Ideo said in a statement it has envisioned 2525 16th St., also known as the Lion Building, as “the center of West Coast creativity” since it moved to the property in 2020. It described Fellow as a “fantastic, like-minded, and design-centered roommate.”

Three California cities showed the largest increases and decreases in an annual report of the best-performing cities in the nation.

Though layoffs quickly emerged as a sweeping crisis in post-pandemic San Francisco, it was 2024 when the pink slips became a routine fact of life. Last year, the city witnessed more than 5,500 local layoffs,

Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube are getting ready to welcome TikTok users, as the Supreme Court upheld a law that effectively bans the Chinese-owned app from the United States.

SAN FRANCISCO — In its early days, the quirky tech startup known as Google adopted a visionary corporate credo: “ Don’t be evil .” That later evolved into the motto: “Do the right thing,” reflecting the idealistic ambitions of the company’s founders that its technology could be a force for good.

Other economists have made similar points: Daron Acemoglu of M.I.T. and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University use the term “so-so technologies” for systems that replace human beings without meaningfully increasing productivity, such as self-checkout kiosks in supermarkets.

Millions of TikTok users in the United States are no longer able to watch videos on the social media platform as a federal ban on the immensely popular app takes effect.

Self-driving cars, also known as autonomous vehicles, are not yet available for purchase by consumers. The combination of computer processing power and advanced automotive

SAN JOSE — Hotel development nosedived in California and the Bay Area in 2024, fresh evidence the statewide lodging market may still be affected by economic conditions following a global pandemic, a new report shows.

Until last year, only one California mammal species had never been caught on camera. A group of Bay Area researchers just shared the first photo of it.

For years, Waymo's driverless ridehailing cars have been wreaking havoc on San Francisco streets, triggering traffic jams, getting stuck in roundabouts, and even colliding with a delivery robot. And when it comes to construction sites — a common fixture in a major metropolis like San Francisco — Waymos are having a hard time.

Waymo’s acceleration was all the more striking in a year that saw General Motors shut its Cruise robotaxi unit after pouring $10bn into the venture since 2016, as well as Apple abandoning its Project Titan car project.