SF News

What Was That Giant White Blimp That Was Just Hauling Ass Across San Francisco Skies?

San Francisco skygazers noticed an unmarked and very large white blimp flying at an impressive speed above the city Thursday afternoon. It appears to be Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s new blimp, which is the biggest blimp since the Hindenburg.

SF Politics

NY Times Profile of RFK Jr. Running Mate Nicole Shanahan Details Giant Divorce Fortune, Cocaine, Elon Musk Affair

It’s not new news that RFK Jr.’s vice-presidential pick Nicole Shanahan is wealthy because of her gargantuan divorce settlement from Google co-founder Sergey Brin, but the NY Times dug into her past to find “cocaine, ketamine and psychedelic mushrooms” use, and an affair with Elon Musk.

Business & Tech

Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Hit With Wrongful-Death Lawsuit Over Fatal 2023 Plane Crash

A private plane belonging to Google co-founder Sergey Brin crashed off Half Moon Bay last year, killing both pilots onboard, and one pilot’s widow is now suing Brin and Google for allegedly making improper modifications to the plane and obstructing the crash investigation.

SF News

Thousands Of Google Employees Stage Walkouts Against Trump Immigration Policies

Protest along Embarcadero, with chants of "No Ban, No Wall." #ImWithThem pic.twitter.com/zY09fv6QAB— Jill Witty (@jwitty) January 30, 2017 A company-wide protest organized and attended by Alphabet/Google employees occurred Monday

Arts & Entertainment

Video: Keira Knightley Visits Silicon Valley, Chills With Zuck

"They had a lot of hoodies," said a slightly boggled Keira Knightley of the tech élite who mounted a private screening of her new movie The Imitation Game. The self-described "technophobe" appeared on

SF News

Sergey Brin Regrets Involvement In Google+, Admits He's Kind Of Anti-Social

This is funny: Google's mostly failed attempt at creating a Facebook-killing social network may not have been done any favors by having co-founder Sergey Brin involved in the project. As Brin told an

SF News

Robot Cars To Get California Licenses

Starting in September, the California DMV will begin issuing special licenses for driverless vehicles and their human test pilots/passengers. The news means Google's chrome-plated future, wherein robot cars are widely available and

SF News

Google Execs Shamed For Getting Government Discount On Fuel For Private Jets

When Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and chairman Eric Schmidt fire up their private jets for long weekends in Tahiti, they've been doing so with improperly discounted jet fuel via a

Arts & Entertainment

Sergey Brin's Estranged Wife Throws 'Freedom' Party On Alcatraz

Rich people. They're not like us. Take, for example, Anne Wojcicki, impending ex-wife of (dreamy) Google cofounder Sergey Brin. None too thrilled about seeing her husband leave her for a 26-year-old Google Glass

SF News

Googlers Are Just A Google-y As You Think They Are, Reveals 'New Yorker' Exposé

In reaction to news that Yahoo! would be moving their New York office into the old Times Building — and because Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have a new buddy comedy about Google — esteemed

SF News

Google's Sergey Brin Thinks Your Smartphone is 'Emasculating'

Russian-born manly man and Google co-founder Sergey Brin took the stage at a TED Conference in Long Beach, California earlier today to pitch his company's geek-tastic Google Glass wearable computer. The advantage of

SF News

Sergey Brin Asks Election Winners To Withdraw From Their Political Parties

"I must confess I am dreading today's elections," Google cofounder and CEO Sergey Brin wrote last night on his Google+ account in a post that calls for whichever candidate winning today's election to

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

Video: Extreme Googlers Use SF As Their Playground

During today's keynote speech at Google's I/O Conference, co-founder and tech industry heartthrob Sergey Brin one-upped every tech CEO ever with a publicity stunt/technology demo/Super Bowl-caliber viral commercial for his

SF News

Sergey Brin, Jack Dorsey Sign Open Letter Blasting SOPA

The chilling Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), drafted by Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, would have catastrophic affects on how you use the web and who (namely the U.S. government) controls

SF News

Sergey Brin's Old Stanford World Wide Web Page

While searching for an appropriate Sergey Brin link to use in today's "Google's Eric Schmidt Nets $100 Million" article, we came across one of Brin's old world wide web sites, a personal one

SF News

Hiring & Company Perks Are Back, Says Google Heads

In a sign that the recession might -- might! -- be over, Google CEO Eric Schmidy and the lovely/talented/benevolent Sergey Brin told reports this morning that the company is partying like

SF News

Forbes Big Bounty of Bay Area Billioniares

Forbes annual list of billionaires around the world came out today. Jealous? And for the first time in 14 years Warren Buffett (at $62 billion) snatched the number one spot from Bill Gates

SF News

SFist Tech Labs: Google China and Spin Control

The issue now is Google's decision to censor search results on its Chinese site. In an interview with Reuters (vectored via CNet news.com), Sergey Brin acknowledges that the decision will be criticized,

misc

Pass the Dutch Auction

The last five or ten years have seen the Bay Area go from boom to bust, and while SFist didn't have to pack up a truck and move back to Palookaville like some