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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is at risk for doing the right things while CEOs who are behaving badly enjoy incredible financial rewards. It seems like we are rewarding the wrong behavior. Let's talk about that this week, and we'll close with an offering announced last week which focuses on wireless charg...

The metaverse is supposed to be a virtual 3D universe where you can do just about anything you could in the physical world -- and things you cannot do, like traveling to other planets. However, reality is not as pleasant as science fiction. The term metaverse is itself a problem.

Remote workers have higher anxiety levels about security and privacy than other types of employees. In a survey of 7,200 people from nine countries, more than two-thirds of remote workers acknowledged they worried about security and privacy, even when nothing was wrong.

Facebook is suddenly starting to look a lot like Netscape did many years ago, and that isn't a good thing. The cause appears to be the same: inexperienced leadership. Meanwhile, AMD is doing exceedingly well because it aggressively pursued experienced leaders. Let's compare AMD and Facebook this wee...

Intel's US$20 billion plan to build in Ohio the largest semiconductor factory in the U.S. will be crucial to the United States' ability to both enforce technology sanctions against Russia if war breaks out, and to assure success if the war spreads and extends over a long period of time. Let's explor...

The average salary for a tech worker reached US$104,566 in 2021, yet nearly half still feel they're underpaid. The hot recruiting market could be contributing to workers feeling underpaid, maintained Brittany Nisenzon, metro markets manager with Robert Half, a global staffing company.

TechNewsWorld discussed the implications of remote workers' tech support needs with Stefan Engel, Lenovo’s VP and GM of Visuals Business. Engel sits in the catbird’s seat in seeing how employers are responding to the ongoing challenges of outfitting their remote workforce with the technical tool...

Not everyone who knows how to code software gets rich quickly, if at all. But extra money can be generated from software coding as passive income from side projects or independent distribution of mobile apps and more.

This nasty software bug has much of the IT world in a panic as it follows us into the New Year. No doubt, many organizations and SMBs with no IT staff are clueless about its existence. But ignorance of Log4j only makes them more susceptible to an attack. They remain defenseless.

Study after study reveals that diversity among technology builders leads to better, more robust technologies. But the industry continues to struggle with increasing diversity. The open-source software community is no exception. Building and sustaining inclusive communities can attract a more diverse...

With remote work here to stay, a conundrum for many firms is where to tap into the stay-at-home workforce. Karat, a maker of a talent platform for developers, has an answer to that riddle. The company has identified what it considers the 10 best cities -- outside major tech hubs like the San Francis...

Growing use of unified communication and collaboration tools in organizations could hurt productivity in the short term, according to a study released last week by a service assurance and cybersecurity company. In a survey commissioned by Netscout, of Westford, Mass., more than nine in 10 of the 30...

Four out of five cybersecurity pros are fretting over the potential for a sneak attack by an adversary with a quantum computer that will render the encryption on their data ineffective. Quantum computers can process data much faster than most computers today because they use qubits to crunch data, w...

New research from cloud security firm Ermetic shows that nearly all businesses have identities that, if compromised, would place at least 90 percent of the S3 buckets in their AWS account at risk. Ermetic conducted the study to determine the circumstances that would allow ransomware to make its way ...

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