SF News Uber Fires Self-Driving Car Exec Anthony Levandowski Over Google Lawsuit Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology at Uber and reported close pal of CEO Travis Kalanick, has been terminated from the position he's held just over a year, originally heading up the
SF News Lyft Teams With Google's Waymo In Hopes of Driving Uber Under In the ongoing war between Uber and Lyft for ride-sharing supremacy in the not-so distant future where human drivers are rendered obsolete, the latest battle has gone in favor of Lyft. The New
SF News Judge Refers Waymo V. Uber Case For Possible Criminal Investigation An initial decision has come down from a federal judge in the case brought by Google's self-driving car division Waymo against competitor Uber, and the judge has denied Uber's efforts to avoid having
SF News Self-Driving Car Guru Anthony Levandowski Steps Aside From Lead Role At Uber Embattled self-driving car division head Anthony Levandowski is stepping back from his role leading Uber's autonomous vehicle efforts pending the outcome of that court battle involving his former employer, Google/Alphabet, and some
SF News Department Of Labor Accuses Google Of Extreme Systemic Disparity In Pay Based On Gender In January, the US Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Alphabet subsidiary Google to force the company to provide information on payments to employees in order to maintain the company's federal contracts.
SF News Prostitute Convicted In Google Exec's Killing Detained By ICE After Release From Prison 30-year-old Alix Tichelman, the high-end call girl who pleaded guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter in 2015 in connection with the fatal heroin overdose of Google X executive Forrest Timothy Hayes in 2013,
SF News Uber Exec Accused Of Stealing Google Self-Driving Car Secrets Pleads Fifth Over Criminal Charges Concerns Anthony Levandowski, an Uber executive whom CEO Travis Kalanick once called his "brother from another mother," is asserting his Fifth Amendment rights in a lawsuit filed by his former employer, Google. Levandowski's lawyers
SF News Driving Apps Like Waze Are Making Traffic Worse, Says Expert You may feel empowered and clever when the Waze app on your phone directs you around some heavy traffic and onto a series of side streets, but perhaps you've noticed that other people
Arts & Entertainment Google Unveils Its Latest Wearable: A 'Smart' Levi's Jean Jacket At South By Southwest in Austin this week, Google and Levi's unveiled a smart jacket that the two companies have collaborated on, which will be available to consumers this fall for a cool
SF News Google Asking Judge To Keep Uber's Autonomous Cars Off The Road The latest salvo in what could be a very long and drawn out battle between Alphabet-owned self-driving car startup Waymo and Uber comes in a court filing formally asking a federal judge to
SF News Google's New Circus Tent Campus Approved, Construction To Begin In April Google/Alphabet has been at work on a highly ambitious, enormous new addition to its Googleplex campus in Mountain View, this one dubbed Charleston East. We first heard about it two full years
SF News Google Patents Camera Hat, Triggers Painful Google Glass Flashbacks Google was rightfully and properly shamed out of the business of getting people to wear facecomputers, but after Snapchat found success in the wearables arena with its hardware product Spectacles, Google might be
SF News Uber Exec Who Left Previous Job At Google Over Sexual Harassment Allegations Is Fired Uber's woeful month continues with the ignominious departure of senior vice president of engineering Amit Singhal, forced to resign by company CEO Travis Kalanick after tech publication Recode started asking questions about Singhal's
SF News Uber Has Waymo Problems: Google Company Sues Over Allegedly Stolen Tech Uber schadenfreude continues in what's already been a hellish week for a company embroiled in scandal since Sunday after former engineer Susan Fowler went public with an account alleging sexual harassment and discrimination
Arts & Entertainment Google Celebrates Discovery Of New Planets With Painfully Adorable Animated Doodle Google's Doodles, those little pictures you see when you go to their main search page, typically acknowledge that day's holiday, anniversary, or, occasionally, make a subtle political point. But today's is pure joy,
SF News Google's Waze Carpool Program Expands To Entire Bay Area, Partnering With UCSF, Kaiser, MTC Waze, the Israeli-created GPS maps application that tracks traffic and crowdsources up-to-the-minute reports on everything from accidents to potholes, was snapped up by Google in 2013, and as that company has incorporated Waze
SF News Thousands Of Google Employees Stage Walkouts Against Trump Immigration Policies Protest along Embarcadero, with chants of "No Ban, No Wall." #ImWithThem pic.twitter.com/zY09fv6QAB— Jill Witty (@jwitty) January 30, 2017 A company-wide protest organized and attended by Alphabet/Google employees occurred Monday
SF News Google Doodle Features Fred Korematsu, Japanese-American Internment Camp Survivor Fred Korematsu, a civil rights activist who was incarcerated simply for being an American-born citizen with Japanese heritage, is the subject of today's Google Doodle. Korematsu, who died in 2005, went into hiding
SF News Google CEO Sundar Pichai Calls Trump's Ban On Immigration 'Painful'; Zuckerberg Says He's 'Concerned' Donald Trump's asinine executive order Friday banning entry into the country of all people from seven Muslim-majority nations for at least 90 days making good on his xenophobic campaign promises to fight radical
SF News Beware Of Sophisticated Gmail Phishing Email That Makes You Log In Again Gmail users need to be on alert for an email that looks like an email from a friend but which is actually a savvy phishing scheme that not only your grandmother will fall
Arts & Entertainment Apocalypse Now, Please: Two Google Home Devices Have An Endless Conversation About Everything And Nothing Two Google Home devices have been programmed (tricked? hacked?) into talking back and forth to each other, and it's been going on all day and live-streamed via Twitch TV, under the header SeeBotsChat.
SF News Google Bus Driver Hits And Kills Pedestrian In Saratoga The driver of a Google bus struck and killed a pedestrian Tuesday evening as she crossed a street in Saratoga near West Valley College. KRON 4 reports that the bus is owned by
SF News Lawsuit Says Google's Confidentiality Policy Is So Ridiculous Staffers Can't Write Novels About People In Tech A lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco on Tuesday on behalf of a former Google employee identified as a "John Doe" alleges that the Mountain View-based tech company insists upon
SF News Families Of Three Orlando Shooting Victims File Suit Against Twitter, Google, And Facebook The families of three of the people killed in the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June Tevin Eugene Crosby, Juan Guerrero, and Javier Jorge-Reyes filed suit this week in federal
SF News Google-Founded Self-Driving Car Company Waymo Unveils Vehicles, Eyes 2017 Deployment As Uber continued to argue with state regulators last week over its self-driving cars on San Francisco streets, another manufacturer of autonomous vehicles rolled onto the scene. Executives with Waymo, a company which
