City of the Future
San Francisco in 2108IwamotoScott ArchitectureWhat will San Francisco look like 100 years from now? According to the winning entry in a "city of the future" contest, residents will live in a forest of...
View ArticleSeattle Bag Fee
Plastic Bags Zainub Seattle is poised to join the ranks of San Francisco and Ireland by imposing restrictions on the use of disposable shopping bags. The City Council vote on the proposal—expected to...
View ArticleSan Francisco Requires Cell Phone Retailers to Display Radiation Output
Electro-Magnetic ModelPaul WoottonElectro-magnetic waves from the phone's antenna penetrate the brain several centimeters deep.Never mind that the largest study ever conducted on the cell phone-cancer...
View ArticleSprint's Super-Fast 4G Coming to New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles This Year
HTC Evo 4GJohn MahoneyClearwire, which provides the infrastructure for Sprint's 4G network here in the States, announced today that it'll be expanding 4G coverage to the three cities it needs to...
View ArticleWhy Aren't We Afraid Of A Tsunami Hitting San Francisco?
Watch Out For Tsunami!Wikimedia CommonsWhen news broke of a 7.3-magnitude earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan early this morning, our first reaction was to fear a tsunami. The devastating...
View ArticleMeet San Francisco's Only Resident River Otter
Sutro SamSean Havey, SF ChronicleA young river otter has been christened Sutro Sam after he moved into the Sutro Baths, an abandoned ruin of a 19th-century spa complex on San Francisco's Pacific coast,...
View ArticleThis Is What A Shipwreck Looks Like After 113 Years
Radar Image City of Rio de JaneiroCoda Octopus/NOAAA sonar view of the wreck of the SS City of Rio De JaneiroScientists have created new images of the wreckage of the SS City of Rio de Janeiro which...
View ArticleSlow Progress For Fast Trains in California
High Speed TrainCalifornia High-Speed RailAn artist's rendering of how Transbay Terminal A will look, complete with a high-speed trainTomorrow, in Fresno, California, the state's High-Speed Rail...
View ArticleCalifornia Hospital Doing A Six-Way Kidney Transplant. How Does That Work?
Kidney SurgeonistockPhotoSurgeons at the California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) in San Francisco have gotten pretty good at doing kidney transplants; they have done about 200 of them per year since...
View ArticleWhy Did A Drone In San Francisco Drop Burgers On The Homeless?
In 20 years time we will look back on the gimmick drone video as a strange artifact of the 2010s. Sometimes a marketing concept, sometimes just a joke, the gimmick drone videos all share in common a...
View ArticleApple's Computer Operating System Is Officially macOS
Technology That is all Apple's Computer Operating System Is Officially macOS…
View ArticleThe Most Important New Features Coming In MacOS Sierra
Technology Siri, automatic unlock, and a universal clipboard The Best New Features Coming In MacOS…
View ArticleEverything New With Siri At Apple's Developer Conference
Technology A smarter Siri that works with other apps Everything New With Siri At Apple's Developer Conference…
View ArticleApple Steps Up Its Fitness Game With Health Apps For Apple Watch
Health And wants you to practice mindfulness and deep breathing with new Breathe Tracking your every step, breath, and hour of sleep you get is a rising trend in the health tech world, and Apple seems...
View ArticleApple's iMessage Is Getting A Ton Of New Features
Technology Better emoji support, expanded links, and invisible ink Apple's iMessage App Is Getting Tons Of New Features…
View ArticleThe Apple Watch Just Made Calling For Emergency Help Much Easier
Technology You can call 911 on your Watch, from any country with international emergency numbers built in You can’t predict when you are going to be in an emergency, but you can predict, to some...
View ArticleYou'll Soon Be Able To Delete Apple's Default Apps
Gadgets In iOS 10 You'll Soon Be Able To Delete Stock Apple Apps…
View ArticleApple Now Has A Neural Network API
Gadgets Unlock Apple's machine learning with a few lines of code Apple Now Has A Neural Network API…
View ArticleHere's What Apple Didn't Mention During Its WWDC Keynote
Gadgets iOS 10 will include an ‘Air Quality Index’ for China, and other lesser-known features Here's What Apple Didn't Mention During Its WWDC Keynote…
View ArticleSan Francisco Will Ban Styrofoam Products From City
Environment Say goodbye to those packing peanuts you love so much The city of San Francisco unanimously passed an ordinance banning the sale of polystyrene on Tuesday.
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