SF News Poll: More And More Tech Workers Say They Plan To Leave Their Jobs To Go Elsewhere In The Country Home to Apple, Facebook, and Google, Silicon Valley is considered by many to be the center of the tech world. And while people travel from all over both to work for and visit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sprig Relaunches Guest Chef Series With David Nayfeld Of Upcoming Che Fico Che Fico, the big new Italian restaurant coming to the Little Star block of Divisadero (834-838 Divis) that we recently got an update on, is still probably six months off, at least. But
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Brief History Of Silicon Valley — Which Does Not Include San Francisco, FYI An apparently new outfit called VanDeGraph just produced this YouTube explainer for everyone who doesn't understand the difference between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, or what defines the Bay Area. The video features
SF News Uber Has A Robot Security Guard On The Beat In San Francisco Why pay a human to do a job a robot can do for less? We learn today via Fusion that ride-hail company Uber has answered this question with a resounding "don't." The publication
SF News Driver In Fatal Tesla Crash Posted YouTube Videos Of Himself Testing Auto-Pilot Feature Joshua Brown, the 40-year-old Ohio man who was killed in May while his Tesla Model S was in auto-pilot mode, was, like many Tesla owners, a technology enthusiast who enjoyed testing the limits
SF News Proposed SF 'Tech Tax' Angers Mayor, Tech Industry A proposed payroll tax on San Francisco tech companies is already making enemies, and it's not even on the ballot yet. The Chronicle reports that the measure, introduced by Supervisor Eric Mar yesterday
Arts & Entertainment <em>Adventures in Tech (with Pillow Talk on the Side)</em> Is A Funny Look Inside The Life Of An Accidental Techie As city officials, residents, and popular culture endlessly debate the tech sector's multifaceted impact on the Bay Area, Adventures in Tech (with Pillow Talk on the Side), which opened last night at PianoFight,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zume Pizza, A Startup Involving Pizza-Making Robots, Launches In Mountain View A new company in Mountain View is looking to disrupt the pizza delivery universe dominated by Domino's and Papa John's by (almost) fully automating the pizza-making and cooking process through robotics. Bloomberg takes
SF News European Tech Entrepreneurs In SF For Conference React To Brexit Vote As stock markets react to the United Kingdom's historic vote to exit the European Union, many European tech entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit the same one President
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Techies Heart Queers I #love this response to the #antitech graffiti that was trying to spread hate in #SF #MissionDistrict pic.twitter.com/jvSiw7StMV— Eric Zandona (@EricZ_FamilyMan) June 23, 2016 A number of stenciled tags
SF News Apple Won't Give Computers Or Donations To GOP Convention, As It Traditionally Does, Because Trump CBS 5 calls it a "boycott," which might be an extreme way of looking at it, but yes, Politico reports that Apple will not lend any help to the GOP convention over the
SF News Peter Thiel, Trump-Loving Tech Billionaire, Maybe Also Suing Gawker Over Article On Trump's 'Hair' "Paypal mafia" tech billionaire and Facebook board member Peter Thiel was awfully secretive about funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against the media company Gawker (over, it would appear, an article drawing attention to Thiel's
SF News Shills From Private Shuttle Service Chariot Are Now Proselytizing At Muni Stops Have you heard the good word? Chariot, the San Francisco network of shuttle buses that falls somewhere between the jitneys of yesteryear and the tech commuter buses of today, wants to make certain
SF News Local Programmer Claims He Didn't Do Any Work For The Last Six Years, Just Got Fired A story that's been making the rounds, first via Reddit, involves a well-paid engineer at "a well-known tech company in the Bay Area" who says he did virtually nothing for the last six
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Apple's WWDC Keynote: 'OS X' Finally Gets Retired, Apple Music Gets Redesigned There are no bad views in this place. Very excited. #wwdc2016 pic.twitter.com/jul60pUYmX— Brian Capps (@bcapps) June 13, 2016 Starting at 10 a.m., Tim, Jony, Phil and the gang will
SF News Yelp Is Responsible For Taking Down Defamatory Reviews, Court Rules Yelp is responsible for removing defamatory comments from its site, a California appeals court ruled Tuesday. According to Courthouse News Service, the ruling stems from a 2013 lawsuit between a client and her
SF News SF Developing Economic Resiliency Plan, In Case Tech Thing Doesn't Work Out 100% While Mayor Lee introduced for approval the largest San Francisco budget to date — $9.6 billion — at the end of last month, more privately, city officials are making contingency plans for falling markets.
Arts & Entertainment Jennifer Lawrence To Play Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes In Upcoming Film In yet another example of Hollywood being obsessed with Silicon Valley lately, a new film is in the works by director/screenwriter Adam McKay (The Big Short, Anchorman) telling the story of the
Arts & Entertainment That Time <em>Silicon Valley</em>'s TJ Miller Met (And Embarrassed) Elon Musk TJ Miller, who plays the buffoonish, churlish Erlich Bachmann on HBO's Silicon Valley, has had choice words for the tech industry in the past. "You don't have a sense of humor about yourselves,
SF News In SF Bid For $50M Federal 'Smart City' Grant, Private Companies Pledge $150M More In San Francisco's effort to become the recipient of a US Department of Transportation Smart City Challenge Grant, local private companies and technology firms are stepping up to the plate, pledging $150 million
SF News Gawker Founder Defends Coverage Of Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel Declines To Debate Him Nick Denton, the Gawker founder whose suspicions were confirmed last month that a thin-skinned Silicon Valley billionaire offended by unflattering coverage was bankrolling Hulk Hogan's devastating case against his media company, spoke out
SF News Video Shows Tesla Model S Driver Apparently Asleep At The Wheel, On Autopilot, In Traffic Though it could be faked, and no one has tracked down the driver to confirm, a video surfaced on the site Electrek (via Reddit, of course) appearing to show a man asleep behind
Arts & Entertainment 72 New Emoji Arriving In June Include New Penis Stand-Ins Cucumber And Baguette The shadowy (but not really) Unicode Consortium has approved 72 new emoji after a flood of public input which will be included in the Unicode 9.0 release, arriving in June 2016. The
SF News Google Bets On VR Platform, Chat Apps, And Amazon Echo Competitor If you're in tech or just playing along on Twitter, you can't escape it: Google's I/O conference, a summit filled with unveilings and presentations of post-Steve Jobs proportion. The big highlights so
Arts & Entertainment Is Vine Dying On The, Uh, Vine? There are rumblings among Vine stars, ad execs, and "influencers" that Vine isn't, like, all that hot anymore, and the Wall Street Journal picks up on the story in an effort to convince
