Has the flying car arrived? Google co-founder Larry Page reportedly has a startup or two working on a flying car — and what looked like a flying car was recently spotted hovering above Hollister.
The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI were investigating “all potential causes” of the internet’s partial blackout Friday after a massive wave of cyber attacks disrupted major websites, including Twitter, Airbnb and PayPal. Michelle Quinn writes that “when the infrastructure falters — or in this case, knocked offline by an apparent dark actor, as it was Friday — it can upend our sense that all is right in the world.”
Larry Magid reviews Google’s Pixel phone: The Pixel and the iPhone have more in common than the same price. They’re both premium phones whose hardware comes from the same company behind the operating systems, many of the phones’ most popular apps and — most important — the back-end services that power the phones.
Troy Wolverton reviews Roku’s newest gadgets: The Express is not only the least expensive box Roku has ever offered, it’s also the lowest priced digital streamer among all the major competitors, even lower than Google’s original Chromecast. But don’t let the Express price fool you — it offers many of the same features that you’ll find on the higher-priced Ultra.
The Bay Area employment picture in September saw “modest” improvement over the previous month’s tepid gains, but signs have emerged that the region’s job market may be losing steam.
Q&A: Dan Shugar was the kind of kid who hustled to earn a few bucks doing yard work and odd jobs for neighbors. Going to work for a large, public utility like PG&E after college didn’t dampen his entrepreneurial spirit. He has founded two companies, including NEXTracker.