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The only news you need to know this week is that Lizzo played President Madison’s 200-year-old crystal flute — and twerked while she did it. OK, maybe it’s not the only news. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, art and design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the rest of the week’s essential arts news:A needed revamp For SCI-Arc, 2022 was supposed to be a year of celebration — marking the architecture school’s 50th anniversary. Instead, it has turned into a year of negative headlines over a scandal related to the ways in…

Google's head of public policy for India has resigned just five months after taking the job, two sources told Reuters, at a potentially critical time for the US tech giant as it awaits the outcome of at least two antitrust cases in the country.The reasons for Archana Gulati's resignation were not immediately clear.Gulati, who previously worked at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's federal think-tank, declined to comment. A spokesperson for Alphabet's Google also declined to comment.Google is facing a series of antitrust cases…

As the Hollywood Foreign Press Association continues to try to rehabilitate itself in the wake of a 2021 exposé that jeopardized the future of its Golden Globe Awards, another organization of entertainment journalists — this one without a multimillion-dollar TV deal, but with no shortage of star power at its events — is facing questions of its own. And in recent days, as a result of tensions within the group, the Hollywood Critics Association, 10 of its members — roughly 7 percent of its membership tally…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference for the launch of “Campus TLV” a technology hub for Israeli start-ups, entrepreneurs and developers at Google’s new offices on December 10, 2012.Photo: Jack Guez (Getty Images)A Google worker who spent nearly a decade at the company claims she’s being forced to resign for speaking critically of the company’s secretive $1.2 billion cloud project with the Israeli government.The worker, marketing manager Ariel Koren, spoke with Gizmodo and wrote about her…

Opinion3 aspects that make Data Scientists think about moving on to greener pasturesPhoto by Jan Tinneberg on UnsplashIt’s no secret that attrition in general, and specially in ‘Data Science and Analytics’, is shooting through the roof recently. It has even led to the emergence of a new phrase ‘The Great Resignation’ — a phrase that could have hardly escaped you if you had been following any data science / analytics related conversations in the last couple of years.Over the last decade, ‘Data Science and Analytics’ has…

Pornhub owner MindGeek has lost two high-level executives: CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo, as first reported by Variety. Their resignation comes shortly after The New Yorker released a scathing report detailing the holes in the company’s content moderation system, which has failed to address videos depicting underage and non-consenting individuals. Despite the timeliness of The New Yorker’s report, a spokesperson for the company told Variety that MindGeek had been planning a leadership change since earlier…

PornHub boasts 130 million visitors every day.Image: Ethan Miller (Getty Images)On Monday, one of the world’s biggest purveyors of porn, MindGeek, announced that executives CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo have resigned from the company following a string of controversies.MindGeek is a Montreal-based company that, to the uninitiated, appears to be a run-of-the-mill web advertising and marketing company that boasts hundreds of millions of daily visitors and billions of ad impressions across its websites. The…

AxonTaser maker Axon is walking back plans to make a taser-equipped drone after nine members of its AI Ethics board resigned. Axon, a technology company known for developing tasers and products for police and the military, wanted to market the product as a means of stopping mass shootings. Pushback from the ethics AI Ethics board was swift and forceful. "We all feel the desperate need to do something to address our epidemic of mass shootings. But Axon's proposal to elevate a tech-and-policing response when there are…

Microsoft HoloLens chief Alex Kipman is reportedly leaving the company in the mixed reality reorganisation following allegations of misconduct.According to geekwire.com, the tech giant is splitting its HoloLens mixed reality group and parting ways with Kipman.The restructuring was announced in an internal email on Tuesday evening, shifting the company's Mixed Reality Hardware group into the Windows and Devices organisation, and its Mixed Reality Presence and Collaboration group into the Microsoft Teams organisation in the…

Elon Musk has told Tesla employees to come back into their respective offices at least 40 hours a week or leave the company.Musk said in two separate emails that people must show up for at least 40 hours per week in a main Tesla office. "If you don't show up, we will assume you have resigned," he said in one of the emails, first reported by Electrek and also obtained by CNBC."Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla," Musk said in…