Articles by Dice Staff

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  Will ‘Smart Machines’ Decimate Tech Jobs?

  Market pressures to embrace digitization will transform an array of industries – and IT staffs as well, according to a recent Gartner forecast. A digital workforce, comprised of robots and automa…
• Is Earth Weighed Down By Dark Matter?

  [caption id="attachment_15791" align="aligncenter" width="459"] GPS satellite measurements hint Earth may be more massive than expected.[/caption] There may be a giant ring of dark matter invisib…
• NSA Quantum Computer Likely to Be Its Least Practical Threat

  [caption id="attachment_15764" align="aligncenter" width="532"] NSA papers claim wide success building backdoors into commercial IT.[/caption] The National Security Agency (NSA) is reportedly try…
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  Closings, Mergers Threaten Hospital IT Jobs

  IT workers at the nation’s hospitals are watching as healthcare’s shifting tides reshape how they do their jobs – and if they’ll be able to keep them. Hospitals are grappling with regulatory chan…
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  Transact-SQL Grows in Popularity

  People with Transact-SQL skills may find themselves increasingly popular. During 2013, those skills showed the most growth among programming languages on the TIOBE index. Transact-SQL is a key pi…
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  Zappos to Ditch Job Titles, Bosses for Self-Managed Teams

  Online shoe merchant Zappos is going flat in an attempt to avoid bureaucracy. Or at least flat-ter. It’s joining companies such as weatherproof fabric maker Gore-Tex and games vendor Valve in nix…
• Surround-Ultrasound Creates "Anti-Gravity" Forcefield

  [caption id="attachment_15734" align="aligncenter" width="542"] Video shows particles flying in T formation under force of ultrasound arrays.[/caption] Researchers at the University of Tokyo have…
• The Future: Self-Tweeting Sharks, Printers That Breed

  [caption id="attachment_15724" align="aligncenter" width="505"] The future: Sharks Tweet shark alerts, 3-D printers that print printers, wireless fishing.[/caption] Most people go through their h…
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  Dilbert Digs at Google Engineers

  Dilbert’s cynical take on office politics can be cruel, for sure, and Google has certainly taken its blows in the strip over the years. But this time, its creator Scott Adams has pointed his pen…
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  Job Hunting Tricks for Older Tech Workers

  Is there any place in tech for a worker over age 50? Not according to a number of once-successful professionals who lost jobs before or during the recession and now find it all-but-impossible to…