The Kids ”Who Use Tech” Seem to Be All Right

Social media is linked to depression—or not. First-person shooter video games are good for cognition—or they encourage violence. Young people are either more connected—or more isolated than ever. Such are...

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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...

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New crowdsourced recruitment tool aims to get more women into tech

Heidi Harman is the founder of international tech women’s network, Geek Girl Meetup. Her new projects use data and peer recommendations to tackle the industry’s diversity problem. Heidi Harman has...

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AI will match human intelligence by 2062 claims UNSW expert

Scientia Professor Toby Walsh tells the Festival of Dangerous Ideas that Artificial Intelligence is less than 50 years away from matching humans.                ...

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Can A TV Comedy Show Change The Game For Women In Tech?

There are tons of initiatives for women in tech: awards, grants, accelerator programs. These initiatives tell a great story: women have become celebrated, recognized, respected. Finally. But is this the...

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Are millennials and Gen Z actually looking for “passion over profit,” or is that bullshit?

I’m going to try and spend about 500 words or so on this idea of “passion over profit,” often attributed to the millennial generation. I think a lot of how we...

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The EU plans to test an AI lie detector at border points

Trials for AI lie detection at border patrol checkpoints are set to begin soon in the EU. The program, called iBorderCtrl, will run for six months at four border crossing points...

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Google is hosting a global contest to develop AI that’s beneficial for humanity

The company is pledging up to $25 million to groups that want to solve AI’s biggest hurdles One of the biggest hurdles in the field of artificial intelligence is preventing...

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Is Computer Science Really All About Mathematics?

Your question is subtle; so any short answer is probably wrong. Programmers who excelled in math, assert that you must know math to be a good programmer; programmers who were...

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Tech isn’t saving recruiting; it’s killing it slowly

  Thing I’ve never understood: until automation gets to scale (not there yet), people are a company’s biggest expense (in the form of salaries, but also hiring/recruiting). We penny-pinch everything in companies,...

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