Silicon Valley
27 Fictional TV Workplaces Ranked From Absolute Worst To Best
The reviews are in and we're revealing "TV's Best Place to Work 2021."
Matthew Huff
59 Times TV Shows Were Really, Really Smart When It Came To Creating Tiny But Important Details
"In The Good Place, Michael's apartment is #322 — the same number of people selected to live in Good Place neighborhoods."
Kayla Yandoli
Here's How 17 Abandoned TV Comedy Plotlines And Ideas Would've Majorly Changed Their Shows
The Belcher family in Bob's Burgers almost had a lot in common with Hannibal Lecter.
Mary Colussi
14 Actors Who Were So Hard To Work With, Their Characters Were Literally Written Off The Show
Roseanne Barr's behavior got her fired from her own show!
Kat Pickhardt
Trump Has Pardoned A Silicon Valley Engineer Who Stole Trade Secrets From Google
A judge had allowed Anthony Levandowski to serve out his 18-month prison sentence after the coronavirus pandemic.
Pranav Dixit
Online School Is Highlighting Silicon Valley’s Gaping Income Inequality
An entire semester of remote learning isn’t ideal for any student, but adjusting to this new reality will be much more difficult for some families than for others — even in Silicon Valley, the world’s technology capital.
Caroline O'Donovan
Andrew Yang Injected Silicon Valley’s Favorite Economic Idea Into The Democratic Debate. Silicon Valley Isn’t So Happy About That.
Universal basic income seems like an idea whose time has come — except to some of the very people pushing the idea in the first place.
Alex Kantrowitz
Opinion: To Save Journalism, Break Up Silicon Valley
Donald Trump makes no secret of his hatred for journalists, but his administration's investigation into the power of Big Tech is long overdue.
John Stanton
Opinion: Silicon Valley Is Giving Big Bucks To Mayor Pete
His persona fits neatly with Silicon Valley’s own political identity: outwardly progressive, but without much evident anger at the new American oligarchy.
Jeff Hauser
Silicon Valley’s Right Wing Is Angry And Punching Back
How a small group of right-wing tech employees built a back channel straight to the nation’s capital.
Alex Kantrowitz
A Measles Case Has Hit Google's Silicon Valley Headquarters
In the midst of a historic US measles outbreak, at least one Google employee walking around the tech giant’s main Silicon Valley campus has been diagnosed.
Stephanie M. Lee
Hey Google, What’s The Point Of Silicon Valley’s Tech Hearings?
It’s hard to imagine how these hearings will result in anything more substantial than a few less-than-viral soundbites.
Charlie Warzel
How Silicon Valley’s Scooter Craze Made Me Realize That I Don’t Know Anything
Are scooters a dangerous nuisance or an environmentally friendly form of transportation? Or both? Watch Follow This on Netflix.
Charlie Warzel
A Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants To Split California Into 3 States. But He Still Doesn't Know How It Would Work.
"Whatever it is, it's going to be better than this slowly smothering government that we have today."
Stephanie K. Baer
Silicon Valley Can't Be Trusted With Our History
We create almost everything on the internet, but we control almost none of it.
Evan Hill
Former "Silicon Valley" Star T.J. Miller Has Been Charged With Making A Fake Bomb Threat On A Train
Miller was said to have appeared intoxicated when he rang a 911 dispatcher to report that a female passenger with whom he'd allegedly been feuding had "a bomb in her bag.”
Michael Blackmon
Silicon Valley Is Having An Existential Crisis Over "Time Well Spent." But So Are We.
Welcome to the personal internet reckoning.
Charlie Warzel
Facebook Isn't Playing Along With Silicon Valley's Humble New Look
Microsoft learned to take government seriously in Washington in the late 1990s, Google in Brussels in the 2000s. Facebook still hasn't learned from its elders' mistakes.
Ben Smith
Silicon Valley Punished Some Badly Behaved Men In 2017. Now, It Needs To Fix Its Broken Culture.
In an industry that has long struggled with gender equality, it's not yet clear whether it's just getting rid of a few bad apples or if the industry is truly ready for change.
Doree Shafrir
Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear
We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI.
Ted Chiang
Silicon Valley’s Wild West Culture Makes It Harder To Root Out Sexual Misconduct
Women in tech tell BuzzFeed News that startups’ deprioritization of human resources leaves employees vulnerable.
Caroline O'Donovan
Silicon Valley Investor Shervin Pishevar Accused Of Spreading False Information To Cover Up Alleged Sexual Misconduct
"We are confident that the court will see through his strategy of filing deceitful lawsuits to intimidate women from coming forward."
Ryan Mac
There's Blood In The Water In Silicon Valley
The bad new politics of big tech.
Ben Smith
Goodbye, Juicero, Silicon Valley's Favorite $400 Juicer
The dream has dried up.
Stephanie M. Lee
If Silicon Valley's Billionaires Want To Fix Our Rotten Politics, They Should Start At Home
We've returned to the point where the enlightened businessmen decide to save the Democratic party. It never works.
Matt Stoller
How Bobby Shmurda Got Busted With Help From Silicon Valley
"I believe it's the first time a Palantir-related case has been reported by TMZ."
William Alden
There's A Fight Brewing Between The NYPD And Silicon Valley's Palantir
Big data helped New York's cops bust Bobby Shmurda. But as the NYPD's contract with tech giant Palantir comes to an end, things could get messy.
William Alden
Can Uber Convince Silicon Valley's Best To Be Its New CEO?
Uber will have to answer some tough questions as it woos CEO candidates.
Priya Anand
"Your Lunch Is Going To Be Stolen:" How Silicon Valley Sees Amazon-Whole Foods
"We've been telling everyone for years Amazon was coming, and now they're here."
Cora Lewis
This Former FDA Chief Is Heading To Silicon Valley To Join Alphabet's Life Sciences Division
Cardiologist and former FDA commissioner Robert Califf is joining both Verily and Duke University to work on projects using data science to improve health care.
Stephanie M. Lee
