She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?
What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru Read More
“The most interesting book ever written about Google” (The Washington Post) delivers the inside story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time, now updated with a new Afterword.
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives Read More
Over the course of five weeks, I blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple one at a time, to find out how to live in the modern age without each one. To end my experiment, I’m going to see if I can survive blocking all five at once.
I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell Read More
As consumers, we are afforded only a few avenues of acceptable dissent—the most reasonable of which is that, if you don’t like what a company is doing, you can move your money and data elsewhere. But increasingly this option is unavailable to us.
Want to Really Block the Tech Giants? Here’s How Read More
Just eleven years old [in 2009], Google has profoundly transformed the way we live and work-we’ve all been Googled. Esteemed media writer Ken Auletta uses the story of Google’s rise to explore the future of media at large.
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It Read More