Can this Facebook group’s 18,000 food fans save local restaurants?

Bay Area Eats champions a struggling food industry (and finds epic meals along the way). Local meals shared on the Bay Area Eats Facebook page, clockwise from top left: the “Crobster” Roll from New England Lobster Market & Eatery in Burlingame; extreme futomaki closeup at Sushi Yoshizumi in San Mateo; kaisen chirashi from Sushi Yoshizumi; curry udon from Kemuri Japanese Baru in Redwood City; xiaolongbao from Palette Tea Garden in San ...

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The Stanford alum behind Netflix’s “The Social Dilemma” wants you to stop scrolling

Jeff Orlowski’s must-watch doc is an urgent wakeup call for a nation consumed by technology (Screenshot from The Social Dilemma via Netflix) Jeff Orlowski’s must-watch doc is an urgent wakeup call for a nation consumed by technology Director Jeff Orlowski (Chasing Ice; Chasing Coral) spent the better part of his early film career focused on the fossil fuel industry: amazed by the vast power its executives wielded, horrified by the consequences it was ...

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Restaurant owners thought email was a scam, but it really is $100,000 from Zuckerberg

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg donate $800,000 to their favorite Peninsula eateries so food can go to people in need Larry Chu with donated Chef Chu’s meals for staff at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View. (Photo courtesy Larry Chu) When Seiko Alba got an email from Mark Zuckerberg in late March, she was sure it was a scam. The Facebook CEO, a regular at her Palo Alto Japanese restaurant Dohatsuten, asked how she was doing. ...

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A Silicon Valley Thanksgiving

The titans of tech talk around the turkey. Let’s hope they don’t consume all the privacy. Illustration by Kaz Palladino Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon all sit together at Thanksgiving dinner. Per annual tradition, they traveled away from Silicon Valley and rented out a cozy Airbnb near a quaint and air-conditioned server farm. INTERIOR: DINING ROOM (APPLE walks in, carrying a giant turkey) APPLE: Dinner’s ready! AMAZON: That looks amazing! (FACEBOOK snaps a photo and updates its status) FACEBOOK: Mind if I tag you guys? (They ignore ...

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Citizen Zuckerberg: The Rise and Fall of An Internet Tycoon

Pondering (or perhaps just pandering) the legacy of a legend The year is 2115. Everyone on earth has access to the Internet, Amazon Prime, and their own Etsy store as humanity continues to prosper in a brave new world. At the moment, everyone’s looking forward to the upcoming summer blockbuster, The Fast and the Furious 97: Very Fast But Not That Furious. However, the excitement is drowned out by the unexpected death ...

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