You May Soon Be Grabbing Your UPS Packages From Lockers
Just as shoppers believe they should have the power to buy anything whenever and wherever they want, they also expect to actually get their hands on the thing without hanging around the house all day waiting for a package to arrive. So, on Wednesday, UPS responded to the imperative of ultra-convenience by launching a trial run of some Amazon-style delivery lockers that let buyers pick up packages whenever it’s convenient for them.

October 8, 2014 at 11:44AM
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San Francisco Legalizes, Regulates Airbnb With 7-4 Vote, Lots of Amendments
After six years of operating in San Francisco, Airbnb will finally become legal on its own home turf.

October 8, 2014 at 10:41AM
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Apple Surprises us with an Exciting Invention Revealing a Next Generation Digital Periodical Device using Flexible Displays
Apple just received a patent for what could be a revolutionary new device that they refer to as a digital periodical. The unit can also act as an advertising display for a retail store application and beyond. Apple reveals that the new device would use an advanced form of MMS to deliver the content to this new kind of device.

October 8, 2014 at 10:41AM
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Behind the Pink Mustache – Inside Lyft HQ
You open a nondescript door on a nondescript street in San Francisco’s startup-filled South of Market district, and you’re greeted by a canopy of bright-pink pool noodles. You walk under them and also toward them: The reception desk at the ride-sharing company is fringed in pink plastic-foam noodles.

October 8, 2014 at 09:34AM
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Silicon Valley, Meet Organized Labor
Silicon Valley’s newest labor challenge is coming from the tech underclass — the blue-collar workers who cook, drive, and clean for all those coddled engineers, and who are getting tired of watching the incredible spoils of the tech boom pass them by.

October 8, 2014 at 09:34AM
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Untangling how cables coil
Engineers at MIT, along with computer scientists at Columbia University, have developed a method that predicts the pattern of coils and tangles that a cable may form when deployed onto a rigid surface.

October 8, 2014 at 08:35AM
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Rethinking The Turing Test
Oversimplified competitions encourage computer programs that are snarky rather than intelligent — but it doesn’t have to be that way.

October 8, 2014 at 06:23AM
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The Invisible Violence of Cyber War in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution
The conflict between citizens and government authorities over suffrage in Hong Kong has been reflected not only at massive sit-ins across the city, but also in attacks on independent media sites and citizen organizing platforms that have been carried out an an unprecedented scale.

October 8, 2014 at 06:09AM
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Microsoft and Other Firms Pledge to Protect Student Data
A week after California enacted a landmark law restricting the ways education technology companies can use the information they collect about elementary through high school students, a group of leading industry players is pledging to adopt similar data protections nationwide.

October 8, 2014 at 05:06AM
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Supervisors approve ‘Airbnb law’
Addressing the controversial and fast-growing practice of ad-hoc hotels in homes, San Francisco Board of Supervisors agreed to legalize but rein in short-term residential rentals by passing the so-called “Airbnb law” 7-4 Tuesday.

October 7, 2014 at 10:00PM
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