SF News Tesla Factory Dogged By Allegations Of Racist Attacks By Workers That Went Unpunished Three more men have come forward alleging that they were the victims of racist verbal attacks and harassment on the factory floor of Tesla's Fremont plant, and they've filed a lawsuit in Alameda
Arts & Entertainment Goodbye, Old Friend: AOL Is Killing Off AIM After 20 Years It's truly the end of an era: AOL, now under the banner of the unfortunately named Oath over at Verizon, is killing off its signature Instant Messenger service effective December 15. AIM, as
SF News Apple Recommends Avoiding Face ID If You Have A Twin Or If You're Under 13 According to a new security guideline issued by Apple, children and people who have a twin sibling should refrain from using the new Face ID unlock feature on their new iPhone X's. The
SF News Concord Unites With Four Bay Area Cities In Bid For Amazon's New Headquarters As online marketplace mega giant Amazon continues its search for a location for its brand new second headquarters, five Bay Area cities have joined together to make one big bid for their attention.
SF News Google Glass Be Damned, Amazon Is Reportedly Working On Alexa-Enabled Glasses Looks like Amazon's going to try to succeed where Google and Snapchat have more or less failed. Alexa, remind me to tell Bezos to cool it for a minute. According to a report
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Infamous Boondoggle Juicero Suspends Sales, Founder Celebrates At Burning Man Juicero, the company that introduced the world to a wi-fi-connected $700 juicer, later marked down to $400, which essentially did the same job as a pair of human hands, is finally calling it
SF News Uber Board Names New CEO, Expedia Chief Dara Khosrowshahi Uber's board made a somewhat surprising decision Sunday to appoint Expedia chief Dara Khosrowshahi to the open CEO role at the company, settling two months of unrest at the company and setting aside
SF News Apple Ditches Self-Driving Car Dreams At last count, the roster of tech companies currently developing some sort of self-driving car, or the underlying technology to run one, includes Google, Uber, Tesla, and Lyft, in addition to blue-chip car
SF News Texas Firm Finds It Cheaper To Commute To Silicon Valley By Private Jet Than To Operate There Lawyers from the Houston-based intellectual property firm of Patterson and Sheridan want the big-money tech clients of Silicon Valley but not the big-money price tags of Bay Area real estate and salary expectations.
SF News Anita Hill Says Women Should Sue If They Want Silicon Valley To Get Less Sexist In a pointed op-ed in the New York Times today, Anita Hill, who these days is working as a plaintiffs' attorney at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, suggests that "It’s time women
SF News Video: Peek Inside Potrero Hill's Cryptocurrency Commune There's a house full of cryptocurrency gurus in San Francisco, and it's like a modern-day commune from CNBC. A group of cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and enthusiasts live inside a three-story home in Potrero Hill
SF News Google Employee Writes Internal Memo Railing Against Women, Diversity; Rage Ensues A memo from a senior software engineer that went "internally viral" at Google last week titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber" reportedly laid out a manifesto for why women are less well suited for
SF News Uber To Launch Credit Card, Likely With Rewards, Later This Year Perhaps in a bid at strengthening customer loyalty, Uber is going to be launching its own co-branded credit card later this year in partnership with Barclays. Barclays made the announcement via the Associated
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
SF News Adobe Is Finally Killing Off Flash, Giving It Until 2020 To Choke And Die One of the internet's most hated and annoying bits of software, and one that endlessly needs updating due to security holes being endlessly exploited by bad guys, is finally going to die a
SF News Video: Elon Musk Has Actually Already Built A Car Elevator For His Insane Tunneling Project It's unwise to laugh these days when a billionaire entrepreneur seems to be joking about a new venture he dreamed up while sitting in traffic. Tesla CEO Elon Musk's seemingly jokingly (we thought)
SF News Lyft Gets In On Self-Driving Car Game With 'Level Five' & New Workforce In Palo Alto Lyft is nipping at the heels of main competitor Uber in joining the race to bring autonomous vehicles onto the road, but they're doing so with a slightly different and they say more
SF News Nobody Wants To Be Uber's Next CEO "You couldn't pay me enough money to take that job" is a response most likely heard when it comes to dangerous (skyscraper window washer), depressing (animal cop), or gross (BART janitor who doesn't
SF News Reddit, Facebook, Other Tech Giants Rally For Net Neutrality In 'Day of Action' Today is a day of protest and calls for action from major players in the tech industry as the FCC prepares to roll back two-year-old protections for net neutrality. CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and
SF News Former Facebook Exec Launches Telepathy Hat Startup Former Facebook executive Mary Lou Jepsen, who previously had headed up the company's Oculus VR division, has founded a "wearable MRI" startup called Openwater where she hopes to create hats that can read
SF News Idiot Thieves Nabbed After Stealing GPS Tracking Devices From Santa Clara Startup A trio of thieves is feeling pretty stupid this week after they allegedly broke into the offices of Santa Clara "smart logistics" startup Roambee and stole some office equipment. In addition to stealing
SF News Day Around The Bay: Yes, Tech Workers Are Still Moving Here Despite some evidence that the Tech Gold Rush of 2011-2016 has slowed down, a new LinkedIn report shows that while we are losing tech workers to places like Seattle and Portland, we're still
SF News Uber Exec Fired Over His Handling Of Rape Victim's Case In India Following Tuesday's bloodletting at Uber in the wake of a company-wide probe into hundreds of claims of sexual harassment in which at least 20 employees were terminated Recode has learned that a high-level
SF News Uber Terminating More Than 20 People In Sexual Harassment Probe Uber's overall reputation has taken a lot of hits in 2017, not the least of which were allegations in February of widespread sexual harassment and an overall culture of sexism from a former
Arts & Entertainment Apple Introduces Echo Rival HomePod And More At WWDC17 The long anticipated Apple rival to the Amazon Echo and Google Home, dubbed HomePod, has arrived. The centerpiece unveiling at Monday's WWDC keynote presentation, the HomePod is a predictably good looking and well
