Facebook Global Director of Diversity Maxine Williams admits that Facebook's pace of change in diversity is too slow.

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Apple’s workforce is still predominately White and male.

  10/4/16- Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with Kimberly Bryant, the founder of Black Girls Code, a not-for-profit organization to help bridge the gap between girls of color and advancing their skills into coding and technology. “What we find when we talk about girls of color is an odd conundrum. Girls that have access […]

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Mattel recently released a Game Developer Barbie in efforts to break gender stereotypes in the STEM industry; but one thing the toy company failed to do was feature the doll in different ethnicities. The only available option was a White doll with red hair. After noticing this while picking up a doll for his wife who is a Black game developer, Marcus Montgomery was prompted to come up with a solution of his own.

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New drug reforms are slated to be presented to the United Nations in April.

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A black woman creates an app aimed to curb employment discrimination.

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On Thursday, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin shared that the state filed a lawsuit against the nonprofit organization, claiming that their Louisville location performed illegal abortions without a license.

The stereotype of what engineers are supposed to look like is quickly changing, as evidenced by the Black female engineers kicking ass at Slack, the startup behind the popular messaging platform.

Every week a new app is launched, but none have gained the traction like Periscope in the nine months the platform has been active. Periscope is a live streaming app whose mission is to allow people to see the world through other people’s eyes. It’s essentially a boarding pass to anywhere in the world. Since […]

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Blackberry has already made the BBM Messenger app available on the Android Play Store and has ways to port Android apps to Blackberry devices.  Now images have appeared of a completely new Blackberry phone running Android.  Click here for MORE.

Bet you didn't know coding allows you the ability to call folks out on their BS and keep projects afloat! Yeah, learn that.

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Google Maps is most likely already in your hand or pocket but few make good use of it.  Well, now the ‘Street View’ function lets you go underwater and swim with whales and sharks.  Click here for More.