It's been a while since we published a tech roundup. But the Internet turned 15 last Sunday, we got a new laptop from an entrepreneur and friend who'll be enabling this 'Fister's addiction to blogging, and SFist Chuck, whom we dearly miss, was kidnapped by Disney, who force him to Imagineer at gunpoint. All the while, you've been lost in the unmapped multiverse, wondering who Supr.c.ilio.us and TechCrunch are, and which is the hipper one......

It warms our red hearts to see workers marching here at home and around the world on International Workers' Day, otherwise known as May Day. Protests and demonstrations happened from Berlin to Indonesia, and while most were peaceful, there were scuffles with authorities. Here in the United States, the marches were to protest changes to immigration laws, and coincided with many businesses shuttering their doors as immigrant workers walked off their jobs. Marches were......

Saturday: We're hitting the Gama-Go Holiday Warehouse Sale, for 25-50% off the suggested retail price for their uniquely super cute women's and men's tees and accessories. It's all happening at Gama-Go Headquarters, 301 8th Street at Folsom, from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday: We're going to the International Taiko Festival. The Japanese art of Taiko incorporates apects of of martial arts and musicianship, making for a drum performance SFist Chuck describes as "No exaggeration,......

Last night we took a long bus ride out to Fort Mason to check out the final rounds of the Robot Fighting League's Combots National Championship. SFist Chuck reminded us to make it out, and SFist Emily had so much fun last year, we decided it was a must-cover event. Besides, they had nachos and Pabst Blue Ribbon on hand. Our first reaction was that we hadn't seen so many kids in one place......

Howdy, folks! It's been a powerful slow week for tech news, so in honor of the Fry's in Palo Alto, we'll take the "roundup" in the title literally and rustle us up a big heapin' mess of western-themed blog headlines! Hot and saucy! Texas style! Frontier Justice in the Lawless Blogosphere Seems a week don't go by less we hear about Google, and this time they're under the gun from Webmasters gettin' hit by......

SFist would like to extend a warm welcome to all of you who found us via SFist Chuck's SFist Tech Roundup. Lotsa other stuff besides our contemplation of Apple's bigger plan over here at SFist last week... Like our contemplation of The Orphanage's bigger plan, which we promise to never contemplate again if they give SFist Matty-Matt (who appeared during KRON's coverage of the story a day later, as he raised his hand at......

What's that? Did you say something, Apple? Sorry, we weren't paying attention; we were too busy watching full-length movies on our Sony PSP's 4.3-inch widescreen. All the tech news and gossip sites for the past week have been full of will-they-or-won't-they speculation about whether Apple was going to announce a video iPod at its big press event on Wednesday. Our best guess in the labs was that there's no way Apple would release a......

The tech lab crew took a field trip to San Jose last week for the RoboNexus international robotics convention. It's the second year of the convention, and it's the largest robotics convention in the US. That says more about the state of robotics in the US than it does about the size of the show. Only one of the convention center's exhibition halls was being used, and much of that was empty space. But......

When we agreed to open the SFist Tech Labs to the public with this column, we had visions of writing about new cell phones and PDAs and MP3 players, web applications, and all the greatest technology Silicon Valley has to offer. But all anyone wants to talk about is Google. Google, Google, Google! It's enough to give us a complex (or as the hip young active company likes to describe it, a googleplex). Not......

Apparently the rest of the world wasn't satisfied with our "look at how small it is" defense for the iPod nano, as they've gone and made Apple admit to the screen defect, prompting "What went wrong?" articles from the major news sources and a dip in Apple's stock price. (Apart from the usual fluctuations in Apple's stock price, typically caused by butterflies flapping their wings and the coughing of babies.) Here at SFist Tech......

Oakland-based “global web property” Ask.com announced late last week that they’re phasing out the Jeeves persona that was beloved by some. Their reasoning was “user confusion,” in that bewildered users mistook the foppish cartoon for a real live British butler responding to their web queries, and would become flummoxed at having to type out complete questions instead of just keywords like “kittens” and “naughty college girls.” We in the SFist labs can’t say we’re......

Big things are happening at SFist Tech, as part of our ongoing bitter rivalry against the cow-molesters at SFist A&M and those stupid frat jocks at University of SFist. This week, your researchers in the labs are in the middle of a zany mix-up involving three Bay Area companies and their wacky misunderstanding of how to market themselves, take advantage of wireless, and handle media rights issues. Our hapless neighbor who thinks he's sexy......