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Leaders of five historically Black colleges and universities met with Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday to discuss the company’s relationship with the schools in the wake of anti-HBCU-graduate discrimination allegations made by a former Google employee. On December 21, ex-Google diversity recruiter April Curley tweeted that she had been fired by the company in September after repeatedly raising concerns about how the tech chain evaluates black college graduates. In recent… Source link

Smartphone vendors, who have been obliged to install applications of Russian origin on phones due to be sold in Russia, plan to place domestic applications on the so-called window of choice, which only appears upon activating the device, reports Kommersant. This provides customers with the opportunity to avoid installing local software. Source link

SYDNEY—Google threatened to shut down its search engine in Australia if a proposed law requiring tech giants to pay publishers for news isn’t changed. The warning escalates the long-running battle pitting the Alphabet Inc. unit and Facebook Inc. against the Australian government, whose efforts to compel tech companies to pay publishers is being widely watched globally and could offer a model for other countries. Last year, Facebook said it would restrict Australian… Source link

Google senior fellow Jeff Dean speaks at a 2017 event in China. Source: Chris Wong | Google A group of current and former Google employees who started a petition supporting departed researcher Timnit Gebru is disputing an executive’s account of her departure. In a blog post titled “Setting the Record Straight,” Gebru’s colleagues and petitioners claim she did not resign, and point to inconsistencies in Google AI Chief Jeff Dean’s statements, including his contention that Google’s process for… Source link