Articles by Dice Staff
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Steam Gamer Boxes Pit Linux Against Windows
[caption id="attachment_15871" align="aligncenter" width="592"] Valve's Steam Controller and a selection of first-generation SteamOS Machines.[/caption] At this year's Consumer Electronics Show i… -
Nvidia Uses Crop Circle to Launch 'Supercomputing' GPU
[caption id="attachment_15821" align="aligncenter" width="448"] Nvidia's "super" Tegra K1 CPU and the crop circle stunt/omen of its coming.[/caption] It's never good when the CEO of a big tech fi… -
Pre-Employment Credit Check Hits Tech Workers Hard
Technology job candidates are among the most likely to be screened with pre-employment credit checks, so they may be particularly interested in a proposal in Congress that would bar employers fro… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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…