Fired Tech Workers Turn to Chatbots for Counseling

For months Lovkesh Joshi was quietly terrified of losing his job as a manager at a top Indian tech services company. Clients were cutting their budgets, prompting his bosses to fire dozens of colleagues. His manager told him not to worry, but it was hard not to when experts were predicting that millions of the …

Sexism in the tech industry is as old as the tech industry itself. Memos from the U.K.’s government archives reveal that, in 1959, an unnamed British female computer programmer was given an assignment to train two men. The memos said the woman had “a good brain and a special flair” for working with …

A Nokia logo is seen at the company’s headquarters in Espoo, Finland, May 5, 2017. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins Reuters. HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia said its chief operating officer will leave the telecom network equipment maker, which is struggling in the face of a shrinking market and tough competition, after …

Before arriving at the current system, the Ministry of Defense tested all existing technologies that were proven to be able to detect tunnels, including seismographic sensors that detect the minor tremors in the ground that are caused by digging; miniature microphones that detect the sound of digging; radar …

16,” Eliseo Rio, secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology, told Reuters. Chinese companies cannot operate alone in the Philippines and would need to partner with a local company. The government is now looking at who will partner with China Telecom on a 60-40 basis, …

Just a few short days after market observers declared the end of momentum and technology stocks’ reign atop the best performers, hedge funds’ appetite for the shares is picking up again. After cutting their exposure by 7 percent in November, leveraged buyers have already added back on a quarter of that …

Our gleaming kitchens are filled with all manner of pressure cookers, panini makers, toaster ovens, and Bluetooth-connected cookery today. Some may feel all the switches, buttons, and settings have made the whole cooking process too complicated. For many of us, however, our varied and prolific kitchen …

Another instructor, Mark Frydenberg, lecturer and director of a technologyplayground at Bentley University, said the platform enables his first-year students to gain experience in agile development. “My students are gaining an appreciation for the latest software development approaches they otherwise …

Speaking at the ITM launch, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Masagos Zulkifli said, “In sustaining a clean and liveable environment, Singapore is also working towards the vision of being a Zero Waste nation – where waste is re-defined and innovative technologies would be deployed …