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China’s top AI scientist drives development of ethical guidelines

China is playing catch-up in the development of ethical guidelines in the field of artificial intelligence, with the establishment of an ethics committee. Chen Xiaoping – inventor of Jia Jia, the realistic humanoid “Robot Goddess”, and KeJia, an intelligent home...

The 15 best tech companies to work for in 2019, according to Glassdoor

We’re all familiar with the stories about six-digit salaries, bean bag chairs, nap pods, free food, unlimited vacation policies and other crazy perks that seem to be run of the mill for tech companies these days. Check all the Job...

Is consumer technology in the doldrums?

At the world's biggest technology festival, the Consumer Electronics Show which takes place in Las Vegas this week, it won't just be the worrying state of Apple's revenues and the US government shutdown contributing to the sense that there won't...

Top Six AI And Automation Trends For 2019

If your company hasn’t yet created a plan for AI and automation throughout your enterprise, you have some work to do. Experts believe AI will add nearly $16 trillion to the global economy by 2030, and 20 percent of companies...

The hidden networking gap between men and women

It’s been said that it’s not what you know but who you know. And there is a long history of men getting to positions of power by leveraging their connections. Now, a new study published in the journal Human Relations...

Urgent Hiring Needs for 2019 | Canada’s Tech Leader’s Report

Many technology teams will be growing in the first half of 2019, but staffing challenges exist. Sixty-two per cent of IT decision makers polled plan to expand the size of their teams by adding full-time employees in the first six...

Three Ways Millennials Can Advance Workplace Diversity and Inclusion

When you picture a traditional business leader, what generation are they from? Likely they're not a millennial. But by 2025, 75% of the workforce will be millennials. That means millennials globally will occupy not only the majority of individual contributor...

An HR executive who’s worked at Facebook and Amazon says no one should become a manager without taking a key step

-Before making someone a boss, allow them to have some management experience, so they know what they're getting into. -That's advice from Bharath Jayaraman, vice president of people at Paxos and a former HR exec at Facebook and Amazon. -Jayaraman...

Perennials, not millennials, will trigger the next wave of talent retention efforts

Thousands of older customers of the US pharmacy chain CVS spend the colder months of the year in warmer climes, migrating from homes in, say, Minnesota to winter pads in sunny Arizona or Florida. In the mid-2000s, CVS realized that...