SF News Female Designer Tells Secret App That Google Acquired Everyone At Her Startup But Her Is it just because she's a woman? Is it because she has "soft skills" like design and marketing that Google doesn't necessarily need? In any event, the saga of "Amy" has the tech
SF News Anti-Tech Zealots Target Google VC Kevin Rose With Angry Note On the heels of last week's barfy tech shuttle protest, Google VC and hero to all canines Kevin Rose woke up Sunday morning to find protesters outside his San Francisco home (carrying a
SF News Google Thinks They Own The Word 'Glass' Now Because calling their face computer "Google Glass" is too clunky for the Mountain View hivemind, the company is trying to trademark the word "Glass". Their justification for such a transparent power play? The
Arts & Entertainment 'Ultimate April Fools Joke' Gmail Turns 10 Today Disbelief at the reminder that Gmail was first announced on April 1, 2004 abounds. Can you believe that we once lived in a world where Gmail was not the dominant free webmail service?
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Aurea Lounge Offering Free Cocktails To Google Glass Wearers In today's mandatory Google Glass offering, the Stanford Court Hotel's Aurea Lounge will begin giving free wine, beer, or cocktails to those sporting everyone's favorite love-to-hate/love-to-wear gadgetry, Google Glass. Fantastic. The rules
SF News Palo Alto Man Googles Himself, Discovers He's One Of California's Most Wanted 27-year-old Palo Alto man Christopher Viatafa turned himself in to authorities last Friday after a Google search for his own name turned up NorthernCaliforniaMostWanted.org as the first result. The system works. Viatafa
SF News Yes, Gchat Is Down [Update] UPDATE: Nightmare is over. Gchat is back up. Gchat (Google Hangout) is down right now. If you're trying to send messages about what to do tonight, you'll have to use email (Gmail works
SF News S.F. Pet Store Bans Google Glass And now, your daily Google Glass post: a pet store in the Fillmore has officially banned Google Glass. And they want you to know all about it. The Animal House posted this sign
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Bar Bans Google Glass Who are these people who don't enjoyed being filmed? What's the matter, can't find your light? Can't watch your hootchiness? Well, the Willows has you covered. After last month's gadget-related brouhaha at Molotov's,
SF News Google Will Cover Two Years Of Free Muni For Low Income Youth Hailed as one of the largest private contributions to city services in San Francisco's history, Google has agreed to donate $6.8 million to fund the Free Muni for Low Income Youth pilot
SF News Google Glass Assault Video Only Reveals More Conflicting Accounts Yesterday's story about an alleged Google Glass-related assault at Molotov's ended with some conflicting accounts of what really went down. Alleged victim, PR consultant and hyperactive social media user Sarah Slocum, claimed she
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woman Claims She Was Attacked At Punk Rock Bar For Wearing Google Glass [Update] The latest story to stoke the tech-vs.-everyone else debate in San Francisco hit the news last night as one local woman claims she was verbally and physically assaulted because she was using
SF News Man Quits Google Because Of 'Congested, Racist, Incestuous, And Overpriced' Bay Area Is the Bay Area congested, racist, incestuous, and overpriced? That's what one of Google's current developer advocates believes, which is why he is leaving the company. Well-known coder, entrepreneur, and all around tech
SF News Google To Take Over Space In The Mission [Updated] It's official: The Mission is over. In an effort to lure techies who don't want to work in downtown San Francisco or get inside a private bus and head down to Mountain View,
SF News Facebook, Google, Other Tech Companies Reveal Vague Outlines Of NSA Surveillance Requests In a group of simultaneous and totally cryptic public reports, tech companies including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Apple all disclosed for the first time Monday the scope and number of requests they responded
SF News Google Barge Must Go, Says State In a nearly unprecedented move, the tech industry is being told it can't do whatever it wants in San Francisco. The four-story Google barge structure floating in the Bay, it seems, doesn't have
SF News Samsung Said To Be Developing Google Glass Knockoff Korea-based Samsung, the company that prides itself on being second to market with everything from iPhone-like smartphones to iPad-like tablets, is said to be planning something called the Galaxy Glass, which will compete
SF News Gmail Down! [Update] Yikes. Gmail seems to be down right now, folks. Why? No idea. The official GMail Twitter doesn't say, neither does the Google one. We'll update as soon as we know more. UPDATE: And
SF News Protesters Blockade Single Google Employee's Commute In Berkeley In a further muddying of the anti-gentrification, anti-eviction message surrounding local blockades of corporate shuttles, a group of protesters yesterday descended on the Berkeley home of a single Google X developer, and "chose
SF News Live From Today's Corporate Shuttle Hearing At S.F. City Hall [Updates] As promised, we're live at San Francisco City Hall, where the city's Municipal Transportation Agency will vote this afternoon on a proposal to allow corporate shuttles to share public stops with Muni buses.
SF News Leaked Google Memo Tells Employees How To Feel About Their Buses Later today the seven member board of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will weigh in on a proposal that will allow corporate shuttles to share public stops with Muni vehicles. In preparation
SF News Google Buses Reportedly Being Watched By Security Guards As the corporate shuttle backlash turns from protest to street theater to actual violence, Google has apparently sent out an extra set of eyes to watch over employees as they catch their buses
SF News Google Acquires Nest So They Can Get All Up In Your House After strapping cameras to thousands of faces, sending robot cars on Taco Bell runs and floating WiFi balloons in the sky, Google has turned their attention to your home with the announcement today
SF News Google Now Ferrying Employees To Work By Boat After catching plenty of backlash (both warranted and misguided) for their shuttle buses, Google is now experimenting with a new way to get workers from San Francisco to Redwood City: by skipping the
