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this is CNET and here are the stories that matter right now this week a memo called Google's ideological echo chamber made its way online it was authored by James d'amour an engineer at Google in the 10 page document the more argued that women are underrepresented in technology partially due to biological reasons and that quote we need to also stop assuming that gender gaps implies sexism d'amour was then fired and is looking into legal action against the company Google CEO sundar pichai wrote a response to the memo that was published on Google's blog in it which I said quote portions of the memo violate our code of conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace google was to hold a company-wide meeting about diversity on Thursday August 10th but the meeting was cancelled because staff were worried they may face harassment reports say Pichai canceled the meeting 30 minutes before was it take place Disney announced it is pulling new Disney and Pixar films from Netflix this announcement will affect new releases starting in 2019 Disney will instead build its own streaming service Netflix said it is a negotiations with Disney about keeping Star Wars and Marvel films after 2019 Disney CEO Bob Iger said those properties could end up at Netflix another service or Disney could keep them for itself Consumer Reports says it no longer recommends Microsoft Surface laptops and tablets the issue is poor reliability according to studies by Consumer Reports 25% of Microsoft laptops and tablets will have problems by the second year of usage Microsoft said it disagrees with Consumer Reports and says Microsoft's predicted failure and return rates are much lower than the 25% estimated by Consumer Reports stay up to date with the latest by downloading the scene at detected AF available for iOS and Android