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Trend of the Week: Silicon Valley Has the Woke Mind Virus on the Brain
This week in trends, Big Tech bros could not stop talking about the woke mind virus. Many Silicon Valley leaders crowed that the ousting of Harvard’s President was the beginning…
Google Abandons Massive Project That Would Have Built 15,000 Homes in San Francisco Area
On Friday, Google and real estate group Lendlease called off plans to build 15,000 homes in the San Francisco Bay Area, as housing developers continue to exit the troubled region.…
Google Abandons Massive Plan That Would Have Built 15,000 Homes in San Francisco Area
On Friday, Google and real estate group Lendlease called off plans to build 15,000 homes in the San Francisco Bay Area, as housing developers continue to exit the troubled region.…
California Congressman Says Tech Utopia Developer ‘Sold a Fairy Tale’ to Silicon Valley Elite
The tech billionaire-backed landgrab in Solano County California might finally be out of the shadows, but the local officials who have finally had the opportunity to speak to the developers…
Silicon Valley Elites Show Off Renderings of Exclusive New City They Want to Build in the Bay Area
You don’t have to stray too far into science fiction or comic book tales to find examples of megalomaniacal tech businessmen creating their own “utopian” metropolises, before—inevitably—everything goes to hell.…
Disgraced tech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes begins jail time
Disgraced tech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes reported to prison on Tuesday to begin serving time for fraud in a case that rocked Silicon Valley. Holmes was convicted by a California court…
The most infamous failures in tech history, immortalized as desk toys
Thanks to the mischievous NYC-based art collective MSCHF, you can now purchase small-scale replicas of some of Silicon Valley’s most egregious failures
Basecamp tire fire grows as employees tweet they’re leaving the company
As they have many times before, tech workers are once again taking a stand against controversial company policies and wishy-washy managerial strategies. This time, employees of decades-old software company Basecamp…
Wikipedia wants to charge Google, Amazon, and Apple for using its content
Everybody uses Wikipedia. It’s currently the 8th most visited website in the U.S. and the 13th most trafficked site in the world. The website bills itself as the “free encyclopedia,”…