Native Americans have long struggled to convince Internet service providers to install networks on their land—but homegrown tribal solutions are facing unique challenges too.
The company kind of has a point—we do need better labor laws. Just not the ones Silicon Valley is promoting.
The company recently filed a patent on using social network data to influence lending decisions. God help us all.
An open application to the university’s Impact Challenge.
This isn’t a matter of technology—a service economy by another name is still a service economy.
The way we work is changing, but not quickly enough for the boosters peddling these ideas.
Our machines are very smart. They’re also very incompetent.
We treat platforms like they are public utilities. They’re not—but maybe they could be.
The secondary housing market in the Bay Area is blowing up, but collective living isn’t always “sharing.”
When tech workers are considered the true “creative class,” artists don’t appear to win.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has opened a new campaign office in a San Francisco tech incubator. He—and his philosophies on unregulated markets—will fit right in.
Media depictions of tech are rubbing some viewers the wrong way—but the entertainment industry is not the real problem.
High-interest loans are predatory whether you get them at a corner store or in an app.
Platforms that bill themselves as revolutionary are learning what that really means.
What do we stand to lose when we gain big convenient platforms?
Regardless of the legal outcome, her lawsuit against a venerable venture capital firm stands to change the way Silicon Valley is perceived both inside and out.
More workers are telecommuting than ever before, but tech is clinging to the campus life that made it so homogenous.
Real transportation futurism looks more like a fleet of self-driving buses.
The charm and wile of a celebrity pimp may be no match for the moneyed juggernaut of weed tech.
This new wave of high-profile donations from tech moguls may be generous, but it is not a win for populism. It's the modern Carnegie.
The explosion of real estate investment start-ups gives us a peek into the dangers of peer-to-peering everything.
Night School just wanted to provide a modest, low-cost bus service from San Francisco to the East Bay. Without expensive lobbyists and venture capital, the rule-abiding company folded after hitting bureaucratic roadblocks.
Only when it doesn't endanger their ability to make a profit.
Tech billionaire Vinod Khosla claims he just wants to preserve Martins Beach. But he's going about it in exactly the wrong way.
Does it make democracy more representative or more confusing?
A transgender activist, an Egyptian blogger, and a porn star explain the crucial identities connected to names they weren't born with.