SF News Travis Kalanick Claims He Is 'Steve Jobs-ing It' To Get Back Inside Uber It remains unclear which tech titan will take over running Uber following Travis Kalanick's recent departure, but the ride-share company founder and former CEO wants back in. According to Recode, Kalanick told several
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera Co-Commissions Opera About Steve Jobs The San Francisco Opera has just co-commissioned an opera (that's already been written) about the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Along with the Seattle Opera, "The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs" will premiere
Arts & Entertainment Apple's Spaceship Doughnut Campus, Officially Named Apple Park, To Open In April Apple has kept details about the completion and move-in date for their new, Norman Foster-designed "spaceship doughnut" campus in Cupertino fairly well under wraps, but this week we have official word that the
Arts & Entertainment 10 Years Ago Today Apple Showed Us The First iPhone, And Steve Jobs's Hastiness Could Have Actually Been A Disaster Do you still have your original first-generation iPhone, just for the sake of tech nostalgia? They're so cute and tiny, right? Today in history, January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stepped out onto the
SF News Woman Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Brick At Steve Jobs's House A bizarre scene reportedly went down at the former home of the deceased Steve Jobs, and a woman stands accused of felony assault and misdemeanor vandalism involving the Palo Alto residence. According to
SF News San Francisco Owes Steve Jobs $174 If you're anything like deceased Apple founder Steve Jobs (and you just might be), then the City and County of San Francisco owes you some money. The SFMTA posted a list of 200,
Arts & Entertainment Jobs And Gates, Modern Day Hamilton And Burr, Get Broadway Musical Treatment Forget the forefathers of American democracy and financial systems: The next hit Broadway musical could take its cues from the forefathers of the PC and the Mac. As the New York Times foreshadows
Arts & Entertainment Sorry, Apple Fanatics: The 'Steve Jobs' Movie Is A Box-Office Bomb In a refreshing reminder that the rest of the world is not up Steve Jobs' ass the way many folks here are, the much-lauded Aaron Sorkin film about the Apple founder has reportedly
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Bridge of Spies, Goosebumps, Steve Jobs, Victoria Bridge of Spies - Everywhere I was convinced I'd be bored silly by Bridge of Spies, mainly because I'm not a fan of Spielberg's "serious" movies. When it comes to those films, he
Arts & Entertainment SFist Previews Tonight's Mercury Soul At Ruby Skye An interview with local composer Mason Bates, and some notes on the SF Symphony Opening Night. Mason Bates is a bridge between two musical worlds, classical and techno. With a PhD in composition
Arts & Entertainment Video: New <em>Steve Jobs</em> Trailer Drops, Feels Very Aaron Sorkin-y Sure, you could go see Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, the documentary about the Apple co-founder released earlier this month. But why do that when you can gaze upon a be-turtlenecked
Arts & Entertainment Video: Steve Wozniak Says Steve Jobs 'Did Not Know Technology' True to form, Steve Wozniak sat down for a lengthy interview with a 9th grader in Florida and was decidedly candid about his former business partner and colleague Steve Jobs, and the early
Arts & Entertainment What Would You Trade For Steve Jobs' Old Car? Since his death in 2011, we've seen a veneration of Steve Jobs that's reminiscent of the attention focused on, say, a European saint. (His office at Apple remains untouched, for example.) But instead
Arts & Entertainment Trailer Drops For Unauthorized Steve Jobs Documentary By The Guy Who Made 'Going Clear' Alex Gibney, the director who made the provocative HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, has just made a new doc about the man who made Apple, Steve Jobs, titled
Arts & Entertainment <em>Steve Jobs</em> Trailer Drops: The Next Big Thing Is Here In America, where gods of industry are all too literally considered deities, we're still not through contending with the legacy of Steve Jobs. Products aside, the technology leader's flair for theatrics makes him
Arts & Entertainment Video: Michael Fassbender Faces Thunderous Applause In First Trailer For 'Steve Jobs' Just last year, the cast and crew for an Aaron Sorkin-penned Steve Jobs biopic was in chaos. Director David Fincher had bailed on the project, as had possible star Leonardo DiCaprio. Though eventual
SF News Tim Cook Once Offered Steve Jobs Part Of His Liver A new detail about the closeness of current Apple CEO Tim Cook and the late Steve Jobs has emerged in an excerpt from the forthcoming book Becoming Steve Jobs. In it, as Fast
Arts & Entertainment Local Seth Rogen Body Double Sought For Steve Jobs Film Men with the body and beard of Seth Rogen are in particular demand at the moment, it would seem. Rogen, who plays the Apple genius Steve Wozniak alongside the Apple genius Steve Jobs
Arts & Entertainment Extras With '80s Hair Wanted For Latest Steve Jobs Biopic Do you look like you just stepped out of a DeLorean time machine from the 1980s? Do you sport big, teased or feathered hair? Do you have availability for 12 to 14 hours
SF News Steve Jobs' Emails At Center Of Oakland Class Action Suit Steve Jobs is alive and, well, very much himself in emails and a videotaped deposition to be presented in an Oakland courtroom tomorrow. As one story goes, when Google's Eric Schmidt informed Jobs
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Sneak Preview' Of Christian Bale As Steve Jobs Though it's long been rumored that actor Christian "Good For You" Bale was being eyed to play Steve Jobs in an upcoming bio-pic, industry publication Variety seems so sure that those rumors are
Arts & Entertainment Relax, Apple Super-Fans: Leonardo DiCaprio Will Not Be Playing Steve Jobs It's been a year of highs and lows for Apple's most ardent fans. There were great peaks, like the announcement of the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch. There were dark valleys, like BendGate.
Arts & Entertainment On This Day In 1985, Apple Forced Steve Jobs Out. On This Day In 1997, He Came Back. If we were believers in numerology,* we might ascribe some significance to today's reports that sales of the iPhone 6 appear to have exceeded Apple's wildest expectations. September 16 isn't just a day
Arts & Entertainment Go Ahead, Buy This $200 Steve Jobs Action Figure Sweet respite is on the way for Apple fanboys craving a small memento of Steve Jobs for themselves: a new 12-inch ultra-realistic Steve Jobs doll "action figure" will be hitting the market soon.
Arts & Entertainment Kanye Receives Mice Autographed By Steve Jobs And Woz For Father's Day, new poppa Kanye West received a cool geek gift that would make any Mac zealot envious: a pair of old Apple mice autographed by co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve "Woz"