PALO ALTO – The Palo Alto City Council moved to replace existing synthetic turf at El Camino Park with cork turf at its Jan. 12 meeting, rejecting the recommendations of county health authorities who recommended that the city install grass. In a presentation to the council, Division Manager of Open Space, Parks and Golf Sarah […]
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REDWOOD CITY – A California privacy platform secured over 176,000 sign-ups in its first four weeks online as state residents seize the chance to permanently delete personal information from over 545 data broker sites simultaneously. The Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP) is the world’s first government-built tool to provide this service, wrote Gavin Newsom’s
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Some teen boys are determined to grow more muscular to match their social media idols.
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In the last two years, Waymo has increased the number of miles driven by its self-driving cars from 1 million miles to 127 million miles. But as U.S. roads are filled with white, sensor-covered Jaguars, questions about safety have been raised. Data from both federal regulators and Waymo’s own research suggest the robotaxis are outperforming human drivers.
Self-driving cars are spreading across U.S. cities. Are they safe? Read More »
A mother and daughter feast on weary travelers who stumble upon their woodland cottage. A high school freshman develops a hunger for flesh after a boy takes it too far at a party. A college sophomore and adjunct professor join a sorority whose secret wellness trend is — you guessed it — cannibalism. These are
Female cannibals are consuming fiction. Here’s why. Read More »
DOWNTOWN BERKELEY — What’s the best thing you’ve ever seen come through the store? Upon hearing the question, Nate Filomeo smiles. “Oh goodness. Honestly, I had to stop myself from buying it.” The visiting store manager looks upward, absorbed in recalling the picture from memory. “It was a DVD box set for the original Gundam.
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Super Bowl LX will take place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. on Feb. 8, and the Santa Clara County Rapid Response Network is meeting with leadership from sports teams and different Super Bowl event venues, as well as local leaders and elected officials, to make sure the “civil and human rights of our
This fall, while most Bay Area public schools continued debating when and if AI tools should enter classrooms, private schools began integrating generative AI tools into core curriculums for students. Less limited by funding constraints and government bureaucracy, the schools can more nimbly test tools and adjust curricula, providing a window into the future of
If the universe is expanding at the speed of light, what exists beyond the edge it hasn’t reached yet? During junior high back in China, Reni Cao brought the question that had been bothering him for a while to his physics teacher. His teacher couldn’t answer but told him to stop asking distracting questions and
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When I was covering the 128th Big Game, I honestly didn’t have time to think when I saw the Stanford player breaking toward my side and then coming straight at me for the first touchdown. My instinct just kicked in. I dropped my long lens, switched to my wide-angle, followed him as he crossed into
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As October came to an end, California State Senator Scott Wiener hosted his yearly pumpkin carving event. Surrounded by constituents – as well as some anti-transgender protestors who showed up for the occasion – Wiener talked through his legislative record for 2025. Among his achievements was SB 53, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act.
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President Donald Trump’s Oct. 23 decision to cancel a planned surge of federal immigration agents into San Francisco has failed to quell anxiety in the Bay Area about detainment and deportation of undocumented immigrants. “We do not see this as anything other than a pause for the moment,” said Susan Austin, co-lead of Indivisible Mid-Peninsula,
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