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The Tech Feud That Could Shape the Next Frontier of Mobile Service
Image: John Gress Media Inc, Shutterstock / John Gress Media Inc Apple is seeking to eliminate cell phone dead spots though expanded satellites, but Elon Musk’s Starlink won’t let that happen without a fight, according to an exclusive report from The Wall Street Journal. Sources who spoke to WSJ say SpaceX is now putting pressure on U.S. federal regulators to…
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Fake it till you make it: 79% of tech workers pretend to know more about AI than they do – and executives are the worst offenders
Find AI confusing? Don’t worry, so do most of your colleagues — almost eight in ten of them, but they likely won’t admit it. That’s the key finding from a survey of 1,200 technology workers and executives in the US and UK by training company Pluralsight, which found that 79% of tech workers pretend to know more about AI than…
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Tech hiring dropped by 29K in March, even as US job growth remained solid – Computerworld
The overall US unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.2% in March, just 0.1% higher than in February. Previous US job gains for January and February were revised down by a total of 48,000, with January reduced by 14,000 and February by 34,000, according to BLS data. In the first quarter of 2025, the IT job market shrank by 34,200 jobs,…
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“I LOVE this company!” Looking back on 50 years of tech giant Microsoft
When you hear the phrase “Dance like nobody is watching…” what immediately springs to mind? Although it’s been reused many times in modern music, it’s believed that it originates from Mark Twain. Regardless of its true origin, I always think back to some of my earliest memories. That of being in nursery school, hearing some music, and it just taking…
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DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld
“You can’t just flip a switch one night and expect to be able to upgrade. It takes due diligence, and you have to understand the complexity of the programs,” he added. In light of DOGE’s employee cuts at the agency, Fichtner and Kathleen Romig, director of Social Security and Disability Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, warned…
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Does speech recognition have a future in business tech?
Speech recognition technology has come a long way since sitting in front of a 1990s PC, wearing a single padded earphone with a long stick microphone attached, speaking words into software such as DragonDictate. Today’s computers, tablets, and smartphones – as well as cars and home speakers – hear our voice commands and act on what we say or ask.…
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How tech leaders can reconnect employees with company goals
With workplaces requiring their staff to use multiple digital tools and platforms to communicate and collaborate, workers have in some way never been more connected. On the other hand, more and more workers are feeling disconnected from their employer. According to Slingshot’s 2024 Digital Work Trends report, less than a quarter (23%) of employees feel they’re educated on what their…
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Some Tech Is Still More Than Half Off After Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is over, but a few deals still very much alive. Below, you’ll find the tech items I’ve found that received the steepest discounts during the sale, and even though it ended on March 31, the…
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The Best Tech You Can Still Grab for Under $50 During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. It’s the last day of Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, but you can still find tech products with great deals. We’ve done some work to dig up the best deals available—our associate tech editor Michelle Ehrhardt has highlighted her favorite…
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TikTok, tariffs, and trials: Everything happening in tech policy in April
As TikTok’s April 5th sell-by date approaches, Americans are back to where they stood before the original January deadline: watching anxiously to see if a major social media app gets banned. But that’s far from the only big event we’ll see over the coming month. April is filled with momentous turns in long-running tech policy stories — some possibly industry-changing,…
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