Jan 16 Watch Tech giant Google working to diversify staff By PBS News Hour American technology companies like Apple, Facebook and Google are striving to improve gender and racial diversity in their workforce. Having revealed their staffs are predominantly white men, the companies are spending furiously to recruit and keep people who aren’t. Hari… Continue watching
Jan 13 Nikki Haley upstages Trump in search traffic during GOP response By PBS News Hour If they didn't already know her, Americans were introduced to a rising star in the Republican party Tuesday night. Continue reading
Oct 21 Watch 8:17 This search engine could help unlock autism’s secrets By PBS News Hour Scientists have long known that genetics play a role in autism, but now they may be able to actually pinpoint the specific gene variants, which could help doctors diagnose and treat the neurodevelopmental disorder from birth. Special correspondent Jackie Judd… Continue watching
Aug 11 Watch 5:26 From Google to Alphabet, what does the change mean? By PBS News Hour Tech giant Google is restructuring. A newly created holding company called Alphabet will now be the umbrella for its core business of Internet searching -- still called Google -- as well as other divisions like home automation and X Labs. Continue watching
Aug 02 How Google is addressing the tech industry’s diversity problem By News Desk To promote diversity in the tech industry, non-profit All Start Code has partnered with Google in an effort to address the opportunity gap for young men of color by training a new generation of coders. Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch 9:11 Cracking the code to a more diverse tech workforce By PBS News Hour The giants of Silicon Valley -- Google, Twitter, Facebook -- report that just three to four percent of their workforce is black or Hispanic, and men outnumber women by more than two to one. Now, tech companies are investing hundreds… Continue watching
Jul 24 Could Facebook or Twitter stop the next terrorist attack? By Anne Flaherty, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Social media giants including Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook and Google are pushing back against Senate legislation that would require them to alert federal authorities of any terrorist activity, according to industry and government officials. Continue reading
Jun 29 BBC responds to privacy law by publishing list of stories removed from Google search By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins Just over a year ago, the EU ruled that people had the “right to be forgotten,” meaning that EU citizens could request Google delete search results concerning them. From the start, the ruling was controversial. Now, the BBC has found… Continue reading
Jun 21 Google to remove ‘revenge porn’ from search results By Kenzi Abou-Sabe Google said Friday that the company will begin allowing users to request that nude or sexually explicit images posted without their consent be removed from Google search results. Continue reading
May 28 Swedish design student wants to diversify the ‘World White Web’ By Aisha Jama One student's final project, World White Web, is disrupting the white default found in Google Image searches… Continue reading