Wired USA – September 2019

then considered a thoughtless amusement, codifying most of the rules you know today: The grids are nearly always square; words m ...

0 77 ACROSS 1 Jewish human rights organization B’nai _____ 6 Child sitcom actor specialty 10 Hamilton didn’t throw his away 14 T ...

0 7 8 green-lit a word known as a racist slur. Shortz issued an apology the same day, claiming neither he nor his assistant had ...

now’s your chance—a major hint and spoilers follow.) My next idea was to create a theme punning on famous tech CEOs’ names. I wr ...

is google is google biased is google hiding something is google the best hope for the future of tech is google tearing itself ap ...

THREE YEARS OF MISERY INSIDE SILICON VALLEY’S HAPPIEST COMPANY BY NITASHA TIKU ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALEX ANDERSON ...

much impossible. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the former Montessori kids who founded Google as Stanford grad students in the late ...

proposed that the company should intervene in searches for terms like “Islam,” “Muslim,” or “Iran” that were showing “Islamophob ...

As the Trump era wore on, Google continued to brace itself for all manner of external assaults, and not just from the right. The ...

Damore framed his memo as an appeal for intellectual diversity, identifying his reasoning as a conservative political posi- tion ...

Milo Yiannopoulos, the former tech editor at Breitbart, shared the Reddit collage image with 2 million Facebook followers. “Look ...

for the late notice, but we are going to cancel today’s Town Hall,” he wrote. “We had hoped to have a frank, open discussion tod ...

importance of open debate in the care and feeding of innovative people. “In our experience, most smart creatives have strong opi ...

around the world to power Google’s own products like Gmail, a service that, for vast swaths of users, had normalized the idea of ...

That month, Fong-Jones made another calculated exception to her usual policy of keeping dissent within the Google family. She an ...

an “air gap”—a security measure favored by the Pentagon that physically sepa- rates networks to protect sensitive data—and infor ...

VIII. ON OCTOBER 25, 2018, A STORY IN THE New York Times dredged up the dark side of Google’s tolerance for aberrant geniuses. I ...

and seemed irked by the fact that the same question came up over and over again when the executives had nothing new to say. The ...

people operations. The invitation was brokered by the head of Women at Google, an employee resource group, who told Stapleton it ...

benefits the Chinese military,” even as it snubbed working with the Pentagon. A couple of days later, President Trump tweeted, “ ...