SF News Ex-Uber Engineer Says Company Is Full Of Sexual Harassment, Intimidation Yesterday, engineer Susan Fowler Tweeted, "I wrote something up this weekend about my year at Uber, and why I left," with a link to an essay titled, "Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot New Dinner Series Makes You Pay $100 To Drink Soylent In A Drab Room San Francisco's dining scene has a lot to offer, and the restaurants of our great city frequently get named some of the best in the country. But that can all be kind of
SF News Yahoo CEO Reportedly Joked About Layoffs At Company-Wide Meeting Our report that Yahoo was going to lay off 1000 staffers in the next month or so was met with a collective yawn from readers — a sign, perhaps, of the company's lack of
SF News Apple Formally Opposes Shareholder Call For Increased Diversity Apple is calling a shareholder call for increased diversity among higher management "unduly burdensome" and unnecessary. In an official statement issued earlier this month in preparation for an upcoming February 26 shareholder meeting,
Arts & Entertainment NSFW Video: New App Will Bring In Your Postmates Order, Spoon It Into Your Mouth The greatest problem posed to the able-bodied by our current state of on-demand instant gratification, posits this video from Funny or Die, is that it's just so godamn much work, like, answering the
Arts & Entertainment CNN Explores The Druggy, Trippy, And Poly Side Of Silicon Valley Geekdom "Polyamory is a form of optimization," says product manager Miju Han in what is just one of many words of disruptive wisdom shared in a new CNN mini-doc web series titled "Sex, Drugs
SF News Study Proves You Can Never Survive Without Your Phone Again A new study shows that iPhone separation anxiety is not only real, but it negatively affects cognitive ability. Yes, sadly, as Consumerist reports, just putting your phone in the next room may now
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soylent Reformulated For Fewer Farts Does everyone remember Soylent, that local startup that makes a bland nutritional shake geared toward techies who don't want to leave their computers even to eat? Well, in an amusing recent development, the
SF News Dubai Cops To Become Glassholes Dubai police officers are about to look like that Glasshole your friends like to mock in SF bars thanks to Google Glass. Reuters is reporting that the Dubai boys in blue are going
SF News Are Startups In The '1099 Economy' Taking Advantage Of Contract Workers? There’s a long read in New York Magazine today about how well-funded startups are using contract workers to keep costs low, a trend called the “1099 economy.” Reading with the caveat that
SF News Apple Recommends Pre-Ordering iPhone 6, Still Has A Few Models Left For In-Store Pickup; Also, The Reviews Are In We don't yet know how rabid the on-the-ground eagerness will be come Thursday night/Friday morning at the downtown S.F. Apple Store (or at Apple Stores around the Bay Area). But Apple
SF News Now There's A Tinder Just For Tech Elites A Stanford business school graduate has launched a new members-only dating app for “high-caliber...people," which we can pretty much assume to mean people like her. The 29-year-old co-founder, Amanda Bradford, tells Forbes
SF News Apple Unveils Watch, New Larger iPhones [Live-Blog] Apple's biggest and most anticipated unveiling in at least two years is happening this morning in Cupertino, and news correspondents from the East Coast have been standing outside the large, mysterious white cube
SF News Will Tech Workers Get Dinged By The IRS For Free Lunches? You know how all the big tech companies employ their own executive chefs and provide lovely lunch and dinner options to their employees every day so no one ever has to leave the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In-House Tech Company Chefs Talk About What They Cook, Not About Stock Options Over at the Chronicle, Jonathan Kauffman did video interviews with a panel of tech-company chefs Lance Holton of Twitter, Brian Mattingly of Dropbox, Shane Dykhuis of BandPage, and Matthew DuTrumble of Zynga asking
SF News Not Content To Ruin Just San Francisco, Rich Techies Are Gentrifying Burning Man Too This will come as news only to people who have not attended Burning Man in the last couple of years, but the New York Times has just caught on to the fact that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DNA Lounge To Host Competition For Cocktail-Making Robots Got some free time this summer because you're not building a Burning Man camp? In September, DNA Lounge will host a competition for robotics nerds who are also cocktail nerds to build the
