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[ January 17, 2021 ] GitHub’s head of HR resigns in light of termination of Jewish employee : Author – Megan Rose Dickey General
[ January 17, 2021 ] Threat of inauguration violence casts a long shadow over social media : Author – Taylor Hatmaker General
[ January 17, 2021 ] Original Content podcast: Martin Scorsese and Fran Lebowitz have a good time in ‘Pretend It’s A City’ : Author – Anthony Ha General
[ January 17, 2021 ] A curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics, pt. 2: The particle melting pot: Author – Ars Contributors General
[ January 17, 2021 ] AI-powered text from this program could fool the government: Author – WIRED General

GitHub’s head of HR resigns in light of termination of Jewish employee : Author – Megan Rose Dickey

January 17, 2021 Megan Rose Dickey 0

TechCrunch A GitHub internal investigation has revealed the company made “significant errors of judgment and procedure” in the firing of the Jewish employee who cautioned his coworkers about the presence of Nazis in the DC […]

Threat of inauguration violence casts a long shadow over social media : Author – Taylor Hatmaker

January 17, 2021 Taylor Hatmaker 0

TechCrunch As the U.S. heads into one of the most perilous phases of American democracy since the Civil War, social media companies are scrambling to shore up their patchwork defenses for a moment they appear […]

Original Content podcast: Martin Scorsese and Fran Lebowitz have a good time in ‘Pretend It’s A City’ : Author – Anthony Ha

January 17, 2021 Anthony Ha 0

TechCrunch The concept behind the new Netflix documentary series “Pretend It’s A City” is pretty straightforward: Author Fran Lebowitz talks, while Martin Scorsese (who’s both director and an on-camera presence) listens and laughs. Lebowitz’s musings […]

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A curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics, pt. 2: The particle melting pot: Author – Ars Contributors

January 17, 2021 Ars Contributors 0

Ars Technica One of the quietest revolutions of our current century has been the entry of quantum mechanics into our everyday technology. It used to be that quantum effects were confined to physics laboratories and […]

AI-powered text from this program could fool the government: Author – WIRED

January 17, 2021 WIRED 0

Ars Technica Enlarge (credit: Elena Lacey | Getty Images) In October 2019, Idaho proposed changing its Medicaid program. The state needed approval from the federal government, which solicited public feedback via Medicaid.gov. Roughly 1,000 comments […]

After a decade, NASA’s big rocket fails its first real test: Author – Eric Berger

January 17, 2021 Eric Berger 0

Ars Technica At 4:27pm central time, the SLS rocket core stage ignited its four RS-25 engines at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. The test was to last up to eight minutes. [credit: Trevor Mahlmann for Ars […]

After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next : Author – Mike Butcher

January 16, 2021 Mike Butcher 0

TechCrunch Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Now tech companies across industries are poised for an even better year, according to more than a […]

No one knows what anything is worth : Author – Alex Wilhelm

January 16, 2021 Alex Wilhelm 0

TechCrunch Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Click here if you want it in […]

Human Capital: Labor issues at GitHub, Facebook’s new civil rights exec and a legal battle against Prop 22 : Author – Megan Rose Dickey

January 16, 2021 Megan Rose Dickey 0

TechCrunch This week kicked off with a report of a GitHub worker who was fired after cautioning his coworkers in the DC area to stay safe from Nazis during the assault on the U.S. Capitol. […]

Stay gold, ‘Plaid for X’ startups : Author – Natasha Mascarenhas

January 16, 2021 Natasha Mascarenhas 0

TechCrunch A failed acquisition usually triggers the same series of questions: What does this mean for early-stage startups in the sector? Will a chilling effect occur and hurt valuations? Will VCs stop funding this category? […]