#Cyberculture agenda: “Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture

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Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture

New York Times – Mike Isaac – Feb 22, 4:31 PM

Until this week, this culture was only whispered about in Silicon Valley. Then on Sunday, Susan Fowler, an engineer who left Uber in December, published a blog post about her time at the company. She detailed a history of discrimination and sexual

Google is donating $11.5 million to racial justice causes

The Social Software Weblog

Google will invest $11.5 million to support racial justice, the company announced in a blog post today. The funds are split between 10 different causes, with $5 million going to the Center for Policing Equality. “CPE’s National Justice Database is th…

Inside the Instagram Algorithm

Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

A software engineer from Instagram recently provided some new insight into how their feed algorithm works.

Drones Are Turning Civilians Into an Air Force of Citizen Scientists

Wired Top Stories by Anna Vlasits

 

Citizen drone scientists need some basic training on study design.

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