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The Shanley Show: Was The Whole Thing An Elaborate Hoax?
Over the past two years, Shanley Kane achieved a kind of celebrity on Twitter, where, as @shanley, she claimed to be leading a crusade for women in tech. But now some people wonder if the whole thing...
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Tech Job Of The Week: Executive Assistant And Nanny For CEO's Baby
Any working parent will tell you that finding decent child care is a nightmare. But one tech company seems to have come up with a cool idea: Just have the CEO's admin double as a nanny! A friendly...
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The Psychopaths of GamerGate Are All That's Left, and They're Terrifying
Game developer Brianna Wu has been stalked, tormented, and harassed by GamerGate —the amorphous reactionary movement centered around video game journalism—for months now. But it's never been as...
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Google Betrays Uber, And Now It's War
Remember how Eric Schmidt spent years sitting on the Apple board, quietly learning everything about the iPhone — and then, presto, Google suddenly came out with Android and it looked a whole lot like...
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Anti-Vaxxers: They're In Silicon Valley, Too
There's a big measles outbreak happening right now, thanks to anti-vaxxers like Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey and the people who listen to them. But Hollywood isn't the only place where people fall...
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The Creepiest Things You Can Do on Facebook
Sometimes in this world, you want to make someone as wildly uncomfortable as humanly possible. That's why Facebook's here.Read more...
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Uber Gave Money To MADD Last Summer, 6 Months Before A Glowing Report
Uber and Mothers Against Drunk Driving last week put out a report suggesting Uber helped reduced drunk-driving accidents. However, the claim gets a little wobbly when you take a closer look at the...
View ArticleThis Rap Video Will Make You Never Buy Anything From HTC, Ever
This video praising the virtues of HTC smartphones features an actual rapper, alongside someone who is not an actual rapper. See if you can tell which one is which. My theory is that Samsung, Apple,...
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Apple Is in Talks About Its Own Web TV Service (Again)
Apple has a long and tortured history when it comes to the development of its own TV offering . But now, it seems Apple may be trying once more to build its own small-screen provision.Read more...
View ArticleTwitter Is Becoming A Noisy Cesspool, And Costolo Knows It's A Problem
Remember when Twitter was the magical service that played a role in the Arab Spring and was going to make the world a better place? Increasingly it is becoming a platform where demented people hurl...
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This Revenge Porn Creep Is Going to Prison
Kevin Bollaert ruined the lives of many, many women, and he did it on purpose—the 28-year-old San Diego man ran a website that published stolen, naked photos and then charged victims to take them...
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Ross Ulbricht Found Guilty on All Counts in Silk Road Trial
Today, a jury found Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht guilty of seven charges related to his alleged role in running the deep-web bazaar for drugs and other contraband. Ulbricht admitted in court to...
View ArticleTruthiness: Jon Stewart Rips Anti-Vaxxer Mom, Leaves Out One Fact
You may have seen the Jon Stewart bit about the measles outbreak, where he teed off on Tracy Skytt, a Marin County mom presented as a goofy liberal California anti-vaxxer. What you may not know is...
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We Asked You for Your Uber Score. Here's What We Learned.
Valleywag is fascinated with Uber. A few weeks ago, with the goal of better understanding who uses the the car-service app, Valleywag editor Dan Lyons asked readers to send in their Uber Scores...
View ArticleDoes Anyone Know What's Really Going On At Jawbone?
Fortune just did a big story on gizmo-maker Jawbone, reporting that the company last summer was sued by Flextronics for not paying its bills. We're hearing rumors that Flextronics might not be the only...
View ArticleBaseball Bullies Trying To Rob Startup Of Its Logo
WalletHub is a social network where people can share information about credit cards and personal finance. The company has a logo that features the letter W, in white, on a green background. Not so...
View ArticleThe AI Revolution: How Far Away Are Our Robot Overlords?
Imagine taking a time machine back to 1750—a time when the world was in a permanent power outage, long-distance communication meant either yelling loudly or firing a cannon in the air, and all...
View ArticleThe Lesbian Jewish Leftist Conspiracy Tearing Reddit Apart, Untangled
A specter is haunting Reddit: The specter of SJWs.Read more...
View ArticleWhy Is My Smart Home So Fucking Dumb?
A few weeks ago, a couple friends and I were about to watch a surprisingly bad scifi movie in my crowded apartment. One of them asked if we could dim the lights, and started to head to the switch....
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