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Tech Startups Are Laying Off Thousands
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Tech Startups Are Laying Off Thousands

With cash reserves drying up and investors scarce, hundreds of tech startups have shed workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Other have had to fully liquidate...

Coders Who Survived Human Trafficking Rewrite Their Identities
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Coders Who Survived Human Trafficking Rewrite Their Identities

At a Bay Area nonprofit, former abuse victims learn to code and level up their futures.

Automating Automation
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Automating Automation: CS at the Heart of the Manufacturing Economy

Using machine learning, I'm able to reduce the time required for designing products from months to mere hours as well as free up time for engineers to focus on...

Launching a New Feature in <i>Communications</i>
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Launching a New Feature in Communications

Communications is launching a new series of articles that broaden our presentation of the computing profession, with a particular focus on a young professional...

Five Top U.S. Tech Companies Get 'F' Grade on Gender Pay Equity
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Five Top U.S. Tech Companies Get 'F' Grade on Gender Pay Equity

Five leading U.S. technology companies got the lowest mark of "F" in the third annual "Gender Pay Scorecard" report by investment manager Arjuna Capital and Proxy...

How We Got Our Start In The Tech Industry
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How We Got Our Start In The Tech Industry

Six black women discuss how they got started in tech, provide advice to other black women looking to start in the industry, and suggest what tech companies can...

Grassroots Campaign Spurs Computer Science Education Bill
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Grassroots Campaign Spurs Computer Science Education Bill

A bill championed in a grassroots campaign by C Spire would give all 463,000 elementary, middle, and high school students in Mississippi access to computer science...

Smithsonian Releases Open Access Database of 2.8 Million Digital Assets
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Smithsonian Releases Open Access Database of 2.8 Million Digital Assets

The Smithsonian has announced Smithsonian Open Access, a database of 2.8 million freely available high-quality digital images, 3D models, research datasets, and...

Barclays Installs Spyware on Employees' Computers
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Barclays Installs Spyware on Employees' Computers

Barclays has installed "Big Brother" monitoring software on the computers of workers at its London headquarters.

A Coding School Tuition Model Spreads to Four-Year Colleges
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A Coding School Tuition Model Spreads to Four-Year Colleges

Income share agreements first gained popularity with tech bootcamps. Now some traditional U.S. universities are offering the tools as substitutes for student loans...

Academic Work With China Chilled by Federal Concerns
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Academic Work With China Chilled by Federal Concerns

Federal concerns that China is trying to steal cutting-edge science from U.S. campuses are forcing universities to take a hard look at ties with Chinese companies...

Devotee Accused of Stealing From Alan Turing's Archive
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Devotee Accused of Stealing From Alan Turing's Archive

Federal officials in Colorado say they recovered World War II-era codebreaker Alan Turing's doctoral degree, knighthood medal, and other pieces of memorabilia almost...

CSIR Ph.D. Not Good Enough for Some Indian NITs
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CSIR Ph.D. Not Good Enough for Some Indian NITs

In a practice researchers call "institutional racism," a few NITs in India only accept candidates for a faculty position if they have at least one degree from a...

Chinese Coding Guru Suspended for Fake Claims
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Chinese Coding Guru Suspended for Fake Claims

The prestigious Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences has suspended lab scientist Liu Lei and said he faces an investigation for claiming...

Data Science Community Rocked by Pet Adoption Contest Cheating Scandal
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Data Science Community Rocked by Pet Adoption Contest Cheating Scandal

A team of programmers scraped data from a pet adoption website to cheat in a $10,000 contest that was intended to help shelter pets get adopted.

I Was A Teenage Code-Breaker at Bletchley Park
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I Was A Teenage Code-Breaker at Bletchley Park

Helen Andrews was one of the youngest workers at Bletchley Park in 1940. She has only recently started talking about her experiences

Contractor Planted Logic Bombs In His Software to Ensure He'd Get New Work
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Contractor Planted Logic Bombs In His Software to Ensure He'd Get New Work

A former contractor for Siemens planted logic bombs in projects he designed that caused them to periodically malfunction. Then wait for a call to come fix things...

Online Hate Speech Could Be Contained Like A Computer Virus, Researchers Say
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Online Hate Speech Could Be Contained Like A Computer Virus, Researchers Say

Online hate speech could be tackled using the same "quarantine" approach deployed to combat malicious software, University of Cambridge researchers say.

'Regret Clause' Most Effective Anti-Cheating Method for Harvard's Intro CS Course
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'Regret Clause' Most Effective Anti-Cheating Method for Harvard's Intro CS Course

A report on cheating in Harvard's "CS50: Introduction to Computer Science" course found that a "regret clause" introduced in 2014 to reduce referrals to the university's...

What Do Police Know About Digital Evidence?
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What Do Police Know About Digital Evidence?

A new report examines how well police officers recognize and handle digital evidence at a crime scene, where a smart TV or phone may provide evidence as important...
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