In the nation’s biggest tech cities, big salaries only get bigger: According to Dice's 2020 Salary Report, Silicon Valley (including San Francisco) saw average salaries increase 4.7 percent year-…

Goldman Sachs Co-Chief Information Officer Marco Argenti has brought all sorts of kudos to the financial firm. Not only did his arrival from Amazon Web Services in October 2019 enable Goldman to…

With every passing year, security becomes a bigger and bigger issue for many enterprises, especially as the number of data breaches inches up and attacks (such as ransomware) cripple tech infrast…

Programming languages fade. It’s an inevitable fact of life: The old and tired is inevitably replaced by the new and better (or at least slightly different). While it’s impossible to predict whic…

Over the past few years, Swift has grown into a much more fully-featured programming language for building apps for the Apple ecosystem. If you’re learning it for the first time, there are some k…

Hedge funds can be lucrative places to work when you're a data scientist. As we reported in November, there are hedge funds such as Citadel and Point72 paying data scientists and data analysts sa…

Is it just us, or did January feel like it went on forever? In any case, it’s the weekend—and February! This week featured some… unusual news, to put it mildly: Google really wants to beat Slack,…

Google paid out $6.5 million in bug bounties in 2019, which is double what the company paid in any previous year. That’s due in large part to boosted reward payouts for discovering certain types…

Do most game developers really struggle with endemic overwork and “crunch time,” as news reports often suggest? A new survey suggests the answer is “no”—with some important caveats. According to…

Let’s talk benefits—specifically, the benefits that employers are actually offering, and the ones you desperately want. The Dice 2020 Salary Report revealed quite a bit about what technologists e…