Arts & Entertainment Apple Adds Racially Diverse Emoji; Asians Already Crying 'Yellowface!' In the next update of Apple's OS and iOS, there will be new sets of emoji in six different skin tones, in order to reflect the racial diversity of the planet, and iPhone
SF News Chronicle Declares Anti-Tech Protest Movement Dead Just a year after the streets of SF were abuzz with near weekly protests blocking tech shuttle bus routes, the Chronicle is ringing the death knell for the anti-tech movement as a whole.
SF News 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
SF News '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
Arts & Entertainment Salon Founder Goes Off About Bernal Gentrifiers, 'Stanford Douchebags', And The Destruction Of SF In a new, rather angry op-ed published on 48 Hills, which is actually a speech that Salon founder David Talbot recently delivered at Stanford, Talbot has no shortage of bad things to say
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
Arts & Entertainment 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
SF News Can Silicon Valley Be Made Less Awful? Pando Daily Thinks So. Pando Daily, the Silicon Valley blog that claims it's there to "speak truth to the new power" but which ends up mostly being an angry-making, inside-baseball Uber-hate fest, is hosting some sort of
SF News 2014: The Year Facebook Started To Figure Out How It Hurts People In a further example of the ways in which Facebook's corporate team can be a little short-sighted about human existence, the company got a very public drubbing over the holiday week after web
SF News Scathing NYT Profile Says Marissa Mayer Messed Up With Yahoo Those who aren't hanging on to Yahoo stock may not have been paying attention when their stock price tumbled this past July, and again in September. Both tumbles, which it's since recovered from,
SF News Disrupt The Halls: Pics From 2014's Excessive Tech Holiday Parties It's not just about who has the bigger tree and the better eggnog. Tech companies in SF are, once again, competing to delight their workers in a holiday party proxy war. Yahoo recently
SF News Here's How Much Tech Companies Are Paying Interns Who Can Code In a list guaranteed to make you do a spit-take, here are some of the absurd "top offers" for undergraduate summer internships at tech companies in the Bay Area. They were tweeted out
SF News New York Times Wants Silicon Valley To 'Grow Up?' Not So Fast! After Uber henchman Emil Michael bragged about his bright idea to spend $1 million to investigate "shady" journalists' private lives (and "Dude, Where's My Uber?" star Ashton Kutcher stepped in right beside) the
SF News Is Google Glass Over? God I Hope So. All of our fears of a city or, dear Jesus, a nation crawling with Glassholes appear to be unfounded. As Reuters reports, engineers at Google have fled the project left and right and
SF News Video: TechCrunch and AOL Commissioned This Housing Crisis Film Since when did AOL and TechCrunch inherit the mantle of the Bay Guardian? Just kidding, but they did commission this video from Stateless Media about San Francisco's housing crisis titled "You Can't Go
SF News Twitter Launching New Features Next Week, Unveils Bland Strategy Statement As was rumored earlier this year, Twitter is adding some features to make it both more Facebook-like, and easier to use for new users, as they announced in a public presentation Wednesday. Also,
SF News Google Leases NASA Airfield In Mountain View The perennial question, "What will Google do with X," gets juicier when X is a NASA airfield of 1,000 acres, several hangars, two runways, a flight operations building, and a private golf
Arts & Entertainment Life Imitates Art As Hewlett-Packard Hires Flo Rida For Event, Just Like On <i>Silicon Valley</i> Remember when on Episode 4 of Silicon Valley eccentric billionaire Peter Gregory threw a toga party benefit and hired Flo Rida to perform? Well, that just happened in real life last night, in
Arts & Entertainment New Terrible Dating App Dubbed 'Tinder Without the Poor People' by Eric Wuestewald Let's be honest: Even in a city with the second highest percentage of millionaires in the country, finding that special someone can be exhausting. You've tried the yacht parties, the
SF News Was It Useful To Protest Evictions At The TechCrunch Disrupt Conference? A group of protesters gathered Wednesday to disrupt, as it were, the final day of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on Pier 48 and bring attention to the issues of eviction and gentrification that
SF News Westboro Baptist Church To Protest 'Fag Media' Next Month At Facebook, Google, And Apple The infamous idiots of the Westboro Baptist Church, who always know a good media-attention-whoring opportunity when they see one, are turning their homophobic attention to the entire tech sphere next month and will
SF News New Startup Lets You Buy A Car With Bitcoin A new online used-car marketplace is running a promotion in which, if you are a nerd who happens to have a lot of bitcoin saved up, you can purchase a car with that
SF News 12 Words Of Advice For Tech Industry Transplants New To S.F. I realize I got a touch snippy in that open letter last week to a couple of New York Times tech writers who had recently moved away from San Francisco and who only
SF News Apple Makes Big Hires From Fashion World In Preparation For (Probable) iWatch Launch Apple has just made its third of three big personnel additions, poaching some high-profile people from the fashion and luxury accessories industries in what is likely a sign that it's gearing up for
