Silicon Valley

Nathaniel Rich recounts America's failure to act on global warming in the 1980s; Bill McKibben offers dire prophecies about climate—and artificial intelligence.

Among the charges: lying to banks, violating sanctions, and dismembering a T-Mobile robot.

People opposed to Amazon's plan to locate its second North American headquarters in New York City protest at the courthouse in Queens on November 26th, 2018.

Despite their reputation as strongly liberal organizations, the political donations of tech companies like Amazon and Google go both ways.

Google employees walk off the job to protest the company's handling of sexual misconduct claims, on November 1st, 2018, in Mountain View, California.

Facebook, Spotify, Tinder—all have used the land down under as a test dummy for new features.

Fort Point, a novelty wave located underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, is a flash point in the ongoing struggle surrounding gentrification in the Bay Area.

Gregory Stevens explains what happened when the community he'd called an "elitist shit den of hate" found out about his online life.

New research finds the stereotype that intellectual genius is a male trait can dampen females' interest in certain jobs or fields of study.

Jacque Fresco spent decades building a life-sized model of his ideal city. The central idea? If we want the Western world to overcome war, avarice, and poverty, all we need to do is redesign the culture.

Journalist Noam Cohen's new book argues that Silicon Valley is a social wrecking ball, but is that perspective enough to create change?

Poor planning didn't just aggravate the area's housing problem: it helped create the Valley's growing empathy gap.

In the words of technology reporters.

Our focus on C-suite executives and venture capital-funded unicorns distracts from the underclass that keeps the San Francisco Bay Area running.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

Euphemisms offer important comfort in a recession. They also tend to exclude the people hit hardest.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

As folks gear up for end-of-summer road trips, Levi Tillemann makes the case for a synthetic market for automotive safety.

An open application to the university’s Impact Challenge.

In order for tech workers to cash out on home equity, Proposition 13 forces them to move to another state.

Or, like, every week on the Internet.

The company has more practice than you might expect.