Twenty-seven organisations have penned a letter to the presidency calling for evictions to be banned in an effort to protect vulnerable groups
The jazz maestro was an activist first and foremost, and created his own unique instruments and style
Even one-year sentences will effectively disqualify state capturers from the realm of politics
Facts about San Francisco are hidden; they are gleaned from trying to make sense of being there
The pilot who oversaw the landing by a colleague of the jet that crashed in San Francisco was on his first flight as a trainer, says the airline.
Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in a plane crash at San Francisco International Airport.
An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 with 307 people on board crashed and burst into flames as it landed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday.
Echoes of 1960s counterculture live on, as Rowan Philp discovers during a mind-altering boating lesson in San Francisco.
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A gas pipeline explosion ripped through a neighbourhood in a San Francisco suburb on Thursday, starting fires that burned more than 50 buildings.
Retief Goosen’s momentary mental lapse nearly cost his International team a Presidents Cup point on Thursday.
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Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton on Wednesday formally agreed to fight for Hatton’s IBO junior welterweight belt on May 2.
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Officials in California have unveiled plans to turn the San Francisco Bay area into one of the world’s leading centres for electric vehicles.
Bruce Conner, an iconoclastic artist and avant-garde filmmaker of the Beat era who gained international admiration for his work, died on July 7.
Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker business partner of Microsoft, has no immediate plans to roll out the Windows Vista operating system to all its employees.
Apple has unveiled a new version of its popular iPhone built for high-speed wireless networks with faster internet access and more features.
Google’s chief executive said this week that the internet search leader hopes its recently acquired advertising service will aid newspapers.
California performed its first legally recognised same-sex weddings on Monday and opened its doors to gay and lesbian couples from around the country.
An internet fantasy universe teeming with faux worlds devoted to socialising and video games is expanding to include virtual classrooms and universities. A new trend in online education involves students acting through animated characters called ”avatars” mingling in simulated school settings.
Apple is planning a solar-powered iPod, according to a report about a patent application submitted by the company. The patent, which was unearthed by the Apple fan site MacRumors.com, describes an iPod with a solar panel under the LCD screen that could be used to provide additional power.
Artist Alton Kelley, who created the psychedelic style of posters and other art associated with the 1960s San Francisco rock scene, has died.
Apple has scooped up Time Warner’s HBO to feed television shows to its online iTunes store, reeling in one of the last holdouts among major channels and agreeing to a rare pricing concession to land hit shows such as The Sopranos, Sex and the City and The Wire.
Powerset on Sunday unveiled tools for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords, marking the first step of its challenge to established web-search services such as Google. Powerset’s technology breaks down the meaning of words and sentences into related concepts, freeing users from always needing to type the exact words they want to find.
Microsoft walked away from its bid to buy Yahoo! on Saturday after the internet company turned down its offer to raise the price by -billion to ,5-billion. Microsoft’s offer was for a share but Yahoo! would not lower its demand below , Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said.
Microsoft can build a competitive online advertising business without Yahoo! but it "could just take more time", CEO Steve Ballmer told the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> in an interview published on Friday. The comment came as analysts and industry watchers awaited an imminent announcement on Microsoft’s next move in its unresolved quest to acquire Yahoo!
Google believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo! because it would be ”non-exclusive” and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with Google’s thinking said on Friday. Yahoo! is exploring alternatives to Microsoft’s ,7-billion takeover offer, which the web pioneer has rejected for being too low.
Yahoo! is working to rewire the dozens of services across its site so that users can manage all information about themselves in a single place and share it with friends across the web. ”We are not building another social network,” said chief technology officer Ari Balogh.
Federal cybersecurity officials are trying to develop an early-warning system that alerts authorities to incoming computer attacks targeting critical United States infrastructure, says Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. His keynote speech on Tuesday at the RSA security conference, however, was light on details.
Yahoo! will begin showing homemade videos on its online photo-sharing site, Flickr, in a long-anticipated move that may be too late to lure most people away from the internet’s dominant video channel, Google’s YouTube. Flickr’s video technology is the latest example of Yahoo! trying to catch up to Google in a crucial battleground.
A roommate-finding site cannot require users to disclose their sexual orientation, a United States appeals court ruled on Thursday, in the latest skirmish over whether anti-discrimination rules apply to the web. The court said Roommates.com, which obliges users to list their sexual orientation, was different from sites where people volunteer or withhold personal information.
The maker of the popular photo-editing software Photoshop on Thursday launched a basic version available for free online. San Jose, California-based Adobe Systems says it hopes to boost its name recognition among a new generation of consumers who edit, store and share photos online.
Paintings and sculptures long stored away are finding a new audience as museums strive for mass appeal with high-tech websites packed with video, podcasts and interactive elements. Moreover, these institutions are finding that rather than diminishing the number of museum visits, the web is actually boosting in-person attendance.
A security lapse made it possible for unwelcome strangers to peruse personal photos posted on Facebook’s popular online hangout, circumventing a recent upgrade to the website’s privacy controls. The Associated Press verified the loophole on Monday after receiving a tip from a Vancouver, Canada, computer technician.