Ex-Googler Suing Company Over Massage Masturbation
Google hired masseur Elvis Gardin to support one of the cushiest, perk-filled workplaces in the world. But according to a new lawsuit, the company's New York office took the perk too far: Gardin says...
View ArticleRand Paul Headlines Silicon Valley Festival for Hipster Libertarians
What do you get when you cross a lightly-used copy of Atlas Shrugged and a hackathon? Lincoln Labs, a Bay Area group determined to "iterate our way to success" and "advance liberty in the public...
View ArticleWWDC Is Guarded By German Shepherds Wearing Apple ID Tags
In case you thought the age of corporate paranoia had passed at Apple, well, it has not.Read more...
View ArticleHere's the Epic Dick Joke From the Season Finale of Silicon Valley
Every show about a brainiac is in want of a eureka moment. On last night's season finale of Silicon Valley, the lightbulb turned on thanks to an elaborate riff on manually pleasuring the mostly male...
View ArticleFacebook may not like its corrosive effect on the types of news that gets...
Facebook may not like its corrosive effect on the types of news that gets shared online, but its influence is growing stronger. WhatsApp, its $19 billion messaging miracle, already sends more traffic...
View ArticleWinklevoss Twins Buying Giant $14.5 Million Penthouse... Together?
The only thing more expensive than a duplex is a triplex, and that's exactly what Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss just shelled out for, the New York Observer reports: just an ordinary, 4,300 Manhattan...
View ArticleMuni Keeps the Twitterbus Rolling Despite Crippling Sickout
While most San Franciscans are struggling to get to and from work today following Muni's sickout, which left approximately 67% of city's buses parked in the yard, a line built explicitly to serve the...
View ArticleBillionaire Still a Whiner
very flattering to see Apple "borrow" numerous WhatsApp features into iMessage in iOS 8 #innovation — jan koum (@jankoum) June 2, 2014 Read more...
View ArticleTech Gods Determined to Rain Internet Down Upon Developing World
Forget fickle teens, the hottest demographic in tech right now is The Unwired. Google is investing $1 billion to $3 billion on a fleet of satellites to beam down Internet access on developing...
View ArticlePaleofuture A Very Specific List of Things That Are Ruining My Google Alerts...
Paleofuture A Very Specific List of Things That Are Ruining My Google Alerts | Defamer Writer Says 12 Years a Slave Used Up the White Guilt Mandela Needed | Truck Yeah! Chinese Knockoff Batmobile Is...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Becomes a Playground For the Sexually Monstrous
It's entirely appropriate that Silicon Valley's first season climaxes with a nerdy, meandering dick joke . After all, and I say this with love, isn't Silicon Valley itself pretty much one big nerdy,...
View ArticleInside Uber's New "Polished, Yet Gritty" Man Cave
Uber might be slashing prices and squeezing their drivers while battling Lyft, but that's no excuse not to move into posh new offices in San Francisco's "it" Mid-Market neighborhood. Their new...
View ArticleRemember Tentwenty, the anonymous local app rife with tech gossip (in the Bay...
Remember Tentwenty, the anonymous local app rife with tech gossip (in the Bay Area)? One of its users was right about Andreessen Horowitz leading an inside round in Zenefits, even calling the $500...
View ArticleI Think There's a Face Computer On Your "Chic" New Google Glass Frames
Google is launching a new collection of frames and shades for Google Glass, designed by fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg. The DVF | Made for Glass collection looks more like regular spectacles than...
View ArticleTwo weeks after Uber decided it was "worth" $10 billion, the number has...
Two weeks after Uber decided it was "worth" $10 billion , the number has already climbed to $17 billion. And San Francisco's taxi industry buckling under all that cash. DeSoto Cab's president recently...
View ArticleBillionaire CEO Who Wrote "Fuck Hotels" Has a Tender Change of Heart
Airbnb's @bchesky tells @katiecouric he "never liked term disruptor bc it suggests for us to win hotels have to lose" http://t.co/7B5ZQ6aOcy — Doug MacMillan (@dmac1) June 3, 2014 Read more...
View ArticleStartup Targets SF Buses With Fleet of Private Shuttles
Now that the taxi industry has been disrupted all the way to its deathbed , Silicon Valley has set its sights on a new prize: municipal buses. And Chariot, an "Uber for the rest of us," says it has...
View ArticlePaleofuture Here's How Microsoft Imagined the Smart Home of the Future In...
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View ArticleSilicon Valley's Gender Gap Plagues WWDC's Bathroom Line
Apple WWDC...where there's a long bathroom line for men and not women. pic.twitter.com/Vuf34MMDJz— Jo Ling Kent (@jolingkent) June 2, 2014 Read more...
View ArticleUber Driver Arrested For Allegedly Kidnapping a Drunk Woman
Continuing the string of safety incidents surrounding Uber, a driver was arrested in Los Angeles Monday for allegedly kidnapping a drunk female passenger after she woke up in a motel room and found...
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