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Robert Downey Jr. Wants To Be The Voice Of Mark Zuckerberg's AI Butler

"This just got real." So wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday after Robert Downey Jr. offered to record the voice of the tech titan's personal AI butler. As one of his always interesting

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Video: Grill Like A Billionaire With Mark Zuckerberg's Backyard BBQ Tips

Have you ever wondered how the other half, or, in this case, the other .000001 percent live? What with their private-island hideouts, meetings with heads of state, and quirky hobbies, it's not far

ACLU: Facebook, Instagram, And Twitter Provided Data Access To Surveillance Company Used By Police To Track Protesters

Chicago-based Geofeedia, a "location-based intelligence platform" that analyzes social media posts to deliver them as surveillance information to 500 law enforcement agencies, is often used to target protesters such as Black Lives Matter

Yahoo Secretly Created Spyware To Scan All Incoming Email For Feds

At the request of the US government, Yahoo engineers last year secretly built custom software to scan all of its users' incoming email in real time — and then made that data available to

Day Around The Bay: Chinese Uber Drivers Pull Zombie Scam

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Oculus Founder Secretly Funding Pro-Trump Troll Army

While Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump doesn't draw a lot of support from Silicon Valley, that which he does tends to be, well, unique. We now have an Exhibit B is the

In Blow To Zuckerberg's Real-Life Privacy Settings, Palo Alto Rejects Plan To Demolish Nearby Homes

All he wanted was a little privacy. Alas, it is not to be. According to CBS 5, the Palo Alto Architectural Review Board rejected Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans to demolish the four

Day Around The Bay: Teen Sues Parents Over Facebook Posts

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SpaceX Rocket Carrying Facebook's First Satellite Explodes On Launchpad

For anyone who wondered why launch prep takes weeks & why no one is allowed near, this is why #Falcon9 #SpaceX pic.twitter.com/ukCPmAhOhD— Hunter Blaeser (@MinnesotaLoving) September 1, 2016 A SpaceX

Day Around The Bay: President Obama Lands In Tahoe

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Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan Sell Off $95 Million In Facebook Stock For Charity, Or Similar

Inspired by the birth of their daughter, Dr. Priscilla Chan and husband Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's first family, pledged last December to give away 99 percent of their extremely valuable company stock during their

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

Facebook To Relegate Clickbait Headlines To Special Place In Timeline Hell

Thank you for clicking on this meaningful headline and welcome to an article with useful information. There were other options, I would presume, like "you won't believe what this one social network is

Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Do We Want A 'Drayzilla'?

Three-tenant retail property at 1720-1790 Fulton Street sold for $4,595,000. [The Registry] Murder suspect busted for alleged attempt to smuggle phone into SF Jail. [SF Examiner] Alameda County settles a lawsuit

Does Facebook Owe $5 Billion In Back Taxes?

The manner in which some of Facebook's assets were valued by a third-party company was "problematic" according to court documents filed by the IRS: Those assets may have been undervalued by "billions of

[Update] Facebook Eyes San Francisco Office, Maybe

Menlo Park-based Facebook is considering a major expansion into San Francisco barely a month after reports that CEO Mark Zuckerberg would not bow to employee pressure to do just that. According to three

Facebook Releases (Low) Diversity Numbers, Adds LGBTQ Stats, Appears To Blame Public School System

If everyone has a Facebook account, in order to best represent all of these peoples' interests, Facebook employees should look like — and have had the experiences of — as many people as possible. Right?

Facebook Engineer Fights For Gun Groups After Company Bans Sales Between Users

Facebook is great for so many things. Finding out about cool events, posting articles about your political beliefs to people who already share them, or watching your exes make compromises in their personal

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

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

Facebook Employee Arrested For Alleged Rape, Knifepoint Imprisonment

A man who identified himself to police as an employee of Facebook was arrested Tuesday morning, following allegations of a June sexual assault in the suspect's home. According to a press release from