This Week in Google 417

Google engineer writes men's rights diatribe. Google fires him. Discussion ensues. Also: Deepmind vs. Starcraft, get a new phone every 30 days, Amazon's secret brands, Instagram depression, and the 8th best tech writer in the US.

• Stacey's thing: Mighty
• Jeff's number: 3 day podcast festival in NYC

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Links

• The top 30 technology writers followed most by other US tech writers – 2017
• A Googler's Anti-Diversity Screed Reveals Tech's Rotten Core - The Atlantic
• Google just hired a diversity VP — just as it struggles with a sexist memo from an employee
• Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google [Updated]
• So, about this Googler’s manifesto.
• Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Memo Questioning Women in Tech - The New York Times
• Julian Assange offers job to fired Google employee who wrote anti-diversity memo
• Stacey - Guys its time to grow up
• Stacey: My dog just ate some raspberry habanero jelly
• Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online
• Apple pulls massive HomeKit chip U-turn to keep up with Amazon Echo and Google Home
• Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
• Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression | EPJ Data Science | Full Text
• Steve Bannon Saw the ‘Monster Power’ of Angry Gamers While Farming Gold in World of Warcraft
• Deepmind goes after Starcraft next
• Sources: Google was interested in buying Snap for $30B+ in early 2016
• Essential Phone launch date to be revealed next week
• T-Mobile's JUMP! On Demand now lets you upgrade your phone once every 30 days
• Zuckerberg hires Clinton pollster, totally not running for president
• Instagram Adds Live Two Person Streaming today
• Amazon reportedly plans to add multiroom audio to Echo speakers
• Amazon (AMZN) owns a whole collection of secret brands, USPTO trademark filings reveal — Quartz
• Mighty
• Three day podcast festival in nyc
• Podcast talk show on NYC subway