Google braces for employee protests over sexual harassment scandals

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has voiced his support for employee protests that are expected to take place at the company's offices around the world on Thursday over its handling of sexual harassment.

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Changing Up Your Linux Distro

It's common for Linux users to hop between distributions and survey the field, and I recently reached a point where I had to seriously rethink the one I was using most of the time. Between hardware compatibility issues with my old standby and some discouraging missteps with other go-to choices, I felt the time had come to reassess my pool of preferred distributions and repopulate it from scratch. As my journey progressed, I realized that as often as I've discussed the field of Linux-based systems, I had not addressed how to pick one out.

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WeWork to limit free beer all-day perk to four glasses

WeWork is starting to curb beer consumption of some of its New York City members.

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Facebook is at a crossroads. Did Mark Zuckerberg bet right?

Facebook's growth is stalling. It's spending billions of dollars and dedicating most of its resources to fix the problem, but Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't right the ship for quite some time.

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LinkedIn co-founder says tech companies shouldn't be afraid of chaotic growth

Reid Hoffman's new book argues startups must grow with reckless abandon to truly innovate. But critics are skeptical.

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Oracle, the Hardware Company

For all of the dazzle of its rapidly evolving software portfolio, which includes a self-monitoring and self-patching database that also configures itself, as well as numerous cloud applications, Oracle has begun showing its credibility as a hardware vendor. Hardware has commoditized and will not return to the prominence it had in the early days of the tech era. However, commoditization brings new opportunities simply because price-performance numbers work better. Under Oracle's tutelage, hardware has found a disciplined and important niche.

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Ford and Baidu will develop self-driving cars together in China

Ford and Baidu plan to start testing driverless cars on Beijing roads by the end of the year.

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Lime yanks some of its scooters off the streets because they can catch fire

Lime has pulled part of its electric scooter fleet from the streets after learning that some of its vehicles' batteries could catch fire.

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Google X head resigns following harassment allegations

The director of Alphabet's experimental research and development department, Google X, has resigned following last week's New York Times report that claimed he had sexually harassed a job applicant. Richard DeVaul is leaving without any exit package, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Social network Gab, a home for anti-Semitic speech, produced some of its own

Gab defends itself as an unbiased home for unfettered speech, but the social media site has itself taken part in anti-Semitic commentary.

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