Tag: tech
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Cisco Systems inks lease downtown, bucking trend of tech firms shedding office space
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The size of the lease isn’t huge, but it represents welcome positive activity from a tech company in the Central Business District. At the end of this report, check out a list of commercial real estate brokerage firms in the Austin area. Source link
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Kara Swisher on Tech Billionaires: “I Don’t Think They Like People”
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Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. Kara Swisher landed on the tech beat as a young reporter at the Washington Post decades ago. She would stare at the teletype machine at the entrance and wonder why this antique sat…
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The New Climate Tech – The New York Times
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Infusing clouds with sulfur dioxide to block the sun. Vacuuming carbon dioxide out of thin air. Adding iron to the ocean to draw greenhouse gases down to the sea floor. As recently as a few years ago, technologies designed to change Earth’s atmosphere — what is broadly known as geoengineering — were considered too impractical,…
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CPS, Illinois Tech & City Colleges launch cybersecurity path
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In May, Armando Rodriguez will graduate from Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy. By August, he will be a junior at Illinois Tech, made possible by the three associate degrees he earned while in high school. “My journey through high school has been a transformative experience, beginning with my ambition of graduating with my associate degree,”…
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Our editor’s top 3 tech hacks for your home – turn your interiors dreams into reality
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Our homes are the ultimate multi-taskers. Not only do we want them to look great but we also need them to be comfortable enough for some R&R, and durable enough to take whatever life throws at them. So while we often have aspirations for the perfect home, it can often feel like a struggle to…
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I Was Lonely In a New City. This Tech Trick Helped Me Belong
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A uniquely 20-something cocktail of ambition, stupidity and wanderlust led me to take a job in Berlin fresh out of college. My due diligence consisted of watching several of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s movies and calling it a day. I had visited the city before, crashing with lovers and loose acquaintances, but my sense of how…
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Criminal fraud trial of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch to begin today | Autonomy
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The criminal fraud trial of the British technology tycoon once dubbed “Britain’s Bill Gates” is due to begin in San Francisco today. Mike Lynch, co-founder of the UK software company Autonomy, stands accused of artificially inflating the software firm’s sales; misleading auditors, analysts and regulators; and intimidating people who raised concerns before its blockbuster takeover…
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Pentagon UFO Report Finds No Evidence Of Alien Cover-Up, Government Tech
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UFO sightings apparently have nothing to do with anything extraterrestrial — at least that’s what Uncle Sam is saying, anyway, after digging into the issue. For the past couple years, the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has been digging into all those UFO videos in recent years … and on Friday, they came out…
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The legal tech industry faces its own #MeToo movement : NPR
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Many women, as well as some men, took to social media to share tales of sexual harassment and assault during glitzy legal tech events. Luke Chan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Luke Chan/Getty Images Many women, as well as some men, took to social media to share tales of sexual harassment and assault during glitzy…
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Australian officials reprimand Meta after tech giant says it will stop paying for news
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said Thursday that it plans to stop paying publishers of news content in Australia — a move that drew furious backlash from government officials in Canberra. In a blog post, Meta said it would “not enter into new commercial deals for traditional news content” in Australia, France and Germany…
