Inside Tech Companies' Private Bus System
Tech shuttle buses have taken over San Francisco's streets, creating a transportation caste system. I wanted to know what it was like inside. So I got on.
Tech shuttle buses have taken over San Francisco's streets, creating a transportation caste system. I wanted to know what it was like inside. So I got on.
In two words: Star. Wars.
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Start-up Art.sy is making a play for online art market by introducing an art discovery tool. But it only pays galleries, not individual artists. What disruption does — and doesn't — look like in the art world.
Mobile makes money, Zynga isn't a very good friend and Sam's Chowder House loves Facebook.
Internet memes, "Jersey Shore," and ESPECIALLY Zynga ripoffs-of-board-games-turned-back-into-board-games are an affront to gaming. They must be stopped.
In the first offering from their new TED Talks satire, the Onion nails pretty much every element of the thought leader experience. "Imagine," says Onion Talker, "what other ground-breaking ideas could I be thinking of?"
In this tech boom, all of the action is happening in San Francisco's most hipster of hoods. A pied-Ã -terre for Zuckerberg.
How do Googlers blow off steam? They make memes, for internal use only. Until now.
After a year spent looking at the dark underside of the Internet — including bestiality, necrophilia and child pornography — this Google contractor wasn't even hired full-time.
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Like everything else these days, the newest version of Microsoft Office has its head is in the clouds.
Machines are long way from being able to automatically remove the most awful images mankind has to offer — child porn, beheadings, forced bestiality — from our favorite sites and social networks. An invisible workforce has emerged to look at it so we don't have to. (Warning: You may find this piece upsetting.)
How does Google scan and digitize 20 million books? With a hidden army of workers. Andrew Norman Wilson's ScanOps aims to make them less hidden.
When groundbreaking videogame creator Theresa Duncan and her boyfriend, video artist Jeremy Blake, killed themselves in 2007, no one understood why. Now, the couple's friend is trying to put the pieces together using Tumblr.
It's summer, the mosquitos are buzzing and you want relief. Can you really battle bugs with sound, though?
Connor Zwick is a 19-year old with a killer idea and some important friends. But even if his game controller plan fails, he can always go back to Harvard.
Where Googlers hate on their own kind — and pay respect to Steve Jobs. An exclusive look at more images from Google's secret mockery machine.