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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

In 2019, for example, Google reported its attrition rates of Black and Latinx talent — which indicate the rate at which employees leave on an annual basis — were higher than the national average. Meet the Formerly Incarcerated Software Engineers who Built a No-Police Alternative to 911.

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How Rolebot Wants To Eliminate The Resume, With Shane Bernstein

socalTECH

However, in the technical arena--as a programmer, developer, or software engineer--it's hard to tell from a resume how good you really are. For example, Kaggle is very data science friendly, and most likely, a data scientist is likely on Kaggle. That's where Los Angeles-based Rolebot (www.rolebot.net) comes in.

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Disney's Zootopia A Triumph In Computer Animation, As Much As Filmmaking

socalTECH

Zootopia's technical staff--located here in Southern California--included more than 120 software engineers, IT, and other technology professionals, who build a huge body of very advanced, modeling and simulation software, which drove the animation that eventually made it to the big screen. READ MORE>>.

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SaaS Is Dead, Long Live Software

InfoChachkie

Some of the examples he cites include self-driving cars, complex mobile apps such as Siri, Pandora and Waze, as well as Spam filters. According to Tim, we are currently leveraging, “Artificial Narrow Intelligence (which) is machine intelligence that equals or exceeds human intelligence or efficiency at a specific thing.”

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5 Expenses Startups Cannot Afford to Cut

Tech Zulu Event

The latter would include coverage for assets such as physical inventory and equipment as well as business interruption which pays off if, for example, a fire or flood left your physical location inaccessible for a period of time. Do not assume that the software engineer you hired can also double as your business development specialist.

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Entrepreneurs Should Forget ROI And Focus On Return On Life – The New Measure Of Wealth

InfoChachkie

I became acquainted with Tige, when I was researching examples of exemplary online customer service. How did an American software engineer come to own an adventure travel company cited by National Geographic as, "one of the best adventure travel companies on earth?". As I got to know Tige, I became intrigued with his story.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

Megan Palmer, a fellow and biosecurity researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, hoped DARPA’s program would encourage a more holistic approach to biosafety in a growing field where many people, such as software engineers, might not have thought much about biosafety and security risks.

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