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Don’t Look Now, But The Smart Glasses War Has Begun
While we ponder what Apple may bring to the table for augmented reality (AR) headwear, Facebook and Amazon are already staking claim to smart glasses in a big (and possibly bad, at least in terms… -
Gig Economy Software Engineer Salaries: What Uber, Lyft, DoorDash Pay
The gig economy has made billionaires out of a few lucky entrepreneurs, and millionaires out of thousands of software engineers and other technologists who decided to sign onto the right startup… -
Lumberyard: What Happened to Amazon's Gaming Dreams?
In the beginning (that is, early 2016), Amazon Lumberyard offered a lot of promise to game developers at all skill levels: By combining a lot of cross-platform game-development tooling with the s… -
Python Beginner? Check Out These Programming Videos.
Interested in learning Python? Microsoft’s new video series adds to an already-massive amount of online tutorials and documentation about the programming language. ‘Python for Beginners” features… -
Why Finding Your 'Work-Life Integration' is Better Than 'Work-Life Balance'
We’re all familiar with the so-called Work-Life Balance. But, this conjures up visions of see-saws that must be perfectly balanced with equal weights on both ends at all times to ensure success.…Sponsored -
McDonald's Using Google, Alexa A.I. for Recruiting
McDonald’s has a pair of new recruiters: Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant. Yes, the fast-food chain is now accepting job applications via digital assistant. It starts off when you turn to your… -
Tech Jobs Aren’t the Highest-Paying Jobs in America
Every week, it seems we’re inundated with new stories about tech startup employees making it absurdly rich in the wake of another skyrocketing IPO (although to be fair, those days of ultra-rich “… -
H-1B Salaries at JPMorgan Show What Banking Tech Pays for Visa Hires
For years, companies attempted to obfuscate how many H-1B visa workers joined their ranks—and how much those workers earned. After all, H-1B is a politically and morally fraught issue, as compani… -
Quiz: Do You Think Augmented Reality Will Succeed?
Augmented reality (AR) is one of those areas that most technologists don’t pay much attention to. After all, aside from the breakout success of “Pokemon Go,”no AR game or app seems to have seized… -
Google Rolls Out New Kotlin App-Building Lessons
Google really wants developers to learn how to build Android apps in Kotlin. In order to make that happen, the search-engine giant is pushing two new, tutorial-based courses via codelabs: Kotlin… -
How Big Companies Can Ship Code Like Startups
In the past few years, every industry from banking to healthcare has seen a crop of scrappy startups take on the Microsofts and Salesforces of the world. Why would small firms believe they could… -
What Is Rightsourcing in IT?
It’s considering both in-house and external resources for the best fit for a variety of tasks. Rightsourcing considers in-house options and contractors to determine the most effective course of a…Sponsored