Articles for Career Growth
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Waymo Opens Self-Driving Dataset to Researchers
Let’s say you’re a tech professional who’s really interested in autonomous driving. It hasn’t quite gotten to the point where you’ve stuck some sensors onto your Toyota and researched onboard pro… -
5 Reasons to Use a VM for Development
I started using virtual machines (VMs) on my development PC about six years ago; I was keen to learn Linux, having been a Windows developer since the mid-1990s. At first, I used an old Windows PC… -
GitHub Quietly Opens Learning Lab to Everyone (and Any Subject)
Last year, GitHub spun up its Learning Lab to teach developers how its platform worked. Now, the company has gently opened Learning Lab to everyone, and removed its self-imposed limitations on wh… -
Microsoft Cortana: First Casualty of the Digital-Assistant Wars?
Amazon has Alexa, Google has its voice-activated Assistant, and Apple has Siri. Anxious to compete in the growing digital-assistant wars, Microsoft rolled out Cortana—but that might have been a c… -
Innovation at Delta Air Lines: The New PARALLEL REALITY Experience
Delta Air Lines recently launched a first-of-its-kind airport travel experience called PARALLEL REALITY at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. This groundbreaking technology allows up to 100 passengers…Sponsored -
Business Cybersecurity Needs A.I. to Improve
Organizations across the globe invested more than $114 billion in cybersecurity products and services in 2018, according to Gartner, in an effort to thwart breaches of consumers’ personally ident… -
Mathematicians a Hot Focus of Nationwide Job Postings
Companies really want mathematicians and data engineers, according to the latest breakdown of data from Burning Glass’s NOVA platform, which analyzes millions of active job postings. Indeed, math… -
Survey Results: Alexa, Siri, Google Voice Queries Should Not Be Heard
Two weeks ago, we asked if you thought voice-activated A.I. queries made via Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, or Microsoft's Cortana should be heard by humans at (or contracted by) big tech compani… -
WeWork Software Engineer Pay: Get Ready for a Wild Ride
The We Company—which created WeWork, provider of shared workspaces, as well as WeLive, provider of shared living spaces—is going public. In its IPO prospectus, the firm revealed revenues of $1.54… -
Unity Offering New Project Tools for Student Coders
Unity Technologies is pushing into the education realm with two new educational tools, one aimed at students and the other at educators. Of course, both tools heavily leverage Unity, the developm… -
10 Tech Certifications That Pay Out Mega-Bucks
Which certifications pay the most? Considering the amount of time, effort, and money needed to earn a certification, that’s a question on the forefront of many a tech professional’s mind. Fortuna… -
Inside Amazon: How Liu Engineered Her Own Path
Amazon's Xiaoxu Liu shares what it's like to work inside one of the most influential companies of all time Xiaoxu Liu, Software Development Manager at Amazon Imagine a job where you felt invigora…Sponsored