SAN FRANCISCO — In its early days, the quirky tech startup known as Google adopted a visionary corporate credo: “ Don’t be evil .” That later evolved into the motto: “Do the right thing,” reflecting the idealistic ambitions of the company’s founders that its technology could be a force for good.

Though layoffs quickly emerged as a sweeping crisis in post-pandemic San Francisco, it was 2024 when the pink slips became a routine fact of life. Last year, the city witnessed more than 5,500 local layoffs,

Ideo said in a statement it has envisioned 2525 16th St., also known as the Lion Building, as “the center of West Coast creativity” since it moved to the property in 2020. It described Fellow as a “fantastic, like-minded, and design-centered roommate.”

Fluidfreeride opened its store at 360 11th St. in 2022 as its first West Coast outlet, providing in-person retail service and scooter repairs with access to the East and South Bay. It was San Francisco's first store offering electric scooters (a.k.a. "e-scooters") alone rather than as a supplementary offering.

Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County Wednesday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.

SAN FRANCISCO — Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data from people's cellphones after they switched off a button to stop ...

After the deadliest year for pedestrians in nearly two decades, advocates hope new laws and enforcement will bring much-needed change to improving city streets.

Until last year, only one California mammal species had never been caught on camera. A group of Bay Area researchers just shared the first photo of it.

Fresh layoffs have jolted the Bay Area, staffing reductions that are poised to eliminate about 600 jobs in the region.

Though the Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a federal law that could ban TikTok nationwide, it’s unclear how a shutdown of the popular social media platform will play out and what Americans will see when the clock strikes midnight on Sunday.

On Thursday, Apple released a beta update to its software that disables Apple Intelligence summaries of notifications from news and entertainment apps. All iPhones that support Apple Intelligence will get the update when iOS 18.3 gets a wide release in the near future.

Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube are getting ready to welcome TikTok users, as the Supreme Court upheld a law that effectively bans the Chinese-owned app from the United States.