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Uber Drivers Protest Their Dick Boss
Uber's growing fleet of human drivers already have plenty of issues with the service: operators in Seattle want to unionize because of alleged managerial discrimination and UberX drivers have...
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There Will Be a Bitcoin NCAA Bowl Game
Warm up the Reddit bus: ESPN reports the Beef O'Brady's Bowl now has a somehow even lamer corporate namesake, courtesy of the most exciting cyber-currency around. Football and Bitcoin , the two most...
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Carmelo Anthony is a warrior for wearables.
Carmelo Anthony is a warrior for wearables. Read more...
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Silicon Valley Referral Bonuses Hit $20,000
The cost of everything is on the rise in the Boomin' Bay Area—rents, salaries, coffee, gourmet toast—so it shouldn't be much surprise that a startup is now offering up a $20,000 referral bonus.Read...
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Q&A with Larry Lessig on Why You Should Have Faith in Silicon Valley
The story of how a young programmer named Aaron Swartz convinced celebrated academic Lawrence Lessig that no political progress could be made without first reforming campaign finance is now part of...
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FBI Leaks List of Possible Drug Bitcoin Buyers
The feds might've been clever enough to take down a shadowy internet drug ring, but it still hasn't mastered the email BCC: CoinDesk reports a list of people and companies interested in the US...
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Watch Four People Pretend You Need Google Glass to Make a Ponytail
I don't know why Google would allow Matrix, a haircare company, to make a four minute video showcasing the utter uselessness of Google Glass. But I'm glad they did because now I know what quaaludes...
View ArticleUber might have locked down a $18.2 billion valuation two weeks back, but...
Uber might have locked down a $18.2 billion valuation two weeks back, but that figure is already under scrutiny. Between increased competition, taxes, and operational costs, Aswath Damodaran, who...
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Silicon Valley Is Going to Have a Talent Problem
Mother Jones dug into the numbers behind the tech industry's male-dominated pipeline for engineers. Women are half as likely to major in computer science as they were in 1985 and young girls...
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Clinkle Now Paying People to Use Clinkle
Clinkle was supposed to be an app that used sound waves to make purchases from your phone. Now, it's some sort of vague (and vaguely sad ) debit card—and based on this leaked email, the startup has to...
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Soylent's Anti-Food Propaganda Is Mesmerizing
Soylent, the semen-esque food substitute financed by venture capitalists, is nothing if not resilient. It can keep you sated for hours with a full, gaseous feeling. It can even withstand reports of...
View ArticlePaleofuture Here's How One Parent From 1989 Imagined 2014 | Defamer Harrison...
Paleofuture Here's How One Parent From 1989 Imagined 2014 | Defamer Harrison Ford Actually Broke His Damn Leg on the Star Wars Set | Regressing Berlin Residents Synchronized Their Pee Breaks During...
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The Man Who Gave "Yo" $200,000
This week, a group of otherwise mentally sound adults agreed to go fucking insane all at once. The object of their manic episode was Yo, an app that sends the word "Yo" to other people with the app...
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Real Startup That Mails You Quarters for Laundry Isn't Seeking Funding
Young male founders must all be drinking the same Soylent. Either that or they have a hard time multitasking because these bros can't seem to disrupt anything besides doing your laundry. The latest...
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Kevin Rose Infuriates Portland Over Plans to Demolish Historic Home
If Kevin Rose's apparent move to Portland was in any way motivated by getting away from the anti-tech activists that protest on his San Francisco doorstep, he blew it. The Oregonian reports hundreds...
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Meanwhile, in San Francisco's Mission District, the neighborhood's ample...
Meanwhile, in San Francisco's Mission District, the neighborhood's ample stock of engineering talent is still finding ways to disrupt their license plates. [Photo: Capp Street Crap]Read more...
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Yo, the World's Dumbest App, Hacked by Three College Students
In what may go down as the moment the cult of disruption finally began innovating itself to death once and for all, Yo, an app that does almost nothing, received over $1 million from actual investors...
View ArticleIf Path cannot be Snapchat, then it shall be the world's 9,000th messaging app.
If Path cannot be Snapchat , then it shall be the world's 9,000th messaging app. Dave Morin just spent some of his shady new funding to acquire a startup called TalkTo. Like the saying goes, you gotta...
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The Guy Who Coined "Disruption" Is a Total Jackass
You probably expected this, but Clayton Christensen—the Harvard professor who coined the term term that's become an almost religious byword in tech—is an arrogant ass. But in a new interview with...
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