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
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
