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Faris Ajluni (right) land Jose Nazario pose in their vests in downtown San Francisco.

The Patagonia vest endures in San Francisco tech circles, despite ridicule

Mar 31, 2022
Flyers around San Francisco are urging tech workers to give up the quintessential Silicon Valley uniform: the fleece vest. It's just the latest flashpoint in the city's class battle.
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Planet Money
Apple's massive" spaceship" campus designed to centralize work and foster collaboration in 2017 may have to make way for satellite offices and other remote work.

Why Remote Work Might Not Revolutionize Where We Work

Jul 13, 2021
Apple joins the ranks of tech firms freeing many employees from Silicon Valley offices. What this might mean for the geography of the American economy.
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Technology

Social Audio Began As A Pandemic Fad. Tech Companies See It As The Future

Jun 11, 2021
Live conversations on Clubhouse and Twitter took off during the pandemic, connecting people online when they couldn't in real life. Now social media companies are scrambling to launch audio features.
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Technology
Many tech workers say they have experienced more harassment, hostility and anxiety while working remotely during the pandemic.

Remote Work Is Leading To More Gender And Racial Harassment, Say Tech Workers

Mar 30, 2021
Women and people of color are reporting the biggest increases in harassment while working remotely during the pandemic, a survey says.
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Technology
Software engineer Tracy Chou's own experience on social media led her to create Block Party, an app that helps people filter their feeds to manage online abuse and harassment.

Block Party Aims To Be A 'Spam Folder' For Social Media Harassment

Feb 23, 2021
In part because of her own experience being targeted with online harassment and threats, Tracy Chou launched Block Party, a startup that aims to help people feel safer on social media.
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Technology
Clubhouse launched in March of 2020, just in time for lockdown orders. Now, other tech companies are rushing to make Clubhouse clones.

Clubhouse May Be Social Media's Future. What's All The Hype About?

Feb 11, 2021
The invite-only app lets you eavesdrop on chats between celebrities, journalists and tech savants. Oprah, Elon Musk and White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain have all joined.
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Technology
The Justice Department alleges Google has an illegal monopoly in search, setting up the biggest confrontation with a tech giant in more than 20 years.

Google Lawsuit Marks End Of Washington's Love Affair With Big Tech

Oct 21, 2020
The Justice Department's lawsuit against Google is the clearest sign yet of the "Techlash" that has politicians on both sides of the aisle bristling at the power of Silicon Valley.
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America Reckons With Racial Injustice
Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann addresses a Pinterest media event at the company's corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California, on April 24, 2014.

Pinterest Sounds A More Contrite Tone After Black Former Employees Speak Out

Jun 23, 2020
Two people who left Pinterest over their treatment there say the company's culture does not support Black employees.
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Book Reviews
<em>Facebook: The Inside Story</em>, by Steven Levy

'Facebook: The Inside Story' Reveals A Company Made In Its Founder's Image

Feb 25, 2020
Journalist Steven Levy's rich history of the social network traces Facebook's cascading crises to the worldview and early decisions of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
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Book Reviews
Uber headquarters in San Francisco on March 1, 2017.

Uber Whistleblower Takes On Silicon Valley, Armed With Stoic Philosophy

Feb 17, 2020
In 2017, Susan Fowler published a blog post that revealed Uber's misogynistic corporate culture — and helped change the world. In her memoir, she urges readers not to see her as a victim.
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Business
Elizabeth Giorgi created the "candor clause" after being harassed by a would-be investor. "I've probably spoken to more than 100 female founders across the U.S., and I would say that half of us have a story," she says.

Investor's Naked Selfies Ignite #MeToo Moment: Female Founder Fights Back

Jan 06, 2020
Venture capital investing is still a very male-dominated industry where female founders of startups say sexual harassment is a big problem. One woman is trying to change that for herself and others.
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Technology
A customer tests an eyebrow pencil in the mirror at the New York City flagship store for the beauty startup Glossier. It's one of the latest companies to become a unicorn, with a market value of $1 billion as of March.

With So Many Startups Growing Into Unicorns, Can They Still Be Magical?

Aug 12, 2019
Six years ago, "unicorn" became the name for startup tech companies valued at $1 billion or more. At the time, only 39 companies had earned the title. Since then, the club has grown to 484 members.
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Business
Helen Harris, a former systems engineer for Dell, says her career was derailed a few years ago because of the way she looks. She was born and identifies as a woman.

'It's A Career Ender': 2 LGBTQ Former Dell Workers Share Their Stories

Jul 15, 2019
A former Dell worker said she had such a rough time at the company because of her appearance that she filed a human rights complaint. Another former worker alleges bias over her gender transition.
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Environment
Anne Schauer-Gimenez (from left) Allison Pieja and Molly Morse of Mango Materials stand next to the biopolymer fermenter at a sewage treatment plant next to San Francisco Bay. The fermenter feeds bacteria the methane they need to produce a biological for

Replacing Plastic: Can Bacteria Help Us Break The Habit?

Jun 17, 2019
Entrepreneurs are eager to find substitutes for plastic that naturally degrade. One option is a "natural" plastic made by microbes and then eaten by them. But the process is still in the early days.
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The Picture Show
Apple Park's visitor center has a store, cafe and roof with views of the main building for the public.

Silicon Valley Has Its Tech Campuses. Now It Wants A Monument

Apr 19, 2019
Tourists are flocking to California to see the origins of their favorite tech companies. Now there might be a monument about Silicon Valley's glory.
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Technology
Ravi Belani, managing director at Alchemist Accelerator, speaks at a recent presentation by the startup in Sunnyvale, Calif.

Tech Industry Confronts A Backlash Against 'Disruptive Innovation'

Jan 28, 2019
Silicon Valley is rethinking the implications of technology that disrupts entire industries, while the man who coined the term "disruptive innovation" stands by its basic goodness.
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China Unbound
Chris Nicholson is the CEO of Skymind, a San Francisco-based startup, which makes open-source artificial intelligence tools for businesses and employs about 30 people in the U.S., Canada and Asia. He says the company was fragile at the start — until it

China Makes A Big Play In Silicon Valley

Oct 07, 2018
"The Chinese figured out that technology is the key to wealth and power, and the source of technology is still the West for China," says one China and tech watcher.
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Author Interviews
An unmanned automobile competes in the i-VISTA (Intelligent Vehicle Integrated Systems Test Area) Autonomous Driving Challenge on August 18 in Chongqing, China.

What Happens When A.I. Takes The Wheel?

Sep 06, 2018

In his new book Autonomy, Larry Burns, formerly with General Motors, argues that self-driving, electric cars are inevitable. In an interview with NPR, he addresses the now — and the future.

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Technology
Uber has come under fire for its workplace culture in the past several years.

Details Of Uber Harassment Settlement Released

Aug 22, 2018
Dozens of women and minorities who said they were harassed while working as engineers at Uber filed a class-action lawsuit. Hundreds of people also sued for discrimination claims.
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Technology
People walk into the cafeteria at Facebook's main campus in Menlo Park, Calif., May 15, 2012.

For Some Facebook Employees, Free Food Is Coming To An End

Aug 12, 2018
Some cities in the Bay Area want to stop tech companies from offering free or discounted food in their cafeterias. The idea is to make employees go to local businesses for their meals.
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The Two-Way
Google CEO Sundar Pichai demonstrated new AI technology that can use human-like speech to carry on phone conversations at the Google I/O 2018 Conference on Tuesday in Mountain View, Calif.

Google's New Voice Bot Sounds, Um, Maybe Too Real

May 09, 2018
The company touts AI that peppers its conversation with "uh" and "hmm" to imitate the tics of human speech. Many observers took issue with how the bot apparently tricked a human on the phone.
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National Security
<em>Source: Center for Responsive Politics</em>

Lobbyists, Campaign Cash And Think Tanks: How Silicon Valley Tackled Politics

Apr 09, 2018
Facebook didn't open an office in Washington, DC until it was five years old and already worth billions. Last year, the company spent $12 million lobbying lawmakers and the federal government.
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The Two-Way
Hosts of InRangeTV compare firearms. The show decided to put its videos on Pornhub after YouTube announced that it would ban certain instructional firearms videos.

Restricted By YouTube, Gun Enthusiasts Are Taking Their Videos To Pornhub

Mar 22, 2018
YouTube is banning instructional and promotional firearm videos.
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All Tech Considered
As a former federal agent, Zadig has a collection of these so-called challenge coins, which are exchanged by law enforcement agents during visits.

Why Silicon Valley Is Hiring Ex-Federal Agents

Dec 18, 2017
Major tech companies have been growing internal crime-fighting cyber teams, often staffing them with former law enforcement agents. NPR gets a look inside one of these units.
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All Tech Considered
Initially, engineer Niniane Wang didn't want to go public with sex harassment allegations because she worried it would jeopardize her relationships with other investors.

How A Female Engineer Built A Public Case Against A Sexual Harasser In Silicon Valley

Dec 13, 2017
Niniane Wang, an experienced engineer with a startup incubator, says she was harassed by a male investor. She wanted to be certain that when she came forward, she wouldn't be ignored.
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