When 24-year-old Google software engineer Amelia Brunner read the now viral anti-diversity memo by James Damore, she was “painfully unsurprised.” Titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” the document asserts that there are “differences in distributions of traits between men and women,” which “may in part explain why we don’t have 50 percent representation of women in […]
Read moreOne of the clouds hanging over Blue Apron since its IPO has been the looming threat of what an Amazon–Whole Foods combination could mean for its business. But when Blue Apron’s stock got hammered on Thursday, falling more than 17 percent by day’s end, that had nothing to do with it; it was the company’s […]
Read moreDisappearing photos are not the only snaps coming from Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel. Wall Street analysts pressed for more details on Snap’s push notification policy and got a snappy response from the Snap CEO during Thursday night’s earnings conference call. The conversation was not helped by an inadvertently unmuted phone line where another analyst seemed […]
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UK estate agent draws map of where to live to avoid ‘nuclear impact zone’ – then says sorry
A British real estate agent that drew up a map of where to live in the U.K. to avoid “any nuclear impact from World War Three” has apologized for the stunt. Its publication comes as President Donald Trump ramps up rhetoric against North Korea, today saying that the U.S. military is “locked and loaded” should […]
Read moreLike other biases, sexism and racism are often spread with the use of insidious coded language, inappropriate appeals to freedom of speech and harmful pseudoscientific data promoting biological difference as “inferiority.” For example, as a Latina in Silicon Valley, I’ve noticed that women and minorities promoted to leadership roles are often characterized as “unqualified.” It […]
Read moreMarket's hottest stock Nvidia plunges after traders didn't get perfect earnings report they expected
When a company is by far the best performing stock in the entire market, it needs to report perfect results to drive its shares higher. Nvidia did not do that Thursday, when it posted lackluster sales in a key growth market, a unit that serves artificial intelligence applications. The chipmaker reported better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter earnings […]
Read moreWall Street analysts continue to set a very high bar for Snap because the Snapchat-parent won’t give them any clues where to place it. Shares of Snap plunged 13 percent in Friday trading after the company reported worse-than-expected second quarter results, with the number of users added both fewer than anticipated and at a slower […]
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Foreign minister says there's a Russian-Chinese plan underway to defuse US-North Korea crisis
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that risks of a military conflict over North Korea’s nuclear program are very high, and Moscow is deeply worried by the mutual threats of attack traded by Washington and Pyongyang. “The side that is stronger and cleverer” should take the first step to defuse the crisis, said […]
Read moreDefense Secretary James Mattis says he sees a growing role for the technology industry in defending the United States. The comments suggest a potential untapped market for Amazon and Google, whose hometowns Mattis visited this week on a West Coast swing, and other large companies like Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. Like the leaders of these […]
Read morePop Quiz: Which Asian despot (hint: he was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of his country-men and had launched a surprise attack against U.S. military forces on the Korean Peninsula) said these crazy things about nuclear war, clearly making his country unfit for their possession: “We have a very large territory and […]
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