SF News Here's What Facebook, Google, And Apple Employees Really Think About Tech-Shuttle 'Hubs' A significant number of tech employees responded to a recent anonymous SFMTA survey seeking to determine possible locations for new tech-shuttle hubs that would decrease the impact the much maligned shuttles have on
SF News Apple Is Trying To Buy Jay Z's Streaming Service Tidal Apple is apparently making a play to up its streaming game, with The Wall Street Journal reporting that the Cupertino-based company is in talks with Tidal to buy the company. Acquiring the Jay
SF News Proposed Apple Invention Would Allow Other People/Agencies To Remotely Disable Your iPhone Camera It's a funny idea, a company seeking to decrease the usability of one of its most popular product's features. But that appears to be exactly what Apple is attempting to do to its
SF News Pelosi Rips Into Apple CEO Tim Cook For Hosting Republican Fundraiser Apple CEO Tim Cook today was scheduled to host a fundraiser for GOP House Majority Leader Paul Ryan. Ryan is one of the most visible leaders of his party, and as the Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment Tourists Flocking To Silicon Valley On 21st Century Tech Pilgrimages Would you travel halfway around the world to take a photo in front of the Facebook sign? No? How about the Android mascot? Well, according to The Mercury News, a lot of people
Arts & Entertainment The iPhone 7 Will Be Slightly Thinner, Lose Headphone Jack, Maintain Basic Design Getting excited to replace your scuffed up, increasingly battery-challenged iPhone 5 or 6 this fall? Well don't get too excited for the iPhone 7 to be a radical departure, because the Wall Street
SF News Everyone Wants To Work At Bay Area Tech Companies, Says New LinkedIn Report No, it's not just their employees' inflated sense of ego — everyone does really want to work at Bay Area tech companies. Or so says a new LinkedIn report, which notes that jobs at
SF News Apple Won't Give Computers Or Donations To GOP Convention, As It Traditionally Does, Because Trump CBS 5 calls it a "boycott," which might be an extreme way of looking at it, but yes, Politico reports that Apple will not lend any help to the GOP convention over the
SF News Woman Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Brick At Steve Jobs's House A bizarre scene reportedly went down at the former home of the deceased Steve Jobs, and a woman stands accused of felony assault and misdemeanor vandalism involving the Palo Alto residence. According to
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Apple's WWDC Keynote: 'OS X' Finally Gets Retired, Apple Music Gets Redesigned There are no bad views in this place. Very excited. #wwdc2016 pic.twitter.com/jul60pUYmX— Brian Capps (@bcapps) June 13, 2016 Starting at 10 a.m., Tim, Jony, Phil and the gang will
Arts & Entertainment What To Expect From Next Week's WWDC Takeover Of San Francisco Apple fanatics will have their panties in one infinite loop next week, as Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will turn the Moscone Center and Bill Graham Civic Auditorium venues into Branch
SF News Newsweek: Apple's New SF Flagship Store Is A 'Fancy Crypt' The gleaming new Union Square Apple store, unveiled and opened this month, is its "first global flagship," which is to say that stores that come after it will follow in its mold. Designed
SF News New Union Square Apple Store To Open Gigantic Sliding Glass Doors Saturday Apple fanboys and girls will want to set their iCals and synchronize their Apple Watches, because Apple's gleaming new Union Square retail store at 300 Post Street will open this Saturday, May 21st,
SF News Cupertino Mayor Says Apple Kicked Him Out Of HQ Cupertino, California: Pop, 58,302 Souls, plus 1 Gigantic Company. That, of course, would be Apple, and in an interview highlighting the seemingly frayed town-gown relations, so to speak, between the company and
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 Apple Death Was Apparent Suicide Of 'Young And Talented' Employee The body discovered yesterday morning at Apple's Cupertino headquarters was that of an employee, officials yesterday confirmed. Although the cause of death has yet to be confirmed pending the completion of a coroner's
SF News [Update] Body Found Inside Apple's Cupertino Headquarters Sheriff investigation at #Apple headquarters in Cupertino. A body was found in a conference room. pic.twitter.com/HC7UBPWROM— Matt Keller (@MattKellerABC7) April 27, 2016 Investigators with the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office
SF News Feds May Have Paid iPhone Hackers More Than $1.3 Million How much did the FBI pay the "gray hat" hacker or hackers who successfully unlocked the iPhone related to the San Bernardino terrorism case? “A lot,” FBI chief James B. Comey Jr. said
SF News Rumored New iPhone To Be All Glass (Ensuring Top Breakability) After last month's roundly mocked unveiling of the next line of iPhones disappointed the Cupertino faithful, Apple-watchers this week jumped on early reports that the next phone model to come from the technology
SF News Day Around The Bay: No, This Is Not The Apple Car Calm down, those (ugly?) apple car renderings are just @MotorTrend 'imagining' what it might look like. #What pic.twitter.com/M22pQigNuv— Reggie Aqui (@reggieaqui) April 14, 2016 Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram,
SF News Feds Paid 'Gray Hat' Hackers, Not Israeli Firm, To Crack That iPhone Contrary to earlier reports that Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite had been the ones paid by the FBI to crack the iPhone left behind in the San Bernardino terrorism case, the successful hacking
SF News Feds Tell Local Police They're Happy To Help Unlock iPhones Well that didn't take long. Despite claiming for weeks that its efforts to break the encryption on San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's work iPhone 5C was only about that one phone, now that
SF News Apple Wants Answers About How The FBI Hacked That iPhone Apple remains in the dark about how a federally contracted "outside party" believed to be Israeli mobile forensics specialists Cellebrite succeeded in circumventing the security protections in the iPhone 5C in order to
SF News Tomorrow's Tech Campuses, Built On Yesterday's Hippie Commune Space Dreams Technology giants Apple and Google have strange, new corporate campuses on the horizon, the New York Times Style Magazine, T, has noticed: Google's a slightly downsized tent-like structure and Apple's a very large,
SF News Feds Successfully Hack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone, Drop Court Case Against Apple The federal government announced today that it has successfully accessed the data on San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's work iPhone 5C, and as such will drop its case demanding Apple build a backdoor
