Articles by Dice Staff
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NVIDIA Supercomputer GPU Counters AMD's Challenge
Video-game developers who take it as a sign of artistic merit when the graphical intensity of the newest games outstrips the ability of high-end graphics cards to run them may face something of a… -
New Programs Encourage Girls to Pursue STEM
Last month, Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World Ultimate Mentor Adventure announced the 10 winners of its program to give girls in grades 9-12 an opportunity to explore STEM careers. From the news rele… -
Small Startups Better Bet for Women Engineers
For companies whose workforce includes more than 100 engineers, the proportion of women on engineering teams falls far below the national average of 25 percent, according to data from Pinterest e… -
Fast Interconnect is Key to Next-Gen Supercomputer
[caption id="attachment_14226" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Next-gen supercomputer will run 1,000 times faster than the 20-Petaflop Sequoia.[/caption] The market for supercomputers may have s… -
Stack-Ranking’s Alive and Well in Tech
The last 10 years are often called Microsoft’s “lost decade” as the company that once dominated the software world seemed to pay more attention to internal competitions than the marketplace. Micr… -
SteamOS Could Be Great for Linux, Costly for Microsoft
With the wraps off SteamOS, the real reason why Valve has not so quietly been promoting Linux game development recently might have come out of the bag. The new operating system, which is Linux-ba… -
What Does an IT Architect Do?
What does an IT architect do? It’s an interesting question not only for those thinking about a career as an IT architect, but also for anyone working in IT, because there isn’t a consistent defin… -
Amazon Offers Virtual PCs From the Cloud
[caption id="attachment_14111" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Amazon Workspaces provides virtual tablets or PCs housed in the cloud.[/caption] Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped create the modern… -
Invisibility Using Force Field, Not Cloak
[caption id="attachment_14087" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Researchers George Eleftheriades (L) and Michael Selvanayagam with their electromagnetic cloaking device.[/caption] University of T… -
Yes, The iPhone Fingerprint Scanner Jeopardizes Privacy. So What?
Apple’s decision to include a fingerprint scanner on the iPhone 5S and presumably the next generation iPad, has been met with a certain level of righteous indignation from privacy advocates. If t…