “This is an important decision that impacts many of you, but it is the right one for our company in the long term,” Yaccarino wrote in the email, first reported by The New York Times.Employees in San Francisco reportedly will be moved to new locations in the Bay Area, “including the existing office in San Jose and a new engineering focused shared space with [xAI, Musk’s AI startup] in Palo Alto,”…