Tag Archives: Silicon Valley

Why Some Diversity Thinkers Aren’t Buying Tech Industry’s ‘Pipeline’ Excuses 

Posted on July 19, 2016 by The Soul Brother

by Alina Selyukh The thing about the tech industry and employee diversity reports is they can feel like Groundhog Day: Google, 2014: “Put simply, Google is not where we want to be when it comes to diversity.” Google, 2016: “We … Continue reading →

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The Jungle: Thousands of Homeless People Live in Shantytowns at the Epicenter of High-Tech, Super-Rich Silicon Valley

Posted on December 16, 2013 by The Soul Brother

By Evelyn Nieves By mid-morning on Thursday, the sun was shining hard enough to dry wet blankets and the residents of the Jungle began surfacing, letting each other know they were still alive. Six straight nights of freezing temperatures had … Continue reading →

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Being In The Minority Can Cost You And Your Company

Posted on July 24, 2013 by The Soul Brother

By Shankar Vedantam The racial wage gap in the United States — the gap in salary between whites and blacks with similar levels of education and experience — is shaped by geography, according to new social science research. The larger … Continue reading →

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U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program

Posted on June 7, 2013 by The Soul Brother

  By Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras   The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts … Continue reading →

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The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’

Posted on June 3, 2013 by The Soul Brother

By Julian Assange “THE New Digital Age” is a startlingly clear and provocative blueprint for technocratic imperialism, from two of its leading witch doctors, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, who construct a new idiom for United States global power in … Continue reading →

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