[ad_1] Despite ongoing safety concerns about its platform, Revel is expanding into San Francisco. As The Verge notes, Monday’s announcement is not the electric moped rental company’s first expansion into the Bay Area; it also operates in Berkeley and across the Bay Bridge in Oakland. But San Francisco area users will have access to a […]
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How it feels to survive Silicon Valley and a pandemic
[ad_1] If RSA’s attendees were even able to score an Airbnb, it was second to the tech companies who’d, for years, packed employees into expensive rentals that once were on the normal-person market. Companies whose fat salaries also pushed rents out of reach for locals. Both had ensured a steady flow of evictions among artists, […]
Google is granting another $4 million towards affordable Bay Area housing
[ad_1] According to Google, Larkin Street Youth Services has been able to secure a hotel in San Francisco to “house homeless youth who have been deprioritized from housing waitlists.” During the pandemic, giving people a safe place to live has been even more important, “given the added risk of contracting the virus among people who […]
DoorDash faces lawsuit from San Francisco DA over worker classification
[ad_1] As TechCrunch notes, companies must pass what’s called the “ABC test” (PDF) to be able to legally classify workers as contractors. They must prove that workers are free from their direct control and do other work outside the scope of their business. Their workers must also be “engaged in an independently established trade, occupation […]
Waymo’s self-driving vans will return to Bay Area streets on June 8th
[ad_1] In a statement, Waymo told Engadget that it was ramping up after “careful consideration” and that its team’s health and safety was its “number one priority.” You can read the full statement below. A driver talking to The Verge characterized this as Waymo exploiting a “loophole” to get back to testing, but that’s not […]
Contact tracing apps are coming whether we like it or not
[ad_1] Plus, I think everyone sucks at security and few things are as bad as app security. I know this can be done right. I understand the security, privacy and cultural constraints of how to make a contact tracing app successful while not trampling our human rights. But does anyone pushing us to the inevitability […]
ER docs don smart rings to better predict COVID-19 infections
[ad_1] Workers at UCSF Medical Center and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital are wearing the devices, and Oura has asked another 150,000 users to share their data. The rings aren’t exactly comprehensive trackers, but they do record body temperature, heart rate and other vitals. In the near term, they could alert medical workers if they […]
Coronavirus bursts Big Tech’s bubble
[ad_1] During RSA’s second day, the City of San Francisco declared a State of Emergency. By day three, California confirmed its first Coronavirus case of unknown origin, sending the world outside RSA into a tailspin. Needless to say, this was not one of the viruses 40,000 infosec professionals were looking for. However, RSA is a […]
Microsoft won’t be at GDC because of coronavirus
[ad_1] “After a close review of guidance by global health authorities and out of an abundance of caution, we’ve made the difficult decision to withdraw from participating at Game Developers Conference 2020 in San Francisco,” Microsoft said in a blog post. “The health and safety of players, developers, employees, and our partners around the world […]
Uber can resume testing its self-driving cars in California
[ad_1] After the fatal crash, Uber stopped testing its self-driving cars in all four of its testing grounds — Tempe, Arizona; Toronto; San Francisco and Pittsburgh. However, the company resumed testing in Pittsburgh just months later, and has plans to begin tests in Washington, D.C. by the end of the year. About a year after […]