Arts & Entertainment Tech Backlash Has Reached Porn Parody Levels [NSFW] After a good run of think pieces, protests and, soon enough, an HBO comedy, the tech industry has finally reached the inevitable the level of porn parody/niche fetish. Frankly, we're a little
SF News Meanwhile, At The Annual Game Developers Conference... Marcus Ingvarsson, right, tests out the PlayStation 4 virtual reality headset Project Morpheus in a demo area at the Game Developers Conference happening this week at Moscone Center.
Arts & Entertainment @TechHateCrimes Documents 'Tech Hate Crimes' Serious? Parody? Does it even matter? Billed as "documenting hate crimes against the technology community," @TechHateCrimes was created late last year to note anti-tech sentiment here in the Bay Area. Its tweet plumage
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On Twitter's Roof: Rampant Frolicking Today's gorgeous weather prompted the kids at Twitter to take to the rooftop for lunchtime fun in the sun. Jealous? Don't be. Tell your boss you're sick and head over to Dolores Park.
SF News S.F. Pet Store Bans Google Glass And now, your daily Google Glass post: a pet store in the Fillmore has officially banned Google Glass. And they want you to know all about it. The Animal House posted this sign
Arts & Entertainment 'New York Magazine' Officially Bitter It's Not In San Francisco After a blistering, snowy winter on the East Coast and a year in which San Francisco has captured a lot of the national spotlight for its booming economy, Instagram-filtered gay people, and enduring
SF News Mark Benioff Calls Out Tech Companies Who Refuse To Give Back To Community "We still have some pretty epic companies here who have had IPOs and aren't giving—and aren't part of this and won't join. And entrepreneurs who don't believe in this. This is not
SF News Facebook Funding $200,000 Cop's Salary On Tuesday, the city council in Menlo Park, Calif. unanimously approved Facebook's offer to pay $200,000 per year for a "community safety police officer." According to experts, the plan will make Facebook
SF News Two Bitcoin Banks Close After E-Heists; Bitcoin Exchange CEO Commits Suicide In Singapore Though these three incidents are not necessarily interrelated, there has been some major drama in the bitcoin world this past week. First, Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, recently the largest of the existing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iconic, Wondrous Diet Coke Now Targeting S.F. Techies The relationship between Diet Coke and its users is one fraught with bubbly highs and devastating lows. It's a vulgar, beautiful, intensely complex, and, ultimately, toxic drink. The Dior Poison of sodas. You
SF News Google Glass Assault Video Only Reveals More Conflicting Accounts Yesterday's story about an alleged Google Glass-related assault at Molotov's ended with some conflicting accounts of what really went down. Alleged victim, PR consultant and hyperactive social media user Sarah Slocum, claimed she
SF News That Techie You're Mocking Might Be A Gun Nut When we say "techie*," what mental images appear? Big shuttle buses? $4 toast? Glassholes? Well now, according to one SF club, you might want to add "guns" to that list. San Francisco's Pacific
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woman Claims She Was Attacked At Punk Rock Bar For Wearing Google Glass [Update] The latest story to stoke the tech-vs.-everyone else debate in San Francisco hit the news last night as one local woman claims she was verbally and physically assaulted because she was using
SF News Peter Shih And Greg Gopman: Where Are They Now? Six months after his vitriolic screed against homeless people, women and San Francisco in general barfed him into the spotlight, Peter Shih's company Celery picked up a $2 million investment. If Silicon Valley
SF News Facebook To Buy Messaging Service WhatsApp For $19 Billion In Menlo Park today, the 800-pound social networking gorilla announced today that it would acquire popular messaging app WhatsApp for a cool $4 billion in cash and $15 billion in Facebook stock. The
SF News Google To Take Over Space In The Mission [Updated] It's official: The Mission is over. In an effort to lure techies who don't want to work in downtown San Francisco or get inside a private bus and head down to Mountain View,
SF News World-Class Philanderer Swings Into Silicon Valley Today in San Francisco, French President François Hollande met with fellow adultery scandal survivor Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, humble mustache support system Mayor Ed Lee and a cabal of notable tech luminaries to
SF News Crunchies Turn Crappy As Anti-Tech Protesters Vow To Crash Award Ceremony Taking their eyes off Google Buses for a moment, concerned anti-eviction citizens plan to protest tonight's Crunchies at Davies Symphony Hall. What are the Crunchies, you ask? Hosted by Gigaom, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch,
SF News Plan To Brighten Up Corporate Shuttle Bus Backfires, Pisses Off Mission Artists A plan from hyperlocal neighborhood news source/UC Berkeley J-School project Mission Local to brighten up the district and "solve the beauty problem" by decorating a corporate shuttle bus with the work of
Arts & Entertainment And San Francisco's Newest Billionaires Are... SFLuxe published its third annual "Bay Area Billionaires" list. Some of you didn't make the cut. Pathetic. But still, what a list it is! Larry Ellison made it the to the top, of
SF News Google Barge Must Go, Says State In a nearly unprecedented move, the tech industry is being told it can't do whatever it wants in San Francisco. The four-story Google barge structure floating in the Bay, it seems, doesn't have
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Tech Culture' Is Now Ruining Five-Hour Dinners Too "Tech Culture" — that nebulous boogeyman currently haunting San Francisco — is there anything it can't ruin? Esteemed San Francisco Chronicle food critic and lifestyle blogger Michael Bauer is on a rant over on Inside
SF News Gmail Down! [Update] Yikes. Gmail seems to be down right now, folks. Why? No idea. The official GMail Twitter doesn't say, neither does the Google one. We'll update as soon as we know more. UPDATE: And
SF News Live From Today's Corporate Shuttle Hearing At S.F. City Hall [Updates] As promised, we're live at San Francisco City Hall, where the city's Municipal Transportation Agency will vote this afternoon on a proposal to allow corporate shuttles to share public stops with Muni buses.
SF News Protesters Block Tech Buses. Again. Protesters blocked tech buses Tuesday morning, this time at Eighth and Market Streets and at other areas close to City Hall in San Francisco. Once again, Google takes the heat for not only
