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Replacing Your Boss With a Cruel Robot Could Make You Concentrate More
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Replacing Your Boss With a Cruel Robot Could Make You Concentrate More

A mean robot could motivate human employees to improve their cognitive performance, compared to supervision by a friendly robot or no robot supervision, researchers...

Google CEO Tells Staff China Plans Are 'Exploratory' After Backlash
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Google CEO Tells Staff China Plans Are 'Exploratory' After Backlash

Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai told employees at a meeting that plans to re-enter China with a search engine are "exploratory" and in "early stages...

AI Is the Future–But Where Are the Women?
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AI Is the Future–But Where Are the Women?

The numbers of men and women who had contributed work at three top machine learning conferences in 2017 suggest the group supposedly charting society's future is...

Are Job Ads Targeting Young Workers Breaking The Law?
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Are Job Ads Targeting Young Workers Breaking The Law?

When an employer sets out to recruit young people for a certain job, is it discriminating against older job seekers in a way that breaks the law? That question...

To Win the AI Race, We Need More Humans
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To Win the AI Race, We Need More Humans

The United States is trying to develop a national strategy on artificial intelligence (AI) but is ignoring its single greatest advantage: many of the world's brightest...

Want to Help Your Colleagues? Try Logging Off for a While
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Want to Help Your Colleagues? Try Logging Off for a While

A group of academics found that workers who are in constant contact with each other may be less effective.

Why Automation Is Creating a Bigger Need for Humans In the Tech Sector
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Why Automation Is Creating a Bigger Need for Humans In the Tech Sector

Even as automation displaces more human workers, CEOs and hiring managers at tech companies are seeking a workforce heavy on something robots don't have.

Expectations to Answer Work Emails After Hours Hurts Employees' Health
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Expectations to Answer Work Emails After Hours Hurts Employees' Health

Research shows that "flexible work boundaries" often turn into "work without boundaries" that affects the health of well-being of employees and their family members...

Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Hiring, and It Might Not Be That Bad
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Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Hiring, and It Might Not Be That Bad

AI is a step up from the notoriously biased recruiting process, advocates say.

Quantum Computing Will Create Jobs. But Which Ones?
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Quantum Computing Will Create Jobs. But Which Ones?

Chris Monroe's vision for quantum computers is simple: He wants people to use them.

Programmers Need Ethics When Designing the Technologies that Influence People's Lives
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Programmers Need Ethics When Designing the Technologies that Influence People's Lives

Computing professionals are on the front lines of almost every aspect of the modern world.

Tech Industry is Leaving Behind Women of Color, Report Shows
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Tech Industry is Leaving Behind Women of Color, Report Shows

Women of color make up 80 percent of all new women-led small businesses in the United States. In tech, however, that figure plummets to 4 percent, according to...

Why Apple Is the Future of Capitalism
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Why Apple Is the Future of Capitalism

With Apple Inc. now exceeding $1 trillion in market capitalization, it's tempting to understand this moment in terms of the dominance of all-too-large companies...

Ding! Alibaba Office App Fuels Backlash Among Some Chinese Workers
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Ding! Alibaba Office App Fuels Backlash Among Some Chinese Workers

In the cramped former home of Jack Ma, founder of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, about thirty young engineers sit elbow-to-elbow, working to attract the...

As Moore's Law Dies, the Chip Giants Seek Fresh Prey
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As Moore's Law Dies, the Chip Giants Seek Fresh Prey

After a five-year, $240 billion acquisition spree, there's a suspicion that the nature of deal-making in the semiconductor industry may be starting to change.

Facebook Identifies an Active Political Influence Campaign ­sing Fake Accounts
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Facebook Identifies an Active Political Influence Campaign ­sing Fake Accounts

Facebook said on Tuesday that it had identified a political influence campaign that was potentially built to disrupt the midterm elections, with the company ...

Inside Google's Shadow Workforce
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Inside Google's Shadow Workforce

About half of Google's workers are contractors who don't receive the same benefits as direct employees.

Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto
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Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto

Toronto's tech scene is so hot the city created more jobs than the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, D.C., combined last year, while leapfrogging...

Big Tech is Throwing Money and Talent at Home Robots
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Big Tech is Throwing Money and Talent at Home Robots

Science fiction writers and technologists have been predicting the arrival of robot butlers for the better part of a century. So far domestic robots have been relatively...

Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector
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Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows plenty of high-paying technology jobs, as well as lower-end jobs that pay above average compared to the rest of the economy...
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