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
Arts & Entertainment Oh, God, Is 'Broette' Really A Word Now? Please Say It Is Not Everybody wants to make friends, right? There's nothing wrong with that, nor is the goal to being like-minded people together disadmirable. What concerns me most about the proposed meetup I am about to
SF News Working Women Get Some Digital Representation With Newly Approved Emoji Following a pitch by Google in May, the Unicode Consortium announced that it will add 11 new emoji to the world's smart phone keyboards. Google wrote about the decision today, noting that new
SF News Poll: More And More Tech Workers Say They Plan To Leave Their Jobs To Go Elsewhere In The Country Home to Apple, Facebook, and Google, Silicon Valley is considered by many to be the center of the tech world. And while people travel from all over both to work for and visit
SF News Will Self-Driving Cars Ruin San Francisco? Self-driving cars sound pretty sweet, right? The idea of a safer, more reliable way to travel via automobile has an intuitive appeal — after all, according to the CDC, there are over 30,000
SF News Here's What Facebook, Google, And Apple Employees Really Think About Tech-Shuttle 'Hubs' A significant number of tech employees responded to a recent anonymous SFMTA survey seeking to determine possible locations for new tech-shuttle hubs that would decrease the impact the much maligned shuttles have on
SF News How Google's Self-Driving Cars Manage To 'See' Cyclists Mountain View-based Google often touts the relative safety of their self-driving car fleet, however in most cases the safety of drivers is what comes to mind. Via the company's monthly self-driving car report,
SF News Oakland Man Accused Of Torching Street-View Cars Because He Fears Google Tracking Fearing Mountain View-based Google was tracking him, a man stands accused of attacking street-view cars with Molotov cocktails and shooting up the advertising company's headquarters. So reports the Associated Press, which notes that
SF News [Updated] Google Calendar Struggles To Return To Active Duty Google calendar down, if you have a meeting with me today I probably won't be there... pic.twitter.com/tX3lVxU50D— Julie Dilger (@JulieDil) June 30, 2016 Please scroll down for updates As I
SF News Google Fiber Heading To SF Faster After Webpass Acquisition Building fiber internet is an infrastructure headache — expensive, time-consuming — and so San Francisco web devotees continue to pine for the fast stuff with no clear delivery date in sight. But one provider is
Arts & Entertainment Tourists Flocking To Silicon Valley On 21st Century Tech Pilgrimages Would you travel halfway around the world to take a photo in front of the Facebook sign? No? How about the Android mascot? Well, according to The Mercury News, a lot of people
SF News Everyone Wants To Work At Bay Area Tech Companies, Says New LinkedIn Report No, it's not just their employees' inflated sense of ego — everyone does really want to work at Bay Area tech companies. Or so says a new LinkedIn report, which notes that jobs at
SF News Google Employees Declare 'Lady Day' To Mock Shareholder's Sexism Did you enjoy a nice Lady Day? That symbolic event was celebrated at Google at the end of last week in a concerted response to the sexist comments of an unnamed shareholder in
SF News California Parent Of Paris Attack Victim Suing Twitter And Facebook For Providing 'Material Support' To ISIS Reynaldo Gonzalez, the father of Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez who was killed in November's terrorist attacks in Paris, is now suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google for the roles they played
SF News 'Incendiary Devices' On Google Campus Damage Street View Car And Building A bizarre story is developing in Mountain View today, as The Mercury News reports that a late-night fire on Google's campus appears to have been caused by two "incendiary devices." The fire was
SF News Google Bets On VR Platform, Chat Apps, And Amazon Echo Competitor If you're in tech or just playing along on Twitter, you can't escape it: Google's I/O conference, a summit filled with unveilings and presentations of post-Steve Jobs proportion. The big highlights so
Arts & Entertainment Former Googlers/Twitterers Kickstarting Icebreaker Card Game Socializing is difficult, and personally, I try to avoid it. When I do find myself — however accidentally — at a gathering with others, I start in with the usual pleasantries. A bit about my
SF News Self-Driving Car Engineer Now Wants To Make Big-Rig Trucks That Drive Themselves An SF-based startup called Otto is aiming to let truck drivers take naps on the open highway while still being able to continue hauling their loads, via robot drivers. It's the brainchild of
SF News Google-Owned Waze Gets In The Ride-Hail Game, Launches New Carpooling App Google just fired a rather loud shot across the bow of both Uber and Lyft. With the release of Waze Rider, the Google-owned Waze has its eye on a significant portion of ride-hail
SF News Google Presses Unicode For 'Working Women' Emoji Google put forth a proposal this week addressing what it views as the under representation of women in the world of emoji. Specifically, the Mountain View-based company argued in a Tuesday presentation to
SF News Things Could Get Messy At Facebook And Google As Janitors Mull Strike Wild cheers as SEIU-USWW janitors hear contract has $15 an hour starting May 1 to $16.50 by 2019. pic.twitter.com/0GPHhloMgO— Beth Willon (@bethwillon) May 2, 2016 The union representing thousands
SF News Goodbye Google Glass, Hello Google Eyeball Google yesterday filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for an electronic device that would be implanted directly into peoples' eyeballs. While it's all very preliminary, Forbes notes
SF News UC Davis Chancellor Placed On Leave Following Attempt To Scrub Pepper Spray Cop From Internet It's not the crime, it's the cover-up that gets you. Or so it seems in the case of UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, who The Sacramento Bee reports has been placed
SF News The Self-Driving Car Lobby Is Here, And It's Driven By Uber, Google, Lyft, Ford, And Volvo The usual suspects in the autonomous vehicle race are joining forces, forming a coalition to usher self-driving cars onto America's roads. According to a report from Reuters, five companies shaping up to be
SF News UC Davis Spent $175K To Scrub Pepper Spray Cop From Google Remember the infamous UC Davis pepper spray incident? How could you forget? The photographs and video depicting the brutal pepper spraying of peacefully gathered students captured a prime example of police overreach in
