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 The 2nd Annual Crappy Awards Will Again Arrive In Protest Outside The Crunchies Just like they did last year, a group of anti-tech protesters will host a mock awards ceremony dubbed The Crappies outside the annual TechCrunch-hosted Crunchies, now in its eighth year. Both the Crunchies
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 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,
SF News Check Out The Original Apple Watch (From 1995) What if I told you that the Apple Watch was already out there, and had been since 1995? At that, some Apple fanboys might self-destruct. But the true fans would know that Apple
SF News Uber CEO Says SF Revenues Are $500 Million Per Year, Others Question Figure Business Insider reports that in Munich yesterday Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that Uber's revenue in San Francisco is far larger than that of the taxi industry here. What's more, it's possible that
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Restaurant Reservation/Concierge App Enters The SF Market Called Reserve Reserve, a new app that has recently launched in New York, Boston, and LA, launches today in SF offering the chance of last-minute reservations at places like Foreign Cinema and flour + water for
SF News Bon Voyage, reCAPTCHA: Now Google Can Tell You're Human Just From A Click No one likes reCAPTCHA and everyone's encountered it before. Now the technique of asking users to type in distorted text in order to weed out bots from humans is headed for retirement. Maybe
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 Naive Engineer Hopes To Move To Excellent, Crime-Free Bay Area Neighborhood For $1200/Month None of us should be laughing at such things, because obviously if we lived pretty much anywhere else the country besides Manhattan this poor guy's requests would seem perfectly sane and reasonable. But
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
SF News AT&T Park Data Usage Just Might Melt The Stadium On Friday When the Giants finally come back to town for Game 3 of the World Series on Friday, data-usage records at AT&T Park are expected to be broken. The record was already
SF News Where To Try Out Apple Pay, Assuming That Store Location Has Read The Memo Today's rollout day for Apple Pay, the new touch-payment system that came built in on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and will also be included in the upcoming Apple Watch. And as
SF News Yawn: Apple Unveils Thinner iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 3 In the good-news column for anyone in the market for a new iPad this holiday season: They have new faster processors, touch ID, and better cameras. The iPad Air 2 can now take
SF News Apple Accidentally Unveils New iPad Specs One Day Early As predicted last week, Apple's scheduled event tomorrow is all about new iPads, just in time for the holiday shopping season. And now, via some employee's screwup in the iTunes store iBooks section,
SF News Facebook To Launch Secret-Esque App For Anonymous Trolling Facebook has been a little too much in the news lately, but here goes: The company that just a couple of weeks ago was insisting that everyone could only use their legal names
