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A Google employee who became the most visible opponent of a company contract with the Israeli military said on Tuesday that she would resign after claiming Google had tried to retaliate against her for her activism. The employee, Ariel Koren, a marketing manager for Google’s educational products arm who has worked for the company for seven years, wrote a memo to colleagues announcing her plan to leave Google at the end of the week. She spent more than a year organizing against Project… Source link

Welcome to The Long View—where we peruse the news of the week and strip it to the essentials. Let’s work out what really matters. This week: Verizon fined for allegedly spreading disease, Bolt Financial repeats the mistakes of the past, and the founder of Yandex resigns. 1. NY AG vs. VZ: FIGHT! First up this week: Another summer, another outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York. The state’s Attorney General, Letitia James, has some harsh words to say about the maintenance record of… Source link

We have plenty of ways to show the Brooklyn Nets‘ season did not go according to plan this year — chief among them they are currently sitting at home despite employing Kevin Durant — but an assistant coach using ESPN to announce he is quitting then calling out Kyrie Irving is quite illustrative. Former NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire spent the last two seasons as an assistant on former teammate Steve Nash’s coaching staff. During a series of appearances on ESPN on Thursday, he revealed he… Source link

The head of Russia’s top technology firm Yandex quit late Tuesday after being slapped with EU sanctions in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Brussels hit Yandex executive director and deputy CEO Tigran Khudaverdyan with an asset freeze and travel ban earlier in the day, citing the firm’s role in “hiding information” from the Russian public through the manipulation of search results on its platform. Yandex — often dubbed “Russia’s Google” — is the… Source link

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman. Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman surprised many of his followers last week when he announced he’s leaving his vice president role at Google to become a venture capitalist at Silicon Valley firm Greylock Partners, which has backed the likes of Facebook, Airbnb and LinkedIn since it was founded in 1965. His exit from Google, which acquired the DeepMind artificial intelligence lab in 2014, comes after he was accused of… Source link

Major student loan servicer Navient (NAVI) is quitting the federal servicing business, the company announced Tuesday, handing off its 5.5 million borrowers holding about $280 billion in federal student loans to Maximus, another servicer. Advocates and progressive lawmakers led by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) heralded the move, in light of Navient’s troubled relationship with the federal government’s consumer protection bodies.  But the departure adds another challenge when the Education… Source link

Google research manager Samy Bengio, who oversaw the company’s AI ethics group until a controversy led to the ouster of two female leaders, resigned on Tuesday to pursue other opportunities. Bengio, who managed hundreds of researchers in the Google Brain team, announced his departure in an email to staff that was obtained by Bloomberg. His last day will be April 28. An expert in a type of AI known as machine… Source link

FILE PHOTO: Caesar Sengupta, Google’s General Manager of Payments and Vice President leading the Next Billion Users (NBU) initiative, poses for a picture after an interview with Reuters in New Delhi, India, August 28, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi (Reuters) – Senior Google executive Caesar Sengupta, head of the tech giant’s payment initiatives, said on Monday he was leaving the company next month, after 15 years. “I remain very positive about Google’s future but it’s time for me to see if… Source link

Pinduoduo founder Colin Huang The founder of high-flying Chinese e-commerce group Pinduoduo has stepped down unexpectedly as chairman. Colin Huang is China’s seventh richest person and is worth more than $50bn from his stake in the online firm. Mr Huang’s exit comes as Pinduoduo overtook rival tech giants JD.com and Alibaba with 788m annual active buyers on its platform last year. But his company has been criticised for its work culture following the death of two employees recently. Mr Huang will… Source link

A woman has resigned from her position on a school board after accidentally broadcasting a private act to her colleagues during a Zoom meeting. Frances Cogelja, a trustee of the Board of Education in Hackensack in the US state of New Jersey, forgot to turn off the camera on her laptop when she took it with her to the bathroom – sharing her toilet break with nearly 150 people online, including some students. One Facebook group said Ms Cogelja “broadcast her bare bottom” during the… Source link