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Google gave a download on its tools for game developers in an online event today, and it was full of news for Google Play, cloud infrastructure, and Stadia cloud gaming services for developers. Emil Protalinski and I covered the basics of the developer news and a deal with Unity, but …

For women, the topic of pay inequality has another side. You may have heard of the pink tax, which is the practice of charging more for products that are marketed towards women. It’s a relatively innocent name for the fundamentally discriminatory phenomena of gender being unnecessarily impressed on products like …

Overwhelmed by demand for an experimental treatment for coronavirus, the drug maker Gilead abruptly shut down its emergency access program, leaving doctors and families scrambling for answers. The company said it was setting up a broader access program that could try to help more people, but some said the transition …