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In November 2019, which now seems like an aeon ago, I wrote about an interesting correlation I had stumbled across. It was that the authors of the most insightful critiques of digital technology as deployed by the tech companies were women. I listed 20 of them and added that I made no claims for the …

More than 7,500 people signed a petition urging The Times not to publish his name, including many prominent figures in the tech industry. “Putting his full name in The Times,” the petitioners said, “would meaningfully damage public discourse, by discouraging private citizens from sharing their thoughts in blog form.” On the internet, many in Silicon …

with Tonya Riley Tech companies are increasingly cracking down on President Trump — but they’re doing so in wildly inconsistent ways.  Video-streaming service Twitch took the extreme step of temporarily suspending the president’s account in part because it streamed his remarks at a recent rally in Tulsa that violated policies against “hateful content,” company spokeswoman …

with Tonya Riley Venture capital firms are proclaiming that Black Lives Matter.  But the Medium posts, news releases and tweets from these titans of technology stand in stark contrast to the lack of diversity in the exclusionary and insulated world of start-up investing.  Just 1 percent of start-up founders who raised venture capital are black, …

President Trump holds up tweets from Google as he speaks during a press briefing about the coronavirus alongside US Vice President Mike Pence on March 15, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) With Tonya Riley Ctrl + N The coronavirus crisis is testing whether Big Tech can restore its reputation in Washington after …

Records were broken overnight Wednesday as temperatures plummeted into the 20s and 30s in most parts of the county due to a cold front passing through Southern California. Four of the National Weather Service’s San Diego County stations reported record-breaking temperatures amid an overnight freeze warning: Ramona’s low temperature of 19 degrees broke its 2002 …