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How Will Bay Area Tech Companies Handle Trump’s Tariffs?
Trump’s tariffs have caused financial chaos in San Francisco, affecting the affordable housing industry and small business owners, while also potentially impacting tech companies such as Apple, Nvidia, and OpenAI due to their reliance on overseas manufacturing.

Here’s Where The Writers’ Strike Is Showing Up in the Bay Area
On Monday, June 5 the Writers Guild of America (WGA) is coming to the Bay Area. From 1 to 3 p.m. guild members will leaflet outside Apple headquarters at the Apple Park Visitor Center, 10600 North Tantau Avenue in Cupertino. The demonstration will take place while the Apple Worldwide Developers

Eat, Game, & Sing in San Francisco This Spring!
It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

Workers at the California Academy of Sciences Are Unionizing!
Workers at the California Academy of Sciences are unionizing! As I’m writing this, someone literally just drove by my window blaring John Lennon’s song “Power to the People” which couldn’t be more appropriate. The past few years have seen the biggest boom in labor union activity in the United States in

Big Tech’s User Agreements are Even Worse than You Thought
By JohnTaylor Wildfeuer You must not be reading your user agreements either, because if you were you would have little time for anything else. A 2008 Carnegie Mellon University study found that if American consumers read user agreements for websites they visit once per year it would require 76 full

Apple Just Banned ‘Hookup Apps’ From The App Store
Today was the first day of something called WWDC, which is an enormous deal to brainwashed Apple fanboi types, but the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference doesn’t mean much to regular everyday people. But something that happened at the conference today could have an enormous impact on your lonely Friday nights

Which Companies You Should Shoplift From
Let’s begin by saying that I can’t legally tell you to shoplift. So from here on out, I’ll be encouraging you to “borrow” from multibillion dollar corporations who receive welfare from the government while you can barely pay your bills. There have been oodles of books and articles laying out

Why You Should Not Buy The iPhone 12
There is a new iPhone going on sale Friday, for no better reason than it is autumn, and Apple puts out a new iPhone every autumn. Of course, this means your current iPhone will probably start slowing down this week. But people, you should not buy the new iPhone 12

Apple’s New Cheese Grater Promises More Power, Better Cheese
Earlier this week in San Jose, CA., Apple released its latest and greatest designs, including The New Mac Pro, which is the fanciest, fastest, most powerful, cheese grater the world has ever seen. In announcing Apple’s new foray into kitchenware, Tim Cook came on stage wearing a chef’s hat and