SF News Google's Garbage April Fools' Prank Backfires, They Blame It On 'A Bug' Have you ever been writing an email to a potential new employer, an estranged lover, or a grieving parent and thought, "you know what, this email could really be spiced up with a
SF News Tomorrow's Tech Campuses, Built On Yesterday's Hippie Commune Space Dreams Technology giants Apple and Google have strange, new corporate campuses on the horizon, the New York Times Style Magazine, T, has noticed: Google's a slightly downsized tent-like structure and Apple's a very large,
SF News Hillary Clinton Emails Show Weirdly Close Relationship Between State Department And Google A new batch of Hillary Clinton's infamous emails have appeared on Wikileaks, and among them there's one name that appears a bunch and that's Jared Cohen, director and founder of Google Ideas and
SF News Someone Finally Found A Use For Google Glass (Hint: Not Wearing Them) Google Glass, amirite folks? The much-ridiculed and short-lived face-computers officially got the axe early last year when Google announced it was halting their sale. However, we learned late last year that Alphabet intended
SF News Lighting-Fast Gigabit Internet Coming To SF Real Slow A report on the state of internet infrastructure and use in San Francisco told us last year, among other things, that a ton of SF residents just have dial-up internet or else have
SF News Google Artificial Intelligence Defeats Go Grandmaster, Humans Prepare For Robot Uprising Ladies and gentlemen, we make a lot of jokes around here at SFist about the robot uprising, but news yesterday out of South Korea has us feeling a little, shall we say, on
SF News Video: Watch That Google Self-Driving Car Crashing Into A Bus Remember when that Google self-driving car crashed into a city bus last month? As the robot was at fault, it appeared that the incident was the first time a self-driving car had caused
SF News Google Searches For 'Move To Canada' Hit Highest Point Since 2004 Election Not surprisingly, everyone is searching for how to move to Canada again, and Donald Trump hasn't even been elected yet! According to Google Trends, searches for "move to Canada" are on the rise
SF News Self-Driving Google Car Crashes Into Bus, Robot Likely At Fault Although not the first time one of Google's self-driving cars has been involved in a collision, the Valentine's Day crash on a public street in Mountain View, California may be the fist time
SF News Google Fiber Is Coming To San Francisco Google Fiber is finally coming to San Francisco. Well, sort of, anyway. Director of Business Operations at Google Fiber, Michael Slinger, announced in a blog post today his intention bring the company's super-fast
SF News Video: Google-Owned Boston Dynamics Improves Their Terrifying, Terminator-Like Robots Alphabet/Google-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics, the people behind those crazy robot war dogs, has just unleashed upon us yet another bit of nightmare fuel. Specifically: The new and improved Atlas Robot. Watch
SF News Google Express To Test Timeliness With Perishable Goods Deliveries Not content to merely drive toilet paper to your front door as the company's service does currently, Google Express — the delivery arm of Alphabet, FKA Google — now seeks to become a go-to provider
SF News Google-Owned Robot War Dogs Wail Too Loudly For US Military Use The future of the nightmare-fuel robot war machines designed by Google-owned Boston Dynamics looks bleak after the US Marines announced they would no longer work with the robo-dogs. The reason? The things are
SF News Google Glass 2.0 Is On Its Way, And It Won't Be Marketed To Consumers Alphabet is not giving up on Google Glass. As the company said earlier this year, the road has not gone off a cliff for the much reviled facecomputer, and now 9 to 5
SF News Twitter Patents Crowdsourced Tweet-Controlled Drone, FAA (Presumably) Cries Like its fluttery mascot, Twitter dreams of flight. The social media titan was granted a patent last week for a tweet-controlled drone, with user actions on the platform (think retweets) somehow determining the
SF News Google-Owned Robot Maker Ruins Christmas With War-Machine Dogs Pulling Santa's Sleigh Just in time for Christmas, maker of futuristic robots for the US Military, Google-owned Boston Dynamics, has unleashed a video that is sure to crush all visions of sugar plums dancing in heads
SF News Google Partners With Ford For Self-Driving Car Manufacture Google well, technically Alphabet has struck a non-exclusive partnership deal with Ford to build its first production run of autonomous vehicles, as Yahoo Autos is reporting. This marks a shift for Ford, which
SF News Self-Driving Cars Will Still Need A Human Driver, Say DMV Draft Rules Coming nearly a year after its January 1st, 2014 deadline, the California Department of Motor Vehicle today released those draft rules governing the use and operation of self-driving cars on California roadways. In
Arts & Entertainment Google Tells Everyone What You Searched For This Year You've probably forgotten what you Googled this year — hell, you've probably forgotten what you Googled this morning! But don't worry, the search giant is here to remind you, with their Year in Search
Arts & Entertainment The Irony!: Three Big Tech Companies All Had <i>Great Gatsby</i>-Themed Holiday Parties This Year A lot of people, including SFist, were quick to call 2014's bubble-riffic round of tech company holiday parties "excessive," which has perhaps prompted them to be a little more low-key about talking about
SF News Google Explains Why Its Self-Driving Cars Only Go 25 MPH (For Now) Driving fast is hard. It's also scary. At least according to Google, who in a recently released report detailed the reasons that their custom-designed self-driving cars currently top out at 25 miles per
SF News Google Accused Of Spying On Students As Young As Seven Years Old Google's mission to "organize the world's information" apparently includes information about the habits of students as young as 7-years-old. So alleges a complaint filed yesterday with the Federal Trade Commission by the San
SF News Amazon Debuts New Delivery Drone Prototype, Still Has No Idea When They Will Be Deployed Remember when we all scoffed at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' 2013 claim that his company was developing a drone delivery system? Well, according to a company announcement, their plan to unleash hoards of
SF News Google Discovers DMV Is Slow, Self-Driving Car Regulations Are Almost A Year Late When his son turns 16 in three-and-a-half years, Chris Urmson of Google's driverless car project doesn't want to take him to the DMV for a driver's license. Maybe that's a personal anecdote about
SF News Self-Driving Google Car Pulled Over By Mountain View Cop For Driving Too Slow One of Google/Alphabet's self-driving cars not one of the SUVs but one of the cute European-looking models got pulled over by a Mountain View traffic cop on Thursday as it was being
