Articles by Dice Staff
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Women in Technology: Pain and Potential
For nearly a decade, the pool of women in IT has remained roughly a quarter of the technology workforce, demonstrating little advance despite their comprising approximately half of the overall ci… -
Women in IT Face Down Stereotypes and Bias
Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg are among the latest to join the elite group of high profile technology executives who are women. They joi… -
Quantum-Tunneling Electrons Could Make Semiconductors Obsolete
[caption id="attachment_10585" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Visualization of quantum tunneling circuit.[/caption] The powerful, reliable combination of transistors and semiconductors in compu… -
Brainteasers or No, Google’s Interviews Remain a Challenge
Google’s vaunted brainteasers are gone. Once a staple of its hiring process, the company’s decided that the tactic just didn’t add much value to the challenge of evaluating candidates. Talking wi… -
3 Ways to Be Indispensible to Small Business
Want to make your IT consultancy indispensable to a small business? Here are three key ways to make yourself the go-to consultant for the small company in need of your services. In my IT consulti… -
The Cylindrical Mac Pro Will Only Be a Footnote
Apple has lifted the lid on its completely redesigned Mac Pro. In spite of the chorus of “oohs” and “aahs” that greeted the unveiling of the high-powered cylindrical computer at this year’s WWDC,… -
PayPal's Internal PaaS Is a Trend, Not an Anomaly
[caption id="attachment_10568" align="aligncenter" width="618"] PayPal needs some complex backend infrastructure to support its SaaS operations.[/caption] Over the past few months, a number of cl… -
Blocking Lasers Produces DVDs with Petabyte Storage Capacity
A team of Australian researchers may have brought the cost-effective but logistically troublesome DVD into the 21st century with a technique that boosts the capacity of a single DVD from 4.7GB to… -
H-1B Reform Might Bring Unintended Consequences
The immigration reform bill under debate in the Senate would impose higher costs to obtain H-1B visas and raise the required wages of visa-holders – moves that could have an effect opposite of wh… -
Why Hadoop Works for NSA’s Prism
While news of the government’s monitoring of Internet and telephone communications took many by surprise, subsequent reports that officials harnessed Apache Hadoop to help process the data was si…