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VC Pledged to 'Do Better' on Diversity. It's Barely Changed
The Black Lives Matter protests drew sympathetic public statements from investors in 2020. One year later, signs of progress are…
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What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru
In April 1998, two Stanford grad students named Larry Page and Sergey Brin presented an algorithm called PageRank at a…
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How a Chaos Monkey Caused an Apple Uprising
Plus: A review of the book from 2016, the accessibility potential for AR, and a few too many sinking ships.…
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Apple Employees Petition New Hire Over Views on Women, People of Color
Photo: Scott Barbour / Staff (Getty Images) Apple employees circulated a petition on Wednesday to express concern over a new…
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Is Silicon Valley Dead? Not According to Venture Dollars
Silicon Valley’s most valuable asset is no longer silicon, to make computer chips, or even tech talent, to code software…
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After a Remote Year, Tech’s Shadow Workforce Barely Hangs On
“The pay could end tomorrow,” says Delgado. “You always have a feeling inside of, ‘What’s going to happen? What’s going…
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The Secret Auction That Set Off the Race for AI Supremacy
Hinton remained one of the few who believed it would one day fulfill its promise, delivering machines that could not…
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Black Tech Employees Rebel Against ‘Diversity Theater’
“At the same time as they’re harming folks in marginalized communities, they’re whitewashing their reputations within the same companies,” Ozoma…
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Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues
On January 4, a group of workers at Google parent company Alphabet said they had formed a union to influence…
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