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Meet the Google engineer getting its workers ready to strike
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By going public, dissidents at Google will face some huge risks
Publicly opposing an employer could expose workers to retribution from within and without–and to a big financial hit. (Read more on Fast Company)
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This tech CEO is offering a $1 million donation to inspire tech companies to help fight homelessness
The CEO of the booming startup Twilio will put $1 million of company’s money toward alleviating homeless problems, urging other tech leaders to pony up, too. (Fast Company)
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This incredibly simple privacy app helps protect your phone from snoops with one click
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Forgoing the default DNS server that your ISP provides and using an alternate one like Cloudflare’s (or others) makes it a lot harder for your ISP to log all the sites you go to. (Read on Fast Company)
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Silicon Valley voters just demanded that tech companies be responsible for their communities
Three Bay Area cities approved new taxes to help even out the income divide. They may inspire a movement across the state and country. (Fast Company)
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NASA astronauts will get to use this extraterrestrial supercomputer
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With three or four months before the system gets a ride back to Earth for more testing, NASA decided to put the system, an HPE Apollo 4000-series enterprise server, to work doing real science experiments on the ISS. (Fast Company)
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The dirty political fight to get tech’s richest companies to give less than 1% to the homeless
A ballot initiative that would tax the city’s biggest companies to fund housing services has become an ethical litmus test for technology leaders. (Read on Fast Company)
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Here are Twitter’s new experiments in driving conversation
Twitter wants to make it easier for users to talk to each other—and it’s investigating ways to do that, from color-coded tweets to custom status messages. (Read More)
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Big Brother is being increasingly outsourced to Silicon Valley, says report
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Immigrant and privacy activists are detailing the involvement of big tech–especially Amazon–with the military, ICE, and local law enforcement. (Fast Company)
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How a feminist security engineer helped kick off this wave of tech worker activism
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Leigh Honeywell, a security engineer who was working at Slack during the election in November 2016, felt a call to action. (Read at Fast Company)
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