Articles by Dice Staff
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Silk Road: A Lesson in Information Security
By now you know how the Silk Road, an online marketplace for all things illegal and semi-legal, has been shuttered by the FBI. Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged owner of the anonymously hosted w… -
What Principal Financial Seeks in New Hires
While Des Moines, Iowa, might not be the first spot that comes to mind for technology innovation, its startup scene is growing and the area offers a number of tech job opportunities. One company,… -
Knoxville Startup is Serious About Intern Pay
Knoxville, Tenn.-based startup WeScore.com is paying student interns $22 an hour -- three times the national minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. The company, which plans to launch in early 2014, is d… -
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… -
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…