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Is convenience a fair trade for privacy? What level of market share constitutes a monopoly, effectively obstructing free market competition? Driver’s licenses, passports, mugshots—are searched using facial recognition technology by the FBI. Watchdogs have asked lawmakers...

  Facebook says we don’t like this, and Twitter says we don’t like attacks on Hunter Biden. Once you act as a publisher, you’re a publisher. You can be sued because you’re a publisher. They...

12.3 percent of millennial renters plan to always rent—up from 10.7 percent nationally year-over-year. 9.8 percent of the U.S. population moved in the past year—the smallest number since 1948. 17 percent wanted a...

ZOOM video conferencing, San Jose, Calif. $664 million revenue growth May to June, driving Y/Y profits from $5.5 million to $186 million AMAZON e-commerce, Seattle, Wash. $90 billion total revenue Q2, Amazon handled half of...

Tornado tumult Tornado count through May 2019. The total annual average is 743. This 2-year trend follows a lull in tornado activity stretching back to 2012. Thunderstorms: Earth’s cooling agent - In summer, hot,...

Our government has abandoned a rich and socially beneficial history of trust-busting to allow big tech to dominate people’s lives. Tim Wu, The Curse of Bigness Big tech value Facebook, $759 billion Amazon, $1.6 trillion Netflix,...

The release of America As Americans fights to return to work and businesses begin to re-open, a funny thing is happening. Nothing. 0 increase in C19 cases in places restrictions were lifted People are getting back...

Thawing America’s unchosen Time will tell the full effect the C19 shutdown will have on the American economy. Here are the signals thus far. NYC vacancies nearly triple Apartment vacancies jumped from 1,750 during the last week...

Real guarantee: No models were used in the production of this report. 50% of those who contract the coronavirus are asymptomatic 80% of all coronavirus cases are mild according to the most recent studies...

The color of industries Donations to candidates and candidate PACs Political spending by donors’ industry Donations to super PACs and outside spending groups Partisan industries Democrat Republican  % total industry Industrial unions $8,213,414 $355,207 95.9 Internet 26,825,046 3,433,577 88.7 Publishing 27,887,021 4,452,566 86.2 Building trade unions 11,233,289 1,982,241 85 Entertainment 43,580,054 7,243,169 85.7 Lawyers 130,752,964 30,756,695 81 Civil servants 48,966,264 14,419,488 77.3 Business services 49,788,947 15,245,589 76.6 Oil & gas $6,977,878 $39,026,468 84.8 Building materials 2,569,423 13,907,030 84.4 Savings & loans 204,540 1,049,993 83.7 Trucking 1,234,077 6,194,015 83.4 Waste management 585,803 2,573,977 81.5 Home...

5 reasons California is unsustainable in its current state 1. Rent control Several rent control bills failed to make it through the California Senate. AB 1482 (anti-rent gouging bill) did clear the Senate judiciary committee. If...

Apartment operators lease livable space. Some of that space houses residents. But occupancy also means sheltering a resident’s stuff. And renters have a lot of stuff. Like an average of 300,000 items per person....

2 million residents were without power for days at a time in the state’s outages 6,402 wildfires in Calif. as of Nov. 3. Wind-induced fire season runs Oct. to April. Summer fire season runs June...

5%+rate of inflation California state legislators have passed AB 1482 sponsored by Assemblyman David Chiu (d)—San Francisco. The bill limits annual rent increases that commercial single-family homes and apartment landlords may implement to 5% plus...

The curious case of comfort animals in apartments Why pay a pet deposit when you can pass an animal off as a comfort animal? Or maybe a resident wants to circumvent a no-pet policy. The...