As technology changes, so too do the skills necessary to break into the workforce. “It’s an ever-changing landscape,” said LinkedIn‘s senior vice president of product, Ryan Rolansky, at the CNBC Talent@Work conference on Wednesday. “What we saw as the four fastest-growing skills this year are probably not the same as what we saw last year,” […]
Read moreIndex provider MSCI said on Wednesday it will reclassify Argentina as an emerging market and start including Saudi Arabia in that classification, sharply broadening the investor base for both countries in a move that could be supportive of their local equities. The inclusion comes amid high anticipation over the market listing of Aramco, the state-controlled […]
Read moreDr. Atul Gawande writes and speaks about health care — a lot. But he hasn’t actually spent nearly as much time changing it. Despite that, the surgeon and Harvard professor soon will lead the most anticipated health-care company, a joint venture between three corporate titans: J.P. Morgan, Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway. Those firms tapped Gawande […]
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO – Shower caddy? Check. Twin sheets? Check. Echo Dot … check? Starting this fall, some students at Northeastern University in Boston will be given the option of getting an Echo Dot smart speaker linked to their university accounts. They’ll be able to ask Amazon‘s Alexa what time their classes are, how much money’s […]
Read moreThe Disney–Comcast bidding war for Twenty-First Century Fox’s movie and television assets will continue until the bid is around $40 to $45 a share, media expert Porter Bibb told CNBC. And Disney will end up the winner, said Bibb, managing partner at Mediatech Capital Partners. “Disney is the future,” Bibb said on “Power Lunch” Wednesday. […]
Read moreTesla’s lawsuit against former employee Martin Tripp alleges that he hacked computer systems to steal intellectual property, not to harm drivers of the company’s cars. But the idea that a malicious insider could successfully tamper with software used in the vehicles’ battery testing process is more fodder for worst-case scenarios raised by lawmakers over self-driving […]
Read moreFormer Citrix CEO Mark Templeton has a new job. He’s taking over as chief of DigitalOcean, a trendy start-up that prioritizes developers and teams as it offers cloud infrastructure for hosting applications. DigitalOcean offers low-cost competition to big cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft and Google for the basic tasks that were the original appeal of […]
Read moreApple will partner with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit media organization behind “Sesame Street,” to create children’s programming for the tech giant’s new streaming service. “Sesame Street” is not part of the agreement, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. The new content will include live-action, animated and puppet series. This is Apple’s […]
Read moreIn June 2017 Uber’s board of directors unanimously approved a set of recommendations presented by former U.S. Attorney Eric Holder to dramatically revamp the ridesharing giant’s troubled management and culture. Last February the company was hit with widespread allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination; a lawsuit by Google’s Waymo self-driving car program accusing Uber of […]
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Today’s supercomputers are made up of thousands of connected processors, and their speed has grown exponentially over the past few decades. The first supercomputer, released in 1964, was called the CDC 6600. It used a single processor to achieve 3 million calculations per second. While that may sound impressive, it is tens of thousands of […]
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