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Democratic senators, led by Cory Booker of New Jersey, say they worry about how Google’s products and policies may perpetuate bias. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images … Source link

Enlarge this image The Google logo seen at the entrance to Google Cloud campus in Seattle. The tech company announced it is allowing some workers to work-from-home permanently if they want. SOPA Images/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett … Source link

Yahoo! Answers shut down Tuesday after nearly 16 years of inquiries from the internet’s curious minds. As a final send-off, NPR gets to the bottom of some of these important questions. Source link

Verizon is spinning off AOL and Yahoo to the private equity firm Apollo in a deal valued at $5 billion. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images … Source link

Yahoo! Answers is shutting down in May. From sex education to homework help, users of the forum remember how it shaped early Internet culture. Source link

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-2 for Google in a case in which tech giant Oracle accused it of illegally copying its code. The decision is the culmination of a decade-long legal battle between the two companies. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle… Source link

Google’s Sundar Pichai, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey face Congressional scrutiny over the spread of misinformation on their platforms. Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images/Composite by NPR hide caption toggle caption … Source link

Google engineer Raksha Muthukumar is among more than 500 employees of the tech giant who this week announced the formation of a labor union, a rarity in Silicon Valley. Courtesy of Raksha Muthukumar hide caption toggle caption … Source link

More than 200 engineers and other workers have formed a union at Google, a breakthrough in labor organizing in Silicon Valley where workers have clashed with executives over workplace culture, diversity and ethics. Across half a dozen Google offices in the U.S. and Canada, 226 workers signed cards to form the Alphabet Workers Union, the group said on Monday. They are supported by the Communications Workers of America, which… Source link

Timnit Gebru talks to Steve Inskeep about her departure from Google after raisng questions about gender, race and the ethics behind artificial intelligence. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Google faces pressure from outside and inside. The outside pressure comes from lawsuits. A third big suit came yesterday. State attorneys general accused Google of giving its own products priority in search results. We report this morning on the inside pressure. Many employees… Source link