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Faced with recent questions about the privacy costs of its technology, the surveillance camera startup Flock Safety and its CEO have deployed a tidy statistic to tout its benefits.

The Bay Area is well known for its tech industry, but the role of manufacturing in the region’s economy is often overlooked. The long-term decline in manufacturing across many parts of the U.S. has affected California and the Bay Area as well, but the sector remains an important part of the regional economy. Manufacturing employment…

San Francisco’s AI boom is driving increased demand for office space, creating new challenges for some businesses and nonprofits.

For years, automotive analysts have been predicting that electric vehicles would become cheaper than their gas-powered equivalents. They figured it would happen sometime in the latter half of the 2020s. BloombergNEF, for example, expected it to happen in 2026. 

Tinder is looking to help singles (and perhaps budding polycule members) who might not love the often-intense spotlight of one-on-one first dates. The app has offered double dates since last year and now it’s expanding on that with group hangouts organized around activities.

When DoorDash set out to build a drone delivery business, it started with the tricky logistics that happen on the ground before it looked up.

The most powerful people in tech walked out of a White House summit with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday having promised to keep their own creations in check.

Last month, Reddit signaled that there would be significant changes coming to “Old Reddit” as it continues to fight AI scraping. Now, the company says that it will soon restrict the 21-year-old desktop version of its website to “recent” users of the classic layout only.

Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of the AI coding startup Factory, said in a post on X on Wednesday that he fired VC Chris Degnan from his role as a board adviser. Grinberg alleges that Degnan shared confidential information with Factory’s biggest competitor, Cognition.

Three astronauts and one cosmonaut are heading to the International Space Station on Thursday.