Arts & Entertainment Video: Stephen Colbert Googles Himself To Find Google Has His Height Wrong Watch out, Larry Page—Stephen Colbert is on the warpath! And he wants to sue Google. Colbert told his audience last night, "You see folks when I Googled myself this afternoon—as I
SF News A Year Later, SF's Free WiFi For 32 City Parks Finally Kicks Off Well over a year after San Francisco announced a partnership with Google to put free WiFi in San Francisco parks, the service is finally ready for launch. As reported in July of 2013,
SF News Space Race 2.0: Facebook Matches Google Balloons With Internet Drones Facebook will match your balloon and up you a drone. Just as Google put a brave face on its Project Loon, the mission to blanket the world in internet broadcast from high-altitude balloons,
SF News Audi's Self-Driving A7 Hitting S.F. Streets Thanks To New DMV Permit If you happen to pass an Audi on the road, don't panic if there's no one behind the wheel. On Tuesday, the German car company received the first California permit to test self-driving
SF News Homeless Google Staffers Have Lived On Mountain View Campus For Weeks, Months At a Time Google may encourage its workers to stay on duty for extended periods by offering three meals a day in the cafeteria, a gym, and plenty of play spaces. But rising rents in Silicon
SF News Were Your Gmail Login Credentials Leaked To A Russian Bitcoin Site? Here's How To Check Nearly five million Gmail usernames and passwords were published on a Russian Bitcoin forum on Tuesday evening, as first reported by international sources including one Russian news agency that claims 60 percent of
SF News Will Tech Workers Get Dinged By The IRS For Free Lunches? You know how all the big tech companies employ their own executive chefs and provide lovely lunch and dinner options to their employees every day so no one ever has to leave the
SF News Westboro Baptist Church To Protest 'Fag Media' Next Month At Facebook, Google, And Apple The infamous idiots of the Westboro Baptist Church, who always know a good media-attention-whoring opportunity when they see one, are turning their homophobic attention to the entire tech sphere next month and will
SF News Google Barely Pays Any Taxes Like Apple and Twitter, Google skirts the U.S. government's higher business taxes by funneling revenues through subsidiaries in Ireland and other tax havens. And we mean almost all its revenue. This may
SF News Accused Call Girl Pleads Not Guilty In Google Exec's Death, Attorney Says He Wanted Drugs The alleged high-end escort accused of leaving a Google executive to die on his yacht after injecting him with heroin pleaded not guilty today on charges of manslaughter, prostitution, destroying evidence, and other
SF News Buy That Yacht Where The Google Exec Was Killed The yacht on which 51-year-old Google executive Forrest Hayes was allegedly murdered last November is now for sale in an Alameda marina, and those who don't believe in ghosts can purchase it for
SF News Call Girl Charged With Manslaughter In Google Exec's Death On Yacht [Updated] Update: While police initially booked Alix Tichleman on second-degree murder, Santa Cruz County Superior Court confirms that prosecutors have charged her with eight counts including felony manslaughter, destruction of evidence, and transporting and
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Memorial For The Beloved Red Vic Resident Cat Dashiell, the long-lived resident feline of the defunct Red Vic Theater, has died. Friends and admires are invited to a memorial that's being held at the Second Act Marketplace at 6 p.m.
SF News Google Spent $500 Million On High-Resolution Satellites Today in Google-buying-up-everything news: the admittedly whitebread tech conglomerate has announced that it has purchased Skybox Imaging, a company that makes high-resolution satellite photos and videos, for $500 million. According to Google, the
SF News Google Is Mostly White Males, Admits Google As the conversation continues about diversity in tech, Google has finally released data on the company's gender and ethnicity breakdown. The numbers, a Google exec freely admits, are "not where we want to
SF News Mission District Spared Google Office, Receives Chocolate Instead Back in February, rumors swirled that Google would be buying a building in San Francisco's hallowed Mission District. It was billed as an attempt to lure more tech talent that wasn't keen on
SF News Sergey Brin Regrets Involvement In Google+, Admits He's Kind Of Anti-Social This is funny: Google's mostly failed attempt at creating a Facebook-killing social network may not have been done any favors by having co-founder Sergey Brin involved in the project. As Brin told an
SF News Robot Cars To Get California Licenses Starting in September, the California DMV will begin issuing special licenses for driverless vehicles and their human test pilots/passengers. The news means Google's chrome-plated future, wherein robot cars are widely available and
SF News One-Hour Battery Life And Other Reasons Google Glass Might Suck One of the first tech writers to be balls-out honest instead of sycophantically, droolingly gaga about the functionality of Google Glass is Computer World's Matt Lake. In a piece titled "Why I'm Sending
SF News YouTube To Buy S.F.-Based Video Game Streaming Service For $1 Billion According to Hollywood trade magazine Variety, Google and YouTube plan to purchase San Francisco-based video game streaming service Twitch for over $1 billion in cash. Launched in summer of 2011, Twitch was spun
SF News OK, Seriously This Time: Google Glass Available To Anyone With $1,500 After Explorer programs and limited betas and complete accidents, Google Glass is now for sale to anyone who with $1,500 to spend and desire to have all the features of a basic
SF News Video: Here's What A Google Robot Car Sees Right Before It Decides Not To Run You Over Google's self-driving robot cars may have proven themselves to be mostly harmless by making Taco Bell runs and safely delivering the governor to a meeting, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep a
SF News Starting Today, Anyone In The U.S. Can Buy Google Glass [Update: Not Really] After briefly making their $1,500 face computer available to the general public earlier this month, Google has apparently re-opened the sale of Glass to anyone in the U.S. Before going on
SF News Google Has Now Patented A Contact Lens Camera Oh, for god's sake. The overlords at the Googleplex, not satisfied to have everyone wearing face computers that can easily attract shaming and be snatched off their faces, are at work on a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Etiquette: Is It Ever OK To Wear Google Glass? Google's geekiest and most misunderstood piece of jewelry went on sale to the general public today, which means there will be even more people wearing computers on their faces in the near future.
