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Why the Next Generation MacBook Pro Will Probably Launch This June

Heads up, people! The 2012 edition of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference—one of the company’s biggest yearly events—has been announced: June 11 to June 15 in San Francisco. Traditionally, big new stuff always appears at the WWDC, sometimes hardware, sometimes software. What will happen in this keynote, the first by Apple’s CEO Tim Cook? My bet…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Apr 25

Search Ends for Sailors Devastated by Giant Wave

One sailor is dead and four more are missing (presumably dead too) after a rogue wave struck their yacht off the coast of San Francisco, the Coast Guard says. The search and rescue attempt is over. The 38-foot Low Speed Chase was forced onto perilous rocks after a large wave overwhelmed the crew, already on…

Tech News Sam Biddle Apr 16

An Unbelievable Picture of Eight Lightning Bolts Striking San Francisco at the Same Time (Updating)

A hellacious storm rocked San Francisco last night which meant howlin’ winds, pourin’ rain, boomin’ thunder and an ungodly amount of strikin’ lightning. In this picture, we see all four towers of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge being struck with lightning… at the same time. Mother Nature, you are a scary mama. The picture was taken…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 13

What if Blade Runner was set in San Francisco?

The film Blade Runner had Harrison Ford replicant hunting though the dystopian streets of a futuristic Los Angeles. But Philip K. Dick’s original novella Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was set in the San Francisco Bay Area. So how would Blade Runner have looked if Ridley Scott had used San Francisco as his chief…

Movies Lauren Davis Apr 1

A science fictional map of San Francisco as an archipelago city

125 thousand years ago, San Francisco was an island. And soon it will be one again, thanks to rising sea levels. Excellent San Francisco blog Burrito Justice has just posted their latest masterpiece — a science fiction story (with infographics!) about city planning squabbles in the 2070s, when San Francisco has become an archipelago. Click…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 21

Artist Treats San Francisco Beach Like an Enormous Etch-A-Sketch

Bay Area landscape artist Andreas Amador employs San Francisco’s beaches as a canvas for his artistic vision—creating and photographing large-scale organic designs, like an gigantor zen garden. You can see more of his work on his website and buy prints and postcards as well. He’ll even carve a marriage proposal into the sands of Ocean…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 20

This Art Transforms You Into a Bird-Like Creature

The Creators Project brought its extremely noisy, techie, and arty show to San Francisco this past weekend. The most exciting exhibit by far was the one that transformed you into a giant bird—or a flock of birds, depending on where you were standing. Chris Milk’s “The Treachery of Sanctuary” loomed at the back of the…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Mar 19

How San Francisco’s Cable Cars Climb Its Iconic Hills

The City by the Bay’s cable cars are more than just a San Francisco treat, they’re the last such manually-operated trolleys in existence. And these massive engines are what keep them chugging up some of the City’s steepest terrain. The heart of the cable car system is the Powerhouse located at the corner of Washington…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 5

Watch Live As San Francisco’s Bizarre Emergency Warning System Plays Tony Bennett (Updated)

San Francisco is a ridiculous place where no one will tell you when you have a bad idea. Like today, when its emergency broadcast system is going to belt out I Left My Heart in San Francisco instead of the standard weekly warning. The warning siren, which plays every Tuesday at noon in San Francisco,…

Tech News Mat Honan Feb 14

In 1900, San Francisco’s Chinatown was quarantined with barbed wire fences

Here are some snapshots from a dark chapter in American history. Throughout the 19th century, San Francisco’s growing Chinese immigrant population had to contend with codified prejudice from legislation like the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, segregated communities, and the sentiment that Chinese-Americans were the source of leprous, smallpox, and malarial “vapors.” This racism took a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 24

San Francisco’s Iconic Yahoo! Neon Sign Is Gone

For more than a decade, San Francisco’s iconic Yahoo! sign has stood tall as a symbol of the internet, through boom and bust. Now it’s gone for good. Back in November we reported that the board was going to become available for others to advertise on by the end of 2012. Now, that day has…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 22

Candlestick Park Is Darker than North Korea Thanks to This Exploding Transformer

As Deadspin has pointed out, the San Francisco 49ers can’t seem to keep their lights on. First a 20-minute outage eight minutes before kickoff, then another 16-minute delay with twelve minutes left in the second quarter. What gives? Oh right, the gigantic electrical transformer explosion outside of the stadium. [SFGate]

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Dec 19

A map of San Francisco’s subway system that almost was

The original 1956 plan for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system was way more complex on paper than it is in reality. Designer Jake Coolidge has imagined a universe in which this full plan was implemented. And even though it doesn’t involve filling in the Bay or underground rocket trains or pyramids, it does complement…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Dec 10

This Is How You Rebuild One of the Nation’s Busiest Bridges Without Interrupting Traffic

The Bay Bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland may not be as iconic as the Golden Gate but it’s a vital traffic artery nonetheless. So how do you reconstruct the span without delaying its 280,000 daily commuters? Very carefully. This is a shot from the top of the new single tower—525 feet tall, the largest…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Dec 3

Zipping from San Francisco to Oakland in 5 Minutes

Last week I had two friends from the Bay Area over to my apartment in Los Angeles. They recently moved to San Francisco from Oakland and I asked how they liked their new digs. “We love it. But I wish there was a way to get between Oakland and San Francisco easier.” They explained that…

Tech News Matt Novak Nov 14

Man Whose Home Was Searched By Apple Investigators Considering Lawsuit

Sergio Calderón, the man whose house was tossed by Apple investigators he thought to be San Francisco Police, has hired a lawyer and it may be a’ suin’ time now. As previously reported, Calderón has retained council—which happened, oh, right around the same time he stopped talking to the press. I assumed this was to…

Tech News Mat Honan Oct 4

CNET: San Francisco Police Request Bar Security Footage In Missing iPhone 5 “Case”

The mysterious iPhone 5 prototype at the center of that bizarre is-it-or-isn’t-it police case in San Francisco took another twist this weekend. Mainly, the police are asked for bar security footage even though they admit no crime took place there. CNET, the news organization that originally reported a second iPhone prototype had been lost by…

Tech News Jack Loftus Sep 25

One Man’s Dumpster Is Another Man’s Tiny Mobile Park

Can’t find a parking space in San Francisco these days? Don’t plan overpopulation, blame these mobile dumpster parks that have started sprouting up around the city. Bright red and bigger than a car, these 16-foot by 6-foot bastions of mobile greenery provide little bits of shade and park bench-style seating for passersby at the expense…

Tech News Jack Loftus Sep 4

Did Apple Lose An iPhone 5 Prototype In A Bar?

CNET is reporting that Apple has lost another iPhone in another bar. This time, it appears to be an iPhone 5 that’s gone missing. (We say appears because CNET neither confirms this, nor provides any photos of the phone.) Of course, Apple lost an iPhone 4 in a bar last year, too. Am I the…

Tech News Mat Honan Aug 31

The Franciscan manzanita is the last known member of its species

How far would you go to protect the last living member of an entire species? This is precisely the question being faced by national park officials and environmentalists in the San Francisco bay area, where the last-known specimen of the low-growing shrub known as the Franciscan manzanita makes its home. For over half a century,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 8

Why the Next Generation MacBook Pro Will Probably Launch This June

Search Ends for Sailors Devastated by Giant Wave

An Unbelievable Picture of Eight Lightning Bolts Striking San Francisco at the Same Time (Updating)

What if Blade Runner was set in San Francisco?

A science fictional map of San Francisco as an archipelago city

Artist Treats San Francisco Beach Like an Enormous Etch-A-Sketch

This Art Transforms You Into a Bird-Like Creature

How San Francisco’s Cable Cars Climb Its Iconic Hills

Watch Live As San Francisco’s Bizarre Emergency Warning System Plays Tony Bennett (Updated)

In 1900, San Francisco’s Chinatown was quarantined with barbed wire fences

San Francisco’s Iconic Yahoo! Neon Sign Is Gone

Candlestick Park Is Darker than North Korea Thanks to This Exploding Transformer

A map of San Francisco’s subway system that almost was

This Is How You Rebuild One of the Nation’s Busiest Bridges Without Interrupting Traffic

Zipping from San Francisco to Oakland in 5 Minutes

Man Whose Home Was Searched By Apple Investigators Considering Lawsuit

CNET: San Francisco Police Request Bar Security Footage In Missing iPhone 5 “Case”

One Man’s Dumpster Is Another Man’s Tiny Mobile Park

Did Apple Lose An iPhone 5 Prototype In A Bar?

The Franciscan manzanita is the last known member of its species

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