Google's Sundar Pichai expresses support for Muslims, slams intolerant discourse

It's so disheartening to see the intolerant discourse playing out in the news these days — statements that our country would be a better place without the voices, ideas and the contributions of certain groups of people, based solely on where they come from, or their religion.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has written an open letter in support of Muslims while slamming the 'intolerable discourse,'indirectly referring to  blustery Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Pichai brings a unique perspective since he himself is an immigrant who came from Madras, India 22 years ago and settled to study and work in the US. 

Titled 'Let's not fear defeat our values,' the letter preaches tolerance and the advantages of different voices in running successful companies as well as nation building. Pichai is the latest recognized tech CEO who has weighed in on serious issues of equality. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg also gave his support to Muslims and Apple's Tim Cook famously expressed his support for minorities and he even penned an essay on bloomberg advocating for equality.

Medium to debut iOS app

Blogging platform Medium will reportedly unveil an iPhone app this week. The platform’s first app since it was introduced in 2012. The app is currently meant to read posts on the site. There is no word yet when the ability to write posts will be introduced into the app or if an Android app will follow. However, Medium’s site already works well on the mobile browser so we’re not sure how the app will differentiate itself from the mobile version of the site.

Source: New York Times’ Bits Blog