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Equal Pay Day: Women In Tech Are Still Making Less Than Men
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Equal Pay Day: Women In Tech Are Still Making Less Than Men

It will take 51 years to close the pay gap between men and women in the tech industry given the present pace of progress on pay equity, according to a Glassdoor...

Despite Consumer Worries, the Future of Aviation Will Be More Automated
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Despite Consumer Worries, the Future of Aviation Will Be More Automated

In the wake of the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes of Boeing 737 Max planes, people are thinking about how much of their air travel is handled by software...

'Developers' Lives Matter':  Chinese Developers Protest Over the 996 Work Schedule
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'Developers' Lives Matter': Chinese Developers Protest Over the 996 Work Schedule

A Github user created a webpage that he shared on GitHub this week to protest Chinese tech companies' use of the "996" work schedule—9am to 9pm, 6 days a week. ...

Analyzing Design Team Interaction
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Analyzing Design Team Interaction

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Penn State will study the role of team dynamics on an engineering team's performance during the design process.

They Didn't Buy the DLC: Feature that Could've Prevented 737 Crashes Was Sold As an Option
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They Didn't Buy the DLC: Feature that Could've Prevented 737 Crashes Was Sold As an Option

The crashed Lion Air 737 MAX and the Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX aircraft had more in common than aircraft design and the apparently malfunctioning flight system...

Tech Workers In China's Silicon Valley Face Burnout Before They Reach 30
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Tech Workers In China's Silicon Valley Face Burnout Before They Reach 30

Young employees and entrepreneurs constantly battle burnout at work in China's Silicon Valley, where tech firms typically expect employees to work long hours to...

Optimizing the Human-Robot Workplace
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Optimizing the Human-Robot Workplace

An international team will study of how machines and workers will collaborate in 'smart factories' of the future.

Ctrl-Alt-Stall: India's Engineers Struggle for Work as Jobs Crisis Worsens
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Ctrl-Alt-Stall: India's Engineers Struggle for Work as Jobs Crisis Worsens

Hundreds of thousands of engineers are churned out by India's education system each year, many with large loans and little prospect of finding a job in their field...

Faster Robots Demoralize Co-Workers
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Faster Robots Demoralize Co-Workers

A research team has found that people consider themselves less competent and expend slightly less effort when competing with and losing to robots in contests for...

Microsoft Launches AI Business School
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Microsoft Launches AI Business School

Microsoft has launched the AI Business School, an online series of case studies and free instructional videos made to help business executives design and successfully...

iPhones Are Improving Every Year Thanks to an Obscure Japanese Company
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iPhones Are Improving Every Year Thanks to an Obscure Japanese Company

After two decades in development, chipmakers are making a costly bet on a technology that will cram even more transistors onto silicon.

Why the Eight-Hour Workday Doesn't Work
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Why the Eight-Hour Workday Doesn't Work

The eight-hour workday is an outdated and ineffective approach to work. A recent study by the Draugiem Group says the ideal work-to-break ratio is 52 minutes of...

How to Keep Parents From Fleeing STEM Careers
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How to Keep Parents From Fleeing STEM Careers

STEM jobs are often defined by long hours and an "all or nothing" work ethos. New research suggests that the industry poses outsize challenges for male and female...

Videogame Skills Score With Employers
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Videogame Skills Score With Employers

Once associated with antisocial behavior or immaturity, gaming savvy now translates into welcome workplace capabilities.

What Programming Languages Engineers and Employers Love, and Hate
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What Programming Languages Engineers and Employers Love, and Hate

Online recruitment firm Hired released a report this week designed to paint a picture of software engineering job seekers in 2018.

­niversity of California Boycotts Elsevier Over Journal Costs and Open Access
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­niversity of California Boycotts Elsevier Over Journal Costs and Open Access

The University of California system will stop paying to subscribe to journals published by Elsevier, the world's largest scientific publisher, after talks to renew...

­S Allies Buck Trump on Huawei
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­S Allies Buck Trump on Huawei

The Trump administration's push to get U.S. allies to block Chinese firm Huawei from their next-generation wireless networks is facing skepticism from political...

Seattle Mayor Forms Student Internship Program With Amazon, Expedia, Others
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Seattle Mayor Forms Student Internship Program With Amazon, Expedia, Others

Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan has launched a paid internship program for college students, in partnership with area companies.

Skills Shortage is Stopping Many Asian Companies from Embracing AI, Study Shows
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Skills Shortage is Stopping Many Asian Companies from Embracing AI, Study Shows

Only 41% of companies in the Asia-Pacific region are currently using artificial intelligence, according to a survey of business leaders and workers in 15 Asia-Pacific...

Developer Happiness: What You Need to Know
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Developer Happiness: What You Need to Know

Most developers spend less than half of their time coding because they are bogged down by corporate compliance and security policies.
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