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Google has fired another worker-activist — TC

Google has fired another worker-activist: Kathryn Spiers, writes Megan Rose Dickey. Here is the link: https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/google-has-fired-another-worker-activist/

Sergey Brin, Larry Page stepping down from Google

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google, and the CEO and president, respectively, of Alphabet, have decided to leave these roles. Sundar Pichai,...

Facebook’s new data tool lets you transfer your media to Google Photos — Engadget

Facebook users will soon get more control over their data, with the introduction of a tool that lets them bulk export their media, writes...

Fitbit users fear privacy invasion after $2.1bn Google acquisition — The Guardian

Fitbit says data of its 28 million users will not be sold or used for Google ads, writes Kari Paul. Here is the link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/05/fitbit-google-acquisition-health-data

Google and IBM clash over milestone quantum computing experiment — Quanta

Today Google announced that it achieved “quantum supremacy.” Its chief quantum computing rival, IBM, said it hasn’t. The disagreement hinges on what the term...