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Twitter Fetishists Can't be Stopped

The horrific heaps of misinformation that spewed from Twitter and other social media services during the Boston Marathon bombing saga haven't slowed down the Twitter fetishists. If anything, they've doubled down. For some reason, these people believe that Twitter represents some kind of earth-shat ... More >>

California Tax Commissioner Betty Yee Takes on Google Over "Make Me Asian" App

Board of Equalization Member Betty T. Yee stepped out of her usual not-so-politically charged role as the elected tax commissioner and took on the really politically charged issue of race. Yee, a Chinese American who hails from San Francisco, jumped on the bandwagon blasting Google for several rac ... More >>

Fake News About Google Purchase Bounced Around Internet Echo Chamber

It was early Monday morning when people first started thinking that Google purchased ICOA Inc., a WiFi hotspot company based in Rhode Island. A headline on PRWeb, which businesses us to post press releases, read: "ICOA Inc. Acquired by Google for $400 Million." It's unclear who broke the story firs ... More >>

The New Cold War: The Tech World Is Fighting a Costly Battle

Fall Arts: Your Wee Guide to This Season's Bay Area Books

Google, Oracle Ordered By Judge to Rat Out Their Phony Journalists

Fallout from the Oracle v. Google case has landed on unexpected -- but not undeserving -- heads: Those of propagandists masquerading as journalists. In a terse order issued today, San Francisco District Court Judge William Alsup mandated Google and Oracle to list the names of all the phony journalis ... More >>

SOPA Might Be Bad Policy, but It's Not Censorship

​If you're reading this, chances are that you regularly consume media online. And if you regularly consume media online, you're almost certainly seeing and reading more today than you know what to do with about the federal Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). ... More >>

Media Companies Outspend Tech Giants in Fight Over SOPA

Can content pirates be stopped?​The tech industry has been paying quite a bit of attention to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill wending its way through the U.S. Congress that would allow media companies to pursue legal remedies against online search engines and social networks that link to ... More >>

India Wants Facebook to Prescreen User Content

​Sometimes it's hard to refrain from going libertarian. Okay, not really, but whenever governments try to pass or enforce absolutely clueless, sledgehammer-blunt laws governing the Internet, it's a challenge not to simply give up hope that enough politicians will ever understand the basic concepts ... More >>

Live Review: M83 Brings Its Cinematic New Album to the Stage at Mezzanine

M83 at Mezzanine last night.​ M83 Active Child Nov. 10, 2011 Mezzanine Better than: Lil B freestyling over an M83 song (Google it). Walking up to Mezzanine last night, I saw people buying scalped tickets at three times the face value without hesitation. The excitement leading up to this show ... More >>

Reminder/OMFG: The All Shook Down Music Fest Is Tomorrow

​Since you've been living under a rock (or maybe you just bought a Pet Rock and think it's really distractingly cool), we wish to remind you that tomorrow night is SF Weekly's All Shook Down Music Fest at the Regency Ballroom. It's not too late to snag a ticket and catch some great entertainme ... More >>

Did Google Delete Steve Jobs?

faker!​Google has taken a hard line against "fake accounts," meaning unless you are a real person with a real name, you can't have a real account. And to show how serious the company is about booting fakers, Google seems to be keen on deleting Apple CEO Steve Jobs' account based on the fact that ... More >>

LA Times Just Now Figures Out That Ed Lee Isn't Running for S.F. Mayor

Los Angeles Times takes the new out of news​For as prestigious a paper as the Los Angeles Times is, we have to wonder how the reporting staff missed the news that Mayor Ed Lee says he isn't running for San Francisco mayor. Admittedly, we don't follow every story in the Los Angeles area, but if we ... More >>

Gmail Accounts Hacked from China -- Again

Change your password now ​Chinese hackers accessed hundreds of private Gmail accounts in attempt to spy on conversations among journalists, military officials, and political dissidents. Google told reporters that the hacking effort has been traced to Jinan, China. It's nothing like what happened l ... More >>

Things We'd Like To See Google Do for Music: NextBuzz, the NextMuni for Buzz Bands

Nice nails.​So Google's new Instant Search function has the web-literate world all atwitter over why, exactly, we need Google's new Instant Search function. Self-involved music scribes that we are, we got to wondering how this technology could benefit us directly, and after many hours of fitful br ... More >>

Protesters Gather At Google Headquarters, Chant 'Don't Be Evil'

techfreep.comGoogle headquarters in Mountain View​Today at noon, roughly 100 people assembled at the entrance of Google's headquarters in Mountain View. According to Yolanda Hippensteele, who was involved in coordinating the rally on behalf of the Save the Internet coalition, protesters hailed fro ... More >>

@sk Jamie Varon: What are you hiding on your password-protected phone?

Is Google About to Launch a Facebook Killer?

Brace yourselves for a series of tech news headlines with the word "killer" in them. According to Digg founder Kevin Rose, Google is about to launch a Facebook competitor, "Google Me." Rose stated on Twitter earlier today that he heard a "huge rumor" from a "very credible source" that Google is abou ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch Won't Let You Take That Extra Sugar Packet for Free

​Hello SF Weekly readers! I'm Rupert Murdoch. That will be a dollar, please. You may have read about my heroic remarks against Google's terrorist campaign of content-hijacking by way of the links and the searches. "I'll stop Google taking our news for nothing," I said. But why stop there?

Your Rundown on the Week in S.F. Government

Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi will be even happier if his colleagues agree to denounce PG&E this week​Do you fear the encroachments of the technological Leviathan known as Google? Are you wary of the carcinogenic effects of your cell phone? Relax. That buzzing you feel in your head probably isn't ... More >>

Google Winter Olympics Logo: You Know What They Say 'Bout Imitation

Google just busted out their Winter Olympics logo and we find it interesting to say the least. Since when is it "simple and powerful" to stretch a whole bar across our browser? And a graphic of some weird ski-dome action nonetheless. We've never seen anything so "un-Googley"!​ On second thought . ... More >>

Track(s) of the Day: Wallpaper. Gives Away Free Mixtape

​Wallpaper.'s remix of Das Racist's hilarious fast food anthem "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" was one of my top singles of 2009. But grabbing the local producer's revision involved far too much Google hunting. Now Wallpaper.'s offering that gem, along with his other party-starting remixes ( ... More >>

Progress: Internet News Delivery Accelerates -- From Speed of Snail to Speed of Sanchez

News travels fast ... as fast as Freddy​The other day, we wrote about how our "Google alert" shot us an article reporting that San Francisco had adopted mandatory composting -- a mere five weeks after it happened. Considering the article ran in a Chico paper, and tabulating that the information ha ... More >>

Alice Waters' Favorite Places In the Bay Area, Mapped for Your Pleasure

Meredith BrodyAlice [hearts] waltzing -- and using Google Maps.Alice Waters plopped down at our table last night to catch her breath between waltzes. A four-piece bal musette band was playing at the annual Bastille Day celebration at Chez Panisse (aioli, cassoulet, tri-color ice cream bombe), and Ml ... More >>

San Francisco Pride: Who Applied For the Niftiest Sex Toy Patent? Someone From Our City Did. That's Right.

San Franciscans have always been an innovative group. Both the slot machine and the Murphy Bed were created by denizens of our city. And a quick perusal of the the Google patent application shows that little has changed. Doing a word search for "San Francisco" turned up a number of inventions that r ... More >>

Win Free Swag -- from the Cops!

To protect and serve ... and give away swag!This just in from The Snitch's favorite police report writer, Capt. Paul Chignell of the Taraval Police Station: What is the name of the revered Deputy Chief of Police from the 1970s who lived on Santiago and died suddenly in his early 50s? First to answer ... More >>

The Agony of Defeat: USF Rugby Falls to San Jose State -- First Win for SJSU in Five Years

While winless on the field of play, USF rugby has redefined the term "game face."On August 29, 1977, Cleveland Indians second baseman Duane Kuiper swatted a home run -- his only homer in an 11-year-career comprising 3,379 at-bats. The pitcher: Steve Stone. And, on March 7, 2009, the University of Sa ... More >>

Serious Bread: Tartine's Country Loaf

This big loaf has an exceptionally crispy and crunchy crust and a moist, light crumb.

He's Baaaack

Sorry Bloggers - The Internet is BAD for Kids' Brains

Classical music’s no-frills Mission digs

This Week in the Wacky World of Food

One Google Guy

'Tragedy' makes fun of news media's tragic lack of perspective

Stalkers Rejoice: More San Francisco Google Street Views

Google To Give San Francisco's Homeless Free Phone Numbers, Voicemail

Google to Conquer Moon, Microsoft Already Planning Hostile Takeover

Apple, Cisco, Google, SF Weekly To Attend SanFran MusicTech Summit Feb 25

I Do Adore: Women Photographers

Bones of Contention -- Bay Area Indian Gravesites Web Extra

Obama Kisses Google Ass -- "Ich bin ein Googler."

Hitting the G-Spot: Google to Announce Mobile Phone Platform

Las Vegas Vegoose Festival Coverage: Daft Punk, Iggy and More

Where to Get Your Ghetto Dranky Drank On

Russian Sergey Brin and Google: A KGB-style Propaganda and Spying Machine?

Yet another Mongolian throat-singing hip-hop duo

Boxing Bootcamp Day 9 -- Below the Belt (or: Right in the Nuts)

Been There, Done That

Writing His Future

Vulcan, the erstwhile king of spray can art, wants to leave the streets behind without losing his soul

Monkey Business

Full relaxation is achieved with delicious Thai food in an unusually pleasant and stylish setting