SF News Someone Finally Found A Use For Google Glass (Hint: Not Wearing Them) Google Glass, amirite folks? The much-ridiculed and short-lived face-computers officially got the axe early last year when Google announced it was halting their sale. However, we learned late last year that Alphabet intended
SF News Google Artificial Intelligence Defeats Go Grandmaster, Humans Prepare For Robot Uprising Ladies and gentlemen, we make a lot of jokes around here at SFist about the robot uprising, but news yesterday out of South Korea has us feeling a little, shall we say, on
SF News Video: Watch That Google Self-Driving Car Crashing Into A Bus Remember when that Google self-driving car crashed into a city bus last month? As the robot was at fault, it appeared that the incident was the first time a self-driving car had caused
SF News Google Fiber Is Coming To San Francisco Google Fiber is finally coming to San Francisco. Well, sort of, anyway. Director of Business Operations at Google Fiber, Michael Slinger, announced in a blog post today his intention bring the company's super-fast
SF News Video: Google-Owned Boston Dynamics Improves Their Terrifying, Terminator-Like Robots Alphabet/Google-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics, the people behind those crazy robot war dogs, has just unleashed upon us yet another bit of nightmare fuel. Specifically: The new and improved Atlas Robot. Watch
SF News 2016's Prospects 'Less Optimistic' After Tech Stocks Take Market Hit The stock market's first day of trading for 2016 did not go so well for several local tech companies, with Alphabet, Facebook and Netflix all taking big hits in a trend that left
SF News Google-Owned Robot War Dogs Wail Too Loudly For US Military Use The future of the nightmare-fuel robot war machines designed by Google-owned Boston Dynamics looks bleak after the US Marines announced they would no longer work with the robo-dogs. The reason? The things are
SF News Google Glass 2.0 Is On Its Way, And It Won't Be Marketed To Consumers Alphabet is not giving up on Google Glass. As the company said earlier this year, the road has not gone off a cliff for the much reviled facecomputer, and now 9 to 5
SF News Google Partners With Ford For Self-Driving Car Manufacture Google well, technically Alphabet has struck a non-exclusive partnership deal with Ford to build its first production run of autonomous vehicles, as Yahoo Autos is reporting. This marks a shift for Ford, which
Arts & Entertainment The Irony!: Three Big Tech Companies All Had <i>Great Gatsby</i>-Themed Holiday Parties This Year A lot of people, including SFist, were quick to call 2014's bubble-riffic round of tech company holiday parties "excessive," which has perhaps prompted them to be a little more low-key about talking about
SF News Google Explains Why Its Self-Driving Cars Only Go 25 MPH (For Now) Driving fast is hard. It's also scary. At least according to Google, who in a recently released report detailed the reasons that their custom-designed self-driving cars currently top out at 25 miles per
SF News Google Accused Of Spying On Students As Young As Seven Years Old Google's mission to "organize the world's information" apparently includes information about the habits of students as young as 7-years-old. So alleges a complaint filed yesterday with the Federal Trade Commission by the San
SF News Google Discovers DMV Is Slow, Self-Driving Car Regulations Are Almost A Year Late When his son turns 16 in three-and-a-half years, Chris Urmson of Google's driverless car project doesn't want to take him to the DMV for a driver's license. Maybe that's a personal anecdote about
SF News Self-Driving Google Car Pulled Over By Mountain View Cop For Driving Too Slow One of Google/Alphabet's self-driving cars not one of the SUVs but one of the cute European-looking models got pulled over by a Mountain View traffic cop on Thursday as it was being
SF News Chief Google Engineer Says Crazy Thing About 2017 Drone Deliveries The company formally known as Google (Alphabet) hopes to have drones delivering you baby wipes and other small items by 2017, according to one of the company's engineers. The announcement was made yesterday
SF News Google's Got A New Logo Now Google's unveiled a new logo today, in advance of their absorption (or whatever) into Alphabet, the holding company they made up earlier this month. If you're the kind of person who goes to
SF News Google Express Shutting Down SF, Mountain View Hubs As Workers Campaign For Union The Google Express is switching tracks, as it were, shutting down on-demand delivery hubs in San Francisco and Mountain View as reports Re/code. The move to restructure comes just as a battle
SF News Google Now Owned By Company It Just Made Up In the largest bit of corporate restructuring news to ever engage a general audience, Google has created a new parent company called Alphabet which will own Google and a variety of that company's
