SF News 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
Arts & Entertainment 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
SF News [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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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,
Arts & Entertainment 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News Twitter Likely About To Get Bought, Maybe By Google Or Salesforce Earlier this month we heard that Twitter's board of directors was considering a potential sale of the company, and today the rumor is out that some buyout bids are in, including ones from
SF News Google To Open Youth Education Center In Oakland Fruitvale Village, a transit-adjacent 255,000 square-foot real estate development with 47 housing units owned by a local nonprofit and completed in 2003, is getting a new commercial tenant: Google, the Alphabet, Inc.
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Jasmine Abuslin's Dad Speaks Out Google just launched a new messaging app called Allo, to mixed reviews. [Google] [Wired] [CNet] [Verge] Jasmine Abuslin’s dad spoke out last night for the first time publicly saying, "If those officers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alphabet Is Now Delivering Chipotle Burritos By Drone In news that is sure to cause college students around the country to choke on their bong water, Google parent company Alphabet today announced that its Project Wing drone division has teamed up
SF News Google's Waze-Based Carpool App Launching In San Francisco, To Compete With Uber Google may have hoped to wade gently into the ride-hailing waters jealously guarded by San Francisco's Uber and Lyft, but news today that its Waze-based carpool app will be expanding to San Francisco
SF News Entry Fees Waived As National Park Service Turns 100 Have any plans this weekend? How about heading to one of our nation's great national parks? In celebration of the 100-year-anniversary of the National Park Service, CBS 5 reports that all entry fees
SF News Google Launches New Video Chat App Google yesterday made a move to expand its toehold into the world of video chatting. Wired reports that the company announced a new video-chat app that is available for download on both Android
SF News Study: Facebook Employees Rank Last In 'Curiosity And Adventurousness' Among Top Tech Companies A study published today looking at worker personality traits across the tech sector has some bad news for Facebook. Its employees were found to rank dead last in "curiosity and adventurousness" — qualities which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Is Yelping Mad That Google Is Boosting Zagat Links Over Theirs Reviews from Google-owned Zagat are, predictably enough, going to be popping up in your restaurant searches above those from Yelp (and Trip Advisor), as a new mobile search function highlighting the best food
SF News Self-Driving Google Car Was Victim Of Hit-And-Run Part of driving is knowing how to respond to the irresponsibility of other motorists — a lesson learned by a Google self-driving car last month after it was the victim of a hit-and-run crash.
SF News We May Be Getting Google Drone Delivery As Soon As Next Year Google parent company Alphabet is one step closer to realizing its promise of having drones deliver all the dumb stuff you order online right to your doorstep. CNet reports that the company was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Google Chefs To Start Feeding Employees 'Shrimp' Made From Algae Google/Alphabet's fancy on-campus cafeterias are about to get a whole lot more cutting edge in the realm of futuristic foodstuffs. According to Wired, starting in 2017, Google chefs have pledged to start
Arts & Entertainment Author Dennis Cooper Says Google's Blogger Ate His Novel Envelope-pushing novelist Dennis Cooper, known in the past couple of decades both for his sexually explicit fiction involving teenagers as well as genre-bending work like his 2005 book God Jr. that centered on
