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H-1B Denials Still High for Consulting Firms... But for How Long?
A recent analysis by the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) showed that, after years of steadily rising, the denial rate for H-1B visa applications had leveled off by the third quarte… -
Intel Diversity Push Shows Mixed Progress for Employees at All Levels
As with other tech companies, Intel has pledged for years to improve the diversity of its workforce, from executives to technologists. How is the chipmaker doing on that front? Its latest diversi… -
Managers Should Learn A.I. and Machine Learning Skills, Too
Given all the focus on building A.I. and machine-learning applications, you might be forgiven for thinking that these technologies are largely the providence of software developers and engineers.… -
Tech Firms Top Minority Data Scientists' Ideal Places to Work
If anything is certain about 2021, it's that tech and finance companies want to hire more technologists from underrepresented groups, including for data science and data analytics jobs. However,… -
Car Companies Need Technologists for 2021 and Beyond
The car has become progressively more digital. Dashboard screens enable drivers to do everything from make hands-free phone calls to watching their progress on a map; under the hood, a galaxy of… -
Weekend Roundup: Amazon’s Big Space Plans, Facebook vs. Apple
What a week! Don’t worry, everyone, the end of 2020 is just about in sight. Right now, though, let’s go through some of the biggest stories of the past few days, including Facebook’s reliance on… -
Cybersecurity Skills: Which Ones Are Needed For 2021?
After 10 months of adjusting to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on businesses, as well as the shift for many employees to permanent or semi-permanent work-from-home, cybersecurity professionals ar… -
GitHub Shows How Much Developers Love Open Source
Technologists might do any number of things with their spare time, but as GitHub’s latest State of the Octoverse report makes clear, many of them choose to spend their nights and weekends working… -
Could Texas Replace Silicon Valley as the Major Tech Hub?
Last week, Oracle announced that it would move its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, in addition to putting a “more flexible employee work location policy” into place (according to a co… -
Java Developers in Finance Should Study C++, Assembly First
If you want to write the kind of code that’s used in the kinds of trading algorithms that are integral to market-making in today’s financial system, it’s quite possible that you’re going about it…