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How to Find a Woman Scientist
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How to Find a Woman Scientist

A new database is fighting the poor visibility of women in STEM by offering female professionals as speakers, panelists, experts, course leaders, and advocates...

Inside Facebook's Fast-Growing Content-Moderation Effort
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Inside Facebook's Fast-Growing Content-Moderation Effort

Monika Bickert is a serious, impressive person. Before she became Facebook's head of global policy management, she put her Harvard law degree to work as an assistant...

New Data Reconfirms Well-Known Gender Problem in Tech
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New Data Reconfirms Well-Known Gender Problem in Tech

A recent analysis of the "tech talent migration" found that financial raises gained by technology workers when they move greatly favor men.

Solving Bottlenecks in STEM Employment
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Solving Bottlenecks in STEM Employment

Filling a STEM position takes more than twice as long as any other. The most likely explanation is a lack of qualified candidates.

­.k. Government Presses Tech Companies to Sign Diversity Charter
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­.k. Government Presses Tech Companies to Sign Diversity Charter

The U.K. government is putting pressure on major technology companies to commit to interviewing at least one female candidate for new jobs. Digital Minister Margot...

Blockchain to Track Congo's Cobalt from Mine to Mobile
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Blockchain to Track Congo's Cobalt from Mine to Mobile

Blockchain is to be used for the first time to try to track cobalt's journey from artisanal mines in Democratic Republic of Congo through to products used in smartphones...

Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel
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Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel

In early 2014, Srikanth Thirumalai met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

Sharing Personal Info Can ­ndermine Some Workplace Relationships
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Sharing Personal Info Can ­ndermine Some Workplace Relationships

Disclosing personal information in the workplace can negatively affect a high status worker's relationship and task effectiveness with lower status coworkers, according...

Mechanics Will Soon Need a Degree in Computer Science to Work On Your Car
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Mechanics Will Soon Need a Degree in Computer Science to Work On Your Car

Training for automotive mechanics is in the middle of a revolution as cars become more computerized. The good ol' days of being a gear head are over.

Casinos Bet on Smoothie Slots, Desperate to Lure Millennials
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Casinos Bet on Smoothie Slots, Desperate to Lure Millennials

It's one of the big dilemmas facing the $70 billion U.S. casino industry—how to get people in their 20s and 30s to play slot machines as much as their parents or...

Tech Giants Brace For Europe's New Data Privacy Rule
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Tech Giants Brace For Europe's New Data Privacy Rule

Over the past two months, Google has started letting people around the world choose what data they want to share with its various products, including Gmail and...

The Dnc's New Chief Security Officer Knows All About Crisis
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The Dnc's New Chief Security Officer Knows All About Crisis

The Democratic National Committee has hired Bob Lord, most recently Yahoo's head of information security, to be its chief security officer—a brand new position,...

Shake-­p at Facebook Highlights Tension in Race For AI
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Shake-­p at Facebook Highlights Tension in Race For AI

Facebook's hiring of French artificial-intelligence trailblazer Yann LeCun in 2013 to start its AI Research lab signaled that the social-media giant was serious...

Want a More Diverse Workforce? Hire Bootcamp Graduates
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Want a More Diverse Workforce? Hire Bootcamp Graduates

Coding bootcamps are producing more than double the number of graduates as the U.S.'s largest traditional CS programs, and those graduates are far more diverse....

The Dangers of Keeping Women Out of Tech
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The Dangers of Keeping Women Out of Tech

Maria Klawe has done what tech has not. For the past 11 years, she has served as the president of Harvey Mudd College­, where the number of women in its computer...

The 10 Best Tech Jobs in America For 2018
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The 10 Best Tech Jobs in America For 2018

Data scientists and DevOps engineers top the list of tech jobs with the best earning potential and highest satisfaction rates, according to Glassdoor's annual Best...

Don't Let Hr Say You Can't Afford a Head of AI
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Don't Let Hr Say You Can't Afford a Head of AI

Companies need to start breaking bank to win over artificial intelligence experts from the tech giants—but it's worth it.

Corporate Cultural Issues Hold Back Secure Software Development
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Corporate Cultural Issues Hold Back Secure Software Development

Existing corporate culture and lack of skills are cited by 58 percent of respondents to a survey of over 1,200 IT leaders as hurdles to being able to embed security...

Bug Bounty Hackers Make More Money Than Average Salaries, Report Finds
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Bug Bounty Hackers Make More Money Than Average Salaries, Report Finds

Individuals who participate in bug bounty programs earn on average 2.7 times more than the median salary of a software engineer in their home country, according...

What Silicon Valley Tech Jobs Pay the Highest Salaries?
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What Silicon Valley Tech Jobs Pay the Highest Salaries?

Indeed.com just released its 2017 Silicon Valley salary survey, looking at which tech jobs command the highest average pay over the past year, according to job...
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