SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Juicero' Packets Are Easily Squeezed By Hand, Making Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer Arguably Unnecessary An expensive wi-fi-connected juicer called Juicero from a much buzzed-over startup that's backed to the tune of $120 million by GV/Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers apparently needs no wi-fi
SF News Trump Calls For 'Review' of H-1B Visa Program In Latest Executive Order Whether President Trump plans to formally do away with the H-1B visa program as he repeatedly pledged to during his campaign for the presidency or whether he simply plans to make hostile overtures
Arts & Entertainment Occasionally Amusing 'For Here or To Go?' Tackles Silicon Valley's Immigration Dilemma tells a story that will likely resonate with a large segment of Silicon Valley's immigrant workforce, and it's a story I haven't seen tackled by a film before. Sadly, its clunky execution and
Arts & Entertainment TJ Miller Mansplains Mainsplaining In Full 'Silicon Valley' Season 4 Trailer Silicon Valley is back on April 23rd with a fourth season on HBO, meaning the series has officially outlasted most startups. Creator Mike Judge infuses his comedy with careful details and research, making
SF News Tech Bro Obama Meets With Silicon Valley Leaders In San Jose Obama just posed for the "I'm GREAT!" pic you'd petty post after a breakup. pic.twitter.com/DkmjF6CgTJ— Behold the Coagula! (@luckyturner) February 7, 2017 In his first trip to the Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment 'Unicorn Startup Simulator' Lets You Get Valued Or Die Trying Over And Over Again In the large field of startup send-up and parody, a new entry, Unicorn Startup Simulator feels like a rare breed, in that it's so bizarre and fun. The goal of the game, naturally,
SF News Ex-Uber Engineer Says Company Is Full Of Sexual Harassment, Intimidation Yesterday, engineer Susan Fowler Tweeted, "I wrote something up this weekend about my year at Uber, and why I left," with a link to an essay titled, "Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange
Arts & Entertainment Nerd Alert: First Trailer For 'Silicon Valley' Season 4 Silicon Valley, the HBO Comedy from Mike Judge that skewers, roasts, and generally devours the world of tech and startups, is back on April 23rd for its 4th Season, which has got me
SF News Sheryl Sandberg Will Wait And See On Trump As Facebook And Others Draft Open Letter Against Immigration Policy Facebook COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg is not ready to throw a shoulder into the resistance movement against President Donald Trump, as it's "early" to see how his policies will take
SF News One Percenters In Bay Area And Beyond Busy Making Chic Apocalypse Preparations Whatever apocalypse prep you might be making these days, however drastic, it's probably quaint in comparison to what certain members of America's one percent are busy undertaking. Doomsday "preppers," a category of paranoiacs
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good News, Plebs: Ridiculous $700 Wi-Fi Enabled Juicer Now Just $400! Don't worry, everybody. Juicero, the company behind a wi-fi-enabled juicer that can only make juice from the company's own subscription-delivered packages of fruits and vegetables, is doing very well, selling great, and is
SF News Tech Executives Yuck It Up At Private Trump Tower Meeting As initial photos emerged from Wednesday's gathering of the tech elite at Trump Tower in New York City, the most apparent reaction from those gathered appeared to be one of bewildered frustration. However,
SF News Peter Thiel Poised To Profit Off Trump's Promised Crackdown On Immigrants While many residents of Silicon Valley are smarting over the election of Donald Trump, Peter Thiel is sitting pretty. The Trump-supporting Facebook board member secured a position on the president-elect's transition team, and
SF News Donald Trump To Host Tech Summit Next Week -- But Who's Going? The cyber, as we all know, is very, very tough. Perhaps with that in mind, USA Today reports that President-Elect Donald Trump's transition team has invited a group of tech luminaries to New
SF News Facebook Pledges $20 Million To Build Affordable Housing On Peninsula Facebook is trying to show up other big tech companies once again in terms of corporate citizenship as the company announces the creation of a fund to back the building of affordable housing
SF News Michael Phelps Now Dreams Of Silicon Valley Gold What's left to conquer when you already have 28 Olympic medals? How about Silicon Valley? That seems to be the thinking of Michael Phelps, who the Associated Press reports is planning on leveraging
SF News To Bridge The Digital Divide, Tech Companies Need To Act Like People, Not Algorithms If it's the case that technology has divided rather than united the majority of people who rely on it — the popular argument that we're all "Alone Together," hyperconnected but isolated — the problem begins
SF News Trump Strategist Steve Bannon Implies Too Many Asians Have Power In Silicon Valley On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed to "drain the swamp" on Capitol Hill. Instead, he's made clear with his staff appointments so far that his intention is to pump it full of
SF News Apple CEO Tim Cook Tries To Reassure Upset Employees Following Trump Win As Silicon Valley continues to freak out at the national tragedy that is Donald Trump's election, Apple CEO Tim Cook took a moment yesterday to reassure his employees that despite the bigotry and
SF News The Tech World Is Losing Its Collective S**t Over Trump's Win While you and I are busy maintaining our thousand-yard stares off toward the orange-tinted collective doom looming on the horizon, big names in the world of Silicon Valley tech have commenced full on
SF News Uber Wants To Bring Flying Cars To The Masses Within Ten Years The year is 2027. You're running late for your job in Silicon Valley, and, as commuter traffic south out of SF has only increased over the last ten years, you know that the
SF News Does President Obama Have A Future In Silicon Valley? It's January 2017, a new president has been sworn into office, and, newly retired from public service, Barack Obama is enjoying his well-earned time out of the public eye by going to work
SF News Discussions Of Bias, Tech, And Trump Take Center Stage At The <em>Vanity Fair</em> New Establishment Summit While everyday San Franciscans went about their normal business last week, a collection of movers and shakers from the worlds of business, tech, media, and politics gathered at Yerba Buena Center for the
SF News Peter Thiel To Speak Publicly About His Trump Support As Silicon Valley Battle Lines Harden Contrarian that he is, noted libertarian Trump lover Peter Thiel has decided that the controversy surrounding his support for the Republican presidential candidate demands his response. And so, as Bloomberg reports, the billionaire
SF News Stain Of Peter Thiel's Trump Advocacy Marks Y Combinator As Silicon Valley Backlash Grows Peter Thiel has always ranked high on the Silicon Valley eccentric scale, as most already know. The PayPal co-founder and Facebook board member's support for building floating libertarian cities and interest in the
