Articles by Nate Swanner

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  Trump Signs Two Laws Helping Women in STEM

  [caption id="attachment_140202" align="aligncenter" width="4208"] A new law will help girls obtain more education in math and science.[/caption] On Feb. 28, President Trump signed into law two ac…
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  Alexa 'Voice ID' May Detect Unique Users

  As handy as it is, Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant (the "brain" in its Echo device lineup) is limited. Luckily, one of its largest drawbacks may soon vanish, as the company is rumored to have a ne…
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  Uber in Trouble Over Self-Driving Car Tech

  [caption id="attachment_139749" align="aligncenter" width="2660"] Uber is being sued by Waymo over self-driving car technology.[/caption] Uber is having a bad year. After allegations of rampant s…
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  Amazon's Fight to Keep A.I. Private: Important for All

  [caption id="attachment_138540" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Amazon Echo[/caption] Amazon is fighting a court order compelling it to turn over data potentially gathered via Echo, its voice-c…
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  STEM Jobs Hot in Cleveland and Detroit

  [caption id="attachment_140116" align="aligncenter" width="4000"] Physicists dominate STEM jobs.[/caption] Those in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields are often thought o…
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  UPS Shows Why Drones Can't Replace Humans

  [caption id="attachment_140087" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] UPS drones aren't perfect. Credit: TechCrunch[/caption] UPS has launched a new aerial drone concept, built to deliver small packa…
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  This Video Perfectly Sums Up a Dev's Life

  [caption id="attachment_140053" align="aligncenter" width="1108"] Practical Dev Video[/caption] Sometimes, a video has the power to cut straight to the core of you. The video in question could be…
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  Stop Bad Tech Recruitment Cold with One Question

  Tech recruitment made easy. Many developers and engineers live according to one inalienable belief: they think that tech recruitment is pretty terrible. It’s often worse when big companies such a…
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  Swift 4.0 Still Won't Shake Objective-C

  [caption id="attachment_137468" align="aligncenter" width="2357"] Swift 4.0 is coming.[/caption] As programming-language iteration goes, Swift is moving at a fairly rapid pace. Less than three ye…
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  Google's 'Fuchsia' Is a Grab-Bag of Languages

  [caption id="attachment_139426" align="aligncenter" width="3248"] 'Fuchsia' is a Google-made mix of Android and Chrome (but also neither of them)[/caption] Google’s next big thing is being develo…