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The Big Story

Get in, Loser—We’re Chasing a Waymo Into the Future

By WIRED Staff
Gear

San Francisco Will Pay $212 Million for Its Train System to Ditch Floppy Disks

By Scharon Harding, Ars Technica
Business

An Underwater Data Center in San Francisco Bay? Regulators Say Not So Fast

By Paresh Dave and Reece Rogers
Business

Elon Musk’s X Is Leaving San Francisco

By Lauren Goode
The Big Story

The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist Goes Meta

By Jason Kehe
Gear

San Francisco’s Train System Still Uses Floppy Disks—and Will for Years

By Scharon Harding, Ars Technica
Business

5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance

By Lauren Goode and Tom Simonite
The Big Story

How Citizen Surveillance Ate San Francisco

By Lauren Smiley
Business

Robotaxis Can Now Work the Streets of San Francisco 24/7

By Aarian Marshall
Business

To Save Downtowns, Destroy Them

By Amit Katwala
Business

San Francisco Mayor London Breed on the City’s Troubles—and Hopes

By Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode
Business

Dashcam Footage Shows Driverless Cars Clogging San Francisco

By Paresh Dave
Ideas

The Story You’ve Heard About Cities and the Drug Crisis Is Wrong

By Maia Szalavitz
Business

An Autonomous Car Blocked a Fire Truck Responding to an Emergency

By Aarian Marshall
The Big Story

Welcome to Miami, Where All Your Memes Come True!

By Arielle Pardes
Business

In the US, the AI Industry Risks Becoming Winner-Take-Most

By Khari Johnson
The Big Story

How Many Microcovids Would You Spend on a Burrito?

By Gregory Barber
Business

While Big Tech Prospers, an Eviction Crisis Looms Next Door

By Arielle Pardes
Business

The Cameras Aim to Deter Break-ins. They Monitor Protests

By Sidney Fussell
Science

San Francisco Was Uniquely Prepared for Covid-19 

By Daniel Duane
Transportation

Build Cities for Bikes, Buses, and Feet—Not Cars

By Adam Rogers
Business

In the Land of Big Tech Outposts, a Push for More Housing

By Gregory Barber
Transportation

San Francisco Joins the Move to Ban Cars From a Major Street

By Alex Davies
The Big Story

A Controversial Minister Makes Peace With Techies in the Battle for San Francisco’s Soul

By Chris Colin
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