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SF Startup Raises $28.5M to Make Your Oscilloscope Obsolete
If you've ever watched an electrical engineer wrestle with a cart full of expensive, single-purpose test equipment — oscilloscopes, signal generators, network a...
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The Rumors of SF's Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
For the past few years, the hot take industrial complex has been churning out the same story on a loop: San Francisco is over, startups are fleeing to Miami, Au...
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SF Hackathon Baby 'Agency' Wants to Show You What Your AI Is Actually Doing
Somewhere between the cold brew and the 2am debugging sessions, a useful company was born. Agency, a startup that grew out of San Francisco's increasingly crow...
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Who's Actually Making Games? SF Devs Push to Rewrite the Industry's Origin Story
The video game industry generates more revenue than Hollywood and the NFL combined. So why does its creative pipeline still look like a 2003 college computer sc...
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Tesla Will Now Haul Your 8-Year-Old Around — What Could Go Wrong?
Tesla quietly updated its terms of service to allow children as young as 8 to ride in its robotaxi service — as long as an adult is present. The change affects...
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Tesla's Robotaxi Will Take Your 8-Year-Old for a Ride (With Adult Supervision, Obviously)
Tesla quietly updated its Robotaxi terms of service to allow riders as young as 8 years old — provided an adult comes along for the trip. The change, which slip...
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Cruise's Robotaxis Are Back in the Daylight — Should SF Be Excited or Nervous?
## The Machines Are Back, and Now They're Morning Commuters Cruise has quietly expanded its driverless robotaxi service to daytime hours in San Francisco, mark...
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TechCrunch Disrupt Is Back — And This Time It Actually Has Something to Say
Love it or hate it, TechCrunch Disrupt is one of those events that still manages to pull the right people into the same room at the right time. And this year's...
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Mayor Wants SF to Be a Tech Guinea Pig — This Time, We're Actually Into It
For once, a San Francisco politician is saying something we can actually get behind. The mayor is pushing a vision for San Francisco as the premier testbed for...
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Claude Goes to War: Anthropic's Pentagon Deal Is a Mirror, Not an Anomaly
San Francisco's favorite "responsible AI" company is learning something the rest of us figured out a long time ago: in tech, there's no such thing as a purely n...
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VC's Hangover Is Real, But Don't Write the Obituary Yet
San Francisco's venture capital machine has been running on fumes for a while now, and nobody's pretending otherwise. With the IPO window mostly shut and meanin...