Arts & Entertainment Android Creator Unveils New 'Essential' Smartphone, Home Hub Tech nerds have been abuzz all day Tuesday over the release of new details and specs of the Essential Phone, the already much buzzed about new device from Android creator and all around
SF News Uber Fires Self-Driving Car Exec Anthony Levandowski Over Google Lawsuit Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology at Uber and reported close pal of CEO Travis Kalanick, has been terminated from the position he's held just over a year, originally heading up the
Arts & Entertainment 'Not Hotdog' App From HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Now Available For Download Sunday night's episode of Silicon Valley was another winner for the continuously hilarious series, and one that had some of the series' characteristic comic twists involving the sometimes absurd pivots that tech companies
Arts & Entertainment Amazon Put Alexa Inside A Camera So She Can Give You Fashion Advice (And Maybe Spy On You) Behold the Amazon Echo Look, which the company is billing as a "hands-free camera style assistant," but which could, before you know it, end up being a creepy talking robot that watches your
SF News Family Of Uber Engineer Who Committed Suicide Blames Job Stress, Seeks Workers Comp Benefits The wife and children of a 33-year-old Uber engineer who committed suicide last summer are seeking worker's compensation benefits from the ride-hailing company where he worked. The Chronicle had the story, although the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soylent Issues Recall Over Possible Milk In Supposedly Milk-Free Product Meal replacement sludge company Soylent prides itself on the artificiality of its ingredients — no milk products or perishable components to worry about while you free yourself from the tyranny of actual food. That's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Juicero CEO Begs Customers Not To Squeeze Packs By Hand, 'Hacking' $400 Juicer In a somewhat desperate sounding Medium post, Jeff Dunn, CEO of perhaps unnecessarily internet-connected juicer company Juicero, responded to a recent report that customers could simply squeeze their Juicero pouches by hand rather
SF News Trump Calls For 'Review' of H-1B Visa Program In Latest Executive Order Whether President Trump plans to formally do away with the H-1B visa program as he repeatedly pledged to during his campaign for the presidency or whether he simply plans to make hostile overtures
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat24 Is Now Delivering Via Robot In The Mission And Potrero Another service has officially entered the fray to make us put up with their delivery bots on our sidewalks, and that's Yelp's Eat24, which just launched robot deliveries in the Mission and Potrero
SF News 60 Minutes Exposes 'Brain Hacking' By Silicon Valley Engineers To Make Cellphones More Addictive More and more these days, people are having conversations about what we've lost in our hyper-connected world, and the harm that is being done at the very least through wasted time when so
SF News H-1B Visa Rule Tightening Stokes Fears In Silicon Valley, But Threat Could Be Empty Google CEO sundar pichai at rally at Googleplex "the fight will continue" pic.twitter.com/cZOfn9FiGY— Daisuke Wakabayashi (@daiwaka) January 30, 2017 A policy guideline from the year 2000 that treats programmers with
Arts & Entertainment TJ Miller Mansplains Mainsplaining In Full 'Silicon Valley' Season 4 Trailer Silicon Valley is back on April 23rd with a fourth season on HBO, meaning the series has officially outlasted most startups. Creator Mike Judge infuses his comedy with careful details and research, making
SF News Uber's First Diversity Report: Not Very Uber has been forced to take a long, hard look in the mirror after a series of scandals that mostly boil down to reflections of the company's aggressive attitude and corporate culture. At
SF News Theranos Offers More Shares To Investors Who Pinky Swear Not To Sue Riddle me this: You think you might want to sue a company. But instead, would you like a lot of shares in it? If you like the sound of that deal, you'll love
Arts & Entertainment Apple Releases Red iPhone 7, And New Slightly Cheaper iPads If you were holding off on buying a new iPhone because the silver/jet black/matte black options weren't doing it for you last year, you can now buy the iPhone 7 and
SF News Uber Executive Exodus: Company President, Maps Leader, And More Bail Uber president of ride-sharing Joe Jones, the company's second in command who was poached from a position at Target just six months ago, is leaving the company in a huff. His departure, complete
Arts & Entertainment Google Unveils Its Latest Wearable: A 'Smart' Levi's Jean Jacket At South By Southwest in Austin this week, Google and Levi's unveiled a smart jacket that the two companies have collaborated on, which will be available to consumers this fall for a cool
SF News Tech Bro Obama Meets With Silicon Valley Leaders In San Jose Obama just posed for the "I'm GREAT!" pic you'd petty post after a breakup. pic.twitter.com/DkmjF6CgTJ— Behold the Coagula! (@luckyturner) February 7, 2017 In his first trip to the Bay Area
SF News A San Francisco Startup 3-D Printed This House In 24 Hours (In Russia) SF-based startup Apis Cor has pioneered a 3-D printing "crane" that is capable of pouring concrete walls for an entire 400-square-foot home in 24 hours. They just completed their first house at a
SF News Google's New Circus Tent Campus Approved, Construction To Begin In April Google/Alphabet has been at work on a highly ambitious, enormous new addition to its Googleplex campus in Mountain View, this one dubbed Charleston East. We first heard about it two full years
SF News Google Patents Camera Hat, Triggers Painful Google Glass Flashbacks Google was rightfully and properly shamed out of the business of getting people to wear facecomputers, but after Snapchat found success in the wearables arena with its hardware product Spectacles, Google might be
SF News Local Tech Workers Make New Enemies By Crying Poverty Over Six-Figure Salaries File under: Reasons Middle America and much of the world hates us right now. The Guardian has just published a new piece in the perennially popular genre of Stories About How Stupidly Expensive
SF News Tesla Denies Female Engineer's Discrimination Claims, Discourages Unionization With Promises Of Froyo And Rollercoasters Tesla engineer AJ Vandermeyden says she's paid a lower salary than her male counterparts for her work at the luxury electric car company where she claims she's subjected to workplace harassment in an
SF News Uber CEO Is Sorry For Treatment Of Driver, Declares 'I Need Leadership Help' Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, 40, is going to "grow up." The executive issued a de rigueur apology — excuse me, "profound" apology — after a video released yesterday depicted him arguing with an Uber Black
SF News Uber Exec Who Left Previous Job At Google Over Sexual Harassment Allegations Is Fired Uber's woeful month continues with the ignominious departure of senior vice president of engineering Amit Singhal, forced to resign by company CEO Travis Kalanick after tech publication Recode started asking questions about Singhal's
