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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

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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,

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

Instead Of Making Its Own Driverless Cars, Google Will Use Chrysler Minivans

With regard to plans for the development of its own driverless car, Google parent company Alphabet is putting its foot on the brakes, although that idiom doesn't really apply because the company's original

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See How The Bay Area (And The Planet) Changed Over 3 Decades With Google Timelapse

Starting in 2013, Google invited us to step right up and "watch the sprouting of Dubai’s artificial Palm Islands, the retreat of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier, and the impressive urban expansion of

[Update] Google's Top Search Result For Final Election Results Is Pro-Trump Site With False Vote Count

Fact: No one cares about facts anymore, especially on the right and alt-right. As Americans increasingly prefer what Stephen Colbert once dubbed "truthiness" to truth itself, it's not respected news sources citing verified

SFMTA Issues Final Report On Proposed Tech-Shuttle Hubs

Ahead of a November 15 SFMTA Board of Directors meeting to discuss the predicted effects of reducing the number of tech-shuttles stops across the city and changing the existing model to that of

Dream Of Drone-Delivered Lattes Comes Crashing Down As Alphabet's Project Wing Ends Starbucks Partnership

Did you know that Alphabet's drone division, Project Wing, had teamed up with Starbucks with the goal of delivering the chain's products to customers by drone? Well, it seems the nascent partnership just

See What Californians Are Googling On Election Day With This Neat Tool

Internet searches are a little window into our collective soul, and as such looking at them in the aggregate is a modern way of understanding what's on our minds. On election day, many

Aggressive Drivers Looking Forward To Bullying Self-Driving Cars

While there is all kinds of pie-in-the-sky talk about the future of self-driving cars, one generally agreed upon impact of any potential widespread adoption is safer roads. With safety-conscious software making the decisions,

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Here's What Google Said SFist Should Be For Halloween

In one of Google's routine efforts to convince you that it's a fun, cute, and zany company full of doodles and delights, not a massive terrifying monolith that knows everything about you and

Growing Number Of RV-Dwellers In Mountain View Have Homeowners Turning Up Their Noses

As residents of San Francisco battle it out over various proposals to address homelessness and a dearth of affordable housing in the city, our neighbors to the south are engaged in a debate

Details Of Google's New Pixel Phone Accidentally Leaked

Jumping the gun on an October 4 official release date, Canadian retailer Carphone Warehouse posted technical specs and photos of the new Google Pixel phone to its website over the weekend. Although CNet

Google's Decision To Sponsor Visa Of Anti-Gay Kenyan Activist Creates Internal Conflict

Google is facing criticism from within today following news that the company invited a prominent anti-gay activist to attend a Mountain View tech conference this Friday. What's more, The Guardian reports that Google

Google Self-Driving Car Broadsided In Mountain View Crash

In another example of what is starting to become a rather common occurrence, a Google self-driving car was involved in a collision this past Friday. However, in a marked departure from previous wrecks