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Don’t get too excited about tech advances. Many are designed to leave Black people behind

The importance of reckoning with anti-Black bias in the white-dominated tech world

#Data4BlackLives conference highlights how technology and race interact

Google CEO finally grilled by Congress over data & censorship, but conservatives try to make it all about them

Google employees stage mass walkout over sexual harassment and other workplace issues

Verizon throttled data while firefighters responded to wildfire, highlighting danger of Net Neutrality repeal

Shuri returns to the throne in her own Marvel comic by Nnedi Okorafor

Elon Musk faces growing criticism over his contributions to Republican Political Action Committees

Shondaland on Law and Order (and Trump’s America) in ‘For The People’

In the wake of the Facebook scandal, Google’s data collection practices come under scrutiny

Largest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook reportedly a scam

Report: Robots in the workforce are accelerating pay gaps for women and people of color

Twitter bans some white supremacists from their platform, but efforts still feel hollow

High school senior creates CopStop app to help youth with police encounters

There’s an app to help Black teenage girls deal with stress

Uber Tests Out Scheduled Service

WordPress Reveals .Blog Domain to Roll Out Later This Year

DeRay McKesson Helps Stephen Colbert Address His Privilege [VIDEO]

ICYMI: Lupita Nyong’o lights up red carpet in dress coded by girls

New syringe that plugs gunshot wounds gains FDA approval

VIDEO: ‘With technology I didn’t have to sell my body’

Princeton graduate creates app for Chicago Public School students

Report: people of color have tech degrees, they just don’t get hired

Chicago police announce early stages of body camera program

Teens create mobile app to help citizens monitor law enforcement conduct

Google exec calls this 20-year-old ‘the best technology reviewer on the planet’

Former NASA employee launches diversity-filled emoji app

Like other companies, Twitter also comes up short on diversity

Google to offer women and people of color free coding lessons

African developer creates first black emojis

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