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What Driverless Waymo Taxi Rides Are Like in San Francisco

“Hello, Tripp,” a disembodied woman’s voice said through the speakers of a driverless taxi that was about to pick up a fare near the colorful Victorian houses known as the […]




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San Francisco Officials Hesitant to Expand Driverless Car Services

Over the past year or so, a jarring sight has become common in San Francisco: driverless cars buzzing around the city’s streets with no one at the wheel and an […]




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By Rebranding Twitter as X, Elon Musk Creates Social Media Confusion

With a simple name change, Elon Musk has created confusion in social media.The bewilderment stems from Mr. Musk’s move last month to rebrand Twitter, which he owns, as X. No […]




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Westfield Gives Up San Francisco Mall, Signaling More Pain Ahead

Nordstrom. Old Navy. Anthropologie. H&M. Crate & Barrel.San Francisco’s downtown has seen a mass exodus of retailers in recent months, and this week a mall owner has decided to walk […]




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The AI Boom Is Pulling Tech Entrepreneurs Back to San Francisco

Doug Fulop’s and Jessie Fischer’s lives in Bend, Ore., were idyllic. The couple moved there last year, working remotely in a 2,400-square-foot house surrounded by trees, with easy access to […]




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The Furniture Hustlers of Silicon Valley

“Perfectly good, brand-new furniture is just being carted off to landfills,” she said. So she created Reseat to help businesses liquidate furniture. The company uses an inventory management system that […]




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Happiness or Success? Salesforce’s Marc Benioff Doesn’t Want to Choose.

Many years ago, Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist monk and spiritual leader, posed a question to Marc Benioff, the co-founder and chief executive of Salesforce.“What is more important, being successful […]




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Self-Driving Car Services Want to Expand in San Francisco Despite Recent Hiccups

Last week, a self-driving car stopped in the middle of a busy street during the morning rush hour in San Francisco, jamming traffic for nearly two miles. The car, which […]




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Elon Musk Says He Could Have Raised Funds to Take Tesla Private

Elon Musk said on Monday that he had not lied or misspoken about his plan to take Tesla off the stock market in 2018, testifying in federal court that Saudi […]




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Resignations Roil Twitter as Elon Musk Tries Persuading Some Workers to Stay

Hours before a Thursday deadline that Elon Musk had given Twitter employees to decide whether to stay or leave their jobs, the social media company appeared to be in disarray.Mr. […]