SF News Google Patents Camera Hat, Triggers Painful Google Glass Flashbacks Google was rightfully and properly shamed out of the business of getting people to wear facecomputers, but after Snapchat found success in the wearables arena with its hardware product Spectacles, Google might be
SF News Uber Has Waymo Problems: Google Company Sues Over Allegedly Stolen Tech Uber schadenfreude continues in what's already been a hellish week for a company embroiled in scandal since Sunday after former engineer Susan Fowler went public with an account alleging sexual harassment and discrimination
SF News Google's Waze Carpool Program Expands To Entire Bay Area, Partnering With UCSF, Kaiser, MTC Waze, the Israeli-created GPS maps application that tracks traffic and crowdsources up-to-the-minute reports on everything from accidents to potholes, was snapped up by Google in 2013, and as that company has incorporated Waze
SF News Alphabet-Owned Boston Dynamics Unveils New 'Nightmare Inducing' Wheeled Robot In leaked video from a private presentation to investors by Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert, we see their latest war machine incredible mobile AI creation, Handle. Raibert himself says that it looks to
SF News Google CEO Sundar Pichai Calls Trump's Ban On Immigration 'Painful'; Zuckerberg Says He's 'Concerned' Donald Trump's asinine executive order Friday banning entry into the country of all people from seven Muslim-majority nations for at least 90 days making good on his xenophobic campaign promises to fight radical
SF News Beware Of Sophisticated Gmail Phishing Email That Makes You Log In Again Gmail users need to be on alert for an email that looks like an email from a friend but which is actually a savvy phishing scheme that not only your grandmother will fall
SF News Lawsuit Says Google's Confidentiality Policy Is So Ridiculous Staffers Can't Write Novels About People In Tech A lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco on Tuesday on behalf of a former Google employee identified as a "John Doe" alleges that the Mountain View-based tech company insists upon
SF News Google-Founded Self-Driving Car Company Waymo Unveils Vehicles, Eyes 2017 Deployment As Uber continued to argue with state regulators last week over its self-driving cars on San Francisco streets, another manufacturer of autonomous vehicles rolled onto the scene. Executives with Waymo, a company which
SF News Instead Of Making Its Own Driverless Cars, Google Will Use Chrysler Minivans With regard to plans for the development of its own driverless car, Google parent company Alphabet is putting its foot on the brakes, although that idiom doesn't really apply because the company's original
Arts & Entertainment See How The Bay Area (And The Planet) Changed Over 3 Decades With Google Timelapse Starting in 2013, Google invited us to step right up and "watch the sprouting of Dubai’s artificial Palm Islands, the retreat of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier, and the impressive urban expansion of
SF News Dream Of Drone-Delivered Lattes Comes Crashing Down As Alphabet's Project Wing Ends Starbucks Partnership Did you know that Alphabet's drone division, Project Wing, had teamed up with Starbucks with the goal of delivering the chain's products to customers by drone? Well, it seems the nascent partnership just
SF News Google Self-Driving Car Broadsided In Mountain View Crash In another example of what is starting to become a rather common occurrence, a Google self-driving car was involved in a collision this past Friday. However, in a marked departure from previous wrecks
SF News Google To Open Youth Education Center In Oakland Fruitvale Village, a transit-adjacent 255,000 square-foot real estate development with 47 housing units owned by a local nonprofit and completed in 2003, is getting a new commercial tenant: Google, the Alphabet, Inc.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alphabet Is Now Delivering Chipotle Burritos By Drone In news that is sure to cause college students around the country to choke on their bong water, Google parent company Alphabet today announced that its Project Wing drone division has teamed up
SF News Google's Waze-Based Carpool App Launching In San Francisco, To Compete With Uber Google may have hoped to wade gently into the ride-hailing waters jealously guarded by San Francisco's Uber and Lyft, but news today that its Waze-based carpool app will be expanding to San Francisco
SF News Google Launches New Video Chat App Google yesterday made a move to expand its toehold into the world of video chatting. Wired reports that the company announced a new video-chat app that is available for download on both Android
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Is Yelping Mad That Google Is Boosting Zagat Links Over Theirs Reviews from Google-owned Zagat are, predictably enough, going to be popping up in your restaurant searches above those from Yelp (and Trip Advisor), as a new mobile search function highlighting the best food
SF News We May Be Getting Google Drone Delivery As Soon As Next Year Google parent company Alphabet is one step closer to realizing its promise of having drones deliver all the dumb stuff you order online right to your doorstep. CNet reports that the company was
Arts & Entertainment Author Dennis Cooper Says Google's Blogger Ate His Novel Envelope-pushing novelist Dennis Cooper, known in the past couple of decades both for his sexually explicit fiction involving teenagers as well as genre-bending work like his 2005 book God Jr. that centered on
SF News Google Employees Declare 'Lady Day' To Mock Shareholder's Sexism Did you enjoy a nice Lady Day? That symbolic event was celebrated at Google at the end of last week in a concerted response to the sexist comments of an unnamed shareholder in
SF News Google Bets On VR Platform, Chat Apps, And Amazon Echo Competitor If you're in tech or just playing along on Twitter, you can't escape it: Google's I/O conference, a summit filled with unveilings and presentations of post-Steve Jobs proportion. The big highlights so
Arts & Entertainment YouTube To Launch Major Cable TV Alternative Called Unplugged In 2017 YouTube, and parent company Alphabet, has been undergoing a major overhaul of its underlying technical architecture in preparation for the launch of a subscription based, bundled TV service, as Bloomberg is reporting. It's
SF News Goodbye Google Glass, Hello Google Eyeball Google yesterday filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for an electronic device that would be implanted directly into peoples' eyeballs. While it's all very preliminary, Forbes notes
SF News Google's Garbage April Fools' Prank Backfires, They Blame It On 'A Bug' Have you ever been writing an email to a potential new employer, an estranged lover, or a grieving parent and thought, "you know what, this email could really be spiced up with a
SF News Hillary Clinton Emails Show Weirdly Close Relationship Between State Department And Google A new batch of Hillary Clinton's infamous emails have appeared on Wikileaks, and among them there's one name that appears a bunch and that's Jared Cohen, director and founder of Google Ideas and
