If we think inequality was bad before Covid-19, it’s about to get a whole lot worse. (Common Dreams) Six months into a global pandemic, the US economy just took its most grievous hit on record, ...
A consortium of the most powerful tech players like IBM, Microsoft and Facebook are teaming up with hospital networks with links to the Vatican and tech lobbying groups to shape the conversation about the future ...
A new tech partnership augurs a bleak vision for the future of public safety and health emergencies where algorithms and mass profiling of entire populations make the social contract obsolete. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) ...
“If you thought the antitrust cases of big tech were a memory, you’d be mistaken.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Anti-monopoly groups are celebrating news that the Justice Department and state attorneys general are investigating ...
Google’s move is merely the latest in a long line linking big tech companies ever more closely with the government and the security state. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) In the fight against COVID–19 (coronavirus), ...
Google’s description of its Coronavirus efforts falls short of the president’s claims. Verily, a Google sister company under the Alphabet Inc. umbrella, is trying to assist Americans who might be infected with the Covid-19 coronavirus. ...
“Facebook isn’t the only Silicon Valley firm with partisan oversight of what we see: the bipartisan billionaire class and their security state have partnered with tech firms since the dawn of the internet to control ...
“These companies – the richest companies in the world, these fancy gadget-making companies – have allowed children to be maimed and killed to get their cheap cobalt.” Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Dell have been ...
“They think this will crush our efforts, but it won’t. For every one they retaliate against, there are hundreds of us who will fight.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Tech industry labor organizers and rights ...
Big tech is opening its pocketbooks to fight growing anti-trust and consumer scrutiny. (By Andrew Prez and Tim Zelina, MapLight) With calls for big tech companies to be broken up growing louder, Silicon Valley is ...
Apple just committed $2.5 billion to help alleviate the California housing crisis. Facebook and Google already committed $1 billion each. Is it enough? And why are they facing harsh criticism? On Monday, news broke about ...
Though IBM contests Google’s claim of quantum supremacy, it concedes that it passed an important milestone. For the science of computing, that is all that matters. Google’s quantum supremacy claim has now been disputed by ...
“We’re hardly alone among companies that contribute to organizations while strongly disagreeing with them on climate policy” – Google spokesperson.
“We’re hardly alone among companies that contribute to organizations while strongly disagreeing with them on climate policy” – Google spokesperson. The Guardian’s new “Polluters” series, dedicated to uncovering the structures driving the climate crisis, revealed ...
Google’s Sycamore 53-qubit quantum machine has opened the doors to a new era of computing. No, quantum computing did not come of age with Google’s Sycamore, a 53-qubit computer solving in 200 seconds a problem ...
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have spent more than $330 million on attempts to influence federal lawmakers since 2008. (By Frank Bass, MapLight) The nation’s largest tech companies, which are currently facing state and federal investigations to determine ...
“After four decades of weak antitrust enforcement and judicial hostility to antitrust cases, it is critical that Congress step in to determine whether existing laws are adequate to tackle abusive conduct by platform gatekeepers or ...
A compelling film on Netflix, The Great Hack, adds to our understanding of big tech’s threat to democracy and explains how a lot of “tools” came out of the military’s psychological operations (or psyops) and ...
“But for them to go under oath and say that theses blacklists don’t exist, well employees like me are able to just search through the internal search engine of the company and see that they ...
Amazon, Facebook and Google for the first time ever are among the top 15 lobbying spenders in a single quarter. (By Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics) Facing tremendous pressure from regulators and lawmakers from ...
Questions arise about the use of data analysis in China. The OpenPower Foundation, led by Google and IBM executives, has the aim of “driving innovation.” It is registered in New Jersey as a community improvement ...
“The anger is very real. Workers are taxed to the hilt. Why should large groups – Google, Amazon – be able to find a way round it?” France is pioneering big tech regulation with a ...
“This is about how do we get competition back in this space,” said Congressman David N. Cicilline of Rhode Island as he announced antitrust investigations into big tech. The world of big tech was shaken ...
Google executives are working with China to produce a version of its search engine that will censor topics deemed unsuitable by the Chinese government. Google CEO Sundar Pichai is meeting with General Joseph Dunford, chairman ...
“They’ve bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else.” (Reuters) – Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Friday that if elected U.S. president she would seek to break ...
“There’s a time where the rubber meets the road, and showing up to something that’s this important and meaningful has impact.” Over 20,000 Google employees held a global walkout on Thursday to protest the way ...
A massive data breach of Google+ has prompted Google to shut down the largely unsuccessful social platform. Google got hacked and didn’t tell anyone, at least according to documents discovered by a new Wall Street ...
In 2017 the games industry generated $108.4 billion in revenue, making it one of the most lucrative entertainment industries on the planet. According to reports, “The 2017 Year In Review Report by SuperData shows that ...
“At some point, I realized I could not in good faith recommend anyone join Google, knowing what I knew. I realized if I can’t recommend people join here, then why am I still here?” About ...
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