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If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? (2021)
Son Masayoshi has shown that the future of technology lies as much in Asia as in Silicon Valley (2020)
San Francisco’s sky-high apartment rents are falling fast. The median monthly rate for a studio in the city tumbled 31% in September from a year... (2020)
The measure, affecting millions of tenants, is the biggest step in a nationwide surge of initiatives to address rising costs and homelessness. (2019)
California, the land of golden dreams, has become America’s worst housing nightmare. Recent wildfires have only heightened the stakes for a stat... (2019)
A "plant explorer" helped establish the crop in California. “When the American government slapped a retaliatory embargo on Iranian pistachios, ... (2019)
With the bill’s passage, California’s ride-hailing drivers, food-delivery couriers, janitors and others are set to be reclassified as employees and... (2019)
THE LOS ANGELES regional food bank distributes 300,000 meals a month, but that, says its director, Michael Flood, is only a fraction of what the hu... (2018)
About half of Google’s workers are contractors who don’t receive the same benefits as direct employees (2018)
After the city passed a tax on businesses to tackle its housing crisis, corporations mounted a counter-attack. And other cities are watching. (2018)
Long plagued by poverty and desperation, Stockton, Calif., is testing universal basic income as a means of improving the lives of its people. (2018)
Urban California should emulate Tokyo, which ensured the supply of dwellings stayed ahead of population growth. (2018)
Jobs site Indeed also found that 18 percent of those who work in the tech industry worry “all the time” about losing their jobs because of ageism. ... (2017)
SB 243 is designed to protect children and vulnerable users from harms associated with use of AI companion chatbots. (2025)
SB 53 requires large AI labs – including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind – to be transparent about safety protocols. It also ensures w... (2025)
The Valley Village resident said she had gone to the 101 overpass on Gower Street to distribute sandwiches and water to people living at the encamp... (2021)
California’s climate policy created up to 39 million carbon credits that aren’t achieving real carbon savings, according to new research. But compa... (2021)
California’s landmark net neutrality law — erected in 2018 and then immediately blocked by lawsuits from Trump’s Department of Justice and the tele... (2021)
The state faces serious and growing climate change-fueled challenges – including wildfires, heatwaves and rolling blackouts. But it’s better equipp... (2020)
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company is not capable of employing all of its drivers in California, as it was ordered to do by a state judge.... (2020)
After expressing interest in processing campus security camera footage with facial recognition software, UCLA is backing down. In a letter to Evan ... (2020)
In Santa Cruz, an unauthorized graduate student strike threatens to spill into its second week, with no clear resolution in sight. (2020)
A document obtained by Motherboard shows how DMVs sell people’s names, addresses, and other personal information to generate revenue. (2019)
The cost of living in the Bay Area "... After living on the East Coast for eight years, I’d recently left New York City to take a job at an inve... (2019)
California’s more than $2.75 trillion economy makes it the world’s sixth largest and is a source of pride for the state. But that impressive ranki... (2018)
A firefighting helicopter had to be grounded several times overnight to avoid a drone whose pilot was apparently trying to snap photos of the flames. (2019)
At some unspecified time, somewhere down the road, Traptic would love to expand its robots to pick a wide variety of crops. For now, however, the S... (2019)
Senate lawmakers passed a controversial bill, known as AB 5, after months of uproar from businesses and gig companies such as Uber and Lyft. The bi... (2019)
The state Assembly just passed a bill that could give Uber and Lyft drivers basic labor protections for the first time. California AB5: State Asse... (2019)
Ridership on the city's bus system is plummeting, so the transit agency is redesigning it—with the help of location data from about 5 million cell ... (2019)
John Oliver discusses the water shortage in the American west, how it’s already impacting the people who live there, and what God has to say about ... (2022)
VICE News Published on Sep 11, 2017 Perennially perched at or near the top of lists of America’s most expensive and affluent cities, San Franci... (2019)
How the headquarters of the world's largest social network went from a Harvard dorm room to the vast site it occupies today. For more by The B1M su... (2019)
[Recorded: November 20, 2008] Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private... (2018)
What happened to the laugh track? For nearly five decades, it was ubiquitous, simulating in-person audience experiences in home living rooms. But b... (2018)
Powerhouse has 1,198 ratings and 112 reviews. Peter said: If you've read the epic oral histories of SNL and ESPN, then you may know what you're in ... (2018)