Tech
Can local news help Nextdoor recover its neighborly reputation?
The neighborhood-based social networking app is hoping local news partnerships can boost engagement and save news deserts
Let them eat cake
The team behind the controversial ‘Stop hiring humans’ campaign attempts to stay buzzy without the ragebaiting
The work of art in the age of artificial intelligence
The experimental art collective TIAT is bringing together artists, technologists, and hundreds of admirers who want a robot to draw them
The lawyer in winter
David Boies is the most admired attorney in America. The same week he won a class action against Google, he made a closing argument of his own
Do androids dream of biang biang noodles?
‘Automatic Noodle’ author Annalee Newitz on SF, Chinese food videos, and whether bots should be allowed into labor unions
Page against the machine
San Francisco’s zinesters are fighting AI slop, surveillance capitalism, and corporate media one indie pub at a time
Electropocalypse Now
The Electrify Expo at Alameda Ferry Point revealed the survivalist subculture buzzing within the EV industry
Under the influencers
Taylor Lorenz explains how content creators killed traditional media and why that might not be a bad thing
TikTok is being overrun by Sean Parker’s royal hamsters
An AI-generated hamster isn’t cool. You know what is? A billion AI-generated hamsters, all speaking in a vaguely Irish accent
