Welcome to General Intelligence, OneZero’s weekly dive into the A.I. news and research that matters. It is written by OneZero senior writer Dave Gershgorn. Apple has spent the past three years convincing its customers that facial recognition is the future: It’s faster and more secure than using a fingerprint, and…

Inside an unprecedented surge of activism in the tech industry — This article is part of Into the Valley, a feature series from OneZero about Silicon Valley, the people who live there, and the technology they create. On November 1, 2018, thousands of Google workers streamed out of offices across the world holding signs with messages reading “not ok Google,” and…