Technology
In May 2020, a Zoom bomber subjected a bible study class to repellent pornographic videos. The church and its fellow plaintiffs won a settlement described as groundbreaking.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit dedicated to creating an indelible record of humanity’s transition into the digital age, operating out of a former Christian Science church in the Inner Richmond since 1996. There, a small team of digital librarians work tirelessly to acquire and archive documents and data from across the world, seeking to construct a modern Library of Alexandria.
The training wheels are finally coming off. In the past few weeks, San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city where autonomous vehicles have provided fully driverless rides to members of the public.
Many major S.F. companies already have vaccine mandates, though most workers are still staying away from the office.
The tech sector is booming, but city leaders worry that remote work will undercut the recovery of the downtown economy.
The city’s 311 system processes 20,000 requests for street cleanup per month, but inefficiencies abound between city crews and private neighborhood efforts. A recent push hopes to change that.