Robots Archives - 48 hills

Stage Review

Bleep, bloop, apocalypse: ‘Rossum’s Universal Robots’ looks back to the future

Charles Lewis III - October 20, 2023

Cutting Ball's latest searches for ghosts in the machine of a 1920 text, amid our 2023 tech overload

News + Politics

Breed’s police measure is a sweeping move to undermine civilian oversight and reform

Tim Redmond - October 18, 2023

It's cynical politics that could have serious implications for how the city manages a police department with a troubled history.

Transportation

Cruise and Waymo are finding widespread opposition

Tim Redmond - August 22, 2023

For a change, a new technology is not impressing people, and the city might actually take regulation seriously.

Business + Tech

The real problem with the CPUC’s robotaxi decision

Tim Redmond - August 11, 2023

Like AI, this is going to displace human employees. And nobody in government is demanding that the profits be shared with the people whose lives are damaged.

The Agenda

SFPD has the worst record in the state on ‘pretext stops’ of Black and API people

Tim Redmond - December 4, 2022

Plus: Was the Killer Robot vote even legal? That's The Agenda for Dec. 5-12 2022

Music

Acid jazz through a neoteric prism: Get to know MF Robots

John-Paul Shiver - November 30, 2021

The British group's latest album 'Break the Wall' shows funk prowess.

Housing

Robots in the crash pad: The twisted takeover of the Red Victorian Hotel

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - September 21, 2021

How Haight Ashbury countercultural ideals were distorted by a tech "co-living" experiment, and a trans performance community was displaced.

Music

Three terrific artists to support directly this week

John-Paul Shiver - September 2, 2021

Rainy-day Oakland jazz, slinky and soulful robot funk, and gorgeously dark rock for Bandcamp Friday

Business + Tech

Waymo and the invasion of the corporate body-snatchers

Herb Mintz - August 25, 2021

Robot drivers who will put 10 million people out of work are coming to your neighborhood—now.

Onstage

Reading is fundamental: 44 years of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival

Caitlin Donohue - July 14, 2021

At nearly a half-century, this showcase of early-career playwrights must be doing something right. Find out what, starting Fri/16.

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