VIDEO: A Look at the Rare San Franciscan Without a Cellphone
Behold “Phone Life,” a video made by Ivan Cash that looks at the life and phone habits of two San Franciscans....
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Ask These People if the Anti-Tech Movement is Over
After a yearlong battle, tenants being evicted from their home in the Mission by a Google executive took their demands — and a petition — to Google’s San Francisco headquarters in a rally attended by about 50 people....
Map Shows Just How Much of SOMA Tech Controls
A new visualization of major tech real estate deals over the past three years shows just how much office space the industry controls in SOMA....
Now Why’d They Have to Go and Make the New Asian Emoji Yellow?
I am an emoji addict. Who needs words when you can simply text a smiley faced poop when you’re having a craptacular day?...
A New Service Will Deliver Boston Snow Straight to Your Door
It’s been a rough couple of months for Boston. The city’s seasonal snowfall accumulation hovers at 100.2 inches (close to the record of 107), and temperatures have been just this side of cryogenic for weeks....
Would You Go on This Sleepover to Get a Job?
We all remember our first sleepover, whether it was in a rec room, a tree house, or under the stars....
Get Ready for Everything in San Francisco to Be Named after the Rich
San Franciscans have traditionally been wary of the wealthy and certainly hesitant to let rich donors buy their way onto the marquees of our prized public facilities....
New App Tells You if You’re a Sexist Tipper
If you’re not familiar with the gender pay gap, a new app will help you figure out what it’s all about....
New Blind Dating App Makes Men Compete for a Date
Let the dating games begin for real. A new dating app launching in beta today in San Francisco let’s men compete to be a woman’s date....
Why Your Wearable Fitness Tracker is Junk
Let this be a trigger warning to any obsessive-compulsives, but a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association claims your wearable fitness tracker might not be worth shit....
Dream Job Alert: Get Paid To Judge Dating Profiles
Good news, someone wants to pay you for doing something you probably already do in your free time: judge people online....
This Map Tells You How Long Muni Will Actually Take
Anyone who rides public transit knows that timetables are a crapshoot. Some days Muni delivers you across town on schedule; other days you’re stranded at your stop, staring at a blank LED ticker, and knowing there’s a good chance you’ll die and skeletonize before the bus pulls up....