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
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Tent Near Google For $965/Month This week's Apartment Sadness came in via the tip line a couple days ago, and subsequently blew up in the local media for reasons that should be obvious. Some opportunistic 22-year-old dude who
SF News Google Downsizes Its Glass Circus Tent Campus Design Just when it seemed that Google's dreams of constructing a glass canopied colossus had been thwarted by the Mountain View City Council, the Business Times reports that the company has unveiled new, scaled
SF News Google's Canopied Campus Dreams Dashed By Mountain View City Council It was just around midnight last night that the Mountain View City Council rebuffed Google's new attempt at town domination. This means that Google's recently revealed dreams of creating a game-changing piece of
Arts & Entertainment Behold Google's Crazy New 'Canopy'-Covered Campus Designs We've been hearing a lot this week about the city of Mountain View, California and its residents being a little fed up with getting steamrolled by their biggest employer, Google. The New York
SF News Google Leases NASA Airfield In Mountain View The perennial question, "What will Google do with X," gets juicier when X is a NASA airfield of 1,000 acres, several hangars, two runways, a flight operations building, and a private golf
SF News Homeless Google Staffers Have Lived On Mountain View Campus For Weeks, Months At a Time Google may encourage its workers to stay on duty for extended periods by offering three meals a day in the cafeteria, a gym, and plenty of play spaces. But rising rents in Silicon
SF News Rapper Young Jeezy Arrested After Fatal Shooting At Wiz Khalifa's Shoreline Show At Wiz Khalifa's Friday night concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre, a man was shot and killed backstage. Now six people associated with the tour — including Def Jam rapper Young Jeezy — have been arrested on
SF News Space Nerds Launch McMoon's, A Control Center In A Defunct McDonald's To Hijack A Decommissioned NASA Satellite A group of space enthusiasts in Mountain View, California, with cooperation from NASA, have taken control of a 36-year-old decommissioned satellite that was originally put into orbit to study solar weather. The ISEE-3
SF News Mountain View Teens Are All Hopped Up On Drugs At School These Days According to Mountain View police, students as young as 13 years old have been spotted using and dealing drugs at Mountain View High School in Silicon Valley. After one student overdosed last month
SF News Mountain View Teens Partied In Empty Home Before Burning It Down A group of 14 teenagers were arrested in Mountain View this week after throwing a series of drug- and alcohol-fueled parties at an unoccupied home in an upscale neighborhood. After two consecutive weekends
SF News Working For Google Not All That Awesome, Say Googlers It shouldn't shock anyone that the reality of working for Google is not nearly as swell as what some of us might imagine it to be it is, after all, a job at
SF News Over 100 Arrested At Electronic Music Fest At Shoreline Mountain View police succeeded in harshing the mellow of many ravers and would-be ravers over the weekend when they arrested over 100 people at the Beyond Wonderland music fest at Shoreline Amphitheater. The
SF News Jerry Brown Becomes America's Oldest Governor To Ride In A Robot Car Earlier today Governor Jerry Brown stopped in to Google's Mountain View headquarters to sign a bill that will soon allow Californians to be even more apathetic while behind the wheel of a car.
SF News Frenchman, Caught Peeing In Garden By Street View, Sues Google A perturbed frenchman, caught peeing in his garden by Google's popular Street View feature, is suing the company for humiliation and invasion of privacy. The photo, posted online, has reportedly made him the
SF News Google Engineer Worse Driver Than Google's Robot Car, Apparently Today in things that Google computers are better at than you, simple human: Driving. An incident involving a Google driverless Prius was originally reported by Jalopnik this morning as the first traffic accident
SF News Caltrain Death In Mountain View Marking the fifth Caltrain fatality this year, a man hit and killed near the San Antonio station in Mountain View yesterday. The crash happened at around 5:10 p.m., snarling the evening's
misc Interviewing at Google = Death By Brain Teasers A slew of alleged Google interview questions have been floating around the internet, and now we know for certain that we simply are not equipped to work for the giant who lords over
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Great American Food and Music Fest Goes Bad? Saturday's Great American Food and Music Festival looked like it had win written all over it: ' Guy Fieri, alpha-male grilling fanboy Bobby Flay! A16's Nate Appleman! Boulevard's Nancy Oakes! LA's Pink’s
SF News Mountain View's Uloop.com Illegally Fires Students for Unionizing? College students, when will you ever learn? Never--never!-- try to to do the right thing by organizing a worker's union at your job. This is the quickest way to get wrongfully terminated.
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: The Arcade Fire And what does The Arcade Fire sound like? Figure that the group's music is like some sort of 10-person raucously ad-hoc mix-up of Neutral Milk Hotel, Slipknot, Springsteen's E Street Band, and The
