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    Are Tech Companies Lazy, Incompetent, or Greedy?A recent investigation found that Facebook let users buy ads to target “Jew Haters.”
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Women at Google, Like Women Everywhere, Make Less Than Their Male ColleaguesAnnual salaries and bonuses are significantly lower for female employees, according to one internal survey.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Google Can Crush You Without Even NoticingTech companies are reframing how we think about monopoly power.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Ex-Google Engineer Hires Harmeet Dhillon As Lawyer, Seeks Possible Class ActionJames Damore is not giving up his fight after being fired for his anti-diversity memo.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Fired Engineer Says Being Conservative at Google Is ‘Like Being Gay in the 50s’James Damore also claims his anti-diversity memo “empowered” women at Google.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  6. Alt-Right Organizers Cancel the March on Google, Citing ‘Terrorist Threats’The planned defense of a fired Google employee and his sexist memo is off, for now.
    By Adam K. Raymond
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    Neo-Nazi Website Daily Stormer Has Basically Been Erased From the InternetGoogle, GoDaddy, Twitter, Facebook, and Cloudflare have all cut ties with the site.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Charlottesville Gives Tech Companies an Opportunity to Finally Take a StandIt’s no longer about equal access to an open dialogue.
    By Brian Feldman
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    White-Supremacist Site Moves to Google, Is Instantly Cut Off by GoogleWhere will the Daily Stormer head next?
    By Brian Feldman
  10. Yikes: Alt-Right Demonstrations Are Scheduled for Nine Cities Next WeekendUpdate: Organizers have announced the cancellation of the marches, citing ‘Terrorist Threats’
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Google Cancels Meeting on Bad MemoEmployees were worried about harassment.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Fired Google-Memo Author James Damore’s First Stop: Alt-Right YouTubeHarvard University once had to publicly apologize for his sexist behavior while he was a student.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Googler Fired Over Anti-Diversity Memo Files Federal Labor ComplaintJames Damore wrote a ten-page memo implying that women are biologically inferior to men.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Google Fires Employee Behind Anti-Diversity MemoWe finally know who wrote the infamous document.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Don’t Make a Woman Explain to You Why That Anti-Diversity Google Memo Is GarbageA leaked internal document called the wage gap a “myth” and laid out all the reasons men are treated unfairly.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Why That Google Memo Is So FamiliarWe’ve heard this argument before.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Google Reportedly Building Its Own Snapchat CompetitorIt’s called Stamp.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Why Google’s New News Feed Competitor Might Work (and Why It Probably Won’t)Google might create an interesting news feed — but it’s not going to solve Facebook’s problems.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Google Has Paid Thousands to Academics Writing About GoogleSome of the incentives were as high as $400,000.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Google News Gets a Redesign, But Is It Still Relevant?The digital newspaper’s front page looks much cleaner — but how many people still want their news this way?
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Google Fined $2.7 Billion by the EUThe new ruling could change how tech companies operate overseas.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Google Sells Boston Dynamics, Maker of Unnerving RobotsIt took over a year to find a buyer for Boston Dynamics.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Google Site Lets You Watch 100,000 People Draw a Cat at the Same TimeIt’s all to teach machines how to identify drawings on their own.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Google’s Blob Emoji Get Sad, Circular RedesignRIP, blobs.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Google’s I/O Conference Was Kinda Dull — and That’s GreatNo more Google Glass–type announcements. Good.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Google’s Waymo Versus Uber Suit May Become a Criminal CaseThings are heating up in Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Can Google Clean Up Autocomplete and Featured Snippets?The company wants to keep fake and offensive info out of its most prominent spots. The numbers are against it.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    You Can Play Ms. Pac-Man in Google Maps for April Fools’ DayWaka-waka.
    By Brian Feldman
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    One Intern Clicked on 12,000 Websites to Make Sure a Bank’s Ads Were AppropriateThey might be less effective, and they’re showing up alongside racist videos.
    By Brian Feldman
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    YouTube Scrambling After Big Brands Drop Ads Over Extremist VideosThe ads were running alongside offensive YouTube content.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Google Can Tell If You’re Human Without Even Testing You. Is This a Good Thing?A ubiquitous Google initiative is helping the company train computers to get smarter.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Google’s Dangerous Identity CrisisGoogle thought Obama was planning a coup. Which raises another question: What is Google’s search engine?
    By Brian Feldman
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    Why Google’s Lawsuit Could Leave Uber in the Breakdown LaneUber’s very bad February just got a whole lot worse.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Can Google Use AI to Fix the Comments Section?A new developer tool uses machine learning to identify toxic comments.
    By Brian Feldman
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    YouTube to Ditch Its Longest Unskippable AdsNo more waiting half a minute to get to your content.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Google Has Banned Hundreds of Web Publishers From Its Ad PlatformA policy change that was meant to disincentivize fake news.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Delete Everything! Get Google Completely Out of Your LifeHow to delete your Google account (and leave no trail).
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Parrot Does Spot-on ‘Ok, Google’ Impression“Ok, Google.”
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Google and Facebook Won’t Allow Ads on Fake-News SitesThe decision will go a long way to helping solve the problem of fake news online.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Online Fake News Plague Infects GoogleIf you Google “election results,” the top hit is a fake-news piece about Trump winning both the electoral and popular votes.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Google’s Daydream View Is Now the Best Mobile VR HeadsetGoogle hardware has another winner.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Will Everyone Please Stop Googling to See Who Taylor Swift Is Voting ForThere have been more searches to find out which candidate Taylor Swift is voting for than there have been for any other famous person.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    How to Get Google to Stop Personally Tracking YouKeep your personal business yours, even while using Google.
    By Jake Swearingen
  44. People Are Googling Wildly Different Questions About Trump and Clinton“What did Donald Trump tweet today?” versus “When was Hillary Clinton secretary of State?”
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Everything You Need to Know About Today’s Google EventPixels, and routers, and Chromecast. Oh, my!
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Google Doesn’t Want to Be Apple. It Wants to Be Everyone.As the search giant looks to own hardware, it’s making aggressive moves against other manufacturers.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Here Are All the Goodies We’re Expecting From Google’s Big Event Next WeekAt its event on Tuesday, the search giant is out to prove it can also put out quality consumer tech.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Google, Verizon, and, uh, Salesforce Are Reportedly Thinking of Buying TwitterAnd, I guess, why not?
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Do We Want Giant Tech Companies to Be Our Anti-Harassment Overlords?A new Google project highlights the potential for unintended consequences in the fight against harassment.
    By Jesse Singal
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    Google Abandons Its Modular Phone, Project AraAn intriguing idea that Google just couldn’t nail.
    By Brian Feldman
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