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Fixie Bikes Confuse Google's Self-Driving Cars: Could This Become The Most SF Problem Ever?

At a four-way stop in Austin, Texas, a cyclist on a fixed-gear bike — or a "fixie" as the in-group calls them — baffled one of Google's self-driving vehicles. Could it be a harbinger for

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Tech Company A Cappella Groups To Perform In Relative Safety Of Atherton Tonight

via GIPHY Though some might consider the performance of cappella pop music to be an inexcusable offense after (if not during) college, at least some employees from leading technology companies like Twitter and

Google Express Shutting Down SF, Mountain View Hubs As Workers Campaign For Union

The Google Express is switching tracks, as it were, shutting down on-demand delivery hubs in San Francisco and Mountain View as reports Re/code. The move to restructure comes just as a battle

Google Now Owned By Company It Just Made Up

In the largest bit of corporate restructuring news to ever engage a general audience, Google has created a new parent company called Alphabet which will own Google and a variety of that company's

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Google And Gap Employees Send Messages Between Folsom Street Offices Via Post-Its

Gap Inc. is headquartered on the Embarcadero, with some offices in the building facing Folsom Street. Google also has offices directly across Folsom Street. Employees at the two companies have started posting messages

Day Around The Bay: Updates On Three Wildfires Still Raging

The Wragg Fire near Lake Berryessa, which we talked about last week, remains at 6,591 acres as of early Monday and is 70 percent contained. Further north and east, the Lowell Fire

Google Self-Driving Car Involved In Its First Minor Injury Accident

One of Google's 23 self-driving Lexus SUVs was rear-ended in recent weeks at an intersection in Mountain View, and three employees who were in the car at the time suffered minor whiplash. The

Google Might Be Uploading Your Photos Without Your Knowledge

Your Android phone might be uploading your photos to Google without you knowing it. A journalist at the Nashville Business Journal discovered this strange quirk of the Google Photos app, and showed how

Jack Halprin, 'Google Lawyer' And Target Of Anti-Eviction Protests, Dies Of Cancer At 46

Jack Halprin, head of eDiscovery at Google, has died according to the Examiner. According to an announcement from his brother on Facebook, Halprin "lost his short but difficult battle with cancer." He was

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Apartment Sadness: A Tent Near Google For $965/Month

This week's Apartment Sadness came in via the tip line a couple days ago, and subsequently blew up in the local media for reasons that should be obvious. Some opportunistic 22-year-old dude who

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Video: Scroll Your Way Up Yosemite's El Capitan With Google Street View

Earlier this year, the 3,000 foot granite monolith El Capitan in Yosemite saw a historic free climb that captured and held the world's attention. Well, now you can return to El Cap

Gmail Now Lets You Take Back Email You Just Sent

Though the feature has been available to those in the know as a public beta option for a while now in Gmail Labs, Gmail has now made their Undo Send feature fully legitimized

Google Says They'll Remove Revenge Porn From Their Search Results

Although Google has often resisted scrubbing content from their search results, the Internet giant says they will soon honor requests to have "revenge porn" removed. On Google's Public Policy Blog, senior vice president

What Is Google's Sidewalk Labs And How Will It 'Improve City Life'?

This week Google co-founder Larry Page announced the launch of a new "moonshot" company being fully funded by Google called Sidewalk Labs, with the broad and vague mission to "improve life in cities

Google Downsizes Its Glass Circus Tent Campus Design

Just when it seemed that Google's dreams of constructing a glass canopied colossus had been thwarted by the Mountain View City Council, the Business Times reports that the company has unveiled new, scaled

[Updated] Highlights From The Google I/O Developer Conference Keynote

If you're wondering who all those nerds are in the vicinity of the Moscone Center today, it's a legion of developers who are currently getting a peek at the next version of the

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YouTube's Kids App Has Some Trouble Filtering Out Beer Ads, Adult Content

Apparently YouTube has been catching a lot of flack from parents, family-centric non-profits, mommy bloggers and the like because their newly launched Kids app has done an incredibly poor job of filtering out

Prostitute Pleads Guilty In Google Exec's Death, Sentenced To Six Years

High-end call girl Alix Tichelman, 27, took a plea deal this week in the case of the heroin-induced death of Google X executive Forrest Timothy Hayes, who died aboard his yacht in a

Day Around The Bay: A Little Bit More Rain On The Way

LGBT groups are planning a big "real names" demonstration at Facebook HQ on June 1. [Daily Dot] And, in related news, a local woman whose legal name is Tru Love was booted from

Google And Priceline The Leaders In The Clubhouse As Potential Yelp Buyers

With the reports that Yelp is looking to sell itself, the speculation is bubbling up over who might be its new owner. One report puts two Internet giants at the top of the

Google's Canopied Campus Dreams Dashed By Mountain View City Council

It was just around midnight last night that the Mountain View City Council rebuffed Google's new attempt at town domination. This means that Google's recently revealed dreams of creating a game-changing piece of

Facebook, Other Tech Companies Step Up To Help Nepal, Matching Donations For Relief Effort

A number of tech companies stepped up in the wake of the disastrous earthquake in Nepal over the weekend, but so far Facebook seems to have emerged with a surfeit of generosity, as

Google Executive Dies In Mt. Everest Avalanche Triggered By Nepal Quake

This is Dans little sister Megan. I regret to inform all who loved him that during the avalanche on Everest early this morning our Dan suffered from a major head injury and didn't

Google Announces Cell Phone Service 'Project Fi'

Google wants YOU to use the Internet so that it can serve you ads, which is how it makes money. There. That's the raison d'être for Google Fiber, the high-speed internet service the

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Google Releases Pac-Man For Maps; Go Play On SF Streets

Offices today are at a standstill as the citizens of the Internet learn of a new Google-released game that can be played on Maps. As of this morning, you can turn most sections