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Police Arrested Several Occupy Google Protesters Outside Google's HQ
An anonymous Twitter user who goes by the handle @punkboyinsf posted video footage tonight that appears to show police officers arresting protestors outside Google's Mountain View headquarters. The...
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Jeff Bezos Is Incredibly Creepy at Breakfast
It's bad enough that Amazon's latest product is basically a way to monitor your face (in the dark!) and record everything you're even thinking about buying. Atop all that, CEO Jeff Bezos sounds like a...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court has just ruled against Aereo 6-3, reversing the Second...
The Supreme Court has just ruled against Aereo 6-3, reversing the Second Circuit's opinion that Aereo's system of rebroadcasting television over the internet was permitted under the Copyright Act and...
View ArticleGoogle's annual developer conference, Google I/O, kicked off this morning in...
Google's annual developer conference, Google I/O, kicked off this morning in San Francisco, and the drooling tech press pool was found sprinting in the doors like it was Black Friday at Walmart.Read...
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A protestor just took to the stage of the Google I/O conference, interrupting...
A protestor just took to the stage of the Google I/O conference, interrupting the keynote and condemning San Francisco evictions by a company executive.Read more...
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Pando Abruptly Fired Two High-Profile Staffers Without Notice or Cause
Over the weekend, Pando fired two of its hardest-hitting editorial staffers, David Sirota and Ted Rall, both nationally syndicated veteran journalists. Sirota recently broke a big story about Chris...
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Celebrating Blade, the Uber for Flying to Montauk
Last night, dozens of people in starched collars and prom dresses convened at a Manhattan helicopter pad, to watch helicopters land, and to celebrate a startup made for ordering said helicopters....
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Facebook Is Mostly White Dudes
Water is wet, the night is dark, the sugar is sweet, and according to a new internal report, the social network employs mostly men, who usually look the same. At the top of the org chart, 93% of...
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Sploid This is why you shouldn't take people's Facebook lives seriously | Defamer Video Essay Beautifully Shows Martin Scorsese's Use of Silence in Film| Regressing The Gross Things Caused By Human...
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Here's the Letter From EU's Antitrust Chief Where He Caves On Google
Joaquin Almunia is considered one of the most powerful regulators in tech because of his role as the European Union's antitrust chief. But now that the EU has decided not to let Google run roughshod...
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The Laundry Quarters Delivery Startup Is Dead (And in Hell?)
Some things are too precious to last in this brutal world, and Washboard, a startup that mailed you quarters to do your laundry , is one of them. It is, against all odds and after only a week in...
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Do the Anti-Tech Protests Still Matter?
Outside of Google I/O yesterday morning, San Francisco's usual squad of anti-tech protesters assembled to air their usual list of grievances against the Valley giant. They may have traded their clown...
View ArticleDefamer Binge-Watching TV Will Kill You, and it Will Kill You Soon | Sploid...
Defamer Binge-Watching TV Will Kill You, and it Will Kill You Soon | Sploid This is the largest movable machine in the world | Regressing When Did Nazi Insults Spike On Twitter During USA-Germany? |...
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Uber to Destroy the Sanctity of Marriage With On-Demand Weddings
Uber is celebrating its progressive values by growth hacking their way into your heart. During Pride weekend in San Francisco, the sharing economy startup will offer UberWEDDINGS: a quick and...
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The Jobs Act Is Helping Poor VC Firms Raise $100M With Fewer Strings
Silicon Valley insiders like Ron Conway fought hard for the Jobs Act, lobbing hashtag after hashtag at Washington's paper belt. Now, thanks to the magic of deregulation, venture capitalist already...
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Taxpayer Money to Flow Into Startups Through California Universities
Why should our pensions and mutual funds be the only ones lucky enough to gamble on Silicon Valley's most inflated startups? Thanks to multiple changes in the University of California system,...
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Now that techies are hacking homelessness through code and GoPro chest cams,...
Now that techies are hacking homelessness through code and GoPro chest cams , real organizations are recruiting tech's help (dollars) with words the Valley will understand: "Disrupting Poverty."...
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Uber Driver: Here's How We Get Around Background Checks
Travis Kalanick, chief executive of Uber and Ayn Rand superfan, thinks regulation is for suckers, and his company has been slow to expand background checks and tighten the screening process as it...
View ArticleCNBC Show Implodes After Co-Host Outs Tim Cook
The problem with treating the truth like a dirty secret is that it leads to situations like today's, where a CNBC panelist brought his own show to a halt after stating the obvious: "Tim Cook is fairly...
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Twitter Won't Disclose Their Diversity Numbers
Silicon Valley famously spent years refusing to talk about its diversity problem . But in the last month, some of the nation's biggest tech companies became more transparent about their demographics:...
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