Aram Zucker-Scharff

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I rarely meet a woman in tech who does not have a similar story to share, be it of the venture capitalist who hit on her, the co-worker who makes too many sexual jokes or the boss who doesn’t invite the women on the team to big meetings.

Sometimes the sexism is overt, but more often it seems unintentional — the byproduct of an industry where subtle sexism is so entrenched in the culture that it is unrecognized as sexism in the first place.

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– Tech companies haven’t gotten past sexism 1.0.

Gamergate Supporters Partied at a Strip Club This Weekend:

How 8Chan celebrated its first birthday.

This is a weird article. GamerGate goes to strip club, brings laptops, ignores strippers, talks about dicks, complains about SJWs, and parties in Brooklyn. What? 

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Carriers resist becoming “dumb pipes” because there’s no money in it. A pipe is a faceless commodity, valued only by reliability and speed. In such a market, margins sink to zero or below zero, and it becomes a horrible business to be in.

“Dumb pipes” are exactly what users want. They want the carriers to provide fast, reliable, cheap mobile data connectivity. Then, they want to get their apps, services and social products from, you know, the Internet.

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– Why Google wants to replace Gmail.

mittechnologyreviewdesign:

The disparity between the rich and everyone else is larger than ever in the United States and increasing in much of Europe. Why?

(Read the full story / Illustration by Javier Jaén)