James Damore, the guy best known for being fired from Google after his anti-diversity screed went viral, is back with an even better thought experiment for us small-minded mortals to ponder: Nazis, definitely bad, but at least kind of cool?
As you may know, the industry of bodegas and mom-and-pop corner shops has been on a steady decline in face of the rising costs of rent and the competition of grocery delivery companies like FreshDirect. So, naturally, a pair of Silicon Valley goobers have taken it upon themselves to really put a nail in the coffin of…
Due to the combination of explosive jobs growth and a stubborn refusal to build enough housing to accommodate everyone, the San Francisco/ Silicon Valley area is mired in an insane housing crisis. How bad is this housing crisis? Punchline ahead!!!!
Comedian T.J. Miller spent a good portion of an interview with New York Magazine stressing that he wants to be viewed as a villain of the entertainment world. Mission accomplished!
Today, a bemusing item about two Silicon Valley billionaires trying to “disrupt” the way the Democratic Party does business (namely, its habit of losing a lot of elections) comes to us from Recode.
Even as their bosses gather round the table with President-elect Donald Trump, a growing movement of tech professionals is pledging never to help him achieve some of his more sinister aims.
On July 4 of this year, San Jose police shot 18-year-old Anthony Nuñez dead on the front porch of his family’s home while he was suffering from a suicidal episode.
To Trump opponents, the country is going to hell in a hand basket. Hate crimes and swastika graffiti have been on the rise. White supremacists have descended on D.C., chanting "Heil Victory." Trump's main presidential priority seems to be to advance his business interests.
Last week, it was announced that in 2015 Americans enjoyed the largest economic gains in a generation. Incomes went up, the sharpest one-year increase since 1967. Poverty went down, faster in one year than has been observed in decades. Health insurance is easier to access than ever. So why don’t more Americans feel…
In a Silicon Valley with ever-increasing sway on the national political stage, Shervin Pishevar has become a major power broker. Just a few months ago, the Uber investor hosted Hillary Clinton, along with the Clooneys, at a $176,700-a-plate dinner at his San Francisco home. He rubs shoulders with Lady Gaga and Justin…
Uber drivers who pay a visit to the company's inspection lot near Mission Bay in San Francisco will be met with a rather strange sight: a five-foot-tall, white, egg-shaped robot wheeling around the lot, on the look-out for trouble.
This is going to sound like a very strange story, because it is.
Last week, a bunch of important people from Washington, D.C. packed their bags and flew to California to meet with a bunch of important people from Silicon Valley. The occasion was not the usual fundraising dinners or donor-wooing — it was a terrorism summit.
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Michael Lewis's latest novel, Flash Boys, marked yet another appearance for the author at the top of the bestseller lists, and might just be made into a movie. If it is, it'll be the fourth of his books to receive the honor, after The Blind Side, Moneyball, and The Big Short, coming out later this year. Lewis is…
Diversity is one of the hottest issues in tech today, and in venture capital—which has well-documented diversity problems—executives have been particularly bad at supporting a more inclusive workforce.
Jing Zeng, a 42-year-old corporate manager, is facing as much as ten years in prison and $250,000 in fines for stealing sensitive  information from Machine Zone, his one-time employer. Machine Zone is the publisher behind the wildly successful Game of War: Fire Age, a freemium, massively multiplayer online game made…
Sheena Allen is the perfect example of what can happen when hip hop meets Silicon Valley. Sitting backstage at the Tech808 conference in Oakland last weekend, the mobile app company founder chatted about J Cole, soul food and the proper way to address elders before offering to drop freestyle battle rhymes.
If you were to ask a random crew member of the Starship Enterprise what the most valuable piece of equipment on board is, they’d probably mention the food replicator, the universal translator, or the teleporter.
