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Cydney Hayes

Cydney Hayes is a business and tech reporter for Gazetteer SF. She has previously written about tech, culture, music, and media for The Drift, Architectural Digest, Baltimore, Entertainment Weekly, and elsewhere. She also writes a Substack newsletter called OPENWORLD. Subscribe at openw0rld.substack.com.

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Why do these Castro gay bars have TSA-style face scanners?

A handful of neighborhood bars have installed facial recognition devices that collect and share customers’ names, addresses, genders, and indiscretions with each other

June 10, 2026
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‘Nerdy escorts’ are selling intimacy-as-a-service to AI founders

Plus, in the tasteslop era, we’re keeping our eyes peeled for bad tech streetwear

June 8, 2026
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