Business & Tech Over 120 LGBTQ Google Employees Say They Don't Want Google Marching In SF's Pride Parade An open letter from disgruntled Google employees comes after the company refused to allow them to protest from within the company's contingent at Sunday's Pride parade. But SF Pride says Google is still marching.
Business & Tech Questionable Study Shows How Much Ad Revenue Google News Has Siphoned From The News Industry News organizations nationwide have been complaining how Big Tech was thriving on the backs of journalists. Now a new report finds that Google made almost as much ad revenue last year on news searches as the entire news industry combined made on its own content.
SF News Google Could Be Barred From SF Pride For Allowing Homophobic Harassment The historically corporate-friendly SF Pride could end up taking a stand, amidst controversy over Google’s YouTube saying that racist and homophobic videos “don’t violate our policies.”
Business & Tech Google Cloud Outage Shuts Down Everything From Smart Locks To Snapchat A significant outage with Google Cloud Services Sunday had widespread impacts that included right here on SFist — there were some scary moments there — but the most noticeable impacts for users were probably on Snapchat, YouTube, and Nest.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Baby's First Word Is 'Google' It's 2019. We've sent men space, possibly cured AIDS, and we regularly tell bodiless robots to do things for us in our homes like turn on lamps and play songs we like. Why shouldn't babies imitate us?
SF News Wife Of Maine Man Arrested For Threats Against YouTube Actually Deleted His Channel, Lied To Him About It The story about the jilted YouTuber who took a cross-country trip just to have a word with Google about his deleted channel has taken a darkly funny new twist.
Business & Tech Jilted YouTuber Arrested for Making Criminal Threats Against Google Personnel Upset that his YouTube channel was shut down, a man drove 3,000 miles across the country to settle a score with Google.
SF News Tech Companies Come Out In Force Against Trump's DACA Decision Many of tech's biggest companies are banding together to resist President Trump's stated decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. Per CNet's report, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are
SF News Facebook, Twitter, And Google Testimony Leaves Senators Visibly Dissatisfied To put it in the simplest terms: Senators are unhappy with what they've been hearing from Facebook, Twitter, and Google executives, who are currently being questioned about how their platforms were exploited by
SF News Disagreement Over Proper Cheeseburger Topping Placement In Emoji Prompts Google CEO To Make Some Changes I think we need to have a discussion about how Google's burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, while Apple puts it on top pic.twitter.com/PgXmCkY3Yc— Thomas Baekdal (@baekdal)
SF News Senators Aim To Regulate Political Ads On Social Media With 'Honest Ads Act' A group of United States senators is looking to lead the charge on creating legislation that would ensure full transparency when it comes to buying political ad space on the internet. Senators Amy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Google Pulls Calorie Counting 'Cupcakes' Feature From Maps After Strong Backlash BuzzFeed News' Katie Notopoulos documented a new, short-lived Google Maps feature that would suggest walking to a given close-by destination while telling you how many calories the average human would burn doing so.
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
