September 29th, 20230DEARBORN – Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud announced a partnership with ACCESS and Google to connect 500 Dearborn residents with Google Career Certificates training and help job-seekers land good-paying, high-demand jobs in growing fields at no cost.
“This partnership will provide our residents with the tools and resources they need to...
October 15th, 20220A study by a warranty and auto market expert company places Michigan as second in its list of states where mechanics are most in demand.
The study’s result won’t surprise too many Michigan drivers, especially those reeling from expensive damage to their suspensions and tires from the state’s brutal winter "pothole...
September 1st, 20220A Jewish employee at Google resigned, explaining in a public letter that the company is complicit in violations of Palestinian human rights due to its lucrative business ties with Israel’s apartheid government and attempts to silence those that speak out for those rights.
Google has a billion-dollar contract with Amazon and the...
July 21st, 20220Google removed a stereotypical translation suggestion to a simple Arabic word from its widely used Google Translate app this week, after being contacted by media and an advocacy group.
The change took place on Wednesday, after Newsweek pointed out to the company that when users entered the Arabic word for the verb "plan", Google...
March 26th, 20220“We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This sentence was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company’s direct support for the Israeli government and military.
In their letter, the signatories protested a $1.2 billion contract between Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS)...
February 18th, 20220A single activist helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the world’s most sophisticated spyware companies now facing a cascade of legal action and scrutiny in Washington over damaging new allegations that its software was used to hack government officials and dissidents around the world.
It all started with a software glitch...
November 26th, 20190LONDON — A new report by the human rights organization Amnesty International says tech giants Facebook and Google’s surveillance of billions of people poses a serious and systematic threat to human rights.
The report, titled “Surveillance Giants: How the business model of Google and Facebook threatens human rights”, lays out...
November 9th, 20190CHICAGO — The Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE), in collaboration with Crescendo and the Public Accountability Initiative, released a report this week that looks at the role that Big Tech platforms, Wall Street firms and right-wing media corporations have played in fanning the flames of White supremacy and anti-Muslim...
January 19th, 20170Beirut native Khaled Abdel-Rahman
REDWOOD CITY— Beirut native Khaled Abdel-Rahman, who came to the U.S. on a student visa to earn his master’s degree in computer science from the University of Southern California, has made the 2017 Forbes 30 under 30 games list.
Only 25-years-old, Abdel-Rahman has worked on the concept and design...
