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Google CEO Sundar Pichai. (credit: Sam Churchill) Google has fired James Damore, an engineer who wrote a controversial essay arguing that the company has gone overboard in its attempts to promote diversity. Damore confirmed the firing in an e-mail to Bloomberg. “At Google, we’re regularly told that implicit (unconscious) and explicit biases are holding women […]
Carolynn “C.J.” Kanelakos is a woman. And she’s a mechanical engineer at the Johnson Space Center. And while some might think these facts make her a bit of a unicorn, she’s never felt particularly exceptional as a female in the sciences. “Growing up, nobody ever led me to believe there was anything I couldn’t do. […]
Clinton Steeds/Flickr From what we’ve seen, the vast majority of the men in the tech industry are respectful people, and many are outraged over the sexual harassment and discrimination their female colleagues endure. Even so, few of the ones we’ve talked to have been surprised at how women in the industry have been treated. The […]
The Democratic National Committee has selected ex-Twitter VP Raffi Krikorian as its chief technology officer. Krikorian was until recently the senior director of engineering at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center, but left the company in February. The DNC had plenty of cyber troubles during the election — most notably an email hack, information from which was […]
DETROIT, June 23 (Reuters) – Honda on Friday released a 2013 email in which one of its engineers suggested that he knew some hidden truth about “the root cause” of Takata Corp airbag failures, but the engineer later said he was mistaken. The engineer’s email was disclosed in a statement from Honda as part of […]
Have you ever wanted a nicer-sounding car horn? Something a little more pleasant and nuanced than the blat of a standard horn, to send friendly reminders to people or catch their attention without looking like a huge jerkbag? Well, an engineer and YouTuber named Mark Rober had the same idea, so he installed a custom […]
Enlarge / Anthony Levandowski, VP of engineering at Uber, speaking to reporters at the Uber Advanced Technologies Center on September 13, 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (credit: ANGELO MERENDINO/AFP/Getty Images) The Uber engineer at the center of the company’s litigation with Waymo, Anthony Levandowski, has been fired. Levandowski’s termination was made clear in an internal e-mail and […]
Enlarge / An image of the Siege of Rhodes from the Süleymannâme, a chronicle of the Sultan’s life. (credit: Detail from the Süleymannâme) Suleiman the Magnificent earned his epithet, at least militarily. The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for 46 years, he spent much of his time on campaign. Hungary and Persia felt the brunt […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Anthony Levandowski, the embattled Uber engineer who has been accused of illegally downloading thousands of documents while he worked at Google, won’t be able to avoid handing over documents by pleading the Fifth Amendment. That’s the decision (PDF) of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, published today. Levandowski filed an […]
Enlarge / John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo, debuts a customized Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid in January 2017. (credit: Bill Pugliano / Getty Images News) SAN FRANCISCO—During a Wednesday court hearing, a federal judge said that if an Uber engineer accused of a massive data theft from his former employer is going to invoke his Fifth Amendment right […]
