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The dead blue whale that washed ashore at a beach near San Francisco earlier this week was possibly a victim of boat collision/accident, a team of biologists who conducted necropsy on the carcass concluded.

The roughly 65-foot carcass washed ashore at the Westmoor Beach near Daisaku Ikeda Canyon in Daly City last Wednesday. A beachgoer reported it to local wildlife officials at just after noon that day.

After the September launch of its first fleet of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, ride-hailing service Uber has recently confirmed that the tests of the company’s self-driving cars have also been commenced in the city of San Francisco.

In an announcement made at the Intel Developer Forum held in San Francisco on Tuesday, bigwig chip manufacturer Intel said that it has signed a new licensing agreement with rival ARM Holdings, for producing ARM-based chips in Intel factories.

During the course of a press event held in San Francisco on Wednesday, file-hosting and cloud-service company Dropbox announced the addition of some new features to its software platform, to make it easier for users to scan, create and share files.

Tech giant Google has announced in a recent blog post that its Google Fiber lightning-fast Internet service will be made available to the residents of “some apartments, condos and affordable housing properties” in San Francisco, California.

Winners of this year's Shaw Prize for categories including astronomy, life science and medicine and mathematics have been announced. Six winners have been recognized for the above mentioned categories.

At its LiNC user conference held in San Francisco on Wednesday, Lithium Technologies made the first hints about how it plans to use "social influence" startup Klout which it acquired earlier this year.

At its annual F8 developers conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, social network Facebook unveiled a new 'anonymous login' feature which will give users greater power and more control over their personal data online.