Silicon Valley - Page 15

Conservative street artist Sabo has taken aim at Google CEO Sundar Pichai — and the way his company profits off user data — in his latest art installations.

Tesla stock has taken a dive following what has been described as a “bizarre” conference call with CEO Elon Musk.

Alex Hardiman, Facebook’s head of news products, revealed further details about the social network’s plans to “rank” news outlets by “trustworthiness,” during the Facebook Developer Conference this week.

Facebook has fired an employee who allegedly used company tools to stalk women across the Internet.

Ron Gutman, the co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley health-tech startup HealthTap, has been ousted from the company after the board of directors alleged “toxicity” in the workplace.

Even Mark Zuckerberg’s posts were flagged with the questionnaire, which asked users to determine what posts were “hate speech.”

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has announced plans to leave the company following multiple clashes with parent company Facebook.

Conservative Review’s Michelle Malkin joined SiriusXM host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Sam Sorbo for a Friday interview on Breitbart News Tonight to discuss political censorship via technology companies. She dismissed “purist anti-regulation tendencies” while describing companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter as “quasi-monopolies” and “trusts that need to be busted.”

User losses and a drop-off in advertiser spending will be the focus for investors as Facebook gets ready to release their first-quarter results this week.

There is currently no way to track Google’s manipulation of search results and search suggestions.

With smart-guns still a theoretical idea rather than an actual product the Wall Street Journal reports that “smart-gun evangelists” failed to note that Silicon Valley was not buying into the technology. 

Harmeet Dhillon, a San Francisco-based attorney representing former Google engineer James Damore in his class-action lawsuit against Google, joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight on Thursday to tease information about a burgeoning blacklist of conservatives among Silicon Valley-based technology companies. She told Breitbart News Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak that some of her clients have been “blackballed” by “supposedly neutral hiring platforms.”

In an article published on his blog 500ish Words, Google Ventures partner M.G. Siegler published an article titled “Arrogance Peaks in Silicon Valley” which claims tech executives in Silicon Valley are becoming increasingly out of touch with reality.

The California Senate passed a super “Net Neutrality” law just as the Obama-era regulation of the Internet is set to be expire on April 23.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is under pressure to face European Union lawmakers over the recent privacy scandal that has engulfed his company. 

Facebook has suspended conservative comedian Terrence K. Williams for posting screenshots of hate mail he received from liberals.

Three new plaintiffs have joined former Google employee James Damore’s lawsuit against the company, alleging gender, racial, and political discrimination.

According to an updated complaint from former Google engineer James Damore’s class-action lawsuit, Google reserves certain jobs specifically for “diverse individuals.”

Facebook has admitted to tracking the personal details of people without Facebook accounts across the web using Facebook “Like” buttons.

Meritocracy, winning, avoiding conflict, a belief in objectivity, and a ‘colorblind’ racial frame were cited as examples of ‘white dominant culture.’

Facebook’s shares fell on Wednesday after the company’s stock received its first downgrade since January, according to a report.

If Mark Zuckerberg really wants Facebook to be a “platform for all ideas,” as he repeatedly told lawmakers last week, all he needs to do is add a single, radical new feature to the social network.

Facebook could reportedly face billions of dollars in fines over their facial recognition features due to an Illinois law relating to the collection of biometric data.

CNN has defended Facebook in an article discussing the alleged limiting of YouTube stars Diamond and Silk’s Facebook page — while benefiting from the sites recently changed News Feed algorithm.

Canadian columnist Jamie Glazov was suspended from Facebook after he posted screenshots of abuse he received for criticising Islam.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s former speechwriter has claimed he used to declare, “domination!” and “companies over countries” during company meetings.

A surveillance company founded by a former Israeli intelligence officer has been using Facebook, YouTube and other social networks to build a massive facial recognition database — and is just one of many companies doing so.

The latest episode of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” launches a full-fledged attack on Christians as “the source of the majority of the world’s problems,” and admits that being open about your Christian faith is the worst thing one can do in the Tech World.

Zuckerberg tried to dodge the tough questions, but occasionally the truth slipped out.

Tech giant Apple has warned employees not to leak any internal information — according to a leaked internal memo.

Conservative street artist Sabo has been permanently suspended from Twitter.

Google has lost a “right to be forgotten” case appeal in the United Kingdom, after they previously rejected a citizen’s request.

An Uber data breach in 2016 exposed the personal information of over 25 million Americans, according to a report.

Google is developing a new deep learning system that can pick out a single voice from a crowd of people — here is how the technology works.

According to a new report, nearly 1 in 10 Americans surveyed have deleted their Facebook account citing privacy fears as their motivation for leaving the platform.

A CNBC report published on Wednesday revealed that more investors are betting against Tesla than any other U.S. company.