Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Recap: 'It Is Pretty Raunchy, Though' [NSFW] In last night's episode of HBO's Silicon Valley, actor TJ Miller, who plays Erlich, once again proved himself to be the show's greatest comedic asset, and we finally get to see fictional rival
Arts & Entertainment HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Will Return For a Second Season After only three episodes have aired, HBO has announced plans for a second season of Mike Judge's techie-thwacking comedy Silicon Valley. According to Variety, the show drew in just shy of 2 million
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Episode 3 Recap: Small Is The New Big "Because if we can make your audio and video files smaller, we can make cancer smaller. And hunger. And AIDS." This week's episode opens with those words, from Hooli's evil overlord Gavin Belson,
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Episode 2 Recap: How To Become An A**hole To kick off the second episode of the new HBO comedy from Office Space/King of the Kill genius Mike Judge, we have a very sad five-person "launch party" in the Palo Alto
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Episode 1 Recap: Welcome To Palo Alto The Bay Area's starring role in the zeitgeist was boosted again last night with the premiere of HBO's Silicon Valley, the second new HBO show this season to take place here. But unlike
Arts & Entertainment Mike Judge's <i>Silicon Valley</i> Tells The Hard Truths About The Startup World This post is brought to you by HBO. There's no denying startups and Silicon Valley are contentious issues these days, but Mike Judge is no stranger to it. Inspired by his own experiences
SF News Greenpeace Shames Twitter And Pinterest Via Blimp Greenpeace flew a blimp over Silicon Valley today to champion tech companies that have gone emerald green and shame those who are more of a tea green. The latter? Amazon, Twitter, Netflix and
Arts & Entertainment Full Trailer From Mike Judge's 'Silicon Valley' Arrives To Skewer Tech Culture Here it is, folks, the first full trailer from Mike Judge's HBO comedy Silicon Valley. Lots of white dudes (broken up by the excellent Kumail Nanjiani), an Asperger's joke, large sums of money
SF News Venture Capitalist's 'Six Californias' Plan Moves Forward, Is Still A Terrible Idea Venture Capitalist Tim Draper's plan to divide California into six states (including one just for Silicon Valley) got the OK to move forward from California Secretary of State Debra Bowen this week, despite
SF News Facebook To Buy Messaging Service WhatsApp For $19 Billion In Menlo Park today, the 800-pound social networking gorilla announced today that it would acquire popular messaging app WhatsApp for a cool $4 billion in cash and $15 billion in Facebook stock. The
Arts & Entertainment Mike Judge's 'Silicon Valley' Actually Looks Good After Bravo's colostomy bag of a reality show, disastrously produced by Randi Zuckerberg, and Amazon's ho-hum Betas, Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-Head) takes a stab at the tech world with Silicon Valley. The
SF News Snipers Attacked A Silicon Valley Power Station Last Year And Nobody Told Us Around 1 a.m. on April 16th last year, a team of attackers cut phone lines and took out 17 power transformers at a PG&E substation south of San Jose, nearly
SF News Techies Need A Real Come-To-Jesus Moment, Says Silicon Valley Prayer Leader In Silicon Valley where tech is god and venture capitalists are prophets, one devout Christian and former tech CEO is hoping to bring the good word to the godless heathens of the tech
Arts & Entertainment Mike Judge's 'Silicon Valley' Hits HBO In April Continuing the Home Box Office network's Bay Area fascination, the simply titled Silicon Valley from the mind of Beavis and Butthead and Office Space creator Mike Judge will debut on cable and borrowed
Arts & Entertainment Apple's New 'Spaceship Donut' Campus Goes Up For Approval The great and glorious Apple mothership in Cupertino, California is set to become an actual mothership. Or is it a space station? In any event, it is round, and vast. The building, which
SF News TechCrunch Conference Disrupted By Boob Gazing, Lame Dick Jokes Noted Silicon Valley tech blog and press release machine TechCrunch launched their annual Disrupt conference in San Francisco over the weekend with an "incredibly popular" Hackathon session during which hopeful entrepreneurs present new
SF News Silicon Valley Exec Found Guilty Of Stealing LEGOs Thomas Langenbach, a VP at software giant SAP's Palo Alto lab, has been convicted of running an elaborate scam to steal LEGO toys from local Target stores. It is quite possibly the white
Arts & Entertainment John McAfee Biopic In The Works A script following the antics of eccentric millionaire John McAfee, who may or may not have been doing some illicit substances while holed up in Central America and who may or may not
SF News Silicon Valley: Just A Bunch Of Elitist Union Busters? Remember that despicable and elitist piece by PandoDaily's Sarah Lacy about how the BART strike was crippling the nascent tech boom on Mid-Market? Well, it's inspired a much better informed retort from Kevin
SF News Obama Arriving In The Bay Area For Pricey Fundraisers President Barack Obama will be in the Bay Area starting today. He'll attend receptions in Palo Alto and Portola Valley today and give a speech on Obamacare at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel
Arts & Entertainment Video: Silicon Valley Nerds Rap Badly About Venture Funding We're not sure if this counts as funny, but we suppose it's funny to those involved the way similar efforts by a college fraternity to make a viral video are funny to those
SF News People Are Already Banning Google Glass The cyborg-ification of the human race at the hands of Google is nearly upon us via Google Glass, and lawmakers, cities, casinos, and at least one Seattle dive bar aren't having it. Do
SF News Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Births New Maternity Leave Policies At Yahoo, where CEO Marissa Mayer famously bailed on her own maternity leave and then immediately told everyone to start getting their asses to work, the company has plopped out a new set
Arts & Entertainment Hide Your Startup: Valleywag Is Back It's been four years since Valleywag, the blog-of-record for Silicon Valley gossip and tech industry machinations, folded. Now, Gawker Media has relaunched the site "dedicated to mocking the stupidity, incompetence, and avarice of
Arts & Entertainment 'Office Space' Creator Mike Judge Filming HBO Pilot In Silicon Valley Mike Judge, creator of the original office slacker comedy, will be in Palo Alto today filming scenes for a new HBO pilot about life in the strike-it-rich, startup world of Silicon Valley. After