SF News Enter 'Hack Temple', A Historic Former Church Where Startups Are The New Religion In the tech mecca of the Bay Area, Hack Temple seeks to be among its highest, holiest altars. The new would-be place of worship is located in the historic Our Lady of Guadalupe
SF News Uber Did A Bad And Is Very Sorry, Okay? Since Sunday, when a widely circulated account from a former company engineer shed light on an alleged culture of harassment and HR failure within Uber, senior leadership at the ride-hailing giant, most notably
SF News Day Around The Bay: 'Extreme Vetting' To Include Possible Demand For Immigrant User Passwords From Websites Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Tech companies come out against a proposed "extreme vetting"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delivery Robot Named Carry Spotted 'Learning The Sidewalks' Of The Mission Spotted on 19th Street: A delivery robot named "Carry" https://t.co/l8mXp2GqCH pic.twitter.com/EC1HGZUCuk— Mission Local (@MLNow) February 22, 2017 That R2D2-ish delivery robot on wheels that we first told
Arts & Entertainment 'Unicorn Startup Simulator' Lets You Get Valued Or Die Trying Over And Over Again In the large field of startup send-up and parody, a new entry, Unicorn Startup Simulator feels like a rare breed, in that it's so bizarre and fun. The goal of the game, naturally,
SF News Uber Board Member Arianna Huffington Will Hold Leadership's 'Feet To The Fire' Over Sexual Harassment Allegations In April 2016, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that publisher and business mogul Arianna Huffington would join his company's board of directors, praising her "emotional intelligence," the kind women tend to have so
SF News Hova Fund? Jay Z Partners With Sherpa Capital To Form Venture Capital Firm As the rapper himself so famously put it, Jay Z's not a businessman, he's a business, man. And now, as Axios reports, he's getting into the venture capital business, doing so in partnership
SF News Uber CEO Addresses Harassment, Discrimination Allegations In Company-Wide Email, Eric Holder To Review Investigation In former Uber engineer Susan Fowler's widely-circulated blog post "Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber," what was "strange" was repeated alleged sexual harassment, and what was "very" was the company's
SF News Video: Very Pregnant Chelsea Peretti Hosts, Roasts 10th Crunchies Tech Awards Like artificially intelligent software that's slowly becoming sentient, the technology leaders — founders, angels, CEOs — that gathered to celebrate themselves last night at the would-be "Oscars of tech" appeared somehow changed this year, displaying
SF News Sheryl Sandberg Will Wait And See On Trump As Facebook And Others Draft Open Letter Against Immigration Policy Facebook COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg is not ready to throw a shoulder into the resistance movement against President Donald Trump, as it's "early" to see how his policies will take
SF News Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Announces 'Completely New Approach To Abuse' The fatigued and much abused Twitter faithful are taking with a grain of salt Monday's announcement from CEO Jack Dorsey that the company is "taking a completely new approach to abuse" and that
SF News Lyft Surpasses Uber In App Store Downloads As #DeleteUber Trend Continues Uber's loss is Lyft's gain as the long-running battle between the two San Francisco-based ride-hailing companies takes on a political valence. Reports (possibly spurious) that Uber had continued to operate to-and-from New York's
SF News Trump Resistance Rises Fast In The Tech And Science Sectors As They See A Work Visa Ban Comes Next The weekend brought a flurry of public statements from Silicon Valley executives denouncing President Trump's refugee and general travel ban for residents of seven majority-Muslim nations, with varying degrees of outrage and criticism.
SF News Innovation! The Gold Club Is Launching A Virtual Reality Stripping Experience Men who crave the experience of a strip club without leaving the comfort of their own living room — or more likely, basement or cave — you're in luck! The Gold Club has partnered with
SF News Labor Department Sues Oracle For Allegedly Paying White Men More Than Others A complaint filed by the Department of Labor claims that software giant Oracle, which employs 45,000 US workers, is engaged in a “systemic practice of paying Caucasian male workers more than their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good News, Plebs: Ridiculous $700 Wi-Fi Enabled Juicer Now Just $400! Don't worry, everybody. Juicero, the company behind a wi-fi-enabled juicer that can only make juice from the company's own subscription-delivered packages of fruits and vegetables, is doing very well, selling great, and is
SF News In Bizzaro Interview With Maureen Dowd, Peter Thiel Says Fake Wrestling Is Real And No One Cares About The Supreme Court Over "a four-hour dinner of duck and chocolate dessert" New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd interviewed Trump transition team player Peter Thiel, the Paypal co-founder and early Facebook investor who still serves on
SF News Trump May Be Helping Kill Twitter's Brand As President-Elect Trump wraps up his first news conference since July, and maybe the last he'll give until we're at war with someone, the San Francisco Chronicle gives us a somewhat speculative piece
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Airbnb Moves Into Restaurant Reservation Game With Resy Investment Airbnb just dropped some serious cash in the lap of restaurant-reservation app Resy, marking Airbnb's first official foray into restaurant booking tied with travel and lodging. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the
Arts & Entertainment 10 Years Ago Today Apple Showed Us The First iPhone, And Steve Jobs's Hastiness Could Have Actually Been A Disaster Do you still have your original first-generation iPhone, just for the sake of tech nostalgia? They're so cute and tiny, right? Today in history, January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stepped out onto the
SF News Apple Bows To Chinese Pressure And Pulls NYTimes From App Store Chinese Apple customers looking to download the New York Times app through the tech giant's App Store are out of luck, as the company has pulled the news app at the request of
SF News Tech-Friendly San Francisco Comes Up Short On Cell Service Coverage Smartphones are seemingly a vital part of everyday life in tech-friendly San Francisco, and yet when it comes down to it the city's cell service coverage leaves something to be desired. So reports
SF News Bay Area Company Unveils Two-Foot-Tall Robot Nanny As robots continue their relentless march into our daily lives, a Redwood City-based startup is banking on the fact that parents around the world will be all too happy to pass off basic
SF News Edit Capability Could Be Coming To Tweets, Says Dorsey Rather than spend Christmas evening eating and drinking with family and friends, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky took to Twitter to solicit suggestions from the general public about what the company should launch next
SF News Family Sues Apple Alleging FaceTime Caused Deadly Crash A Texas family is suing Apple, alleging in a lawsuit that the company knew its FaceTime messaging service enabled distracted driving yet failed to take preventative steps to lock out users behind the
