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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New study links some dry dog foods to canine heart disease
A new study from Tufts University links certain dry dog foods to deadly canine heart disease, and researchers are eyeing peas as a potentially dangerous ingredient for pooches. Researchers call dilated cardiomyopathy
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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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Homeless encampment grows on Apple property in Silicon Valley
Apple promised to help quell the Bay Area’s homelessness crisis with a series of big-ticket investments, but the tech giant soon may have to get more directly involved — addressing
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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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FDA approval of the Covid-19 vaccine could mean more people will get vaccinated for an unexpected reason
Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine is currently only authorized for emergency use in the United States, but its full approval by the US Food and Drug Administration could happen within weeks. The ramifications
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