On Facebook this afternoon, Upworthy cofounder Eli Pariser posted the kind of depressing tale you'd never find on his own site. The cringe-inducing interaction took place at the Soho outpost of WeWork, a money-minting company that capitalized on the coworking craze.

You can't crown yourself the voice of this generation without a little tech cred. Why else has Lena Dunham been popping up around Silicon Valley this week?

Just because you're warm, indoors, and out of shape, doesn't mean you have to miss out on the best social networking fuckfest of the olympiad: here's what it looks like to browse Tinder at the athletic sex-romp of the year.

Sometimes high-fiving meritocracy requires a conference room of one's own. And so it is at Dropbox, where interviews with potential female candidates take place in "The Breakup Room," which is located adjacent to the "Bromance Chamber."

Less than three months after PayPal purchased StackMob, PayPal announced it will be shutting down the mobile startup. The news of the closure broke yesterday, only no one told StackMob's marketing department.

What do you do when your startup mixer has been an internet punchline for an entire week? Release a "video recap" of the night's event, of course. Game-changer. Innovate.

Airbnb should have picked another place as the testing ground for its battle with regulators. Just as the sweetheart of the sharing economy prepares to face off with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a new study from Skift contradicts numbers reported by Airbnb.

The crookedest little bloghouse in Silicon Valley just hit a new low, it appears: A negative story about Birchbox, a beauty-product site with which Pando shares investors, was deleted shortly after being published. Unfortunately for Pando and the backers it loves so dearly, this is the internet, and nothing ever disappears.

Last week, the chilling visage of David Shing was thrust upon the world. Equally horrific was his job title—"Digital Prophet." That's something you can be for a living? Yes, and there are plenty of other make-believe jobs out there, too.

Jamie Anderson, the 23-year-old American snowboarder, tells US Weekly that she and her fellow female athletes spend their down time in Sochi on one app in particular:

If you're one of the many Americans who watches the Dr. Phil show, you might be getting a startup advertisement without realizing it. "Doctor" Phil McGraw's son—who is also not a medical doctor—is the co-creator of a new app called Doctor on Demand, which is suddenly getting a boatload of free, conflicted press.

The mission statement for AOL's invite-only Makers Conference sounded suspect from the start. How can a random assortment of high-profile women (and a handful of male executives) possibly presume to "reset the agenda for women in the workplace" during a private excursion at an oceanside resort?

Chinese citizens expect their government to censor search results. But according to The Guardian, Bing has been censoring results for Chinese language searches, even when you access the Microsoft-owned search engine within the U. S. of A.

Yesterday, we called the coalition behind "The Day We Fight Back," an initiative protesting mass surveillance, to find out why NSA-friendly tech giants had not signed up alongside Reddit, Tumblr, and other companies for today's event. Just wait, they said.

Last week: Twitter's stock price plunges after a weak earnings report, and still no sign of profitability. Today, Twitter's Head of News, Vivian Schiller, enjoys a New York office "champagne tasting," provided by Moet.

There are few jobs as paper-prestigious as working where the iPod was invented. Even though Apple lost its startup zeal many years ago, it's still the Harvard of tech firms, surrounded by smooth lines and military-grade secrecy. On the other hand, we have this guy, who hated Apple so much he walked out.

This is a guest post by game designer and writer Alex Shvartsman originally published on his blog: In addition to making the small bucks as a science fiction writer, I have a day job. I run a game store which hosts events and serves the local community here in Brooklyn, but also sells games and collectibles online and at shows/conventions.

There, there, Google, it's not just you—a small group stopped one of Amazon's private shuttles a streetcar in its tracks outside Amazon HQ, decrying the company's business dealings with the CIA. The Stranger was on the scene, with photos.

You can call yourself "utterly pointless," flounder in beta forever, pivot, then show a downward slope in the App Store, and still get acqui-hired by Yahoo. No man left behind, no landing too soft.

Last night, TechCrunch rolled out the green carpet (unfortunately, I'm speaking literally here) and lit up Davies Symphony Hall to look like the inside of The Matrix in order to properly honor . . . what exactly, emcee John Oliver wasn't sure.