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Tech issues: No room at the LinkedIn for prostitutes; Square bans gun sales; Nintendo game and gay marriage
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22 hours ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Tech issues: No room at the LinkedIn for prostitutes; Square bans gun sales; Nintendo game and gay marriage

Today we're rounding up tidbits of tech "issues" from this week, from guns to prostitution to gay marriage: • LinkedIn doesn't want to be the network for the world's oldest profession. This week, the Mountain View company updated its Read More →
Larry Page on technology, society and Burning Man
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2 days ago Brandon Bailey 2 Comments

Larry Page on technology, society and Burning Man

Google CEO Larry Page doesn’t give a lot of speeches, and his vocal cord problems are now well-known.  So it was both surprising and rare for him to take the stage at the company’s I/O software conference this week and Read More →
Quoted: Shoot and share? On new ‘smart rifle’
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2 days ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Quoted: Shoot and share? On new ‘smart rifle’

"This kind of technology, in addition to making shooting more fun for them, also allows shooting to be something that they share with others." — Jason Schauble, president of TrackingPoint, a Texas company that's selling what it's calling the Read More →
Angelina Jolie, breast cancer and the gene-patenting question
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3 days ago Levi Sumagaysay 4 Comments

Angelina Jolie, breast cancer and the gene-patenting question

What's Angelina Jolie doing on SiliconBeat? Her much-discussed decision to have a double mastectomy, which the actress wrote about in a New York Times op-ed, is putting the spotlight back on an important question that relates to biotech Read More →
Wiretap: Why Silicon Valley could be key to this month’s elections … in France.
1 2008
5 days ago Peter Delevett No Comments

Wiretap: Why Silicon Valley could be key to this month’s elections … in France.

Its deep pockets make Silicon Valley a prime locale for political fundraising on both sides of the aisle. But last week, the Bay Area was squarely in the sights of a politician from the other side of the Pond. It seems Read More →
CREDO urges tech leaders to follow Elon Musk’s example and quit Zuck’s FWD.us group
1 2008
5 days ago Dana Hull No Comments

CREDO urges tech leaders to follow Elon Musk’s example and quit Zuck’s FWD.us group

On Friday, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk quit FWD.us, the advocacy group formed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, after the group's subsidiaries funded ads for conservative Senators touting their support for the Keystone XL pipeline and oil drilling in Read More →

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