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Tuesday Morning Roundup: Google Staffer Blasts Google Smoke Detector
SF News /Eve Batey

Tuesday Morning Roundup: Google Staffer Blasts Google Smoke Detector

Published Feb 17, 2015 · 1:00 AM PST

  • Using the single example of a tweet that makes the gripping and shocking announcement that "Almost every major patent concept from the 1930s was in chemistry. Today, all software," [The Atlantic] concludes that Twitter is incapable of driving traffic to websites.
  • Apparently, there's a drive-in in Concord, and when you go see the Spongebob movie you can also see Fifty Shades. Weren't similar confluences one of the high points of that type of moviegoing experience? I seem to recall being taken to Fantasia but craning my neck to watch Blazing Saddles the whole time... [CBS5]
  • Did you know that Mt. Sutro was a commercial logging operation just 80 years ago? [Hoodline]
  • Now you can go sit on Bernal Hill and answer questions. [Bernalwood]
  • The $16 million gender bias suit between Reddit's acting CEO and influential VC firm Kleiner Perkins hits court today. [SF Business Times]
  • Google staffer warns the world that smoke detector from Google-owned company doesn't reliably detect smoke. [Brad Fitzpatrick/Google +]
  • If you were expecting to rent a tux from Selix, you're out of luck. [ABC7]
  • "Heartbreaking Photos and Tragic Tales of San Francisco's Homeless" via [Mother Jones].
  • The [SF Chronicle] discovers that people can be gross on public transit.

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