Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Castro Theatre Sneak Preview Of 'Transparent' Season 3, With Cast Q&A “I would be happy if I were the last cisgender male to play a transgender female,” Jeffrey Tambor declared Sunday evening in accepting his second Emmy for his portrayal of Maura Pfefferman, the
SF News Amazon Tests Out 30-Hour Workweek For Some Employees Amazon's latest innovation isn't a new subscription program or e-book reader: It's a 30-hour work week for certain employees on technical teams, the Washington Post reveals. A few dozen workers at the Seattle,
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
SF News Amazon Launches Standalone Streaming In Challenge To Netflix In what can only be read as a direct challenge to fellow video streaming company Netflix, Amazon has announced a new monthly subscription service called Prime Video. The service, which unbundles the video
SF News Google Express To Test Timeliness With Perishable Goods Deliveries Not content to merely drive toilet paper to your front door as the company's service does currently, Google Express — the delivery arm of Alphabet, FKA Google — now seeks to become a go-to provider
SF News Hoverboards Blamed For Two Bay Area House Fires In Past Week Santa Rosa Fire says board was charging in her front bedroom. House went up very fast. $250,000 damage pic.twitter.com/QKlmOkG3QL— Wayne Freedman (@WayneFreedman) January 20, 2016 Less than a week
SF News Twitter Patents Crowdsourced Tweet-Controlled Drone, FAA (Presumably) Cries Like its fluttery mascot, Twitter dreams of flight. The social media titan was granted a patent last week for a tweet-controlled drone, with user actions on the platform (think retweets) somehow determining the
SF News SpaceX Vertically Lands Its Falcon 9 Rocket, Geeks Everywhere Rejoice SpaceX finally did it. The pioneering company in contract with NASA to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station managed yesterday to vertically land its Falcon 9 rocket on a landing pad in
SF News Hoverboards Bursting Into Flames All Over, Amazon Yanks Them From Site Like a knock-off Icarus, the hot hot hot hoverboard trend perhaps flew a little too close to the sun this holiday season and ended up getting burned. And worried moms everywhere take note:
SF News Amazon Debuts New Delivery Drone Prototype, Still Has No Idea When They Will Be Deployed Remember when we all scoffed at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' 2013 claim that his company was developing a drone delivery system? Well, according to a company announcement, their plan to unleash hoards of
SF News Amazon Prime Now Couriers Are Latest To Seek Legal Recourse For Employee Benefits Free two-hour delivery has some high hidden costs for its providers, and Amazon isn't paying those in full, or so alleges a new lawsuit seeking class-action status. Al Jazeera America and Reuters report
SF News Google To Take On Amazon And Instacart With Expanded Grocery Delivery In SF Later This Year In a fairly predictable move, Google Express will be trying to expand into the delivery-from-Whole Foods market by testing the service in SF later this year, according to a Google Express manager who
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Amazon To Launch First Drive-Thru Grocery Pick-Up Concept In Sunnyvale It looks as though Amazon is going to be experimenting with a new drive-up grocery concept tied to their online grocery ordering system, Amazon Fresh. So, rather than relying on a fleet of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Can You Trust The People Passing Your Apartment Not To Steal Your Amazon Groceries? When Amazon announced earlier this month that they would be using the U.S. Postal Service to deliver groceries in San Francisco, it seems like folks reacted with a collective shrug. Having your
SF News Don't Ask Why: Amazon Unveils New Fire Phone Amazon has entered the smart-phone market, everyone. Please don't all yawn at once. The company unveiled their Fire Phone to journalists yesterday, most of whom went "Oh, cool," to a couple of the
SF News Huge Amazon Locker Appears On The Waterfront To Distract Us With Marketing Yesterday, a giant Amazon locker appeared on Justin Herman Plaza across from the Ferry Building, prompting tech blogs and even the Wall Street Journal to have an awkward "what's in the box?!" moment.
SF News Could Uber Be Bigger Than Facebook Someday? That's the idea being chattered about in venture capital circles, and the chatter is becoming much louder after the leak of some recent financials from Uber that show it could be on track
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amazon Bringing Grocery Delivery To Bay Area After obliterating neighborhood book stores, Amazon is coming for local grocery stores next. The online mega mall has plans to roll out their AmazonFresh grocery delivery service to the Bay Area by the
SF News Amazon Founder Pitches Whopping $2.5 Million For Gay Marriage In Washington Billionaire Amazon President Jeff Bezos just became one of the largest financial backers of gay marriage rights in the country with a hefty $2.5 million pledge supporting Washington State's Referendum 74, which
SF News Amazon.com Purchases Robot Army While it's not particularly local, the news that Amazon.com has agreed to purchased warehouse robotics manufacturer Kiva Systems for $775 million should be alarming to anyone who fears the inevitable robot uprising.
SF News Daily Show Makes Fun Of California's Ballot Initiative System Once again, the Daily Show sees fit to make fun of us, and this time it's the entire state of California that takes the brunt of their comedic reportage. On last night's Daily
Arts & Entertainment 'Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story' Skewered by Amazon Critics Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky stands accused of pedophilia and sexually assaulting several young boys, some as young as 10. Among other graphic accusations, the assistant coach reportedly molested some of the victims
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SF News Amazon to Buy Netflix? Word on Wall Street is that Silicon Valley's Netflix, who in just 12 years has changed the way we rent movies while clobbering Blockbuster's power, might be bought out by Amazon. According to
