The last three months have been a busy time for engineering job news, with a number of companies opening new development centers around the world. Silicon Valley, meanwhile, was mostly quiet. There was not a lot of bad news, but only a few bursts of hiring activity. Here’s a sampling
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There’s a new hacking group on the radar targeting telecommunications and oil and gas companies across Africa and the Middle East. Industrial security company Dragos, which discovered the group, calls it “Hexane,” but remains largely tight-lipped on its activities. The security company said, however, that the group’s activity has ramped
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When Tope Awotona founded Atlanta-based online scheduling startup Calendly in 2013, he ran into a common problem for black founders: securing VC funds. The experience taught him to stretch every dollar so that he'd never have to rely on outside funding. He credits his family in Nigeria for showing him
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It’s time to discuss the next iteration of the mobile internet. I’m talking WiFi 6. WiFi 6 and 5G are popular topics these days, for good reason. If you’ve stayed ahead of tech news for the last decade, you’ll remember that with each new version of mobile internet always comes a diverse
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The media has largely bought into Huawei’s “strong” half-year results today, but there’s a major catch in the report: the company’s quarter-by-quarter smartphone growth was zero. The telecom equipment and smartphone giant announced that its revenue grew 23.2% to reach 401.3 billion yuan ($58.31 billion) in the first half of 2019
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How To Prevent Your iPhone It From Overheating. Several users have seen warning messages appearing on their iPhones, cautioning that the iPhone needs to cool down before they can use it This week, temperatures across the UK are soaring, with people in London experiencing temperatures of up to 39°C. Many people will
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In a computer science classroom, an interdisciplinary team of professors is teaching budding technologists to consider the societal impacts of their work. Political scientist Jeremy Weinstein has worked at both the White House and the United Nations. In both jobs, he encountered the ethical and policy concerns that new technologies can present to policymakers.
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The rise of decentralized renewable energy as a solution to electrification rates across Africa—the slowest growing globally—is also bringing with it a solution to high unemployment. As startups in the space continue to prove the viability of their services as alternatives to traditional power grids, they’re starting to create direct jobs
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Seplat Petroleum Development Company Limited is hopeful of bringing on stream its Amukpe-to-Escravos pipeline before the end of this year. The company said the 160,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) pipeline is at the commissioning phase, with hydro testing which began early July. Completion and export of oil to the
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Cuban and Chinese universities are moving forward with the creation of a joint “International Research Institute of Artificial Intelligence.” The project is intended to bring economic benefits to ailing Cuba while enlisting more scientists in China’s bid to achieve AI dominance, the countries confirmed this week. The project is headed up
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