Business & Tech Waymo Just Expanded Service to Offer Rides In Silicon Valley, the Company's Birthplace The newest places you can catch Waymo robo-rides are the Silicon Valley cities of Los Altos, Palo Alto, and Mountain View, which makes sense, as Waymo was born in Mountain View.
Arts & Entertainment Alamo Drafthouse Opening Two New Movie Theaters In the South Bay Santa Clara and Mountain View will both be getting new Alamo Drafthouse movie theaters this summer, as the hip theater chain is taking over two abandoned shopping mall movie theaters with plans to revitalize them.
Business & Tech Google Is Opening a Visitors' Center at Its New Campus In Mountain View for Tech Tourists Fans of the Google brand and mythology, as well as the architecturally curious, will be able to check out a new visitors' center at the company's "Gradient Canopy" office complex in Mountain View starting next week.
SF News 1992 Cold Case Murder of Laurie Houts Once Again Left In Limbo as Longtime Suspect Is Cleared on Double-Jeopardy Grounds A Bay Area slaying that has gone without any justice for nearly 30 years was back in the news this week, as the case against longtime suspect John Kevin Woodward was dismissed by a judge on double-jeopardy grounds.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Ordered To Be Deposed in Trial Over 2018 Tesla Autopilot Crash in Mountain View Tesla attorneys have argued that Elon Musk can’t be responsible for video evidence of him touting “Full Self-Driving” mode because the videos might be deepfakes, so the judge in the trial of a man killed in a 2018 Tesla crash is ordering Musk to be deposed himself.
SF News Hate Crime Charges for Homeless Mountain View Woman Who Allegedly Attacked Teen Wearing Headscarf A July 1 incident where an unsheltered woman allegedly strangled a teen in a hijab and called her a “terrorist” will be heard as a hate crime in a Santa Clara County courthouse today.
SF News Mountain View Police Officer Shot During Traffic Stop, Suspect Still at Large An officer from the Mountain View Police Department was injured in a shooting Saturday shortly after midnight when the patrol officer pulled over a car at Villa Street and Wild Cherry Lane; the shooter is still at large Saturday afternoon.
SF News Bay Area Tech CEO Arrested for 1992 Cold Case Murder In Mountain View A 1992 cold case in which a 25-year-old woman, Laurie Houts, was strangled to death in Mountain View has now led to a re-arrest of a prime suspect who was already tried twice for the crime, and the suspect is a Bay Area tech CEO who has been living abroad.
SF News Woman Arrested In Mountain View For Murder of Newborn Infant A woman was arrested Wednesday in Mountain View after an autopsy revealed that an infant boy she claimed was stillborn was actually alive at birth and died from "significant injuries."
SF News Mountain View’s Moffett Field Nixed as Possible Shelter Site for Migrant Children A vacant NASA facility in Santa Clara County was on the list as a possible migrant children's shelter, but the feds removed it with little explanation.
SF News Google Battles City Of Mountain View Over Housing Development Plan Google may be throwing a bit of a wrench into the city of Mountain View's plans to expand housing as they ask to modify an already agreed-upon deal to make more room for
Arts & Entertainment Counting Crows & Matchbox Twenty Fans Sad After Friday Shoreline Show Gets Postponed Shoreline Amphitheatre had to call off a concert Friday featuring 90s throwbacks (and Bay Area native band) Counting Crows and Matchbox Twenty all because some part of a road or ramp collapsed making
SF News Intoxicated Mountain View Man Attacks 300-Pound Security Robot, Is Arrested It's an only-in-Silicon Valley story that has NBC Bay Area making "Rage Against the Machine" dad jokes: Knightscope, the maker of a line of rolling security robots, apparently trusts its own product enough
SF News Rapper Young Jeezy Named In Wrongful Death Suit Stemming From 2014 Shoreline Amphitheater Shooting On August 22, 2014, backstage at a Wiz Khalifa show at Shoreline Amphitheater, Orinda resident Eric Johnson was shot at least five times following an alleged dispute with rapper Young Jeezy and his
SF News Google's New Circus Tent Campus Approved, Construction To Begin In April Google/Alphabet has been at work on a highly ambitious, enormous new addition to its Googleplex campus in Mountain View, this one dubbed Charleston East. We first heard about it two full years
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 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 Man Accused Of Using Airbnb To Scout Mountain View Home Before Burglary A man stands accused of using the home-rental site Airbnb to scout and then burglarize a Mountain View home in a style of crime that police now say is a trend across the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zume Pizza, A Startup Involving Pizza-Making Robots, Launches In Mountain View A new company in Mountain View is looking to disrupt the pizza delivery universe dominated by Domino's and Papa John's by (almost) fully automating the pizza-making and cooking process through robotics. Bloomberg takes
SF News PG&E Fined $24.3 Million For Poor Record Keeping Relating To Carmel Explosion A judge with the California Public Utilities Commission yesterday issued a $24.3 million dollar fine against PG&E for keeping faulty or inaccurate records regarding natural gas lines in more than
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 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 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
Arts & Entertainment Usual Suspects Announced For Bridge School Benefit Concert First held in 1986 and organized by none other than Neil Young and Pegi Young, The Bridge School Benefit Concert — an all-acoustic fundraiser held each October — has announced its acts for its 2015
SF News Google Self-Driving Car Involved In Its First Minor Injury Accident One of Google's 23 self-driving Lexus SUVs was rear-ended in recent weeks at an intersection in Mountain View, and three employees who were in the car at the time suffered minor whiplash. The
