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Whistleblower: Google Told Cops To Do a “Wellness Check” on Him
He can be seen doing a sort of perp walk on the video; some portions transcribed hereIn the documents Vorhies unearthed, Google seemed to be "intending to scope the information landscape so that they could create their own version of what was objectively true."
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Is Google a Cult? Or Does It Just Act That Way?
Project Veritas announces that a new rebel Googler has sent nearly 1000 documents on algorithm bias to the DOJWhile we prepare a news story on Zach Vorhies' revelations, it may be worth asking why one of the world’s largest companies has developed what appears to be the atmosphere of a political cult.
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Why Is DeepMind In Deep Water Financially?
Market analysts are wondering if the money is as smart as the machineIn an all-out botwar with the other tech Bigs, DeepMind could simply be paying top minds not to work for the competition while readying AI tools that pay better than winning at board games. Maybe.
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Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene: How to Spell Gud
Also, Google and Apple ditching college degree requirements is not really that newTwenty years or so ago, when I worked in Seattle, Microsoft was famous for the testing coding skills of their applicants and asking Mensa-like questions. Degrees were secondary.
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Google’s “Civil War” Is a First For the Big Tech Industry
Not the sort of first to rejoice market analysts’ heartsIf a recent longform article at Fortune is any guide, tech philosopher George Gilder was onto something when he told Steve Forbes recently that the whole Google culture is “kind of self-defeating and wrong.”
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Advice for Budding Inventors and Entrepreneurs: Hal Philipp Shares His Experience
If you used a touchscreen, an automated door opener or automated faucet today, it is probably based on the technology of inventor and entrepreneur Hal Philipp. We continue our conversation with Hal on the Mind Matters podcast, revisiting his ambivalent relationship with Apple. Show Notes 01:20 | Advice to budding entrepreneurs 03:30 | Don’t Do This At Home 06:35 | Read More ›
George Gilder: Why Does Google Seem To Be Having a Corporate Nervous Breakdown?
Gilder tells Forbes that its whole culture is “kind of self-defeating and wrong.”"This whole business of aggregating people by giving them free stuff—in order to collect data to provide guidance for advertisers—it’s just a circuitous means of a business plan that I don’t think will finally prevail."
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George Gilder: Google Does Not Believe in Life After Google
He offers chilling insight into the ultimate visions of technocratsIf the surveillance technology developed for China catches on in the West, however numberless the Googlers' infinite parallel universes may be, Americans will be constantly and closely observed while sitting behind on the beach.
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Google Search: Its Secret of Success Revealed
The secret is not the Big Data pile. No, Google found a way to harness YOUR wants and needsGoogle is one of the most widely misunderstood success stories of our time. Many of us equate Google with “Big Data,” that is, amassing huge quantities of data and then finding useful statistical patterns. But is that how it succeeded? In Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy, George Gilder criticizes Google primarily on two fronts: First, it is a “walled garden,” a great platform, but inherently isolated and closed. That is a point worth exploring, but not the focus here. The second point, the one I want to touch on, is that Big Data’s day has come and gone. Because Google is a Big Data company, its brightest days are behind it. Read More ›
Google.com or Google.gov?
A political analyst argues that Google is beginning to mesh with governments whose values are compatible with its own.
Peaceful code of conduct sparks rage in Silicon Valley
Hi tech firm’s code, based on ancient monks’ practice, deemed “just disgusting”
Would Google be happier if America were run more like China?
This might be a good time to ask
Hacks damage Facebook, kill Google+
The internet changes everything. For example, it makes the Big Guys more vulnerable, not less vulnerable, than bit players
Google boss quits, writes satirical novel
The novel is said to be so far-fetched that it captures the environment
George Gilder talks tech at World News Daily
In a three-part interview the tech philosopher explains why he thinks Google is doomed
Google is collecting data on schoolkids
Some say it’s okay because the firm supplies a lot of free software and hardware to schools
Google Powering China’s Snoop Culture
They’ve suppressed the memo but can’t suppress the uproar around it
Digital dictatorship?
China’s “social credit” system coming under scrutiny
Senior Google scientist quits over Google’s censorship in China
He believes it “contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights”Some believe that any censorship system that a human being can develop can somehow be got around by another human being. China may provide a way of testing that.
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