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Sergey Brin Asks Election Winners To Withdraw From Their Political Parties

"I must confess I am dreading today's elections," Google cofounder and CEO Sergey Brin wrote last night on his Google+ account in a post that calls for whichever candidate winning today's election to

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Gary Danko Tops, Says Urgently Recalled Zagat Guide 2013

The Google-owned Zagat Guide 2013 landed in bookstores this week, which were then quickly pulled (more on that in a bit). For the umpteenth year in a row, Gary Danko's eponymous restaurant took

Marissa Mayer Has Baby Boy!

Former Googler and current Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had a baby boy over the weekend (a Libra!), making the wee one her and husband Zach Bogue's first child. Though they have yet to

Jerry Brown Becomes America's Oldest Governor To Ride In A Robot Car

Earlier today Governor Jerry Brown stopped in to Google's Mountain View headquarters to sign a bill that will soon allow Californians to be even more apathetic while behind the wheel of a car.

Behold the Secret Corporate Shuttle-Stop Map of S.F.

We're all well aware of the Google, Facebook, Apple and other shuttles ferrying their workers to and from the Peninsula so that they don't have to suffer the pains of Caltrain shuttles which

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Google Can Now Play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

In case you were wondering what they were paying all of those 22-year-old computer geniuses for, Google has announced a breakthrough in search technology. But don't get your credit card out for those

Apple's $1 Billion Triumph: Jury Rules Samsung Infringed On Apple Patents

Last yesterday, a federal jury found that Samsung had indeed infringed upon Apple's smartphone and tablet patents and ordered the Korean electronics maker to pay Apple over $1 billion in damages. As the

Google Laying Off 4,000 People in Motorola Unit, Purchases Frommer's

After acquiring Motorola Mobility in May, Google is now shutting down a third of the division's 90 locations and laying off 4,000 employees, representing 20% of the total employees in the unit.

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

Marissa Mayer's Pay Package Is Larger Than Your Average Valley CEO's

In addition to being able to birth live young, Yahoo's new den mother has another thing she can hold over most other Tech CEOs in Silicon Valley: her salary. In a regulatory filing

Marissa Mayer's First Day at Yahoo Involved Google Balloons, Layette

Marissa Mayer's first day at Yahoo on Tuesday came replete with a layette (above) gifted to her by her new worker bees, and giant balloon bouquets (below) from former Google colleagues. "13 balloons

Marissa Mayer's Other Big Announcement: I'm Pregnant

Hot off the heels of Marissa Mayer's big news, the freshly annointed Yahoo CEO made another glass ceiling-shattering announcement yesterday evening: she's roughly seven-months pregnant. As the former Google VP revealed to Fortune,

Marissa Mayer To Head Yahoo

Well, this is shocking: Noted Google VP Marissa Mayer, 37, was just anointed CEO of Yahoo. New York Times reports: "The appointment of Ms. Mayer, who was employee No. 20 at Google and

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Google Celebrates Nexus 7 Shipping With Poetry

Locked and loaded, ready to play: we’ve started shipping +Nexus 7 pre-orders today! google.com/nexus/#/7— Google Nexus (@googlenexus) July 13, 2012 The folks at Google started shipping pre-orders of the

Google Slapped With $22.5 Million Fine for Privacy Violation

The Federal Trade Commission is trying to have our backs when it comes to privacy and the data we are all, every minute, inadvertently sharing with our Google and Facebook overlords. On Monday,

Behold, Google's Nexus 7 Tablet

Here Google's Cheryl Pon's hands show off apps on the new Google Nexus 7 tablet, which was introduced last week at the Google I/O conference at Moscone Center. (Side note: If you

Video: Extreme Googlers Use SF As Their Playground

During today's keynote speech at Google's I/O Conference, co-founder and tech industry heartthrob Sergey Brin one-upped every tech CEO ever with a publicity stunt/technology demo/Super Bowl-caliber viral commercial for his

Google Supercomputer Network Figures Out There Are Cats On YouTube

What do you and 16,000 computer processors hooked up to Google's secretive machine learning neural network have in common? Well, you and the neural network both have something resembling a human brain,

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Oops: Google Shuttle Stuck At Bottom Of Noe Valley Hill

Uh oh. Looks like those massive Google shuttle buses need to be a little more careful which hills they try to conquer. Uptown Almanac brings us a photo and video of one of

Google's Robot Car Passes Driver's License Test In Nevada

Nevada, America's one stop shop for all sorts of bad ideas, has issued a license to an autonomous vehicle that is most definitely not a human being. One of Google's driverless Priuses that

Google's Going To Drive Our Car For Us? Oh Wait...

Google Drive launched today, as you may have heard everywhere on the internet. It's like Apple iCloud, or any other cloud-storage thing, only it's a virtual hard drive, and syncs up with your

Battle Of The Larrys: Google & Oracle Square Off Over Intellectual Property

In what some are calling the "World Series of intellectual property trials", or "Larry vs. Larry" if you're nasty, the tech world's two 8-gajillion pound gorillas are set to square off in court

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Bemused: Willie Brown Column On M.C. Hammer's Birthday Bash

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, it seems, was one of the lucky attendees at MC Hammer's 50th birthday party at the Tonga Room. He wrote about the festivities in his Sunday column

Video: Google's Self-Driving Car Makes A Taco Bell Run

We've been watching the streets for Google's robot Priuses ever since the company announced they had logged hundreds of thousands of driverless miles on California's highways a few years back. (One time, one

Google Exec's Brother Hit With Charges In Domestic Abuse Case At Four Seasons

Mason Mayer, brother of Google VP and local socialite Marissa Mayer, is facing three felony charges in San Francisco for an alleged attack on his former girlfriend that took place at his condo