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Office Tower at Sixth and Market Getting Acquired By Tech Group for 'Post-AI Singularity' Vertical Village

Well, this sure sounds like a positive, if kooky, sign for mid-Market as a Burning Man-esque tech collective is close to buying the 16-story building at the corner of Sixth Street that was once home to the Burning Man organization.

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[UPDATE] New Top Hire With History of Sexist Quotes Leaves Apple After Uproar

A startup star who wrote in his memoir that “Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak” is Apple’s new ad executive, and Bay Area women who work at Apple would like a word.

High-Profile Tech Bro Robert Scoble Faces Barrage Of Sexual Harassment Allegations

The only enduring legacy of the stupid Google Glass fad of 2013-14 is the image of fanboy Robert Scoble wearing the contraption in the shower. While the Glass device has mercifully been more

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

BuzzFeed Exposé Details Uber's Out-Of-Control 'A**hole Culture'

There has not been a new Uber scandal breaking today (though we're still a while from the end of the business day Pacific Daylight Time). There is, however, an epic, 6,500-word exposé

Several Notable Tech Bros Embroiled In Sex Harassment Scandal at VR Startup

There may be sighs of relief today at the Bay Area’s most allegedly sexually toxic work environments like Uber and Zenefits, because another “condoms and sex in the workplace” scandal has arrived

VC Guy Incites Twitter Ire By Saying There Is Nothing To Do Or See In San Francisco

In yet another example of the ways in which the newer denizens of New San Francisco don't exactly appreciate the place, local tech jerk Benedict Evans took to Twitter last night to vent

Arts & Entertainment

Robert De Niro Tells SF Startup Mogul 'I Don't Give A F**k Who You Are'

You don't get to where I am in life* without meeting a few famous actors. Some are a charming surprise, some are clearly crazy, and some of them seem a lot like you

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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

Twitter's Frat-Themed Office Party Totally 'Not Reflective' Of Fratty Tech Company Culture

Despite holding an office party with Twitter-branded beer pong tables and a sign in Greek- style lettering that read “Twitter Frat House,” Twitter's male-dominated culture is nothing like that of an American college

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Is That '94110' Series Just An Elaborate Prank?

The local media, ourselves included, have been agape at the tech-absurdity and apparent shallowness of the proposed TV series about the Mission titled 94110 that put out an open casting call back in

Soylent Schmoylent: The New York Times Drinks Silicon Valley's Powdered Protein Kool-Aid, Again

Though it might as well be, Schmoylent isn't a parody of Soylent, the meal replacement beverage invented in 2013 by a 24-year-old who later constipated himself to keep from flushing the toilet. No,

Have You Heard About The Startup Castle In Woodside? Because It's Ridiculous And Sexist

A huge mansion in tony Woodside has been rebrand the Startup Castle, as of about a year ago, and it's offering "monk-like" lodging for startup bros in a bizarre, stately setting, straight out

NY Finance Bro Writes Observations About SF Scene, And They're Predictably Terrible

A wealth management dude from New York just spent four days in San Francisco and decided to opine about what he saw and heard here. No one seems to have told him where

Y Combinator President Will Bet Any VC $100k There Is No Bubble

Bubble talk is all talk, but the President of Y Combinator, the prestigious startup accelerator/seed fund, means business. Sam Altman is putting his money, or a chunk of it, right where the

Tech Bro Justin Bieber Is Ruining San Francisco Right Now

sammy: Great day today in San Francisco with the @shots team @justinbieber @ryanbutler 💻📲🌉 pic.twitter.com/7QLpDSXCqr— JustinBieberCrew.com (@JBCrewdotcom) February 12, 2015 Canadian wild child Justin Bieber is in San Francisco visiting

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'Silicon Valley' Season 2 Trailer Drops, Includes Oversized TechCrunch Check

The Pied Piper team is back to roast the town in this promo trailer for HBO's Silicon Valley Season 2, which is set to air on April 12th. And notably TJ Miller — who

Most San Franciscans Don't Hate Tech At All

In a recent poll of 501 likely voters commissioned by Ed Lee's re-election campaign and conducted by Oakland's EMC Research, 65% of respondents expressed a favorable opinion of "the local technology industry." By

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Upskirt Oopsie: Magazine Cover On Silicon Valley Sexism Called Out For...Sexism

This week's cover. Will post first thing in the morning. pic.twitter.com/UIgR97sHS9— jim impoco (@jimpoco) January 28, 2015 Alas, poor Newsweek. Once the Pepsi to Time's print newsweekly Coke, in recent

'Hacker Palace' Provides Free Food And Housing To People Who Need It Least

If you're one of the 6,000 plus homeless San Franciscans who desperately needs food and shelter, this solution is not for you. Neither is it for the artist being priced out of

Tech CEO Who Referred To Homeless As 'Hyenas' Now Has Solution For Homelessness

Does everybody remember Greg Gopman, the former CEO of AngelHack who wrote an angry screed a year ago about how Market Street is a "grotesque" carnival full of "crazy, homeless, drug dealers, dropouts,

A Drone Thief, A Tech CEO, and a Tech COO Walk Into A Radio Shack...

This hilarious bit has come across the crime blotter this morning: A thief tried to pilfer a small drone and a remote-control helicopter from a Radio Shack on Polk Street Thursday morning, only

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Catan-Like, SF Tech-Themed Board Game Encourages Land-, Coffee-Grabbing

Nobody wants to lose their head over a board game, because aside from Jumanji or a Ouija board, they aren't real. It's just that in this particular game you happen to play a

Mission Soccer Field Reservations Getting Nixed; Protest Still On This Morning

Following the past week's uproar over the reservations-vs-pickup-game debate surrounding Mission Playground's soccer field, Rec and Park general manager Phil Ginsburg gave in last night and told members of the Latino Democratic Club

The Tension Over Soccer Fields Is Not About Tech Bros, It's Too Few Fields, Says Chron

Everyone got real up in arms over the video those Dropbox and Airbnb dudes who have since apologized squabbling with local kids over the rules governing the Mission Playground soccer field. As we