tech
mySight: FInally, a tech solution to San Francisco’s homelessness problem
Guest post by Chad McDingleberry: Chief Visionary of mySight San Francisco, you’re far too beautiful for the depressing and uncomfortable blight of homelessness. Tents blocking the path of my scooter? Rude. Human feces on the street? Blech. Death and addiction at our doorsteps? Gross. People keep throwing ideas and solutions around that
Tech Workers Speak Out in Support of Prop C!
When: Tuesday, 10/9 at 12pm Where: Chamber of Commerce, 235 Montgomery St San Francisco, CA – Tech workers are gathering for a rally and press conference in front of the Chamber of Commerce to speak out in support of Our City, Our Home and to demonstrate their disappointment at Mayor Breed’s
Can Tech Actually Help Get out the Vote?
By Full Circle Fund Rising Leader – Aiasha Khalid How’s The News treating you today? If you are getting exhausted of the goings on and the barrage of information and headlines, good news, the midterms are coming! Regardless of your politics, these are clearly an important moment in American electoral
Why You Haven’t Seen GIFS on Instagram Stories and Snapchat
Instagram Stories and Snapchat posts are entertaining vignettes into the lives of people you think you know and others who live far away. When you click to watch, you’re transported somewhere else and get to share in the moment or a snicker. The fun skyrockets with added stickers and GIFs.
What The Fresh Hell Is This Facebook Face Recognition?
Facebook showed you a vaguebooking post this week entitled “Introducing Face Recognition for More Features.” Facebook, which these days is 90% wannabe viral videos that you can’t scroll past fast enough, announced in a post that showed up once (and only once!) on your timeline earlier this week that “We’re
Fraud, Identity Theft & the Dark Side of the Sharing Economy
Fraud, Identity Theft & the Dark Side of the Sharing Economy or How I invited a thief into my home with an app Guest post by Johnathan Crawford We put a lot of trust into the services & apps we use. When you think about it, we let strangers into our homes
Taking Food from the Rich & Feeding the Poor in the Bay Area
As the Bay Area, and many other parts of America, slide into a Late Roman Empire school of excess, the rift between the haves and the have-not’s grows greater by the day. In a world where people sleep on the streets in front of multi-million-dollar homes, trying to find a