SF News Google, Facebook, Trump Pledge Aid For Fires The scope of the wildfire disaster in Northern California continues to widen Wednesday, and as they did with recent hurricane-related natural disasters, Google and Facebook have each pledged aid to help victims. Facebook
SF News Google's New Pixel 2 Phone Proves They're Serious About Mobile Hardware Back with the highest-rated smartphone camera ever, meet the new Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL → https://t.co/jdr9S9hBzb #madebygoogle pic.twitter.com/OtU78fLTJB— Google (@Google) October 4, 2017 Google unveiled
SF News Google And Facebook Under Fire For Spreading Hoaxes During Las Vegas Attack Immediately following the first announcements that a terrorist had opened fire on Las Vegas concert-goers, people took to the internet for answers. Instead, what they found was Google and Facebook turning up some
SF News Google Wants You To Help With Street View By Using A $3,500 Camera Google's looking for a hand in keeping Street View updated by putting some high-powered tech into your hands. In order to do that, Google's turned to third-party manufacturers to develop what they call
SF News Google Battles City Of Mountain View Over Housing Development Plan Google may be throwing a bit of a wrench into the city of Mountain View's plans to expand housing as they ask to modify an already agreed-upon deal to make more room for
Arts & Entertainment You Can Only Wash Google And Levi's New $350 'Connected' Jacket Ten Times Google's announcement of their sartorial collaboration with Levi's — a "connected" jacket that integrates basic smartphone functions — was met Monday with countless glowing headlines heralding it as the garment of the future. And the
SF News Ex-Google Guy James Damore Says He Wasn't Asked To Speak At Free Speech Week, Will Not Be There In further evidence that Milo Yiannopolous was at the very least padding his list of "confirmed" speakers for Free Speech Week with names of people he'd like to see there but whom he
SF News Google Slapped With Gender Bias Suit, Might Owe Money to 21,000 Female Employees Ex-Googlers can do more than just found a Bodega startup that the internet loves to hate. Some ex-Googlers might force the search giant to cough up back pay and a hefty slice of
SF News Facebook And Google AdWords Allow 'Jew Hating' Target Categories For Advertisers Yet again this week Silicon Valley PR people are being roiled by news that some of their un-monitored algorithms have allowed for the spread of hate, and in this case, overt anti-Semitism. The
Arts & Entertainment 'South Park' Opens 21st Season By Screwing With Everyone's Alexa South Park had its 21st season premiere Wednesday night, and amid jokes skewering white nationalists and home improvement shows, Trey Parker and Matt Stone brilliantly did something no satire show has yet succeeded
SF News Facebook And Google Pledge Matching Funds For Hurricane Harvey Disaster Relief As Hurricane Harvey continues to wreak havoc and leave Greater Houston under many feet of water, two Bay Area tech giants are pledging matching funds to encourage private citizens to donate to the
Arts & Entertainment Black Rock City Pops Up On Google Maps For several years someone has been putting together an "unofficial" map of Burning Man and all the art and theme camps, the newest of which you can see below, using Google Maps. But
SF News Supreme Court May Decide If 'Google' Is A Generic Term While our search engine and email overlords down in Mountain View surely love the fact that their brand name ‘Google’ has entered our everyday vernacular as a verb for “to conduct an online
SF News SF Republican Attorney Takes On James Damore Case, Suggests Possible Class-Action Against Google The latest in the story of fired Google engineer James Damore is that he's hired a prominent conservative lawyer from San Francisco who was shortlisted for a possible post in President Trump's Justice
SF News YouTube, Google, Facebook, Twitter, And GoDaddy Take Stands To Shut Down White Supremacist Site Daily Stormer Tech giants Google and Facebook, as well as Twitter, web hosting company and domain registry GoDaddy, and Google subsidiary YouTube, have all taken stands against the white supremacist site The Daily Stormer, effectively
SF News Alt-Right Plans 'March on Google,' Doxxing Campaign To Defend Fired Brogrammer Here we see James Damore, who had himself a sad little two-person protest at Google’s Mountain View headquarters Thursday afternoon. (Mr. “Fired for Truth,” of course, fudged the truth on his resume.
SF News Video: That Fired Google Manifesto Guy Says His Feelings Are Hurt :( Fired Google engineer James Damore has defended his memo and says he feels "hurt" https://t.co/2NqmKuwsf6 pic.twitter.com/ezuxXp211X— Bloomberg (@business) August 10, 2017 Former Google engineer James Damore was
SF News Day Around The Bay: Fired Sexist Google Engineer Gets Job Offer From Julian Assange This week, a literary magazine is putting out stories using Google AdWords, so you may see short stories that are not trying to sell you anything popping up in Google searches. [AdWeek] There
SF News Anita Hill Says Women Should Sue If They Want Silicon Valley To Get Less Sexist In a pointed op-ed in the New York Times today, Anita Hill, who these days is working as a plaintiffs' attorney at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, suggests that "It’s time women
SF News Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Controversial Anti-Diversity Memo The Google software engineer who suggested that women are biologically less well-suited to engineering work in an internal memo last week was fired on Monday. Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote, "First, let me
SF News Google Employee Writes Internal Memo Railing Against Women, Diversity; Rage Ensues A memo from a senior software engineer that went "internally viral" at Google last week titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber" reportedly laid out a manifesto for why women are less well suited for
SF News Reddit, Facebook, Other Tech Giants Rally For Net Neutrality In 'Day of Action' Today is a day of protest and calls for action from major players in the tech industry as the FCC prepares to roll back two-year-old protections for net neutrality. CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Google Buys 300 Homes For Employees A post shared by Poppa Bear (@snowboardvermont) on Jun 15, 2017 at 12:28pm PDT An antique truck that was carrying Oakland city officials in today's Warriors victory parade overheated and broke down.
Arts & Entertainment Google Doodle Honors Rainbow Flag Creator Gilbert Baker's Birthday New Google Doodle Celebrates Rainbow Flag Creator Gilbert Baker on What Would Have Been His 66th Birthday https://t.co/wViMwmebem pic.twitter.com/P8KYWXdjuK— Towleroad (@tlrd) June 2, 2017 In honor of
SF News Uber Lost 'Only' $708 Million Last Quarter, Top Finance Exec Resigns The Montgomery Burns of tech companies, Uber, revealed their 2017 first quarter earnings Wednesday, and lost $708 million says the San Francisco Business Times. But that’s “actually good by Uber standards” according
