Business & Tech Tech Updates: New Groq AI Chips Push Boundaries Groq leads the race for energy-efficient AI infrastructure; SeafoodAI automates crab fishing for better traceability; and Google backs Charm Industrial’s biochar tech to advance carbon removal goals.
Business & Tech Tech Updates: Nokia Brings 200 Tech Jobs to San Jose With Sustainable Chip Plant Bay Area companies are leading the charge in sustainable tech: Nokia expands its semiconductor hub to San Jose; Lightmatter unveils an energy-efficient AI processor; Savor Foods introduces carbon-based butter; and Longshot Space develops a low-cost cargo space launch system.
SF News Hot Prowler Swipes Computers Stored In Sunset Garage A man who stored his computers in his garage is now without the devices, after a thief broke into his residence to steal the items. Police say that the incident happened at some
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vintage Apple Commercial Highlights Christmas Ruined By DOS Prompts Most of you whippersnappers will be confused by this ancient commercial from Apple, in which a family's Christmas Eve is ruined by the DOS prompts required by their brand new "Multimedia Computer." But
SF News Zuckerberg And Kutcher Working Together To Create The Terminator Elon Musk, SF resident Mark Zuckerberg, and Ashton Kutcher just put $40 million into Vicarious FPC, a secretive artificial-intelligence company working toward creating a computer that may be able to think like you,
SF News Apple Unveils Powerful iOS 7; Pretty, Plastic New iPhones Today's mildly anticipated iPhone and iOS7 announcement from Apple met expectations and rumors swirling around the Internet over the past few months. CEO Tim Cook and his gang revealed the iOS 7, iPhone
Arts & Entertainment Kanye Receives Mice Autographed By Steve Jobs And Woz For Father's Day, new poppa Kanye West received a cool geek gift that would make any Mac zealot envious: a pair of old Apple mice autographed by co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve "Woz"
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Journey Inside the Computer Our friends at Deeper Understanding have just put together another surreal edit of a piece of VHS tutorial history, this time a kids' educational video about how computers work from the early 90s.
Arts & Entertainment Apple 1 Computer To Sell For At Least $500K Behold the Apple I, built in 1976 by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The highly coveted computer is being put up for auction by Ted Perry, a retired school psychologist who
SF News Video: Googling In North Korea! On Monday, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt arrived in North Korea with former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson on a humanitarian mission. Today the duo visited a computer lab at Kim Il Sung
Arts & Entertainment 1973 Social Media Terminal Is A Thing Of Wonder Way before Instagram, before Yelp, before Prodigy, and even before your local BBS (Waveline 4 life!), there was the Community Memory Terminal. Gorgeous, isn't it? You can almost picture Dave Eggers and his
SF News Google Debuts $199 Chromebook While Apple continues to price gouge people working on their Pintrest pages at cafes — if we may generalize sweepingly, no one using a MacBook at a coffee shop neither can nor should be
SF News DMV Computer System Down In California Our sister site LAist reports that the computer system at the Department of Motor Vehicles is down today. "Right now a "glitch" has knocked down their computer system state-wide, leading to a blanket
SF News Listen To Tech Writer Recount Dreadful Post-Hack Stress Wired Gadget Lab’s senior writer Mat Honan's digital life was hacked last week. In addition to a detailed article on Monday, he also gave a rather jarring interview about what happened and
Arts & Entertainment Help Burgled Digital Media Nonprofit That Helps At-Risk Youth! BAYCAT, educators and job-finders for underserved youth in the digital media arts, is a local profit notorious for doing damn good work. On Thursday, July 12th, their space in Dog Patch robbed. All
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco 23rd 'Smuttiest City,' Says Men's Health Men's Health has a breakdown of the top 100 "smuttiest" (i.e., porn-happy) cities in the United States. Orlando, Florida comes in a No. 1. However, San Francisco ranks a distant 23rd and
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Magic Cube, A Full-Sized Laser Keyboard If only for the fact that it brings lasers into the game, we are more than intrigued by The Magic Cube, an operational QWERTY keyboard that works by using really bitchin' lasers. Made
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch The New iPad Unboxing Part of what makes Apple's fandom so rabid is the act and art of opening up a new Apple product. Like mainlining heroin, it's a quick high that the buyer can never reach
SF News City College Computers Infected With Decade-Old Virus A computer lab at San Francisco City College was recently shut down after it was discovered that one of its computers contained a virus that had been transmitting user data to Russia and
SF News Zynga Temp Employee Arrested for Swiping $100K in Company Equipment Keith Brown, 21, was arrested on Tuesday at gaming company Zynga's after allegedly stealing an estimated $100,000 worth of equipment. Brown stands accused of taking company laptops, desktop computers and software. His
SF News Computer Problems Stop All BART Service [Updated] A computer SNAFU of sorts halted all BART service this evening. As of 8:05 pm, BART reports: "BART is experiencing computer problems in the Operations Control Center and service is currently stopped.
SF News Happy 41st Birthday, Electronic Mail Forty-one years ago today, the first e-mail was sent out by--what else?--a pair of computer scientists, UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock and graduate student Charley Klein. Valleywag notes: "The message was to be
SF News What Will Happen at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference? You can feel it in the air. Mac sect members eagerly awaiting the next pearl of genius to drop at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, which is happening right now at the Moscone
SF News San Francisco Homeless Stay Connected The Wall Street Journal reports that many of San Francisco's homeless are savvy at finding ways to go online regularly. Shelter attendants say the number of overnight visitors with laptops is growing, and
misc A Steve Job in 60 Seconds Easy and compact, check out Apple CEO Steve Jobs' 90-minute keynote speech in 60 seconds. It's like the Golden Globes, only not as pretty or deadly important. And as you all know--waking up
