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Do you have a story you think we should tell? Call us at (212) 210-NEWS or email us at nydntips@ny dailynews.com. This is your paper, and we are committed to covering the issues that matter to you. Here are some of our top stories from the last week:

Google cracks: A Daily News exposé on Google’s facial recognition project has the tech giant scrambling to save face. Last month, The News exclusively learned Google hired temporary workers to solicit face scans from people with “darker” skin. One team was sent to

Atlanta with instructions to target homeless black people who would willingly provide a scan in exchange for a $5 gift card. After our story, Google immediately launched an internal investigation and suspended the project. On Wednesday, a spokesman admitted to flaws in its data collection. “We found that the conduct was in violation of our training and scripts, and … voluntary studies,” the mouthpiece said.

Gender gap: Women who work for Mayor de Blasio, earn 10% less than their male colleagues, according to a salary analysis by The News. We looked at what 69 City Hall staffers made and found women’s base salary was 4.5% less than their male counterparts. Payroll records reveal that even at the highest level of administration women’s salaries were 10.2% less than male employees. Art smart: A plucky Queens second-grader started a petition to bring back a canceled art period at a Public School 47 in Broad Channel. Elizabeth Wholmaker, 7, told The News she was devastated when her favorite

class was scrapped during an academic restructuring. She’s collected nearly 1,600 signatures so far!

Plan Progresses: Two city jails will be shut down early next year as part of the plan to close Rikers Island, according to a News scoop on Friday. The Brooklyn Detention Complex in Boerum Hill is slated to close by the end of January, and the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers will shut down in March, according to the Department of Correction. The Brooklyn complex currently houses about 400 people — less than half of its total capacity — while Taylor Center houses about 850, roughly half its 1,700 capacity, officials said.

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