With a gigantic bottleneck in tech talent, companies are turning to tech to speed up the recruitment process. But baked into hiring startups’ algorithms are biases and prejudices as old as time…
CES Gets Underway in Las Vegas – But Not Without Controversy
CES, the world’s largest tech show, opened today in Las Vegas yesterday. But even before its first day had drawn to a close, the event’s organizers were under fire for a total…
Silicon Valley’s Bro Culture: More Female Venture Capitalists, Fewer Empty Apologies
Last week it was Travis Kalanick, today it’s Justin Caldbeck, the Binary Capital investor who resigned after six women came forward with allegations of sexual harassment–most of which occurred in the context of…
On May Day, Three of Tech’s Biggest Labor Controversies
Today is International Workers’ Day, celebrated from as far afield as London, Lahore and Lebanon. And while the roots of the holiday date back to a socialist and communist movement in 1886 Chicago,…