Articles by Dice Staff
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How Easy It Is to Defeat CAPTCHAs
A study by security vendor Imperva is very depressing, showing the broad collection of programs and people that are trying to systematically defeat CAPTCHA security apps and harvest personal info… -
United States Army Pumps Funds Into Wireless Charging
The United States Army has begun to fund research into wireless charging technology. Their goal: to be able to wirelessly charge batteries from a distance of 50 feet. While the Army might seem an… -
Unemployment Gap Widens for IT Women
IT unemployment pales in comparison with the national unemployment rate -- so long as you're not a woman. In May, for example, the unemployment rate for women in computer and mathematical occupat… -
How Cloudbursting “Rightsizes” the Data Center
By now, everybody is pretty familiar with the notion that cloud computing has altered the economics of enterprise IT. No longer can you automatically assume that any given workload will run in a… -
Reinvent Your Talent Acquisition Strategy [Video]
When you sell a job to a potential candidate, “you’re selling a promise...rather than a product,” says Brad Cook (@brcook2006), VP Global Talent Acquisition for Informatica. In his presentation,… -
Detroit Tech and Colleges Attack IT-Worker Shortage
Detroit companies need IT workers, and if they can’t find them then they’re going to create them. A consortium of local companies and colleges have created a two-month program designed to give st… -
Cloud Object Storage Meets NAS
Open Stack, like other cloud initiatives, use object storage vs NAS or SAN storage. Legacy systems that have been looking into cloud storage have realized that storage changes can be challenging,… -
Facebook's Departing CTO A Pied Piper of Talent
As Facebook's departing CTO Bret Taylor prepares to exit the social networking juggernaut this summer, it'll be interesting to see if history repeats itself. Taylor, who is leaving Facebook to la… -
Reddit Drops the Ban Hammer
Reddit has raised more than a few eyebrows with a decision to ban a large number of fairly influential sites. Reddit asserts that people from a selection of domains had been spamming the social n… -
Tech Services Fuel San Francisco Job Growth
May's sharp slowdown in overall job creation in the Bay Area raised concerns, but we in the tech world should bear in mind that professional, scientific and technical services were the strongest…