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☆ Tired of Elon Musk? Here are the Twitter alternatives you should know about
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October and began upending the platform, there weren’t many viable alternatives for frustrated users. ThreadsThreads is Meta’s long-anticipated answer to Twitter and the biggest threat to the social network Musk bought for $44 billion. And Zuckerberg isn’t just looking to catch up to Twitter; he wants to build a service that’s far larger. Spill has also emerged as a haven for Black Twitter users and marginalized communities seeking a safe space online. BlueskyBluesky, a service backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, looks identical to Twitter, with one key difference.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Mark, ” Sarah Oh, Alphonzo Terrell, Zuckerberg, hasn’t, ” Zuckerberg, Terrell, “, ” Oh, Meta, ”, Jack Dorsey, Bluesky, Dorsey, Mastodon, It’s, Eugen Rochko, Cohost, reposts, don’t, Jae Kaplan, we’re Organizations: CNN, Twitter, Meta, San Francisco Bay Area, Cohost, “, Facebook Locations: San Francisco Bay

SAN FRANCISCO, July 8 (Reuters) - Venture capital firm Headline used to be in one of San Francisco's most eye-catching skyscrapers: the pyramidal Transamerica building that has defined the skyline for decades. Venture capital firms are increasingly joining retailers and other businesses in finding homes outside downtown San Francisco. [1/5]People enjoy the afternoon in Presidio, a former military base-turned-national park in San Francisco California, U.S., July 7, 2023. They're actually really excited," said Eurie Kim, whose venture firm Forerunner left downtown for the Presidio in early 2022. "Mayor Breed continues to implement strategic initiatives to help stabilize existing businesses and recruit new ones as part of her Roadmap to Downtown San Francisco's Future plan.

Persons: Mathias Schilling, Schilling, Rex Salisbury, Carlos Barria, They're, Eurie Kim, CBRE, Lisa Petrie, Jon Rehagen, Molly Martell, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Breed, Colin Yasukochi, Krystal Hu, Peter Henderson, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: FRANCISCO, Venture, Employees, Presidio, Westfield, San, Felicis Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, Letterman, Cambrian Venture, San Francisco Bay Area, REUTERS, Presidio Trust, Lucasfilm, Walt Disney Family Museum, Catalyst, Brand, San Francisco Mayor London, Downtown San, CBRE's Tech, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, Presidio, San Francisco Bay, San Francisco's, There's, Sand, Silicon Valley, South, downtown San Francisco, San Francisco California, U.S, Marin, San Francisco ., South Park, Downtown

☆ Some US cities have replaced fireworks with drone shows to reduce wildfires and noise pollution
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Some US cities have replaced fireworks with light shows performed by drones. Drone shows reduce the chance of wildfires and sound pollution. Lakewood, Boulder, and Castle Rock have opted for drone shows following the switch from other surrounding cities in Colorado last year. Some fireworks shows were canceled this year. Aside from noise pollution, fireworks are a leading cause of wildfires in many dry cities.

Persons: — Organizations: Service, Ocean, Los Angeles Regional, Quality Control Board, Washington State's Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources, Coachella, Super Locations: California, Colorado, San Diego, La Jolla, Lakewood , Boulder, Angeles, San Francisco Bay, Washington

CNN —Wall Street bankers, investors and economists have for months waffled over whether a US recession is coming. But for some Americans, the unforgiving economic pain typical during recession has already set in. Consumer spending accounts for about two-thirds of economic output, so if more Americans are forced to cut back because they were laid off, that might throw the US economy into a recession. Bank of America Chief Executive Brian Moynihan told CNN last week that he expects a mild recession early next year, rather than the late 2022 recession many have predicted. That means that laid-off Americans were often able to find a new job quickly due to a hot job market.

Persons: Al Brown, Brown, it’s, ” Brown, That’s, Allison Joyce, haven’t, Nina McCollum, hasn’t, She’s, ” McCollum, ”, Thomas Simons, ” Simons, Eva Marie Uzcategui, —, Timothy A, Clary, Brian Moynihan, frustrates McCollum, Regina Walton, Walton, she’s, “ It’s, I’ve, ” Walton, “, I’m, Richard Murray, Murray, he’s, you’re Organizations: CNN, Wall, Flyers, New, New Hanover NCWorks, Workforce, Bloomberg, Getty, Investors, Jefferies, National Bureau of Economic Research, Traders, New York Stock Exchange, Bank of America, San Francisco Bay Area, Companies, Consolidated Omnibus Budget, Cascade Locations: Concord , North Carolina, America, New Hanover, Wilmington , North Carolina, Cleveland , Ohio, Miami , Florida, AFP, San Francisco Bay, “, Boston

☆ Bayer claims early lead in Parkinson's stem cell therapy
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Ludwig Burger | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Some of this work is done by Britain's' Cambridge University, South Korea's Bundang CHA Hospital, International Stem Cell Corp's (ISCO.PK) Cyto Therapeutics in Australia, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harvard University and Japan's Kyoto University Hospital. For BlueRock's experimental therapy, researchers took induced pluripotent stem cells, which are modified to regain the ability to form any type of specialised tissue, and transformed them into dopamine-producing nerve cells. When surgically implanted into the brain of a person with Parkinson's disease, the therapeutic cells are designed to restore neural networks destroyed by the disease. Initial trial results showed the cells multiplied and started making dopamine, an important brain signalling molecule which is lacking in Parkinson's patients. Parkinson's, for which there is no cure and which affects more than 10 million people worldwide, causes progressive brain damage.

Persons: Wolfgang Rattay, Bayer, BlueRock, Britain's, Jennifer Doudna, Ludwig Burger, Miranda Murray, Mark Potter Organizations: Bayer AG, REUTERS, Bayer, Cambridge University, South Korea's, CHA Hospital, Cyto Therapeutics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, Japan's Kyoto University Hospital, BlueRock Therapeutics, Mammoth Biosciences, Thomson Locations: Leverkusen, Germany, FRANKFURT, Australia, San Francisco Bay

☆ Black Americans are getting support for reparations from other multiracial groups
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Stephanie Elam | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Mass is part of a growing wave of multiracial support for Black American reparations – with many Jewish and Japanese organizations among them. It’s just human beings.”Amy Iwasaki Mass reads her 1981 testimony in favor of redress for Japanese Americans held in internment camps during World War II. “But I do think Japanese Americans as a group do understand what it’s like to be excluded on the basis of race.”Acknowledging the cost of historyPassage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 gave affected Japanese Americans the $20,000 payment and a formal letter of apology from President Ronald Reagan. Tamaki and Simon agree that arguments against reparations fail to acknowledge the cost of being part of a society. That’s called being a citizen.”Tamaki agrees that the work to repair the damage done to Black Americans is expensive and arduous, but it must begin at some point.

Persons: Amy Iwasaki, “ It’s, Stephanie Elam, San Francisco –, Don Tamaki, ” Tamaki, Ronald Reagan, Mass, …, Tamaki, ”, Don Tamaki's, Don Tamaki Tamaki, there’s, ” Tamaki mused, San Francisco, Timothy Alan Simon, ” Simon, Franciscan Timothy Alan Simon, San Francisco's, CNN “, “, Simon, ’ …, That’s, it’s Organizations: CNN, Black, California –, Force, Civil, University of California, Topaz, ”, Franciscan, California African American Chamber of Commerce, American Locations: Japan, Pearl, California, San, Heart Mountain , Wyoming, Wyoming, San Francisco Bay, Berkeley, Tanforan, San Bruno , California, Apt, Utah, Northern California, San Francisco, Franciscan, Francisco, Bay, state’s, America

☆ Your teen wants to get in shape this summer? What to say and when to worry
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Analysis Oona Hanson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —If your children say they want to start exercising or working out more this summer, don’t celebrate just yet. Eating disorder experts warn that setting fitness goals could mean trouble for kids. But eating disorder symptoms can be incredibly sneaky, as Darpinian has seen in her therapy practice more often in recent years. And just as important, parents can approach questions about bodies, food and exercise in a way that builds connection and trust. Oona Hanson is a parent coach in private practice and a family mentor at Equip, an eating disorder treatment program.

Persons: don’t, Signe Darpinian, Wendy Sterling, Shelley Aggarwal, ”, Darpinian, ” Darpinian, she’s, Sterling, aren’t, they’re, influencers, MoMo, Aggarwal, —, ” Aggarwal, “, Oona Hanson Organizations: CNN, San Francisco Bay Area Locations: don’t, San Francisco Bay, Menlo Park , California, Northern California

☆ What Tesla charging partnerships with Ford and GM mean for the EV industry
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( John Rosevear | In Jrosevear | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Most other EVs and charging stations in the U.S. use the public domain Combined Charging System (CCS) plug standard. Currently, Tesla EVs can use CCS chargers with an adapter, but only Teslas can use NACS chargers. An August 2022 study by JD Power found similar results for CCS chargers in other parts of the country. Notably, it also found Tesla's charging network to be much more reliable. Potential buyers of a Ford or GM EV might like what they experience on a test drive, but without a reliable charging network, both have been at a disadvantage to Tesla.

Persons: Harry Langer, Tesla, JD Power, we've, Barra, CNBC's, Jim Farley, Farley Organizations: American, Detroit, University of California, San Francisco Bay Area, JD, CCS, Ford, GM, ICE Locations: Merklingen, Germany, U.S, Berkeley, San Francisco Bay, Canada

☆ A New Hiroshi Sugimoto Sculpture in San Francisco Reaches for Infinity
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Jori Finkel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The San Francisco skyline has radically changed over the past two decades because of all the real estate development. The Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, famous for his slyly deceptive photography, has just planted a slender, 69-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture on a hilltop in Yerba Buena Island, meant to serve as an anchor — or beacon, given its height — for the area’s new public art program. From some viewpoints it looks like the tip of a sewing needle poking out above the trees and cellular towers of this island in the San Francisco Bay. Because of its particular curved geometry, which tapers from a concrete base of 23 feet to a top that is less than one inch in diameter, the sculpture looks as if it’s growing infinitely smaller and taller as it reaches for Earth’s outer atmosphere. The artist paradoxically calls his skyscraper “Point of Infinity,” and, even more than the beautiful sliver of mirror-finished stainless steel itself, he hopes to showcase that Zen koan-like notion.

Persons: Hiroshi Sugimoto, ”, Sugimoto, “ Organizations: San Locations: San Francisco, Yerba Buena, San Francisco Bay

☆ The 10 least affordable places to live if you're an expat in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Reena Koh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

New York, Hong Kong, and Geneva are the top 3 unaffordable cities to live in if you're an expat in 2023. Read further for the 10 least affordable places to live if you're an expat in 2023, ranked from the most expensive to the least expensive. Alberto MazzaThe average monthly rent for a four-room apartment in Geneva's city center is about $4,600. GettyThe median monthly rent for a two-bedroom flat in London touched a high of $2,895 in December, according to CNBC. JaCZhou 2015/Getty ImagesThe average monthly rent for a four-room apartment in the city center of Zurich sits at around $4,200, per The Local.

Persons: —, Lee Quane, Read, Sharp, ANTHONY WALLACE, Alberto Mazza, LondonlovesBusiness, Justin Sullivan, Alexander Spatari, Marielle, Allan Baxter, Tokyo Kantei Organizations: Service, York, ECA, Big Apple, NBC, New York Times, Getty, expats, Bloomberg, CNBC, San Francisco Bay Area, Jerusalem Post, Central Bureau of Statistics, CBS, South Korea Skyline, South, Financial Times Locations: . New York, Hong Kong, Geneva, London, Singapore, New York, Asia, expat, Manhattan, expats, NBC New York, China Hong, Switzerland, Geneva's, Swiss, NurPhoto, Zurich, San Francisco, US, San Francisco Bay, Tel Aviv, Israel, Jerusalem, Seoul, South Korea, South Korean, —, Korean, Tokyo, Japan

☆ NWSL's new Bay FC hope to ride World Cup wave of excitement
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Nathan Frandino | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 (Reuters) - The founders behind the new National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) expansion team in California's San Francisco Bay Area believe this year's Women's World Cup will only add to their momentum as they kick off their inaugural season next year. Some of us are going to be calling the World Cup, so to see Bay FC involved in the World Cup and vice versa, it's only going to help build the momentum." Chastain's role at the World Cup is among the most iconic for the U.S. She scored the deciding penalty in 1999, sealing the win against China at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena. Chastain said that holding onto the World Cup excitement this year and bringing it to their games next year will be about making fans feel valued as part of the team. Roughly a third of the U.S.-based league's players are expected to feature, NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman said this week.

Persons: Brandi Chastain, Leslie Osborne, Danielle Slaton, Aly Wagner, Osborne, it's, Chastain, " Chastain, Jessica Berman, Sheryl Sandberg, Tom Bernthal, Rory Carroll, Daniel Wallis Organizations: FRANCISCO, National Women's Soccer League, California's San Francisco Bay Area, FC, U.S, China, Rose, Energy, Thomson Locations: California's San Francisco Bay, U.S, San Francisco, Pasadena, Australia, New Zealand, Los Angeles

☆ Staff at several Subway stores in San Francisco missed out on $265,000 of wages after the franchisee gave them checks that bounced, Labor Department says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Bay Area Subway franchisee paid staff more than $265,000 in bounced checks, the DOL said. The stores also violated child-labor laws, kept tips, and got staff to falsify records, a DOL investigation said. Between July 26 and December 26, 2022, alone, 297 checks bounced from just one bank account belonging to one of Meza's businesses, a DOL investigator said in a declaration. The investigation by the DOL's Wage and Hour Division covered 14 franchise stores in total, but the department did not say how many had given bad checks to staff. Meza's business associate also threatened to file a false police report against two 15-year-old employees who asked for their unpaid wages, the DOL wrote in the lawsuit.

☆ This 15-mile, $6.7B bridge is a symbol of China’s ambitions, and its problems
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-23 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The Greater Bay Area is home to 68 million people, covers 21,800 square miles and encompasses 11 cities: Hong Kong, Macao and nine others including Zhongshan and Shenzhen. The Shenzhen-Zhongshan bridge project features artificial islands and an undersea tunnel. That bridge connects the mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai with gambling hub Macao and leading financial center Hong Kong. An aerial view of the world's longest cross-sea bridge, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, in Zhuhai city, south China's Guangdong province, 19 March 2019. The latest bridge would connect two mainland Chinese cities that were already under the same regulations, he pointed out.

☆ California Rep. Ro Khanna again calls on Dianne Feinstein to resign over health concerns: 'It's painful to watch.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. Ro Khanna said it was "painfully obvious" that Sen. Feinstein should no longer serve in office. "I think they should have a loving conversation about it being time," Khanna said of Feinstein's confidantes. "First, let me say, I admire her career," Khanna told Wagner. Upon her return to the Senate, Feinstein appeared disoriented as an aide whisked her through the Capitol, according to The Times. "While she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties.

☆ I felt strung out in the San Francisco Bay area so I moved to a small mountain resort in Washington state with my husband — here's why it was the right choice.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Leslie Cousins was born and raised in the Bay Area, but started to feel strung out living in California. Cousins and her husband moved to a small mountain resort community in Cle Elum, Washington. I was born and raised in the Bay Area, while my husband Joe grew up in Boston and Chicago. Suncadia is located in a city that has a population of 2,299 compared to the 7.5 million population of the Bay Area. We belonged to a golf club in the Bay Area, and my husband was hoping to find a similar club community.

☆ Elon Musk called downtown San Francisco — where Twitter is headquartered — a 'derelict zombie apocalypse' amid its huge homelessness and drug issues
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk commented on the drugs and homelessness crisis in San Francisco calling it a "disaster." The billionaire CEO said the "once beautiful and thriving" area has become a "zombie apocalypse." Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted his thoughts about downtown San Francisco lamenting the decline of the "once beautiful and thriving" area and called it a "disaster." San Francisco is also a major tech hub with the likes of Google, Twitter, Apple, and Meta headquartered in or near the city. She considered the conditions in San Francisco as bad as in cities like Mumbai and Delhi, which are notorious for having some of the worst poverty crises on earth.

☆ How Singapore's giant sovereign wealth fund is investing in generative AI technology
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

As CEO of GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, he must keep the country's savings growing ahead of inflation. AI retoolingThe 2 investors were most animated when discussing the recent explosion of generative AI technology, including large language models. Chris Emanuel, head of the Technology Investment Group at GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GICThere's already a generative AI startup feeding frenzy among venture capital funds. Secondary market actionFinally, GIC is keen on doing more in the secondary market, where private stakes in startups and VC funds change hands. That means general partners, the people running VC funds, already know GIC and are more comfortable dealing with the organization, Lim explained.

☆ BeeHero: 2023 CNBC Disruptor 50
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Enter agtech startup BeeHero with a solution. Last December, BeeHero snared $42 million in a Series B round led by impact growth fund Covent Capital in Amsterdam. But BeeHero is not the only startup providing honeybee pollution services, a market estimated by the USDA at $320 million annually. Last year, Limor Farchy, who previously worked at two acquired Israeli tech startups, was recruited as CFO. The agtech startup supplies several top almond growers in California and expects to expand to other crops that rely on pollination.

☆ Hurricanes of Data: The Tiny Craft Mapping Superstorms at Sea
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Porter Fox | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +35 min

The Tiny Craft Mapping Superstorms at Sea Shortly after dawn on Sept. 30, 2021, Richard Jenkins watched a Category 4 hurricane overrun his life’s work. That August, a sister ship, SD 1031, successfully entered Tropical Storm Henri, but only in its early stages. Hurricane research, modeling and forecasting requires many terabytes of data for every square mile the storm passes through, including vitally important sea-level data from inside a storm. The next day, the depression was upgraded to a tropical storm and officially given the name Sam. And four months later, Tropical Storm Megi killed more than 150, wiped out several villages with landslides and displaced more than a million people.

☆ $3.2 Million Homes in California
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Angela Serratore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It is a few blocks from Lombard Street and a stretch of Union Street with an Equinox gym, coffee shops and restaurants housed in early 20th-century buildings with ornate facades. This neighborhood is about a half-hour ride on public transit from the Civic Center and Sausalito, across the Bay. San Francisco International Airport is a 40-minute drive, traffic permitting. Size: 2,400 square feetPrice per square foot: $1,331Indoors: Stairs lead up from the street to the building’s blue front door, which opens into a stair hall. It connects to a windowed kitchen with white cabinetry and stainless steel appliances, including a Wolf range.

☆ Australia stamps authority on SailGP with third $1 million win
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Alexander Smith | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

May 8 (Reuters) - Tom Slingsby and his Australian crew clinched this season's SailGP Championship in San Francisco Bay on Sunday, notching up their third straight win and with it another $1 million prize. A dominant Australia held off a last-minute surge from runner-up Peter Burling's New Zealand in the three-boat final, with Ben Ainslie's Emirates Great Britain trailing in behind in what has been billed as sailing's answer to Formula One. There will be little downtime for the crews with SailGP's fourth season due to begin on June 16-17 in Chicago, the first of 12 events around the world which will culminate once again in San Francisco Bay in July next year. SailGP said that a new team, which it did not name, would be joining the others for the start in the next U.S. event. Reporting by Alexander Smith in London; Editing by Peter RutherfordOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ I toured an apartment built in a factory, and I'm convinced that these high-tech homes are the future of city living
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

The two-year-old firm in the San Francisco Bay Area is pitching a new way to put up apartment buildings: Rectangular units, or modules, are built in a factory, then trucked to a site where they are stacked and combined to create the final structure. Cloud Apartments created a rendering of what the modular units look like when stacked together. This design is similar to what will end up getting built after the company's first official projects are finalized this year. Cloud Apartments

☆ How an ex-police officer made $12 million in 3 years after buying ATMs for $2,100 and operating them as a side hustle
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

By 2021, he quit his job and began providing ATM machines for others. His company Merchant Task Force, which provides credit-card terminals, shows an income of $844,000 and a net profit of $742,000 for the same period. They had a net profit of about $250 to $500 a month per location from fees charged for withdrawals. When he purchased his first set of six machines, Alex assumed he got a good discount, which was $2,100 an ATM. Each brought in anywhere from $250 to as much as $1,500 a month in net profit.

☆ A housing economist shares the top 5 markets with the highest risk of price declines, plus where mortgage rates could be by year-end
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mortgage rates are expected to be in the high fives by year-end, says Selma Hepp. Five US metros including Salt Lake City and Boise are highly vulnerable to price declines. It is a rough time for the real-estate market as mortgage rates remain volatile. Although mortgage rates are difficult to predict, Hepp says they could be in the high fives or about 5.8% by year-end. Below is a list of the markets with the highest risk of price declines, according to CoreLogic data.

☆ The Yoga Regimen That Keeps an N.B.A. Forward Centered
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Scott Cacciola | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The sun was beginning to burn through a hazy sky as Looney propped his iPad against a small metal column, unrolled his black yoga mat and greeted one of the more important figures in his professional life. It belonged to Jana Webb, the creator of a self-styled brand of yoga known as Joga, which she originally conceived as yoga for athletes. Moses Moody, one of Looney’s teammates, was also on the call, dialing in from his apartment near the arena. It was 8:30 a.m., about four hours before Game 4 of Golden State’s first-round playoff series against the Sacramento Kings. “Reach, reach, reach,” she said as Looney, who is 6-foot-9, stood on his toes and extended his arms, a small pool of sweat forming on the mat below.

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