Data Divination
Using collected data to predict events shouldn’t blind us to the humans behind it
Stanford’s First Hacking for Diplomacy Class Takes On Refugee Crisis, Radicalization, Space Debris
Stanford students meet with John Kerry, U.S. State Department officials, and diplomats from around the world as they take on real-world problems
Advertisement
Facebook's H-1B Software Engineer Salaries Climb 6 Percent Annually. Google's Go Up 2 Percent; Uber's Drop
A new online tool for easy browsing of hardware and software engineer salaries dips into H-1B visa data
Who’s Hiring? Who’s Firing? Checking in on Tech Jobs, Starting With Bad News From Volkswagen
Volkswagen cuts 30,000, NetApp, and Marvell also slash jobs. But Tinder is on the hunt in Silicon Valley and Tesla puts out a help-wanted sign in Germany
Behold the Cloud of Clouds: The Intercloud
Cloud computing is raining metaphors
Analyst: Ugly Year for Tech Layoffs, and It’s Going to Get Worse
This year’s big company tech layoffs are just the beginning; the layoff tsunami is about to hit startups, says Trip Chowdhry
Facebook Engineers Crash Data Centers in Real-World Stress Test
After dodging disasters from Hurricane Sandy, Facebook instigates its own outages as part of Project Storm
Delta Airlines: On Second Thought, the Computer Crash Was Our Fault
Carrier admits that its original story, blaming a local utility for setting off the chain of events that led to more than 1000 flight cancellations on Monday and Tuesday, was a work of fiction
Delta Airlines Computer Failure Part of a Pattern
Hundreds of flight cancellations today are just the latest in a string of airline industry IT problems
Cybersecurity Startup: If the DNC Had Our Security Tech, It Could Have Bricked Those Files
Silicon Valley’s ThinAir Labs aims to bring fraud detection tools from the credit card industry onto your computer
More Job Automation But More Jobs Too, Say U.S. Tech CEOs
Tech companies expect to increase their workforces, both human and machine
Two Andrews and an Algorithm Aim to Accelerate Drug Discovery
Pharmaceutical researchers hope to find promising paths to cancer cures and other remedies, but many are dead ends. TwoXAR wants computers to lead their way.
Which Companies Pay Engineers the Most?
Juniper Networks, Google, and VMWare shine among U.S. companies that offer high salaries, says recruitment firm Glassdoor
Advertisement
IBM Layoff Epidemic Spreads Worldwide
Watson team and Silicon Valley Labs not immune this time
Remembering the Technology Glitches and Failures of Tax Years Past
A look back at some of the notable failures that have occurred when mixing taxes and IT
The Great Transmogrification of Atoms to Bits
Libraries move to curating digital rather than physical collections
What's the Year, Make, and Model of Your Vehicular Cloud?
Researchers propose vehicular cloud using cars in parking lots as ad hoc data centers
5 Major Hospital Hacks: Horror Stories from the Cybersecurity Frontlines
Security experts say hospitals aren't adequately protected from constant cyber attacks
Infrastructure Engineers Prepare for Tsunami of Data from Virtual Reality, IoT
Sony hopes to catch the wave with its optical jukebox for data storage
What the IBM Layoffs Look Like
Some sources see moves to offshore U.S. jobs to India and elsewhere
Forty Years Later, Turing Prize Winners Devoted to Digital Privacy and Nuclear Activism
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman remain dedicated to sticky issues at the intersection of technology and society
Quantum Computer Comes Closer to Cracking RSA Encryption
Shor's algorithm performed in a system less than half the size experts expected
Update: Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S.
IBM's restructuring process continues
Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries
Even though cash is a bigger motivator for men than for women, they’re getting equal pay for equal positions, education, and experience, says tech job search firm Dice
Tackling the Future of Digital Trust—While It Still Exists
Can the social web serve as ID? Is biometric identification over? Do we need new, national IDs?
Apple Has Already Won. Now It Should Crack the San Bernadino iPhone
Mobile device forensics experts weigh in
Profile: Heather “CameraGirl” Gallagher Is Burning Man’s IT Mastermind
Making the Internet bloom in the desert
We Need Better IT Project Failure Post-Mortems
It's hard to find trustworthy data about IT debacles
Wishful Thinking Plagues IT Project Plans
Delusional estimates for time and cost plague large IT projects
Sorry for the Inconvenience
The empty apologies trotted out by companies and governments in the wake of IT debacles add insult to injury