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    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Joy Lo Dico
      Can a city really ‘die’?

      Amid reports of San Francisco’s demise, the cable cars keep running and the tech industry keeps the money flowing

      wet and  grey streets in San Francisco with cable car
    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      Shopping and gifts
      Cult Shop: Evan Kinori, a utilitarian menswear mecca in San Francisco

      Smart, no-nonsense clothes made in the Mission District

      A rail of neutral coloured jackets in the store
    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      LexSan Francisco
      San Francisco: office vacancy rates track crime hotspots Premium content

      Perception of increased risk may be greater than the reality

      Homeless tents along Embarcadero Street during heavy rain in San Francisco in January, as atmospheric river storms hit California, US
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      The Big Read
      Here come the driverless taxis

      San Francisco finally permits a 24/7 service despite local resistance. Can autonomous carmakers now win over the world?

    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      LexDriverless vehicles
      Robotaxis: piecemeal regulation strews speed bumps to US rollout Premium content

      Without national standards, expansion of driverless cars will remain in the slow lane

      A Waymo autonomous taxi in San Francisco
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Driverless vehicles
      California clears way for driverless taxis in San Francisco

      Regulators give green light despite concerns from officials about vehicles’ safety

      A Cruise driverless taxi in San Francisco
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Elaine Moore
      I wanted to love driverless taxis, but then my ride took a sinister turn

      San Francisco is being used as a living laboratory for robotaxis, with mixed results

    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterSplashing out: FT Globetrotter’s summer swimming guide
      FT readers: your favourite outdoor urban swimming spots around the world

      From Tel Aviv to Texas, via Sydney and San Francisco, you share your top spots for an open-air dip in the city

      A male swimmer in the water at Wylie’s Baths, Sydney
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      Tech start-ups
      Silicon Valley chiefs urge Pentagon procurement overhaul

      Open letter designed to apply pressure on US government to open up $886bn defence budget to start-ups

      A Palantir Skykit, which incorporates the company’s software along with a UAV drone, trail camera, battery packs and a SpaceX Starlink terminal into a self-contained defence intelligence package
    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      US presidential election 2024
      San Francisco’s woes and wealth draw 2024 presidential contenders

      Campaign ads spotlight the city’s problems while candidates woo its donor base

      A screenshot of a video with Ron DeSantis, Florida governor and Republican US presidential candidate, speaking in front of graffiti and garbage
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      News in-depthTech start-ups
      Silicon Valley VCs rush into defence technology start-ups

      War in Ukraine and geopolitical tensions lead to belief that fledgling companies will get a share of US Pentagon budget

      Montage of ShieldAI, Epirus, Anduril logos with Pentagon
    • Saturday, 17 June, 2023
      News in-depthCommercial property
      Defaults raise alarm over stability of San Francisco’s commercial property

      Owners have handed back the keys to some of the city’s most valuable real estate

      A pedestrian walks by the Westfield San Francisco Centre
    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      Sarah O'Connor
      Let’s not write people off as ‘AI losers’

      The idea that the outcome of technological change is inevitable is both dangerous and untrue

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      FT Magazine
      What if San Francisco never pulls out of its ‘doom loop’?

      A crisis of homelessness, drug abuse and sensationalised crime threaten the city’s future

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      Frieze New York 2023
      LA, Miami and Dallas stake their claim in the US art market

      New York galleries are opening locations around the country as local collector bases appeal

      Close-up crowd of people in brightly patterned tops with yellow and green halos
    • Monday, 24 April, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      The New South Premium content

      Big US political battles will be waged here — and it’s also where much of the country’s future growth will take place

      Boeing 787 Dreamliners are seen on the factory floor at the Boeing manufacturing facility in North Charleston, South Carolina
    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      News in-depthSan Francisco
      Hollowing out of San Francisco raises fears over status as top tech hub

      Soaring office vacancies amplify concerns over violent crime and homelessness

      Pictures of San Francisco
    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      An A to Z of FT readers’ favourite city runs

      Your most beloved urban running routes, from Athens to Zurich

      A runner on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, with the sea in the background
    • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
      San Francisco
      Cash App founder Bob Lee fatally stabbed in San Francisco

      Tech executive’s death comes amid rising concerns about crime in the Bay Area

      Bob Lee
    • Saturday, 25 March, 2023
      Technology sector
      Intel co-founder and key Silicon Valley figure Gordon Moore dies

      Moore’s insight about how the cost of electronics would plunge made him a symbol of the industry’s advance

    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      Michael Moritz
      SVB provided for tech when everyone else ignored us

      Regardless of the reasons behind the bank’s collapse, it leaves a huge hole for the start-up scene

      A pedestrian speaks on a mobile telephone as he walks past Silicon Valley Bank’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California
    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Due Diligence
      Big trouble for two West Coast banks Premium content

      Plus, Yannick Bolloré steps into his power at Vivendi and The Restaurant Group resists activist pressure

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      Marietje Schaake
      Tech lay-offs are a golden opportunity for the public sector

      There is a wealth of talent out there ready to be snapped up to work for the common good

      Aerial of the Silicon Valley glowing during nighttime
    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      Michael Moritz
      San Francisco’s drug and homeless crises can’t go on

      The city’s byzantine governance structures stand in the way of solutions to its myriad problems

      Homeless tents and a homeless woman are seen near the Tenderloin District of the city
    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      John Thornhill
      In (partial) defence of Silicon Valley

      For all their faults, tech innovators may at last be making an impact on productivity — and on wider society

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a digital fist squeezing a sliced banana
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