Tech talk
How Alphabet’s smart city echoed a failed sci-fi utopia in Minnesota
Last week, Google’s parent company abandoned plans for an experimental “city-within-a-city” in Toronto. Sidewalk Labs had spent years designing...
Color of Change’s Jade Ogunnaike wants tech platforms to do better
After years of growing discontent, social platforms’ moderation problems are starting to hit the bottom line. For the past...
TikTok, Shareit, 59 Apps Banned by Government, Here’s What You Can Use Instead
The government has just banned 59 apps, which are from Chinese companies, as potential threats to national security. It's...
Google Wants to Write Your Emails for You; It’s Time to Draw the Line
I've been doing battle with Gmail. Every day my emails try to write themselves, and every day I try...
Google Stymies Media Companies From Chipping Away at Its Data Dominance
Alphabet's Google upended plans by European media companies to block it from harvesting data about their readers and slash...
Netflix’s Firing Culture Works for Netflix
Do you know the story of Patty McCord, Netflix's original human relations chief? It's legendary, and worth recounting in...
Dil Bechara, The Umbrella Academy, and More: July 2020 Guide to Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, and Prime Video
We said goodbye to a few TV shows in June, of which the German time-travelling thriller Dark was by...
IBM’s $34-Billion Red Hat Deal Is a Risky Bid to Boost Cloud Business
IBM's plan to buy Red Hat is both the biggest acquisition in IBM's century-long history and a risky effort...
LinkedIn Users Ditch Polite Networking for Real Talk on US Race and Inequality
"This is white supremacy. This is institutionalised racism," Aaisha Joseph, an executive assistant in New York City, posted on...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Emerges ‘Unscathed’ From US Congress Hearing
His voice was so quiet at times he could barely be heard across the chambers of the House Judiciary...
