Arts & Entertainment Upset That Siri Was Mispronouncing Her Name, Barbra Streisand Got Tim Cook To Change It Barbra Streisand, currently on tour despite many earlier threats/promises that she was retiring, went on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon on Saturday to discuss her new album of duets called Encore:
SF News Study: Facebook Employees Rank Last In 'Curiosity And Adventurousness' Among Top Tech Companies A study published today looking at worker personality traits across the tech sector has some bad news for Facebook. Its employees were found to rank dead last in "curiosity and adventurousness" — qualities which
SF News Overnight Burglary Of Apple Headquarters Leads To Door-To-Door Manhunt In South Bay A manhunt is ongoing Wednesday morning after three men suspected of burglarizing Apple's Cupertino headquarters took police on a chase all the way to San Jose. ABC 7 reports that someone with the
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Guy Gets Leaked iPhone 7 Mockup, Confirms No Headphone Jack Yes, iPhone fans and Apple nerds, it appears we have the first stateside leak of an actual (non-working) iPhone 7 Plus model a mockup, with a blue backing, that YouTube channel Unbox Therapy
SF News Apple Is Coming To Take Your Gun Emoji In a literally symbolic gesture, Apple is removing the gun emoji from its forthcoming mobile operating system, iOS 10, replacing the signifier of violence with an illustration of a toy water gun. Your
Arts & Entertainment Kanye West Tries To Solve Apple-Tidal Negotiations With Tweets Believing, as his wife does, that all the problems of the world can be solved with social media, Kanye West weighed in on Twitter on what are said to be some "choppy" negotiations,
SF News Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz Calls Apple Tax Avoidance 'Fraud' With a market capitalization of $570 billion, Cupertino-based Apple is the wealthiest company in the world. And while it makes universally loved products, what the company does with its earnings is raising some
SF News September 16 Release Date Rumored For iPhone 7 Because we all love our Apple rumors so much, here's another one for you: The latest addition to the tech giant's line of iPhones, the iPhone 7, is slated for a September 16
Arts & Entertainment iPhone 7 Will Allegedly Come In Three Models; New Photos Just Leaked If you can hardly wait for the iPhone 7 to come out this fall, then here's a teaser for you. CNet reports, via some new leaked photos on Chinese social network Weibo, that
SF News Poll: More And More Tech Workers Say They Plan To Leave Their Jobs To Go Elsewhere In The Country Home to Apple, Facebook, and Google, Silicon Valley is considered by many to be the center of the tech world. And while people travel from all over both to work for and visit
SF News Will Self-Driving Cars Ruin San Francisco? Self-driving cars sound pretty sweet, right? The idea of a safer, more reliable way to travel via automobile has an intuitive appeal — after all, according to the CDC, there are over 30,000
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
