Google Unveils Privacy Changes for Young People
Google says it will make things safer online for young people. The Silicon Valley search giant said videos uploaded by 13- to 17-year-olds to YouTube, which is owned by Google,
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Is a vaccine passport coming to California?
Starting Wednesday, hospitals and nursing homes in California must verify that visitors are vaccinated or have tested negative for the coronavirus within the last three days — the Golden State’s
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Bay Area nonprofit gives free cash to homeless people, with surprising results
Kevin Adler never thought $500 a month would be enough to lift someone out of homelessness in the notoriously expensive Bay Area. He launched his six-month “basic income” experiment to help
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Apple readies new iPhones with pro-focused camera, video updates
Apple Inc.’s next iPhone lineup will get at least three major new camera and video-recording features, which the company is betting will be key enticements to upgrade from earlier models.
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Who’s fighting new housing? Look to wealthier Bay Area communities
Dublin has been booming in the past two decades, regularly topping the list of fastest-growing cities in California. Thousands of suburban homes have sprouted on once-fertile farmland. The population of
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How Santa Clara County non-profits and parishes came together to distribute 17 million meals
As COVID-19 spread across Santa Clara County in March 2020, local charities heard the first pleas for help and developed a new food distribution system that would get 17 million
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Will human composting — transforming bodies into soil — become legal in California?
Two wheelbarrows full — that’s how much soil a composted human body creates. In California, it could soon be legal for people to be transformed into soil after death. Only
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Big Tech has its eyes set on the metaverse. Here’s what that means
Facebook has many pressing problems, from proposed antitrust legislation to accusations that the company is contributing to vaccine misinformation. But when CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined a recent conference call with analysts to discuss its
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United Airlines will require COVID-19 vaccines for all its employees
United Airlines announced Friday that employees will be mandated to get a COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first major U.S.-based carrier to announce such a requirement. The strict policy details that
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How Bay Area museums are bouncing back after COVID
In February of 2020, just before the world shut down, the Oakland Museum of California broke ground on a long-awaited renovation. The project and the pandemic kept the museum closed
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