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
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
