Silicon Valley
About Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical area of the Santa Clara Valley.
On the show — 40 mentions total
In 2017, in Silicon Valley, a drunk man was arrested after knocking over an egg-shaped five-foot-tall security robot called Nightscope K-5, which had previously been in the news for running over a toddler's foot.
from No Such Thing As A Safe Robot, 2019-05-31 at 00:03:31 · read transcript
Other times Silicon Valley came up
Best argument yet for brushing 3-10. times a day. It's also a fantastic excuse of turning up at work smelling of whiskey. No, no, no. It's my biggest. Time for fact number three, and that is Alex Bell. My fact is that there is a statue of Nicola Tesla in Silicon Valley that radiates free Wi-Fi. Cool. It's cool, isn't it? That is what he would have wanted.
No Such Thing As A Computer In The Oval Office, 2015-08-14 · listen
I read about Jeffrey Wu, because he started this thing, there's a drug that people in Silicon Valley take, which is, the idea is it's a cognitive enhancing drug, and so it's a brain drug effectively, and it's called new tropics, which is an old idea that was back in 1972 that that term was coined, but the idea is you take it and it makes your brain get stimulated. He runs a company where he provides these drugs. Everyone's on these brain stimulant drugs in Silicon Valley, if they're working with Jeffrey. I don't know, if it's making you want to pay $350 for a chicken, I'm not sure how smart they're making you.
212: No Such Thing As A Hipster Pharaoh, 2018-04-14 · listen
One who's, I'm not sure if he's a billionaire, but Steve Wozniak, the creator of the Apple computer with Steve Jobs. He used to have a phone number, which was very similar to Pan Am's reservation number. People in Silicon Valley, if they failed to use the right area code, they would get Steve Wozniak instead. who loved pranks, we've spoken about before on the podcast. So he would play up to it.
No Such Thing As A Mead-Based Maasai Gameshow, 2021-07-23 · listen
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