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Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Controversial Anti-Diversity Memo

The Google software engineer who suggested that women are biologically less well-suited to engineering work in an internal memo last week was fired on Monday. Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote, "First,

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Actor John Heard Found Dead In Palo Alto Hotel

John Heard, the film, television and stage actor, was found dead on Friday in Palo Alto, California. He was 72. The actor had "minor back surgery" on Wednesday at Stanford Medical

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Prominent Silicon Valley VC Resigns From Uber Board After Making Sexist Remark During Meeting About Uber's Sexist Culture

After a damning report on its unsurprising sexist, tech bro culture was released on Tuesday, Uber held an all-staff meeting to discuss the findings. As board member Arianna Huffington hailed the addition

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Rihanna Rules During Warriors Game 1 Win Over Cavaliers In NBA Finals

Game one of the 2017 NBA Finals was supposed to be yet another rematch between the Golden State Warriors' Steph Curry and Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James, but it ended up being

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Ex-Uber Engineer Says Company Is Full Of Sexual Harassment, Intimidation

Yesterday, engineer Susan Fowler Tweeted, "I wrote something up this weekend about my year at Uber, and why I left," with a link to an essay titled, "Reflecting On One

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President Trump Will Issue A NEW Executive Order On Immigration

In a new court filing with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Department of Justice says that President Trump will be reissuing an executive order on immigration. Reuters reports, "Given the

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Apple, Facebook, Google, And Other Tech Firms File Court Brief Against Immigration Ban

Nearly one hundred companies, including some of the largest tech firms in the world, filed an amicus brief in opposition of President Trump's executive order that bans foreigners from seven Muslim

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Google Doodle Features Fred Korematsu, Japanese-American Internment Camp Survivor

Fred Korematsu, a civil rights activist who was incarcerated simply for being an American-born citizen with Japanese heritage, is the subject of today's Google Doodle. Korematsu, who died in 2005,

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Watch Kanye West Tell Crowd, 'I Would Have Voted For Trump' And 'We're In A Racist Country'

After the election, chatter started to pick up again about Kanye West running for president in 2020. Well, speaking to his audience at the SAP Center on his special Saint Pablo Tour hoverboard,

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[Update] Twitter, Spotify And Other Sites Suffered Outages Due To DDOS Attacks

A number of websites, including Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify and Github, were down this morning, apparently due to a DDOS attack on the DNS provider Dyn that mostly affected the East Coast of the

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Kevin Durant: 'I Am Going To Join The Golden State Warriors'

Kevin Durant, the star small forward of the Oklahoma City Thunder, just announced that he'll be a Warrior come this fall. According to ESPN's NBA reporter Marc Stein, "

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#TwitterDown For Hours, Silencing Millions Of Conversations About "The Bachelor"

While some of you were wasting your lives sleeping, others were struggling to convey their profound life insights in less than 140 characters or look for info about last night's episode

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Technical Note From SFist

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Netflix Offers 'Unlimited' Maternity And Paternity Leave For New Parents

Netflix is now offering its employees what seems to be the most generous maternity/paternity leave policy from a large American company: A year of leave with full-time pay for new, including

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Bad Blood Over: Taylor Swift (And Everyone Else) Will Get Royalties During Apple Music Trial

After her highly publicized Tumblr plea, Apple has heard Taylor Swift and will now pay artists royalties during its Apple Music three-month trial. Apple senior VP Ed Cue Tweeted last night, "

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Deadly Berkeley Balcony May Have Been 'Decorative' Only

The Berkeley apartment building balcony that collapsed, killing six and injuring seven others, may not have been built to support so many people. A former zoning board member who was part of a

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UPDATE: 6 Killed In Berkeley Balcony Collapse, 7 Injured

Authorities say that five people have died after a fourth floor apartment balcony collapsed early this morning. At least eight others were injured, and "Many of the injured have critical, life-threatening

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NAACP Leader Rachel Dolezal Tells Matt Lauer, "I Identify As Black"

After stepping down from her position as a vice president of the NAACP in Spokane, Washington, Rachel Dolezal gave her first interview to the Today Show. When Matt Lauer asked, "Are you

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Video: John Stamos Confirms 'Full House' Reunion, Spills Details

Have mercy! A thirteen-episode Full House reunion series is definitely happening. And it'll feature pregnant widow D.J. Tanner (Candace Cameron-Bure) raising her two sons with sister (and aspiring

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Giveaway: Last Chance To See <em>Looking East</em> At The Asian Art Museum

When the U.S. Navy and Commodore Matthew Perry opened up Japan to trade in the mid-19th century, Western countries fell under the spell of the archipelago nation and went crazy for

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Uber Investor Ashton Kutcher Supports Digging Up Dirt On "Shady" Journalists

After it was revealed that a top Uber executive bragged about potentially hiring a team to smear its critics in the media, the company quickly tried to apologize and distance itself. Uber CEO

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Uber Executive Bragged About Idea To Spend $1 Million To Investigate Journalists' Private Lives

Of all the things to say while talking to a journalist: A high-profile executive at Uber told BuzzFeed's editor-in-chief about his idea to hire a team to dig

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Officially Comes Out In Essay: "I'm Proud To Be Gay"

Everyone knows that Apple CEO Tim Cook is gay, but he hasn't come out... until now. Writing in a personal essay for Bloomberg Businessweek, he definitively said, "While I have

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Well-Played: How Google Revised Stephen Colbert's Height

Last week, patriot Stephen Colbert blasted Google for misstating his height in searches for "Stephen Colbert height," telling Google co-founder Larry Page, "I demand a retraction, an investigation, an

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Video: Stephen Colbert Googles Himself To Find Google Has His Height Wrong

Watch out, Larry Page—Stephen Colbert is on the warpath! And he wants to sue Google. Colbert told his audience last night, "You see folks when I Googled myself this afternoon—as