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Google fires engineer who protested at a company-sponsored Israeli tech conference


"I'm a Google software engineer and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide or surveillance!" The engineer shouted as such, interrupting a speech by Barak Regev, Google Israel's managing director, during an Israeli tech event in New York.

TikTok’s future is looking increasingly uncertain as President Joe Biden has now come out in support of the measure, one day after it cleared its first legislative hurdle in the House. CEO RJ Scaringe said the automaker had taken more than 68,000 reservations for the SUV in less than 24 hours, suggesting a latent interest in innovative EV companies not helmed by Elon Musk. Just as Engadget was hitting publish on its first posts, I was putting a freshly minted English degree to use working at an indie bookshop in Los Angeles.

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