SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Migraine Throbbing Pain Ars Technica is reporting on a new California bill that would ban the use of toxins in the production of cell phones and other electronic devices. If passed, they claim, the
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Un-American Activities Fitting in with the internet theme of the proceedings, Lantos invoked Godwin's Law and compared the companies' compliance with the Chinese government with IBM's compliance with Nazi Germany in World War II. (Link
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Free Tibet Ars Technica covers a few other Google-related stories this week: Ken Fisher gives his review of Google Video, his disappointment with the service, and what he thinks is the company's reasoning for introducing
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: For Great Justice The story is of interest more in terms of its precedent than for any actual privacy concerns. The data cannot be traced back to any personal information of individual users, and Google's objection
SF News SFist Tech Labs: We've Got a Report Due On Space That scandal, plus a less intense scuffle over the history of podcasting and the influence of vee-jays thereon, prompted Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales this week to change the site's policy and accept new
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: format c:\ Intel is jumping on the home media center bandwagon with its new VIIV technology, specifically aimed at creating media PCs. SFGate's take explains how Intel is having to work with content providers as
SF News Is This Why Health Insurance is so Expensive? Thanks to Engadget, who reads CNet News, who read Matier and Ross (we've given up), we find out that Waldo, a medicine-delivering helper robot at the UCSF Medical Center went bonkers, zooming down
Arts & Entertainment SFist Speaking Tonight That's right, we're putting on clothes and emerging from behind the computer to go out in public and speak! We're not sure why we were invited - something to do with being 'citizen
